Category: Book reviews by me
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MG Book Review | Fizz and Peppers at the Bottom of the World | M.G. King
FIZZ AND PEPPERS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD By M.G. King ★★★★★ NOMINATED FOR 2013 CYBIL AWARDS! Everyone knows that sunlight turns trolls to stone. What most people don’t realize is that a single bubble of soda fizz wakes those violent, bickering creatures back up! Just ask Colin Colbeck. When Colin drops through a mysterious…
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MG Blog Tour & Review | Mammoth Trouble (Noah Zarc 1) | D.Robert Pease
About the Book Title: Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble (Book #1) Author: D. Robert Pease Publication Date: July 22, 2013 Publisher: Evolved Publishing (2nd Edition) Number of pages: 214 Recommended age: 9+ Summary: Noah lives for piloting spaceships through time, dodging killer robots and saving Earth’s animals from extinction. Life couldn’t be better. But the twelve-year-old time…
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YA More than a book review | Bully for Them | by Fiona Scott-Norman
BULLY FOR THEM (Outstanding Australians on Hard Lessons Learned at School) by Fiona Scott-Norman One of the most difficult things about being bullied is the feeling that nobody else knows what it’s like. Twenty-two of Australia’s most talented and successful people know exactly what it’s like. In candid and entertaining interviews, leading lights from across…
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YA Book Review | Troll Mountain (1,2,3) | Matthew Reilly
I’ve been a Matthew Reilly fan for a number of years. Yes, his plots are over the top. Yes, the characters find themselves in impossible situations but always find a way out. Yes he’s an Aussie like me. They are all reasons that I read and enjoy his books. I love the action, the ingenuity,…
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MG Book Review | Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles 1) | by Suzanne Collins
GREGOR THE OVERLANDER (UNDERLAND CHRONICLES 1) by Suzanne Collins ★★★★ This irresistible first novel tells the story of a quiet boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny — and find his father — in a strange world beneath New York City. When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of…
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YA Book Review ♦ Tutankhamen Speaks ♦ by Cheryl Carpinello
TUTANKHAMEN SPEAKS by Cheryl Carpinello ★★★★ Hundreds of years ago, scrolls that would alter the view of Ancient Egypt’s most famous pharaoh were lost. Rumors through the ages said the scrolls told of a time that the Pharaoh Tutankhamen spoke from beyond the grave. No one who heard of these scrolls believed that the scrolls had…
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