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Review: "Settle for More," by Megyn Kelly
My very conservative mother gave me this book for Christmas in 2016. As someone who sobbed when Trump was announced the president, I had...
Mrs. Denney
Dec 22, 20171 min read


Review: "Blood for Blood," by Ryan Graudin
This was a fantastic follow up to Wolf by Wolf. I loved this twosome! What a creative, haunting twist to history it would have been to...
Mrs. Denney
Dec 17, 20171 min read


Review: "Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Betwe
This was everything I wanted it to be. I got background info on Lauren Graham and what led her to Gilmore Girls and I got inside insights...
Mrs. Denney
Dec 8, 20171 min read


Student Review: "Halo: The Flood," by William C. Dietz
The Flood is a book about Halo CE (a video game). It's about a super soldier (Spartan) escapes a ship from aliens. He lands in a...
Mrs. Denney
Dec 5, 20171 min read


Review: "Wolf by Wolf," by Ryan Graudin
What if the Third Reich and Imperial Japan had won World War II? This book imagines that alternate history. Hitler is now leader of...
Mrs. Denney
Nov 24, 20171 min read


Review: "The Darkest Corners," by Kara Thomas
When Tessa's father dies, she has to leave the life she's led in Florida for the past ten years with her grandmother and travel back to...
Mrs. Denney
Nov 23, 20171 min read


Review: "Wishtree," by Katherine Applegate
Red is the local wish tree that has been around for 216 "rings." Red has seen it all. Local tradition holds that people from all around...
Mrs. Denney
Nov 16, 20171 min read


Student Review: "If I Were You," by Leslie Margolis
If I Were You is about two girls named Katie and Melody. Each girl thinks each others life is perfect. So when Katie makes a wish in a...
Mrs. Denney
Nov 10, 20171 min read


Review: "Diary of a Mad Brownie," by Bruce Coville
This hilarious tale begins with Angus the Brownie fulfilling his family's ancient curse to serve the youngest female member of the...
Mrs. Denney
Nov 6, 20171 min read


Student Review: "The Boy in the Black Suit," by Jason Reynolds
The Boy in the Black Suit is about a boy named Matt who lost his mother. She died of breast cancer. Since his father can't handle the...
Mrs. Denney
Nov 1, 20171 min read


Student Review: "Escaping Peril," by Tui Sutherland
I found the eighth installment of the Wings of Fire series to be quite riveting. It tells the story from Peril's, a dragon with an...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 28, 20171 min read


Student Review: "Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race," by Chris Grabenstein
The third book in the Lemoncello series is a page turner with plenty of action and surprises. Like the other books, it revolves around...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 28, 20171 min read


Student Review: "Edgeland," by Peter Kujawinski
The title of this book is Edgeland and the author is Peter Kujawinski. Edgeland is an island situated near a 30-mile- wide whirlpool...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 24, 20171 min read


Student Review: "Lord of the Flies," by William Golding
The book ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding, entertains us with a story about a group of young boys who get stranded on an island...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 17, 20171 min read


Student Review: "Death Weavers," by Brandon Mull
Death Weavers is a book about a boy named Cole, and he is a kid from the Earth who was sucked through a portal to the Outskirts to save...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 16, 20171 min read


Student Review: "Eragon," by Christopher Paolini
Eragon is a fantasy novel that includes mythical creatures like dragons, elves, and wizards. The first book of the Inheritance Cycle by...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 16, 20171 min read


Review: "All the Bright Places," by Jennifer Niven
Loved it. Teens Violet and Finch meet on strange terms - atop the school's bell tower contemplating suicide. Finch talks Violet down, but...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 12, 20171 min read


Review: "The One and Only Ivan," by Katherine Applegate
I'm so thankful to have a kid in my life with whom I can enjoy children's literature like this. Beautiful story of the one and only Ivan,...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 11, 20171 min read


Review: "This Book is Not Good for You," by Pseudonymous Bosch
I picked out this book to listen to in the car with my 9-year-old, not realizing it's actually book 3 in a series, and the book still...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 5, 20171 min read


Student Review: "Paper Towns," by John Green
This book is about a boy named Quentin and he falls in love with a girl named Margo. One night Margo sneaks in to Quentin's room. She...
Mrs. Denney
Oct 5, 20171 min read
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