Type: chapter bookAges: 9+ (younger okay if listening to a parent read)Author: Carrie BrownellIllustrator: Joe Hox I purposely kept my bullet points above to be a little vague, because there are delicious twists I wouldn’t want to give away! If…
Type: chapter bookAges: 9-12 (10+ for more sensitive readers)Authors: Ted Dekker, Kara Dekker If you have read any of Dekker’s Circle series (and its offshoots), you will encounter several familiar elements in Theo’s story here, from creatures to the very…
Type: chapter bookAges: 5+ (listeners), 7+ (readers)Author: Evelyn Sibley LampmanIllustrator: Honoré Valintcourt How fascinating to imagine changing sizes! Cousins Craig and Jill suddenly find themselves in a jungle, which turns out to be the backyard where they had just been…
Type: chapter bookAges: 11+Author: Jonathan Auxier Auxier has seamlessly meshed historical fiction with fantasy in this page-turner. Many true elements of the Victorian Age come out in the story, such as the dangerous and thankless jobs orphaned children did every…
Type: early chapter book (Bridge Book, Level 3)Ages: 6-9Author: Bryan Davis If you have read the previous story (book 4), you know they named their new company “The Wizard of Dogs” as fun wordplay. They speak of Steve, the dad, as “the…
Type: early chapter book (Bridge Book, Level 3)Ages: 6-9Author: Bryan Davis Sure, adults and older kids will find these books a little cheesy at times, but to emerging readers, they are delightful! This book’s particular mystery had an unusual thief and is perhaps…
Type: early chapter book (Bridge Book, Level 3)Ages: 6-9Author: Bryan Davis It’s a blustery, winter day for the Barkley family as they embark on another attempt to find the dad a new job. They’re in it together, because they like and want…
Type: early chapter book (Bridge Book, Level 3)Ages: 6-9Author: Bryan Davis Whether I’ve got the vibe down now or this book was written a little better than the first one is neither here nor there. It’s a good little story! The family…
Type: early chapter book (Bridge Book, Level 3)Ages: 6-9Author: Bryan Davis I have a plan to work through this whole series, so I’ll be sure to link them all to each other when I read more! This first book was…
It’s not often I review an “adult” book in this space, but as it’s assigned in a 6th grade curriculum I’ve been reviewing through, here we are. Relatedly, I don’t usually count all the bad words for teen/adult books, but…
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