Emilia's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:41:55 -0700 60 Emilia's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 14891 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness -- in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.]]> 496 Betty Smith 0061120073 Emilia 0 to-read 4.29 1943 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
author: Betty Smith
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1943
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]]> The Healing Season of Pottery 207567725 Set for international release this fall, this cozy Korean bestseller invites readers into a warm, sunlit pottery studio where a burned-out young TV broadcast writer begins to heal, working the clay, piece by piece, season by season.

After breaking down at the office and abruptly quitting her job, thirty-year-old Jungmin holes up in her apartment, speaking to no one for days on end. When she finally emerges, she stumbles upon a pottery studio in her neighborhood and is invited in by the mysterious workshop teacher. The smell of clay, the light filtering through the plant filled windows, the friendly cat, and the incredible coffee the students drink awaken her senses and make her feel alive and inspired for the first time in months.

As the seasons change, Jungmin slowly returns to herself and builds a new community with the other members of the studio, who are all working through their own pasts at the pottery wheel. When the holidays approach and snow piles up on the studio windowsill, Jungmin realizes how much she has changed—with her hands busy and her mind clear, she may be ready to face the memories she’s been running from and open her heart.

For fans of What You Are Looking For Is in the Library and Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, Yeon’s charming English-language debut is a testament to the joy of slowing down in a fast-paced world, and an homage to the art of ceramics and the power of friendship. Readers won’t want to leave the enchanting world of The Healing Season of Pottery after the final page.]]> 272 Yeon Somin 1643756753 Emilia 0 to-read 3.75 2023 The Healing Season of Pottery
author: Yeon Somin
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)]]> 52765415 Santorini felt like an island holding its breath. As if it were keeping in a secret...

Liv Varanakis doesn’t like to think about her father much, which makes sense—he fled to Greece when she was only eight, leaving her with just a few painful memories of their shared love for the lost city of Atlantis. So when teenage Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father, who explains that National Geographic is supporting a documentary about his theories on Atlantis—and asks if she will fly out to Greece and help—Liv is less than thrilled.

When she arrives in gorgeous Santorini, things are just as awkward as she'd imagined. There are so many questions, so many emotions that flood to the surface after seeing her father for the first time in years. Liv doesn’t want to get sucked back into her father's world. She also definitely doesn’t want Theo, her father’s charismatic so-called protégé, to witness her struggle.

Even so, she can't help but be charmed by everything Santorini has to offer—the beautiful sunsets, the turquoise water, the sun-drenched villages, and the delicious cuisine. But not everything on the Greek island is as perfect as it seems. Because as Liv slowly begins to discover, her father may not have invited her to Greece for Atlantis, but for something much more important.]]> 506 Jenna Evans Welch 1534448837 Emilia 4 3.97 2020 Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)
author: Jenna Evans Welch
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/11
date added: 2025/04/05
shelves: adventure, family, romance, travel
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]]> Home Fire 35898777 From an internationally acclaimed novelist, the suspenseful and heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart by secrets and driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences.

Practical-minded Isma has spent the years since her mother’s death watching out for her twin brother and sister in their North London home. When an invitation to grad school in America comes through unexpectedly, it brings the irresistible promise of freedom too long deferred. But even an ocean away, Isma can’t stop worrying about her beautiful, headstrong, politically inclined sister, Aneeka, and Parvaiz, their brother, who seems to be adrift—until suddenly he is half a globe away in Raqqa, trying to prove himself to the dark legacy of the father he never knew, with no road back.

Then Eamonn Lone enters the sisters� lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to—or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The instrument of Parvaiz’s salvation? Suddenly, two families� fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined.

Home Fire is a nuanced, searing, and exceedingly timely novel about love and loyalty, ideology and identity, what we choose to sacrifice for and why. With uncanny insight, Kamila Shamsie reflects our world back at us, dramatizing the complicated humanity behind the headlines.]]> 264 Kamila Shamsie 1408886790 Emilia 0 4.08 2017 Home Fire
author: Kamila Shamsie
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> When Breath Becomes Air 25899336
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naĂŻve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.

Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.]]> 208 Paul Kalanithi 0812988418 Emilia 0 to-read 4.41 2016 When Breath Becomes Air
author: Paul Kalanithi
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Hello Beautiful 61771675
But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters� unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?]]> 416 Ann Napolitano Emilia 0 to-read 4.14 2023 Hello Beautiful
author: Ann Napolitano
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> All the Light We Cannot See 18143977
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.

From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here]]> 544 Anthony Doerr 1476746583 Emilia 0 to-read 4.31 2014 All the Light We Cannot See
author: Anthony Doerr
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Never Let Me Go 6334
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Emilia 0 to-read 3.85 2005 Never Let Me Go
author: Kazuo Ishiguro
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter]]> 82751
A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family.

Following the success of the critically acclaimed adult bestseller Falling Leaves, this memoir is a moving telling of the classic Cinderella story, with Adeline Yen Mah providing her own courageous voice.]]> 205 Adeline Yen Mah 0440228654 Emilia 5 4.08 1999 Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
author: Adeline Yen Mah
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1999
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/01
date added: 2025/03/31
shelves: family, biography, siblings, rights
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]]> <![CDATA[Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)]]> 53138099 Finlay Donovan is Killing It.

Finlay Donovan is killing it . . . except, she’s really not. She’s a stressed-out single-mom of two and struggling novelist, Finlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors.

When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet . . . Soon, Finlay discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a real-life murder investigation.

Fast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and heartfelt moment, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a brilliant new series from YA Edgar Award nominee Elle Cosimano.]]> 355 Elle Cosimano 1250241707 Emilia 0 to-read 3.99 2021 Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
author: Elle Cosimano
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]> 213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 Emilia 0 to-read 3.67 2015 Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Lovely War 44107480
Aubrey Edwards is also headed toward the trenches. A gifted musician who's played Carnegie Hall, he's a member of the 15th New York Infantry, an all-African-American regiment being sent to Europe to help end the Great War. Love is the last thing on his mind. But that's before he meets Colette Fournier, a Belgian chanteuse who's already survived unspeakable tragedy at the hands of the Germans.

