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(The full title, for the record, is Salt Water Taffy: the Seaside Adventures of Jack and Benny, v. 1: The Legend of Old Salty.) Ok, get a load of this plot summary: Jack, Benny, and their parents go to a small coastal Maine town to spend the summer. Upon arrival, … Continue reading
After a motorcycle accident that puts a girl he barely even knows in a wheelchair, Tomomi Nomiya gets kicked out of school — which means he can’t play basketball anymore. His old teammates treat him like dirt. One day he comes to the gym to practice by himself, and meets … Continue reading
Chiggers are a bug that get under your skin and itch; let’s get that out of the way right off the bat. In this book, they’re the plot device that gets one girl out of Abby’s cabin at camp, and a new girl, Shasta, in. Shasta claims to have been … Continue reading
The subtitle pretty much says it all: “Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure.” This is graphic non-fiction, though the stories are fictionalized, and some were legends rather than history to start with. The women run the gamut from Hatshepsut, female Pharaoh, to Ellen Craft, … Continue reading
(Janes in Love is the nominated book, but I went back and read The Plain Janes first, so I’ll review them together. It’s not necessary background, but it certainly helped.) PJ opens with a terrorist bomb going off in Metro City, killing a number of people, and injuring more — … Continue reading
Emi was always kind of a geek by default, but this summer her geeky friends have headed off to a “young executives retreat.” Emi decides that’s not her scene, so she’s stuck at home in the Toronto ‘burbs, baby-sitting for her American neighbors, the Cutheberts. (The dad is big and … Continue reading
Rue’s mother has disappeared, her distraught father stands accused of murdering one of his students, and now Rue is seeing strange things. Her normal town is now full of demons, humanoid creatures made of twigs, and faeries. I’ll give the next bit away, because it’s obvious early on: Rue’s mother … Continue reading
Dave’s life was going along just fine, until he applied for a job at a convenience store and ended up hired to work nights… forever. Turns out that Radu, the store owner, is a vampire, and it’s so much more efficient to sire yourself a night manager than hire one … Continue reading
The title implied D&D to me, but what I got was just as nerdily delicious. We open with Arthur King’s first day at Camelot Middle School. Yes, really — and the King Arthur puns don’t stop here! For a kid who’s newly familiar with King Arthur and/or the idea of … Continue reading
Johnny Boo, “the best little ghost in the world,” and his pet ghost Squiggle, run into an ice cream monster, who turns out to be a nice ice cream monster, but accidentally eats Squiggle anyway. Squiggle and Johnny Boo have to use their “Squiggle Power” and “Boo Power” (respectively) to … Continue reading
