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May 27, 2020 | 'Brown Girl Dreaming' by Jacqueline Woodson [Middle Grade Review]

5/27/2020

 
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Brown Girl Dreaming

Woodson, Jacqueline

2014, Nancy Paulsen Books

Biography

Grades: 5 - 8; Lexile: 900L

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: audiobook
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby & Boundless
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.

Read a review by Gennifer King:

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May 27, 2020 | 'To Be Where You Are' by Jan Karon [Adult Review]

5/27/2020

 
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To Be Where You Are

Karon, Jan

2017, G.P. Putnam's Sons

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print & audiobook
ILL: large print & Playaway
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby & Boundless
Wounds heal, bonds grow stronger, and celebrations continue...Welcome back to beloved Mitford.

After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows.

Millions of Karon fans will be thrilled that it's life as usual in the wildly popular Mitford series: A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who's still running for office? All this, of course, is but a feather on the wind compared to Muse editor J.C. Hogan's desperate attempts to find a cure for his marital woes. Will it be high-def TV or his pork-chop marinade? In fiction, as in real life, there are no guarantees.

Twenty minutes from Mitford at Meadowgate Farm, newlyweds Dooley and Lace Kavanagh face a crisis that devastates their bank account and impacts their family vet practice. But there is still a lot to celebrate, as their adopted son, Jack, looks forward to the most important day of his life--with great cooking, country music, and lots of people who love him. Happily, it will also be a day when the terrible wound in Dooley's biological family begins to heal because of a game--let's just call it a miracle--that breaks all the rules.

In To Be Where You Are, Jan Karon weaves together the richly comic and compelling lives of two Kavanagh families, and a cast of characters that readers around the world now love like kin.

Read a review by Debra Blunier:

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May 20, 2020 | 'Apple Cider Slaying' by Julie Anne Lindsey [Adult Review]

5/20/2020

 
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Apple Cider Slaying

Lindsey, Julie Anne

​2019, Kensington

Fiction

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ILL: print & large print
eBook: Libby & Hoopla
eAudiobook: Hoopla
Apples are at the core of the family business run by Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe. But this year's crop is unseasonably ripe with murder . . .

ONE ROTTEN APPLE

Blossom Valley, West Virginia, is home to Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny's beloved twenty-five-acre farm and family business. But any way you slice it, it's struggling. That's why they're trying to drum up business with the "First Annual Christmas at the Orchard," a good old-fashioned holiday festival with enough delicious draw to satisfy apple-picking locals and cider-loving tourists alike--until the whole endeavor takes a sour turn when the body of Nadine Cooper, Granny's long-time, grudge-holding nemesis, is found lodged in the apple press. Now, with Granny the number one suspect, Winnie is hard-pressed to prove her innocence before the real killer delivers another murder . . .

Read a review by Gennifer King:

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May 20, 2020 | 'The Bubble Wrap Boy' by Phil Earle [Middle Grade Review]

5/20/2020

 
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The Bubble Wrap Boy

Earle, Phil

2015, Random House

Fiction

Grades: 4 - 6; Lexile: 790L

Availability

ILL: print
eBook: Boundless
Charlie Han’s troubles are much bigger than he is. At school he’s branded an outsider, a loser—the tiny kid from the Chinese takeout. His only ally is Sinus Sedgely, a kid with a lower-level reputation than Charlie himself. Life at home isn’t much better. His dad is more skilled with a wok than he is with words, and his mom is suffocating the life out of Charlie, worried about his every move. But when a new passion leads Charlie to the mother of all confrontations, he finds his real mom has been hiding a massive secret. A secret that, while shocking, might actually lead Charlie to feeling ten feet tall.

Read a review by Katie Kruger:

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May 13, 2020 | 'The Year of Less' by Cait Flanders [Adult Review]

5/13/2020

 
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The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, And Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy In A Store

Flanders, Cait

2018, Hay House

Nonfiction

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ILL: print
eBook: Libby
eAudiobook: Libby & Hoopla
In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized that nothing she was doing or buying was making her happy--only keeping her from meeting her goals--she decided to set herself a challenge: she would not shop for an entire year.