Thirty years after these four lovers' fates collide, the Greek goddess Aphrodite tells their stories to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another? But her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music and reveals that War is no match for the power of Love.

A sweeping, multi-layered romance with a divine twist, by the Printz Honor-winning author of The Passion of Dolssa, set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II.]]> 471 Julie Berry Emilia 0 to-read 4.23 2019 Lovely War
author: Julie Berry
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Under the Magnolias 56217998 This night not only marked the end to the drought, but also the end to the long-held secret we'd kept hidden under the magnolias.

Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980
Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.

Scratching out a living on the family's tobacco farm is as tough as it gets. When a few random acts of kindness help to ease the Fosters' hardships, Austin finds herself relying upon some of Magnolia's most colorful citizens for friendship and more. But it's next to impossible to hide the truth about the goings-on at Nolia Farms, and Austin's desperate attempts to save face all but break her.

Just when it seems she might have something more waiting for her--with the son of a wealthy local family who she's crushed on for years--her father makes a choice that will crack wide-open the family's secrets and lead to a public reckoning. There are consequences for loving a boy like Vance Cumberland, but there is also freedom in the truth.

T. I. Lowe's gritty yet tender and uplifting tale reminds us that a great story can break your heart . . . then heal it in the best possible way.]]> 384 T.I. Lowe 1496453611 Emilia 0 to-read 4.23 2021 Under the Magnolias
author: T.I. Lowe
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Living Simply: A Teen Guide to Minimalism]]> 40915698
-- "Journal"]]> 112 Sally McGraw 1541500547 Emilia 0 currently-reading 3.28 2019 Living Simply: A Teen Guide to Minimalism
author: Sally McGraw
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2019
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]]> I Hope This Doesn't Find You 124932739 I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters.

Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian, and a "pleasure to have in class." It’s not easy, but she has a trick to keep her model-student smile plastered on her face at all times: she channels all her frustrations into her email drafts. She'd never send them of course -- she'd rather die than hurt anyone's feelings -- but it's a relief to let loose on her power-hungry English teacher or a freeloading classmate taking credit for Sadie's work.

All her most vehemently worded emails are directed at her infuriating cocaptain, Julius Gong, whose arrogance and competitive streak have irked Sadie since they were kids. "You're attention starved and self-obsessed and unbearably vain . . . I really hope your comb breaks and you run out of whatever expensive hair products you've been using to make your hair appear deceptively soft..."

Sadie doesn't have to hold back in her emails, because nobody will ever read them... that is, until they're accidentally sent out.

Overnight, Sadie’s carefully crafted, conflict-free life is turned upside down. It's her worst nightmare -- now everyone at school knows what she really thinks of them, and they're not afraid to tell her what they really think of her either. But amidst the chaos, there's one person growing to appreciate the "real" Sadie -- Julius, the only boy she's sworn to hate...]]> 320 Ann Liang 1338827154 Emilia 4 on-kindle, romance 4.17 2024 I Hope This Doesn't Find You
author: Ann Liang
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/25
date added: 2025/03/25
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]]> Every Other Weekend 44674909 Can life begin again� every other weekend?

Adam Moynihan’s life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then his oldest brother died. Now his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can’t talk without fighting, and the father he always admired proved himself a coward by moving out when they needed him most.

Jolene Timber’s life is nothing like the movies she loves—not the happy ones anyway. As an aspiring director, she should know, because she’s been reimagining her life as a film ever since she was a kid. With her divorced parents at each other’s throats and using her as a pawn, no amount of mental reediting will give her the love she’s starving for.

Forced to spend every other weekend in the same apartment building, the boy who thinks forgiveness makes him weak and the girl who thinks love is for fools begin an unlikely friendship. The weekends he dreaded and she endured soon become the best part of their lives. But when one’s life begins to mend while the other’s spirals out of control, they realize that falling in love while surrounded by its demise means nothing is ever guaranteed.]]> 512 Abigail Johnson 1335929096 Emilia 5 3.93 2020 Every Other Weekend
author: Abigail Johnson
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/22
date added: 2025/03/21
shelves: abuse, family, healed-me, made-me-cry, on-kindle, realistic-fiction, random-library-find-that-was-good, romance, siblings, hilarious
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]]> Hello [From Here] 56293869 A witty and thought-provoking YA love story set during the COVID-19 quarantine, written by two NYT bestselling authors, with shades of Five Feet Apart and Anna and the French Kiss .

Maxine and Jonah bump into each other in the canned goods aisle of the grocery store just as the state of California is going into lockdown, when everything changes completely. Could there be a worse time to meet? Max's part-time job at a supermarket is about to transform into a hellish gauntlet. Jonah's preexisting anxiety is about to become an epic daily struggle. As Max, Jonah, and their friends live together but apart through hijinks, humanity, and heartbreak, Hello (From Here) cuts across urgent matters much bigger than a teenage crush. Differences of class, privilege, mental health, and sacrifice are thrown into stark relief by the profound and personal stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic. As thoughtful, probing, and informed as it is buoyant, romantic, and funny, Hello (From Here) looks at the first two months of the quarantine and adds falling hopelessly in love to the mess.]]> 352 Chandler Baker 0593326121 Emilia 0 to-read 3.46 2021 Hello [From Here]
author: Chandler Baker
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Like Home 54110109 Fans of Netflix's On My Block, In the Heights, and readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Ibi Zoboi will love this debut novel about a girl whose life is turned upside down after one local act of vandalism throws her relationships and even her neighborhood into turmoil.

Chinelo, or Nelo as her best friend Kate calls her, is all about her neighborhood Ginger East. She loves its chill vibe, ride-or-die sense of community, and her memories of growing up there. Ginger East isn't what it used to be, though. After a deadly incident at the local arcade, all her closest friends moved away, except for Kate. But as long as they have each other, Nelo's good.

Only, Kate's parents' corner store is vandalized, leaving Nelo shaken to her core. The police and the media are quick to point fingers, and soon more of the outside world descends on Ginger East with promises to "fix" it. Suddenly, Nelo finds herself in the middle of a drama unfolding on a national scale.

