Book Reviews
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Amazing Mazes for Minecrafters: Challenging Mazes for Hours of Entertainment!
Dozens of mazes to keep you entertained for hours!
Journey through snowy biomes, desert temples, Nether fortresses, and more—whether on a long car trip or at the beach! This inviting collection of unique mazes for gamers of all ages is jam-packed with colorful characters and settings straight from their favorite game. You will be challenged and entertained for hours upon hours.
This adventure series is created especially for readers who love the fight of good vs. evil, magical academies like Hogwarts in the Harry Potter saga, and games like Minecraft, Terraria, and Pokémon GO.
From author Jen Funk Weber for Readers 8-12.
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Interesting Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of the Most Interesting, Unbelievable, and Craziest Stories on Earth!
Want to impress your buddies at school?
Want to learn a bunch of random facts about history, science, and the paranormal?
If you answered yes to either of those questions then pick up Interesting Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of the Most Interesting, Unbelievable, and Craziest Stories on Earth! This book is the coolest collection of interesting facts about a whole bunch of several different topics.
Here you will find the answers to some of the following:
- How did a dog, a horse, and a cat become TV and movie stars?
- What were the first video game consoles?
- Why can’t you break an egg in the palm of your hand?
- How do parrots talk?
- Did Alexander the Great love his horse more than anything else?
And much, much more!
You’ll be glued to the pages of this book reading about interesting facts, scary stories, and how to do a few neat science experiments. Interesting Stories for Curious Kids brings learning to you in a new, fun way that is sure to keep you reading.
Whether science, history, or just weird facts are your thing, you’re sure to find something in here that will keep you interested and turning the pages. So, open this book and your mind and see other things that you may not know existed.
From author Bill O’Neill for Readers 8-12.
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Fish for Kids: A Junior Scientist’s Guide to Diverse Habitats, Colorful Species, and Life Underwater
Splash into the incredible world of fish with the Junior Scientists series for kids.
Get up close and personal with the fascinating fish that live all around the world. Fish for Kids is full of colorful photos and illustrations that help you explore 35 different species, from goldfish and neon tetras to eels and great white sharks!
- Unlike other fish books for kids, this one features hands-on activities and tips for going fishing or keeping your own aquarium.
- Learn how fish use camouflage, how they find food, and which fish can swim almost 70 miles per hour!
- Go beyond other fish books for kids with complete profiles on freshwater and saltwater fish, including where they live, how big they get, and more.
From author Kevin Kurtz for readers 8-12.
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Adventure to Mars: Rocket Kids
Blast off on a journey to Mars that will keep you on the edge of your seat as you follow two young kid astronauts, Neil and Kate, through an adventure full of mystery and excitement.
Making history as the first kids to enter space, and the first humans to ever walk on Mars, Neil and Kate knew they were in for something big with their mission to find water on the Red Planet. It didn’t take long, however, before they found themselves on an adventure of a lifetime that went beyond anyone’s wildest imagination.
From author Lizzie Lipman for Readers 8-12.
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Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares
Six months after Paola Santiago confronted the legendary La Llorona, life is nothing like she’d expected it to be. She is barely speaking to her best friends, Dante and Emma, and what’s worse, her mom has a totally annoying boyfriend. Even with her chupacabra puppy, Bruto, around, Pao can’t escape the feeling that she’s all alone in the world.
Pao has no one to tell that she’s having nightmares again, this time set in a terrifying forest. Even more troubling? At their center is her estranged father, an enigma of a man she barely remembers. And when Dante’s abuela falls mysteriously ill, it seems that the dad Pao never knew just might be the key to healing the eccentric old woman.
Pao’s search for her father will send her far from home, where she will encounter new monsters and ghosts, a devastating betrayal, and finally, the forest of her nightmares. Will the truths her father has been hiding save the people Pao loves, or destroy them?
From author Tehlor Mejia for Readers 8-12.
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Tiberius, Arapaima, and the Monster Eel
All seems idyllic in the small village of Winiperu, nestled in the Amazon rainforest among glittering lakes and waterfalls. But one day the fishermen come back empty-handed and afraid. A gigantic eel has swallowed up all the fish!
Adventurous 10-year-old Tiberius, and his best friend Sun-Raya, volunteer to set out on a quest to find the prehistoric Arapaima. This fish, that is “bigger than a chicken, bigger than a rabbit, bigger than a sheep, bigger than a cow, bigger than an elephant, and bigger than the Monster Eel” is the only thing that can save the village.
On their quest Tiberius, Sun-Raya, and the rest of the volunteers encounter wild animals and other dangers. Will they succeed in bringing the Arapaima safely back home? Can they learn from their experiences? And will Tiberius truly become, as the fortune-teller foretold, the youngest Grand Chief ever?
From author Patrick V. London for Readers 8-12.
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The Code Book: 140 Cryptograms
Welcome to Snoopers (formerly SpyCo)! Home of the world’s best spies.
As a good spy you need to encode and decode lots of messages. Your first assignment is to decode a spy book left behind by one of our former agents.
- 12 humorous short stories comprised of multiple cryptograms
- Suitable for kids or adults
- Hints are provided in the back of the book in case you get stuck
From author Andrew de Jong for Readers 8-12.
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President of the Whole Fifth Grade
Start counting your votes . . . and your friends.
When Brianna Justice’s hero, the famous celebrity chef Miss Delicious, speaks at her school and traces her own success back to being president of her fifth-grade class, Brianna determines she must do the same. She just knows that becoming president of her class is the first step toward her own cupcake-baking empire!
But when new student Jasmine Moon announces she is also running for president, Brianna learns that she may have more competition than she expected. Will Brianna be able to stick to her plan of working with her friends to win the election fairly? Or will she jump at the opportunity to steal votes from Jasmine by revealing an embarrassing secret?
This hilarious, heartfelt novel will appeal to any reader with big dreams, and the determination to achieve them.
From author Sherri Winston for Readers 8-12.
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Hannah Saves the World: Book 1
Hannah’s got a funny feeling that it’s up to her to save the entire world, but before she can do so, she and her skeptical best friend Mia have to figure out what they’re saving the world from!
As the girls’ detective work proceeds, they uncover a chain of clues that might unravel the children’s mystery of the vandalized town playground, but what about the massive space cruiser parked high in the stratosphere, and the aliens inside who are laying plans to invade Earth?
Can a pair of middle-school detectives really save the world?
From author A.M. Luzzader for Readers 8-12.
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Wish
Eleven-year-old Charlie Reese has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to live with family she barely knows, it seems unlikely that her wish will ever come true.
That is until she meets Wishbone, a skinny stray dog who captures her heart, and Howard, a neighbor boy who proves surprising in lots of ways. Suddenly Charlie is in serious danger of discovering that what she thought she wanted may not be what she needs at all.
From award-winning author Barbara O’Connor comes a middle-grade novel about a girl who, with the help of a true-blue friend, a big-hearted aunt and uncle, and the dog of her dreams, unexpectedly learns the true meaning of family in the least likely of places.
For Readers 9-12.
