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Review: If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? by Melissa Kantor

by First Mate Keira January 29, 2012

Reviewed by First Mate Keira Title: If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? Author: Melissa Kantor Format: Hardback Page Count: 283 pages Grade Reading Level: Grades 7-9 Summary:  Lucy Norton is a modern day Cinderella. Forced to move from San Francisco to Long Island because of her dad’s remarriage, she’s struggling to find [...]

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Movie Review: Beastly starring Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer

by First Mate Keira January 25, 2012

by First Mate Keira Title: Beastly Director: Daniel Barnz Duration: 86 minutes Rating: PG-13 Summary: Kyle Kingsbury is a vain and arrogant young boy. He really steps in it when he unknowingly meets and antagonizes a witch at school going by Kendra. On the night of a school dance he’s bewitched to appear as ugly [...]

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Review: Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (The Nine Circles of Heck, Book 1) by Dale E. Basye

by First Mate Keira January 21, 2012

Reviewed by First Mate Keira Title: Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (The Nine Circles of Heck, Book 1) Author: Dale E. Basye Format: Hardback Page Count: 304 pages Grade Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: The afterlife isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. A bureaucratic error sends Milton down to Heck with his [...]

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Review: A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by First Mate Keira January 14, 2012

by First Mate Keira Title: A Little Princess Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Format: Hardback Page Count: 266 pages Grade Reading Level: Grades 4-8 Summary: Sara Crewe, a little girl who grew up in India is taken to London by her father to attend Miss Minchin’s Seminary for Girls. Sara must learn to live on her [...]

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Review: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

by First Mate Keira January 13, 2012

Reviewed First Mate Keira Title: The Invention of Hugo Cabret Author: Brian Selznick Format: Hardback Page Count: 533 pages Grade Reading Level: Grades 3-6 Summary: Hugo Cabret is an orphan and he lives inside the walls at a train station in Paris. His uncle had trained him to fix the station’s clocks before he disappeared. [...]

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Review: Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski

by Second Mate Embry January 10, 2012

by Second Mate Embry, guest reviewer Title: Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison Author: Lois Lenski Format: Paperback Page Count: 320 Grade Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: Mary Jemison is living a normal life in the past during the years of British colonization of America until one day a man comes running by saying [...]

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