Worse yet, Kate is acting strange. She's pushing Nelo away at the exact moment they need each other most. Nelo's entire world is morphing into something she hates, and she must figure out how to get things back on track or risk losing everythingâ â€”and everyoneâ â€”she loves.]]> 416 Louisa OnomĂ© 1443459941 Emilia 0 to-read 3.63 2021 Like Home
author: Louisa Onomé
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)]]> 53338683
On her first night there, Moira hears distant music. On her second, she discovers the lock on her window is broken. On her third, she and her roommate venture outside...and learn that they're not so isolated after all. There's another, very different, Castle School nearby―this one filled with boys whose parents sent them away, too.

Moira is convinced that the Castle Schools and the doctors who run them are hiding something. But exploring the schools will force Moira to confront her overwhelming grief―and the real reasons her parents sent her away.]]> 400 Alyssa B. Sheinmel 172822098X Emilia 0 to-read 3.88 2021 The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)
author: Alyssa B. Sheinmel
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow]]> 50892004 Love & Gelato meets Don’t Date Rosa Santos in this charming, heartfelt story following a Miami girl who unexpectedly finds love—and herself—in a small English town.

For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was never part of the plan. The plan was 1) take over her abuela’s role as head baker at their panadería, 2) move in with her best friend after graduation, and 3) live happily ever after with her boyfriend. But then the Trifecta happened, and everything—including Lila herself—fell apart.

Worried about Lila’s mental health, her parents make a new plan for her: spend three months with family friends in Winchester, England, to relax and reset. But with the lack of sun, a grumpy inn cook, and a small town lacking Miami flavor (both in food and otherwise), what would be a dream trip for some feels more like a nightmare to Lila…until she meets Orion Maxwell.

A teashop clerk with troubles of his own, Orion is determined to help Lila out of her funk, and appoints himself as her personal tour guide. From Winchester’s drama-filled music scene to the sweeping English countryside, it isn’t long before Lila is not only charmed by Orion, but England itself. Soon a new future is beginning to form in Lila’s mind—one that would mean leaving everything she ever planned behind.]]> 320 Laura Taylor Namey 1534471243 Emilia 4 3.74 2020 A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
author: Laura Taylor Namey
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/14
date added: 2025/03/13
shelves: family, food, realistic-fiction, romance, travel
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]]> <![CDATA[Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)]]> 6148028 Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.]]> 391 Suzanne Collins 0439023491 Emilia 0 4.34 2009 Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/10
shelves: currently-reading, dystopia, romance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)]]> 52439531
To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.]]> 386 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 1368052401 Emilia 3 4.13 2020 The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/05
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: adventure, romance, recommended-by-a-freind
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)]]> 50531218 Intrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Inheritance Games perfect for fans of Karen McManus and Holly Jackson.

The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions - including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons.

Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she's not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. And there are threats lurking around every corner, as adversaries emerge who will stop at nothing to see Avery out of the picture - by any means necessary.

With nonstop action, aspirational jet-setting, family intrigue, swoonworthy romance, and billions of dollars hanging in the balance, The Hawthorne Legacy will thrill Jennifer Lynn Barnes fans and new readers alike.]]> 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 0241480744 Emilia 3 4.19 2021 The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/10
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: adventure, mystery, realistic-fiction, siblings, romance, family, recommended-by-a-freind
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]]> <![CDATA[Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)]]> 55710822 In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet.

The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love - and rethink her own ideas of what happily ever after should look like.]]> 356 Lynn Painter 1534467629 Emilia 3 4.28 2021 Better Than the Movies (Better Than the Movies, #1)
author: Lynn Painter
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/16
date added: 2025/03/08
shelves: romance, realistic-fiction, recommended-by-a-freind
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]]> <![CDATA[Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)]]> 75513900 She is the very thing he’s spent his whole life hunting.
He is the very thing she’s spent her whole life pretending to be.

Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya—the exceptional, the empowered, the Elites.

The powers these Elites have possessed for decades were graciously gifted to them by the Plague, though not all were fortunate enough to both survive the sickness and reap the reward. Those born Ordinary are just that—ordinary. And when the king decreed that all Ordinaries be banished in order to preserve his Elite society, lacking an ability suddenly became a crime—making Paedyn Gray a felon by fate and a thief by necessity.

Surviving in the slums as an Ordinary is no simple task, and Paedyn knows this better than most. Having been trained by her father to be overly observant since she was a child, Paedyn poses as a Psychic in the crowded city, blending in with the Elites as best she can in order to stay alive and out of trouble. Easier said than done.

When Paeydn unsuspectingly saves one of Ilyas princes, she finds herself thrown into the Purging Trials. The brutal competition exists to showcase the Elites� powers—the very thing Paedyn lacks. If the Trials and the opponents within them don’t kill her, the prince she’s fighting feelings for certainly will if he discovers what she is—completely Ordinary.]]> 523 Lauren Roberts Emilia 2 4.17 2023 Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
author: Lauren Roberts
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2025/01/16
date added: 2025/03/06
shelves: adventure, dystopia, fantasy, on-kindle, recommended-by-a-freind, romance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)]]> 2767052
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . .

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.]]> 374 Suzanne Collins 0439023483 Emilia 4 4.34 2008 The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/07
date added: 2025/03/06
shelves: dystopia, recommended-by-a-freind
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]]> A Thousand Splendid Suns 128029
With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism. In the end it is love that triumphs over death and destruction.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.]]> 372 Khaled Hosseini 1594489505 Emilia 0 to-read 4.44 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> I Am the Messenger 19057 protect the diamonds
survive the clubs
dig deep through the spades
feel the hearts

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.

That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.

That's when Ed becomes the messenger.

Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?]]> 357 Markus Zusak Emilia 0 to-read 4.03 2002 I Am the Messenger
author: Markus Zusak
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes]]> 181077 80 Eleanor Coerr 0698118022 Emilia 0 to-read 4.12 1977 Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
author: Eleanor Coerr
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> The Book Thief 19063 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)]]> 592 Markus Zusak Emilia 5 4.38 2005 The Book Thief
author: Markus Zusak
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/01
date added: 2025/03/01
shelves: historical, adoption, made-me-cry, must-read, on-kindle, recommended-by-asia-evan
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]]> <![CDATA[Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Library: A Collection of Literary Quotes and Inspirational Musings]]> 30145678 Includes a forward by noted Disney screenwriter Linda Woolverton.]]> 208 Linda Woolverton 148478099X Emilia 0 to-read 4.04 2017 Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Library: A Collection of Literary Quotes and Inspirational Musings
author: Linda Woolverton
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Gone Rogue (Wires and Nerve, #2)]]> 34930815
The world of the Lunar Chronicles comes alive in this thrilling continuation of Wires and Nerve. Iko--an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder--has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers plan to satisfy their monstrous appetites with a massacre of the innocent people of Earth.

And to show he's serious, Steele is taking hostages.

Cinder and Kai, Scarlet and Wolf, Cress and Thorne, and Winter and Jacin all feature in this epic new battle. But it is Iko who must face her deepest fears when she uncovers the truth about her own unusual programming. Questions of love, friendship, and mortality take Iko on an emotional journey that will satisfy and delight fans of this bestselling series.]]> 324 Marissa Meyer 1250078288 Emilia 5 4.20 2018 Gone Rogue (Wires and Nerve, #2)
author: Marissa Meyer
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/01
date added: 2025/03/01
shelves: adventure, fantasy, graphic-novels, sci-fi
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]]> Places We've Never Been 58784450 A contemporary Young Adult novel about a cross-country family road trip that puts one girl and her childhood best friend on an unexpected road to romance!

Norah hasn’t seen her childhood best friend, Skyler, in years. When he first moved away, they'd talk all the time, but lately their relationship has been reduced to liking each other’s Instagram posts. That’s why Norah can’t wait for the joint RV road trip their families have planned for the summer.

But when Skyler finally arrives, he seems...like he’d rather be anywhere else. Hurt and confused, Norah reacts in kind. Suddenly, her oldest friendship is on the rocks.

A summer spent driving across the country leads both Norah and Skyler down new roads and to new discoveries. Before long, they are, once again, seeing each other in a different light. Can their friendship-turned-rivalry turn into something more?]]> 322 Kasie West 0593176308 Emilia 0 to-read 3.87 2022 Places We've Never Been
author: Kasie West
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Sunkissed 54456763 Will the stars align?

Avery has always used music as an escape. But after her best friend betrays her, even her perfectly curated playlists can't help her forget what happened. To make matters worse, her parents have dragged her and her social-media-obsessed sister to a remote family camp for two months of "fun." Just when Avery is ready to give up on the summer altogether, she meets Brooks—mysterious, frustratingly charming Brooks—who just happens to be on staff—which means he's off-limits.

What starts as a disaster turns into . . . something else. As the outside world falls away, Avery embarks on a journey of self-discovery. And when Brooks offers her the chance of a lifetime, she must figure out how far is she willing to go to find out what she wants and who she wants to be.

Fan favorite Kasie West is back with another unforgettable summer romance that reminds us falling in love is full of wonder, heartache, and—most of all—surprises.]]> 305 Kasie West 059317626X Emilia 0 to-read 3.80 2021 Sunkissed
author: Kasie West
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Selection (The Selection, #1)]]> 10507293
But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.]]> 336 Kiera Cass 0062059939 Emilia 0 to-read 4.07 2012 The Selection (The Selection, #1)
author: Kiera Cass
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/17
shelves: to-read
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]]> Legend (Legend, #1) 29863662 Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B0052RDJAO.

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors.

Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles.

Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem.

From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect.
Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.]]> 318 Marie Lu Emilia 0 to-read 4.13 2011 Legend (Legend, #1)
author: Marie Lu
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> The House Saphir 221604746
Mallory is a self-proclaimed expert on Count Bastien Saphir - otherwise known as Monsieur Le Bleu - who brutally killed three of his wives more than a century ago. But she never expected to meet Bastien's great-grandson and heir to the Saphir estate. Armand is handsome, wealthy, and convinced that the Fontaine Sisters are as talented as they claim. The perfect mark. When he offers Mallory a large sum of money to rid his ancestral home of Le Bleu's ghost, she can’t resist. A paid vacation at Armand’s country manor? It’s practically a dream come true, never mind the ghosts of murdered wives and the monsters that are as common as household pests.

But when murder again comes to the House Saphir, Mallory finds herself at the center of the investigation—and she is almost certain the killer is mortal. If she has any hope of cashing in on the payment she was promised, she’ll have to solve the murder and banish the ghost, all while upholding the illusion of witchcraft.

But that all sounds relatively easy compared to her biggest learning to trust her heart. Especially when the person her heart wants the most might be a murderer himself.]]> 432 Marissa Meyer 125032095X Emilia 0 to-read 4.42 2025 The House Saphir
author: Marissa Meyer
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> The Witches 6327 Note: This edition shares ISBN 0590032496 with another edition.

This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them.]]> 208 Roald Dahl 0590032496 Emilia 5 4.18 1981 The Witches
author: Roald Dahl
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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]]> George's Marvellous Medicine 74532 120 Roald Dahl 0224064908 Emilia 0 4.05 1981 George's Marvellous Medicine
author: Roald Dahl
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business (Junie B. Jones, #2)]]> 1167
"Chapter book readers will be laughing at Junie's antics as well as her way with words."-- Booklist.]]> 68 Barbara Park Emilia 0 4.02 1993 Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business (Junie B. Jones, #2)
author: Barbara Park
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1993
rating: 0
read at: 2020/01/01
date added: 2025/02/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Friends Forever (Real Friends #3)]]> 55780540 Following up their mega-bestselling Real Friends and Best Friends graphic memoirs, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with Friends Forever, a story about learning to love yourself exactly as you are.

Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Everything keeps changing. Her classmates are starting to date each other (but nobody wants to date her!), and no matter how hard she tries, Shannon can never seem to just be happy.

