Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourageContinue reading “REVIEW: PRACTICAL MAGIC – ALICE HOFFMAN”
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PICTURE BOOK REVIEW: LITTLE BLUE TRUCK’S HALLOWEEN – ALICE SCHERTLE ILLUSTRATED BY JILL MCELMURRY
Little Blue Truck’s Halloween – Alice Schertle Illustrated by Jill McElmurry It’s Halloween! Little Blue Truck is picking up his animal friends for a costume party. Can you guess who is dressed up in each special costume? Lift the flaps to find out! Will Blue dress up too? Little Blue Truck is a favorite inContinue reading “PICTURE BOOK REVIEW: LITTLE BLUE TRUCK’S HALLOWEEN – ALICE SCHERTLE ILLUSTRATED BY JILL MCELMURRY”
REVIEW: REVIVAL – STEPHEN KING
Revival – Stephen King In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys areContinue reading “REVIEW: REVIVAL – STEPHEN KING”
REVIEW: FAIREST OF ALL: A TALE OF THE WICKED QUEEN – SERENA VALENTINO
Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen – Serena Valentino The tale of the young princess and her evil stepmother, the Wicked Queen, is widely known. Despite a few variations from telling to telling, the story remains the same—the Queen was jealous of the girl’s beauty, and this jealousy culminated in the Queen’sContinue reading “REVIEW: FAIREST OF ALL: A TALE OF THE WICKED QUEEN – SERENA VALENTINO”
PICTURE BOOK REVIEW: ROOM ON THE BROOM – JULIA DONALDSON
Room on the Broom – Julia Donaldson Is there room for one more? The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch’s hat, then her bow, and then her wand! Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and allContinue reading “PICTURE BOOK REVIEW: ROOM ON THE BROOM – JULIA DONALDSON”
REVIEW: UNDER THE DOME – STEPHEN KING
Under the Dome – Stephen King On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “theContinue reading “REVIEW: UNDER THE DOME – STEPHEN KING”
REVIEW: THE INSTITUTE – STEPHEN KING
The Institute – Stephen King In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just likeContinue reading “REVIEW: THE INSTITUTE – STEPHEN KING”
PICTURE BOOK REVIEW: MOTHER BRUCE – RYAN T. HIGGINS
Mother Bruce – Ryan T. Higgins Bruce the bear likes to keep to himself. That, and eat eggs. But when his hard-boiled goose eggs turn out to be real, live goslings, he starts to lose his appetite. And even worse, the goslings are convinced he’s their mother. Bruce tries to get the geese to goContinue reading “PICTURE BOOK REVIEW: MOTHER BRUCE – RYAN T. HIGGINS”
REVIEW: JACK & JILL – KEALAN PATRICK BURKE
Jack & Jill – Kealan Patrick Burke When they were kids, Gillian and John used to visit the local cemetery every Sunday after church. It was a curious place for children to frequent, but they had their reasons. The main attraction was the lofty hill that separated the cemetery from the elementary school, and theContinue reading “REVIEW: JACK & JILL – KEALAN PATRICK BURKE”
REVIEW: FROM A BUICK 8 – STEPHEN KING
From a Buick 8 – Stephen King Shortly after his father, a Pennsylvania state trooper, is killed in a senseless automobile accident, Ned Wilcox discovers that the members of Troop D have a secret concealed behind their headquarters. Curtis Wilcox’s friends and colleagues take turns relating the twenty-year history of the mysterious Buick Roadmaster lockedContinue reading “REVIEW: FROM A BUICK 8 – STEPHEN KING”
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