Family Life

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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Review: Best Friends and Drama Queens (Allie Finkle’s Rules For Girls: Book 3) by Meg Cabot

by Second Mate Embry January 11, 2012

by Second Mate Embry, guest reviewer Title: Best Friends and Drama Queens (Allie Finkle’s Rules For Girls: Book 3) Author: Meg Cabot Format: Hardcover Page Count: 240 Grade Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: Allie gets excited when she learns that that they are getting a new student from Canada! Mostly because that means she won’t [...]

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Review: Moving Day (Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Book 1) by Meg Cabot

by Second Mate Embry January 6, 2012

by Second Mate Embry, guest reviewer Title: Moving Day (Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Book 1) Author: Meg Cabot Format: Hard Cover Page Count: 240 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: Allie Finkle is pretty happy with her life … even though her brothers are annoying and her best friend cries over everything. Things start going [...]

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Review: 13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison

by First Mate Keira December 29, 2011

by First Mate Keira Title: 13 Treasures Author: Michelle Harrison Format: Hardback Page Count: 355 Grade Reading Level: Grade 5–8 Summary: Tanya knows that at age 13 she can no longer get away with talking to faeries or about them in front of others as both adults and kids couldn’t see them. Only her. She’d [...]

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Review: Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney

by Second Mate Embry December 23, 2011

by Second Mate Embry, guest reviewer Title: Three Black Swans Author: Caroline B. Cooney Format: Hardcover Page Count: 288 pages Reading Grade Level: Grade 7-10 Summary: During her sophomore science class, Missy is given an assignment to create a scientific hoax. (Example = burying a leftover chicken bone from dinner and later finding it and [...]

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Review: The New Girl (Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Book 2) by Meg Cabot

by Second Mate Embry December 22, 2011

by Second Mate Embry, guest reviewer Title: The New Girl (Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Book 2) Author: Meg Cabot Format: Hardcover Page Count: 222 Grade Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: On top of all the moving problems, Allie has to start a new school. She thinks things are looking up until Rosemary; the school [...]

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