The Year of Less documents Cait's life for twelve months during which she bought only consumables: groceries, toiletries, gas for her car. Along the way, she challenged herself to consume less of many other things besides shopping. She decluttered her apartment and got rid of 70 percent of her belongings; learned how to fix things rather than throw them away; researched the zero waste movement; and completed a television ban. At every stage, she learned that the less she consumed, the more fulfilled she felt.

The challenge became a lifeline when, in the course of the year, Cait found herself in situations that turned her life upside down. In the face of hardship, she realized why she had always turned to shopping, alcohol, and food--and what it had cost her. Unable to reach for any of her usual vices, she changed habits she'd spent years perfecting and discovered what truly mattered to her.

Read a review by Debra Blunier:

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May 13, 2020 | 'Cinder' by Marissa Meyer [YA Review]

5/13/2020

 
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Cinder

Meyer, Marissa

2013, Square Fish

Fiction

Grades: 7 - 9

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print, audiobook, & Playaway
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby, Boundless, & Hoopla
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl. . . .

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.

With high-stakes action and a smart, resourceful heroine, Cinder is a Cinderella retelling that is at once classic and strikingly original.

Read a review by Katie Kruger:

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May 13, 2020 | 'The War that Saved My Life' by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley [Middle Grade Review]

5/13/2020

 
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The War that Saved My Life

Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker

2015, Dial Books for Young Readers​

Fiction

Grades: 4 - 7; Lexile: 580L

Availability

EPLD: print & audiobook
​ILL: large print, Playaway, & audio-enabled book
eBook: Libby & Boundless
eAudiobook: Libby & Boundless
Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him.
 
So begins a new adventure for Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?

Read a review by Debra Blunier:

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May 6, 2020 | 'The Bodies in the Library' by Marty Wingate [Adult Review]

5/6/2020

 
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The Bodies in the Library

Wingate, Marty

​2019, Berkley Prime Crime

Fiction

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: large print
Hayley Burke has landed a dream job. She is the new curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling's First Edition library. The library is kept at Middlebank House, a lovely Georgian home in Bath, England. Hayley lives on the premises and works with the finicky Glynis Woolgar, Lady Fowling's former secretary.

Mrs. Woolgar does not like Hayley's ideas to modernize The First Edition Society and bring in fresh blood. And she is not even aware of the fact that Hayley does not know the first thing about the Golden Age of Mysteries. Hayley is faking it till she makes it, and one of her plans to breathe new life into the Society is actually taking flight--an Agatha Christie fan fiction writers group is paying dues to meet up at Middlebank House.

​But when one of the group is found dead in the venerable stacks of the library, Hayley has to catch the killer to save the Society and her new job.

Read a review by Gennifer King:

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May 6, 2020 | 'I am Number Four' by Pittacus Lore [YA Review]

5/6/2020

 
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I am Number Four

Lore, Pittacus

2010, Harper Collins

Fiction

Grades: 9 - 12

Availability

EPLD: print
ILL: Playaway
eBook: Libby (part of 6-book collection), Boundless, Freading, & Hoopla
eAudiobook: Libby, Boundless, & Hoopla
The first book of the #1 New York Times bestselling series and the inspiration for the hit movie from Dreamworks! John Smith seems like an ordinary teenager, living a normal life with his guardian Henri in Paradise, Ohio. But for John, keeping a low profile is essential, because he is not an ordinary teenager. He's an alien from the planet Lorien, and he's on the run. A group of evil aliens from the planet Mogadore, who destroyed his world, are hunting anyone who escaped. Nine Loric children were sent to Earth to live in hiding until they grew up and developed their Legacies, powers that would help them fight back—and help them save us. Three of them are now dead. John is Number Four, and he knows he's next....

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