As she works through her insecurities and undiagnosed depression, she worries about disappointing all the people who care about her. Is something wrong with her? Can she be the person everyone expects her to be? And who does she actually want to be?

With their signature humor, warmth, and insight, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham have crafted another love letter to their younger selves and to readers everywhere, a reminder to us all that we are enough.]]> 304 Shannon Hale 1250317568 Emilia 5 made-me-cry 4.22 2021 Friends Forever (Real Friends #3)
author: Shannon Hale
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/14
date added: 2025/02/14
shelves: made-me-cry
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]]> Never Thought I'd End Up Here 216879705 From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller I Hope This Doesn't Find You, Never Thought I'd End Up Here is another hilarious and romantic romcom from Ann Liang, this time following a former model determined to get revenge on the boy who ruined her life.

Leah Zhang has spent her whole life in LA - it's all she's ever known. But after accidentally wishing her cousin ill health and a very depressing marriage at her wedding, her parents stage an intervention. She's forgotten most of her Mandarin, has zero regard for etiquette, and can't hold a conversation with her own grandparents for longer than a minute. Their solution? Send her on an intensive two-week travel program across China's most beautiful cities. To them, it's the perfect opportunity for Leah to get back to her roots. To Leah, it's simply a much-needed escape.

But before Leah can even begin to enjoy the luxurious hotels, stunning scenery, and mouth-watering cuisine, she finds that also on the trip is her former classmate and least favorite person cynical, sarcastic Cyrus, who's somehow only gotten more annoyingly handsome since they last saw each other.

While Leah might be tempted to shove him off the peak of the Yellow Mountain when nobody's looking, she can't get rid of him just yet. After all, she might never get another chance to get revenge on the boy who ruined her life.

Yet the deeper they wander into China's provinces, the deeper Leah finds herself falling in love - with the boy she once thought she despised, the home she never thought she'd call her own, and the parts of herself she thought were already lost.]]> 320 Ann Liang 1546110674 Emilia 0 to-read 4.56 2025 Never Thought I'd End Up Here
author: Ann Liang
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> I Could Give You the Moon 156714412 Ann Liang Emilia 0 to-read 4.85 2026 I Could Give You the Moon
author: Ann Liang
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.85
book published: 2026
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Be French: Eat Drink Dress Travel Love]]> 123645501
What does it mean to be French?

Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? Being a flâneur down laneways steeped in history? Knowing just how to dress so you always look effortlessly chic ?

This book is a celebration of the French lifestyle—an education in drinking to savor the moment, travelling indulgently, and cherishing food and culture. A lesson in the joy of taking things slowly. We may not all live in France, but anyone can learn how to be un petit plus français with this guide by Janine Marsh.]]> 216 Janine Marsh 1922754706 Emilia 0 to-read 4.25 How to Be French: Eat Drink Dress Travel Love
author: Janine Marsh
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam #1)]]> 53086843
Heartbroken, Julie skips his funeral, throws out his things, and tries everything to forget him and the tragic way he died. But a message Sam left behind in her yearbook forces back memories. Desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls Sam’s cellphone just to listen to his voicemail.

And Sam picks up the phone.

In a miraculous turn of events, Julie’s been given a second chance at goodbye. The connection is temporary. But hearing Sam’s voice makes her fall for him all over again, and with each call it becomes harder to let him go. However, keeping her otherworldly calls with Sam a secret isn’t easy, especially when Julie witnesses the suffering Sam’s family is going through. Unable to stand by the sidelines and watch their shared loved ones in pain, Julie is torn between spilling the truth about her calls with Sam and risking their connection and losing him forever.]]> 296 Dustin Thao 1250762030 Emilia 0 to-read 3.64 2021 You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam #1)
author: Dustin Thao
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Bingsu for Two 196038712 This outrageously charming and infuriatingly adorable enemies-to-lovers coffee shop romance is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Better Than the Movies.

Meet River Langston-Lee. In the past 24 hours, he’s dumped his girlfriend, walked out of his SATs, and quit his job at his parents� cafe in spectacularly disastrous fashion—even for him.

Somehow, he manages to talk his way into a gig at a failing Korean cafe, Bingsu for Two, which is his lucky break until he meets short, grumpy, and goth: Sarang Cho. She’s his new no-BS co-worker who’s as determined to make River’s life hell as she is to save her family’s cafe.

After River accidentally uploads a video of his chaotic co-workers to his popular fandom account, they strike viral fame. The kicker? Their new fans ship River and Sarang big-time. In order to keep the Internet’s attention—and the cafe’s new paying customers—River and Sarang must pretend that the tension between them is definitely of the romantic variety, not the considering the best way to kill you and hide your body variety.

But when Bingsu for Two’s newfound success catches the attention of River’s ex and his parents� cafe around the corner, he faces a choice: keep letting others control his life or stand up for the place that’s become home. And a green-haired girl who’s not as heartless as he originally thought . . .]]> 320 Sujin Witherspoon 1454954027 Emilia 0 to-read 4.03 2025 Bingsu for Two
author: Sujin Witherspoon
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> I Am Not Jessica Chen 61374793
Now trapped inside Jessica’s body, with access to Jessica’s most private journals and secrets, Jenna soon discovers that being the top student at the elite, highly competitive Havenwood Private Academy isn’t quite what she imagined. Worse, as everyone—including her own parents—start having trouble remembering who Jenna Chen is, or if she ever even existed, Jenna must decide if playing the role of the perfect daughter and student is worth losing her true self forever.]]> 320 Ann Liang 133552312X Emilia 0 to-read 4.09 2025 I Am Not Jessica Chen
author: Ann Liang
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Best Friends (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels, #1)]]> 60012959 Jessica and Elizabeth are ready to take on middle school . . . but are they ready to take on each other? The New York Times bestselling world of Sweet Valley Twins returns in these all-new graphic novel adaptations!

Jessica and Elizabeth have always been inseparable twins, but starting middle school means a chance for new beginnings! Elizabeth is excited to organize a school newspaper, but Jessica is more interested in joining the exclusive Unicorn Club. What will happen when the twins realize they might not be as alike as they thought?

