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The Crane Wife - Patrick Ness

The Crane Wife

Patrick Ness

October 2013

25

reviewed: Star Wars: Jedi Academy

Roan Novachez wants nothing more than to get into Pilot Academy Middle School so that he can follow in his father's and older...

Jedi Academy - Jeffrey Brown

reviewed: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

It's been said before--and by writers far more talented and infinitely better known than I--but, after reading Good Omens (ye...

Good Omens: The Nice & Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

reviewed: Wonder

Childhood should be carefree. Sure, there are some stressful things that happen in the birth to tween years: potty training, ...

Wonder - R.J. Palacio

reviewed: Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles

When Linh Cinder first meets Prince Charming, I mean the prince (who is indeed charming), she is covered with the grease of h...

Cinder - Marissa Meyer

October 2013

24

reviewed: It's Classified

Charlotte Kramer, President of the United States, Republican, first woman to hold the office, has just won a second term. Kra...

It's Classified - Nicolle Wallace

reviewed: There Is No Dog

Bob's existence, like that of most teens, is a simmering stew of hormones, mood swings, mad lust and equally mad love. He is ...

There is No Dog - Meg Rosoff

reviewed: Divine Misfortune

Although the Robinsons--Teri and Phil, a nice young couple--have never before felt the need to hook up with a personal god, ...

Divine Misfortune - A. Lee Martinez

reviewed: Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch (paperback)

Mr. Hatch is a quiet little man who works in a factory. Every day he eats the same lonely lunch. Every evening he makes two s...

Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch - Eileen Spinelli, Paul Yalowitz

reviewed: Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life

Jennie is a Sealyham terrier who has everything. "...a round pillow upstairs and a square pillow downstairs...her own comb an...

Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life - Maurice Sendak

reviewed: Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (The Underland Chronicles, Book 2)

As Gregor & the Prophecy of Bane opens our hero, Gregor, has returned to life as usual. That life should be better than it wa...

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (The Underland Chronicles, Book 2) - Suzanne Collins

reviewed: A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novels)

Artist Clara Morrow is a resident of Three Pines, Quebec. Clara's had more than her share of career heartbreak, but has final...

A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny

reviewed: The Magician King: A Novel

The Magician King in Lev Grossman's novel of the same name, his follow up to 2009's The Magicians, is Quentin Coldwater. Quen...

The Magician King (The Magicians #2) - Lev Grossman

reviewed: The Leftovers

So, the Rapture. It's been predicted a bunch of times throughout Christian history, most recently--and very spectacularly, wi...

The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta

reviewed: Working Stiff (Revivalist, Book 1)

It kind of sucks to be Bryn Davis. Discovering a rough job market upon her discharge from the military, she attended mortuary...

Working Stiff - Rachel Caine

reviewed: Warm Bodies

R is a zombie. Like most of his, um, people he doesn't remember more than vague snatches of his time as one of the Living. He...

Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion

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