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The Black Book of Secrets By: F.E. Higgins Ludlow Fitch is a young boy living in the city. His parents are thieves and train their son from a very early age on the art of being a pickpocket since they need the income he’ll bring in to buy their next drinks...
Flygirl By: Sherri L. Smith Ida Mae Jones is a young African American female who dreams to fly. Her father taught her to fly, and after his death she continues with their family’s crop dusting business until WWII brings that to a halt. Enter the WASP...
The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow By: Riford McKenzie When we meet our protagonist we don’t get his name until his aunts show up and continually get it wrong. I seriously was thinking Elijah was a girl until that part due to his very nervous nature. Talk...
The Faceless Ones Skulduggery Pleasant Book 3 By: Derek Landy Skulduggery and Valkyrie are working against time, the Grand Mage and Detective Crux, who has taken on Skulduggery’s job at with the Sanctuary. Crux is out to crucify Skulduggery because he...
Ten Cents a Dance By: Christine Fletcher This is a book I picked up because I judged it by its cover. Sometimes I really love when I do that! (Okay, I read the first few lines to be sure…) Ruby is the oldest daughter of a Polish father and an Irish mother...
Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus By: R.L. LaFevers You are probably all aware that I really adore Theodosia. That is no exception in this book! Theodosia has been ordered by Wigmere to communicate with the Chosen Keepers through Fagenbush, and she still...
The Red Pyramid Book 1 in The Kane Chronicles By: Rick Riordan Riordan has taken a break from the Greek and Roman mythology of his Percy Jackson books and gives us quite a schooling in Egyptian mythology in his latest offering. Carter and Sadie Kane are...
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling By: MaryRose Wood Oh my did I love this one! Miss Penelope Lumley has just finished her years of schooling at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females. Swanburne was founded by Agatha...
Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrigue of Ten Sovereigns By: Elizabeth Macleod Murder as a general topic is one of those horrifyingly fascinating topics to me: why people decide to kill someone is probably my main interest when reading about murder. This particular...
The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye An Enola Holmes Mystery By: Nancy Springer First, to the rumor: I have heard that this is the last Enola Holmes book and it makes my heart sad. I love these books! I love the setting, the characters, the plots, the whole...
The Night Fairy By: Laura Amy Schlitz This is just a darling book. I just love everything about it: the cover, the book jacket, the endpapers, the paper quality in the book and the illustrations and the size. That’s not even talking about the story yet...
Calamity Jack By: Shannon and Dean Hale Illustrated By: Nathan Hale OH BOY! I’ve been waiting for this one! I loved Rapunzel’s Revenge by this trio, and Calamity Jack did not disappoint! This one starts out with Jack’s back-story and how he happened to...
Sacred Hearts By: Sarah Dunant Let me be frank here, I picked this book up solely because I absolutely adored Dunant’s first two books. They were set in Italy roughly in the late 1500s and I adore that historical setting. They also included a lot of scandalous...
Lady Macbeth’s Daughter By: Lisa Klein Klein’s name may be familiar to those of you who have read Ophelia or Two Girls of Gettysburg , which were both lovely books. Klein takes us back to Shakespeare with a twist on the tale of Macbeth. In the endnotes...
A Pickpocket’s Tale By: Karen Schwabach I wanted to love this one, I really did. I enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong, but I hated the ending. Despised it is more like it. I really like Molly. I like how she adjusts to life in London the only way she knows...
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