Middle school is hard enough, but with these twins each dealing with becoming their own person--will they be able to stay friends at the same time?

Francine Pascal's beloved Sweet Valley Twins comes to life in a brand-new graphic novel that will have old and new fans delighted as they meet Jessica and Elizabeth in graphic novel form. With the lively artwork of Claudia Aguirre, Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends is a contemporary middle-grade graphic novel filled with heart, laughter, and lots of twins.]]> 218 Nicole Andelfinger 0593376463 Emilia 3 3.90 2022 Best Friends (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels, #1)
author: Nicole Andelfinger
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/29
date added: 2025/02/10
shelves: family, random-library-find-that-was-ok, realistic-fiction, graphic-novels
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]]> <![CDATA[Instant Karma (Instant Karma, #1)]]> 53174679
Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to mean gossips, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire: Quint Erickson, her slacker of a lab partner. Quint is annoyingly cute and impressively noble, especially when it comes to his work with the rescue center for local sea animals.

When Pru resigns herself to working at the rescue center for extra credit, she begins to uncover truths about baby otters, environmental upheaval, and romantic crossed signals—not necessarily in that order. Her newfound karmic insights reveal how thin the line is between virtue and vanity, generosity and greed, love and hate . . . and fate.]]> 400 Marissa Meyer 1250618819 Emilia 5 fantasy, siblings, romance 3.76 2020 Instant Karma (Instant Karma, #1)
author: Marissa Meyer
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/24
date added: 2025/02/10
shelves: fantasy, siblings, romance
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]]> <![CDATA[The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You]]> 26114524
Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben's, including give up sleep and comic books--well, maybe not comic books--but definitely sleep. After all, the war of Watson v. West is as vicious as the Doctor v. Daleks and Browncoats v. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. Over a decade later, it's time to declare a champion once and for all.

The war is Trixie's for the winning, until her best friend starts dating Ben's best friend and the two are unceremoniously dumped together and told to play nice. Finding common ground is odious and tooth-pullingly-painful, but Trixie and Ben's cautious truce slowly transforms into a fandom-based tentative friendship. When Trixie's best friend gets expelled for cheating and Trixie cries foul play, however, they have to choose who to believe and which side they're on--and they might not pick the same side.]]> 352 Lily Anderson 1250079098 Emilia 0 to-read 4.01 2016 The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You
author: Lily Anderson
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> This Time It's Real 60759266 massive secret to keep.

Eliza made her essay up. She’s never been in a relationship before, let alone in love. All good writing is lying, right?

Desperate to hide the truth, Eliza strikes a deal with the famous actor in her class, the charming but aloof Caz Song. She’ll help him write his college applications if he poses as her boyfriend. Caz is a dream boyfriend -- he passes handwritten notes to her in class, makes her little sister laugh, and takes her out on motorcycle rides to the best snack stalls around the city.

But when her relationship with Caz starts feeling a little too convincing, all of Eliza’s carefully laid plans are threatened. Can she still follow her dreams if it means breaking her own heart?

Get ready to fall in love in this hilarious romcom about a girl who begins a fake relationship with the famous actor in her class, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han.]]> 352 Ann Liang 1338827111 Emilia 0 to-read 4.03 2023 This Time It's Real
author: Ann Liang
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 100 Days of Sunlight 45431240 When 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa Dickinson is involved in a car accident and loses her eyesight for 100 days, she feels like her whole world has been turned upside-down.

Terrified that her vision might never return, Tessa feels like she has nothing left to be happy about. But when her grandparents place an ad in the local newspaper looking for a typist to help Tessa continue writing and blogging, an unlikely answer knocks at their door: Weston Ludovico, a boy her age with bright eyes, an optimistic smile…and no legs.

Knowing how angry and afraid Tessa is feeling, Weston thinks he can help her. But he has one condition � no one can tell Tessa about his disability. And because she can’t see him, she treats him with contempt: screaming at him to get out of her house and never come back. But for Weston, it’s the most amazing feeling: to be treated like a normal person, not just a sob story. So he comes back. Again and again and again.

Tessa spurns Weston’s “obnoxious optimism�, convinced that he has no idea what she’s going through. But Weston knows exactly how she feels and reaches into her darkness to show her that there is more than one way to experience the world. As Tessa grows closer to Weston, she finds it harder and harder to imagine life without him � and Weston can’t imagine life without her. But he still hasn’t told her the truth, and when Tessa’s sight returns he’ll have to make the hardest decision of his life: vanish from Tessa’s world…or overcome his fear of being seen.

100 Days of Sunlight is a poignant and heartfelt novel by author Abbie Emmons. If you like sweet contemporary romance and strong family themes then you’ll love this touching story of hope, healing, and getting back up when life knocks you down.]]> 311 Abbie Emmons 1733973303 Emilia 0 to-read 4.15 2019 100 Days of Sunlight
author: Abbie Emmons
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> A Castle in the Clouds 44281041
Way up in the Swiss mountains, there's an old grand hotel steeped in tradition and faded splendor. Once a year, when the famous New Year's Eve Ball takes place and guests from all over the world arrive, excitement returns to the vast hallways.

Sophie, who works at the hotel as an intern, is busy making sure that everything goes according to plan. But unexpected problems keep arising, and some of the guests are not who they pretend to be. Very soon, Sophie finds herself right in the middle of a perilous adventure―and at risk of losing not only her job, but also her heart.]]> 336 Kerstin Gier 1250300193 Emilia 0 to-read 3.78 2017 A Castle in the Clouds
author: Kerstin Gier
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> If You Could See the Sun 60099660 actually invisible.
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When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power—she’ll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price.
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But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it’s worth losing her conscience—or even her life.

In this genre-bending YA debut, a Chinese American girl monetizes her strange new invisibility powers by discovering and selling her wealthy classmates� most scandalous secrets.]]> 346 Ann Liang 1335915842 Emilia 0 to-read 4.01 2022 If You Could See the Sun
author: Ann Liang
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[What If We Met In A Bookstore (The Breezewood Chapters #1)]]> 206116093
When Briar Verlice finds out her favorite bookstore in Homer, Alaska, is on the verge of closing, she jumps at the opportunity to save it. But her high school crush and former classmates are back in town, making her plans a lot more difficult. When an array of riddles comes into her possession, they trigger a memory from a time she disappeared without a trace. While digging into the clues, Briar discovers the reason for her disappearance might stray into the realm of fiction and magic.

