Tag: Book of the Day

Book of the Day: Love Letters and Other Passages of Darkness

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I was sent a copy of Love Letters and Other Passages of Darkness by R J, Erbacher   Love Letters and Other Passages of Darkness by R J, Erbacher Release Date: 2015-05-27 Love Letters and Other Passages of Darkness is a collection of stories that finds each character confronted with a dark passage, one they must physically traverse or mentally confront. The landscape is diversified; from a futuristic wasteland to a medieval castle, from an abandoned attic to a downtown shopping mall, from a magical forest to an old fashioned…

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Book of the Day: Vengeance Road

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I was sent a copy of Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman   Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman Release Date: 2015-09-01 When Kate Thompson’s father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the eighteen-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers, dust storms, and a pair of brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the…

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Book of the Day: The Full Moon at the Napping House

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Todays featured #kidlit book of the day is The Full Moon at the Napping House by Audrey Wood

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Book of the Day: The Napping House

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I was sent a copy of The Napping House board book by Audrey Wood   The Napping House board book by Audrey Wood Release Date: 2015-09-01 “A delightful marriage of words and pictures.” —Los Angeles Times In the napping house is a cozy bed piled high with a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, and a slumbering mouse. All is at peace until the appearance of an unexpected visitor, and before you know it no one is sleeping! This classic, cumulative tale is the perfect story…

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Book of the Day: Prison Island- A Graphic Memoir

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I was sent a copy of Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir by Ms. Colleen Frakes   Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir by Ms. Colleen Frakes Release Date: 2015-09-01 McNeil Island in Washington state was the home of the last prison island in the United States, accessible only by air or sea. It was also home to about fifty families, including Colleen Frake’s. Her parents—like nearly everyone else on the island—both worked in the prison, where her father was the prison’s captain and her mother worked in security. In this engaging…

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Book of the Day: How to Swallow a Pig

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I was sent a copy of How to Swallow a Pig: Step-by-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page   How to Swallow a Pig: Step-by-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom by Steve Jenkins Release Date: 2015-09-01 In the latest eye-catching escape into the kingdom of Animalia, Steve Jenkins and Robin Page reveal the skills animals use to survive in the wild in an imaginative and humorous how-to format. With step-by-step instructions, readers learn about specific behaviors; how to catch thousands of fish like a humpback…

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Book of the Day: Mechanica

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I was sent a copy of Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell   Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell Release Date: August 25th 2015 Nicolette’s awful stepsisters call her “Mechanica” to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother’s knee. Her mom is gone now, though, and the Steps have turned her into a servant in her own home. But on her sixteenth birthday, Nicolette discovers a secret workshop in the cellar and begins to dare to imagine a new life for herself. Could the mysterious books…

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Book of the Day: Jasper & Joop

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I was sent a copy of Jasper & Joop (Reader) (Gossie & Friends) by Olivier Dunrea   Jasper & Joop (Reader) (Gossie & Friends) by Olivier Dunrea Release Date: 2015-09-01 “[A] pitch-perfect tale of friends as different as different can be.” —Kirkus Reviews Jasper likes to be neat. Each morning he tidies his nest and puts on his cap and bow tie. Joop likes to be messy! Each morning he rumples his nest and musses his feathers. Despite their differences, Jasper and Joop are best friends—and birds of a feather!…

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Book of the Day: Whoppers

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I was sent a copy of Whoppers: History’s Most Outrageous Lies and Liars by Christine Seifert   Whoppers: History’s Most Outrageous Lies and Liars by Christine Seifert Release Date: 2015-09-01 History of full of liars. Not just little-white-telling liars, but big-honkin’, whopper-telling liars—people who can convince us that even the most improbable, outrageous, nonsensical stories are true. And the worst part is that we believe them. Whoppers tells the story of history’s greatest liars and the lies they told, providing a mix of narrative profiles of super-famous liars, lies, and/or…

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Book of the Day: Noah Webster and His Words

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I was sent a copy of Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris   Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris Release Date: 2015-09-01 Golden Kite Award for NonfictionWebster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty years writing two thousand pages to accomplish that, and the first 100 percent American dictionary was published in 1828 when…

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