Peter West, dreaming of becoming a successful escape room artist, is striving to build a career from crafting unique puzzles. When he gets the offer of a lifetime, he sets out to create an escape room worthy of his small town. But when riddles Peter never devised begin to surface before construction on the attraction even begins, so does a wild secret—one that demands the escape room be built as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly reunited with the girl who’s held his heart since high school, Peter’s reality is shattered when the bookstore becomes a literal place of escape. Can they unravel the mysteries before life as they know it comes to an end?]]> 424 Callie McLay Emilia 0 to-read 3.92 2024 What If We Met In A Bookstore (The Breezewood Chapters #1)
author: Callie McLay
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)]]> 37781 Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.]]> 215 Chinua Achebe Emilia 3 for-school 3.73 1958 Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
author: Chinua Achebe
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1958
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/05
date added: 2025/02/04
shelves: for-school
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]]> How You Ruined My Life 36388635 Rod and his cousin take family rivalry to a new level in this rollicking comedy from Jeff Strand.

Rod's life is pretty awesome. He plays in a punk rock band that's starting to score gigs and has a great girlfriend. Then he learns that his rich cousin, Blake, will be staying with him for three months—moving into his room, moving in on his girlfriend and band, and basically ruining his life! Prankster Blake has his own ideas on how Rod should live, but his efforts to get Rod girls and bring people to the band's shows are the opposite of helpful. Between Blake's ridiculous pranks and Rod's increasing paranoia, this semester might be the cousins' most memorable yet. That is, if their hijinks don't kill them first.]]> 307 Jeff Strand 149266202X Emilia 4 3.33 How You Ruined My Life
author: Jeff Strand
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.33
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/03
date added: 2025/02/03
shelves: cousins, family, hilarious, middle-school-drama, on-kindle, random-library-find-that-was-good, realistic-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[What the Hex?! (Witches of Brooklyn #2)]]> 56904971 Effie returns in this spellbinding sequel: a middle-grade graphic novel about found family, friendship, and learning to embrace who you are!

Could there be even MORE witches in Brooklyn?!

Effie is EXCITED to meet so many witches, but what is going on with her friends? Suddenly Effie is no longer the newest kid in school, and it seems like her friends are happy to grow their little group, but Effie isn't so sure. On top of that, learning magic is HARD WORK!

Effie just wants to have fun being a witch, but her life in Brooklyn is about to get weird(er).

The bewitching second book in the Witches of Brooklyn series captures what it means to be a friend, and how growing up can be a little less scary if you throw some magic in the mix.]]> 234 Sophie Escabasse 0593119304 Emilia 4 4.17 2021 What the Hex?! (Witches of Brooklyn #2)
author: Sophie Escabasse
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/30
date added: 2025/01/31
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]]> Son (The Giver, #4) 13324841
Son thrusts readers once again into the chilling world of the Newbery Medal winning book, The Giver, as well as Gathering Blue and Messenger where a new hero emerges. In this thrilling series finale, the startling and long-awaited conclusion to Lois Lowry’s epic tale culminates in a final clash between good and evil.]]> 393 Lois Lowry 0547887205 Emilia 5 dystopia, healed-me 3.98 2012 Son (The Giver, #4)
author: Lois Lowry
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/27
date added: 2025/01/27
shelves: dystopia, healed-me
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]]> <![CDATA[With a Little Luck (Instant Karma, #2)]]> 63291997 Jude Barnett is determined to fly under the radar. He just wants to draw comics, design D&D campaigns for his friends, work at his parents� vinyl record store, and escape high school as unscathed as possible.

That is, until the night he finds himself inexplicably gifted with a bout of supernatural good luck.

Suddenly, everything Jude has ever wanted is within reach. His art is being published. He helps his friend’s song get to the finals in a competition. And he wins a pair of coveted concert tickets, which he can use to ask out the popular girl he’s been crushing on since elementary school.

But how long can Jude's good fortune last? And why does he find himself thinking about Ari, his best friend since forever?

And if Jude has been dreaming of the wrong girl this whole time, does that mean he's doomed to be unlucky in love forever?]]> 360 Marissa Meyer 1250618932 Emilia 0 to-read 3.86 2024 With a Little Luck (Instant Karma, #2)
author: Marissa Meyer
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> Messenger (The Giver, #3) 12930 Ěý
Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village once welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must risk everything to make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself.]]> 169 Lois Lowry 0385732538 Emilia 4 dystopia 3.90 2004 Messenger (The Giver, #3)
author: Lois Lowry
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/22
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: dystopia
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Karen's Witch (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels #1)]]> 44442959 144 Katy Farina 1338356119 Emilia 0 3.94 2019 Karen's Witch (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels #1)
author: Katy Farina
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Karen's Roller Skates (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels #2)]]> 50160374
Karen is determined to get everyone she knows -- plus someone famous -- to sign her cast. It isn't going to be easy, but she won't give up until the job is done.
]]> 144 Katy Farina 133835616X Emilia 0 4.24 2020 Karen's Roller Skates (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphic Novels #2)
author: Katy Farina
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2023/08/01
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> <![CDATA[Boy-Crazy Stacey: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #7)]]> 43319659
Mary Anne thinks that Stacey should leave Scott alone and focus on the Pike kids, but Stacey's in love. Looking for reasons to hang around his lifeguard stand takes up all of her time, which means Mary Anne has to do the job of two baby-sitters. Mary Anne doesn't like it one bit! How can she tell Stacey that Scott just isn't interested without ruining their friendship and breaking Stacey's heart?]]> 165 Gale Galligan 1338304518 Emilia 0 4.29 2019 Boy-Crazy Stacey: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #7)
author: Gale Galligan
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2023/08/01
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> <![CDATA[Kristy's Big Day: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels, #6)]]> 37921713 160 Gale Galligan 1338068156 Emilia 0 4.43 2018 Kristy's Big Day: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels, #6)
author: Gale Galligan
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2021/07/02
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> <![CDATA[Dawn and the Impossible Three: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #5)]]> 34381526 150 Gale Galligan 1338067117 Emilia 0 4.35 2017 Dawn and the Impossible Three: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #5)
author: Gale Galligan
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2021/06/17
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> Crunch (Click #5) 59652414 224 Kayla Miller 035839368X Emilia 0 4.11 2022 Crunch (Click #5)
author: Kayla Miller
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever (Dork Diaries #14)]]> 38533093 Nikki Maxwell’s summer is packed with drama in this fourteenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!

Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she has a total MELTDOWN when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from AWESOME to AWFUL?! The drama continues in Dork Diaries 14: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever!]]> 320 Rachel Renée Russell 1534427201 Emilia 0 4.12 Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever (Dork Diaries #14)
author: Rachel Renée Russell
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.12
book published:
rating: 0
read at: 2021/06/30
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday (Dork Diaries, #13)]]> 36229963
Nikki and her BFFs Chloe and Zoey have been planning a birthday party of epic proportions! There’s just one problem—Nikki’s mom says no way to the budget they need to make it happen. Nikki’s ready to call the whole thing off, but some surprising twists might take that decision out of her hands, and help comes from the person Nikki would least expect. One way or another, this will be a birthday that Nikki will never forget!]]> 304 Rachel Renée Russell 1534426388 Emilia 4 4.19 2018 Tales from a Not-So-Happy Birthday (Dork Diaries, #13)
author: Rachel Renée Russell
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2023/12/14
date added: 2025/01/19
shelves: diary, from-ls, from-ecolint, random-library-find-that-was-good, hilarious
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]]> <![CDATA[Logan Likes Mary Anne!: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels, #8)]]> 49184831 definitely doesn't expect is to meet Logan Bruno, who just moved to Stoneybrook!

Logan has a dreamy southern accent, he's awfully cute... and he might be interested in joining the BSC. But the baby-sitters aren't sure if Logan would make a good club member, so they send him on a job with Mary Anne as a test. Logan and Mary Anne hit it off, but Mary Anne isn't sure of where their friendship could go. Life in the Baby-sitters Club has never been this complicated -- or this fun!]]> 176 Gale Galligan Emilia 5 4.39 2020 Logan Likes Mary Anne!: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels, #8)
author: Gale Galligan
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/04
date added: 2025/01/19
shelves: graphic-novels, hilarious, middle-school-drama, on-kindle, realistic-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Claudia and the New Girl: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #9)]]> 52664730
Claudia has always been the most creative kid in her class... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different: She wears hippie clothes and has multiple earrings, and she's the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met.

Ashley says Claudia is a great artist, too, but thinks she's wasting her artistic talent with The Baby-sitters Club. When Claudia starts spending more time with Ashley and missing BSC meetings, it becomes clear that Claudia has to make a decision -- one of them has to go!]]> 176 Gabriela Epstein 1338304585 Emilia 0 4.10 2021 Claudia and the New Girl: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #9)
author: Gabriela Epstein
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2021/07/02
date added: 2025/01/19
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]]> Faker 195263491 The story of a family of liars... and the son who wants to break the family tradition.

Trey knows the routine. His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there's the con, where Trey's dad suckers the other parents into investing in one of his schemes. Once the money's in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad are on the run... until they set up somewhere else and start again.

Trey believes his father when he says no one's getting hurt. After all, these parents have money to spare.

But Trey's starting to get tired of running... and lying... and never having a friend for longer than a few months. But how do you get your family to stop lying when your lives depend on it?]]> 224 Gordon Korman 1338826751 Emilia 0 to-read 4.00 Faker
author: Gordon Korman
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)]]> 26030734
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is—but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.

As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home—until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.

From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.]]> 282 Peter Brown 0316381993 Emilia 0 to-read 4.19 2016 The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)
author: Peter Brown
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Kristy and the Walking Disaster: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #16)]]> 202772992 A Baby-sitters Club graphic novel adapted by Eisner- and National Book Award-nominated cartoonist Ellen T. Crenshaw!

They're lean, they're mean, they're the pride of Stoneybrook. Who are they? They're Kristy's Krushers!

When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she starts a ragtag team of her own. Maybe Kristy's Krushers aren't world champions (how could they be, with Jackie Rodowsky, walking disaster, playing for them?), but nobody beats them when it comes to team spirit.

Now Bart's Bashers have challenged the Krushers to a game. It's bad enough that the Bashers truly are lean and mean -- but what's worse is that Kristy has a crush on the Bashers' coach!]]> 160 Ellen T. Crenshaw 1338835556 Emilia 5 4.12 2024 Kristy and the Walking Disaster: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #16)
author: Ellen T. Crenshaw
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/12
date added: 2025/01/11
shelves: family, graphic-novels, on-kindle, realistic-fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)]]> 13597723
What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides—especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head—and under her skin. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length.

Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all of their gifts just to survive.]]> 308 Jennifer Lynn Barnes 1423168232 Emilia 0 to-read 4.22 2013 The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/10
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1)]]> 1934 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,� including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book� her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

]]> 449 Louisa May Alcott Emilia 5 4.16 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1)
author: Louisa May Alcott
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1868
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/10
date added: 2025/01/10
shelves: based-on-their-expirience, family, must-read, realistic-fiction, recommended-by-a-freind, recommended-by-asia-evan, relatable, siblings, made-me-cry
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]]> Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1) 7909
There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy become such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy.

Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib.

Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.]]> 144 Maud Hart Lovelace 0064400964 Emilia 5 4.08 1940 Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)
author: Maud Hart Lovelace
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1940
rating: 5
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shelves: siblings, realistic-fiction, family, based-on-their-expirience
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)]]> 7736182 JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything—except that everything seems very wrong.

PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not.

LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?

Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment.]]> 576 Rick Riordan 142311339X Emilia 5 4.28 2010 The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2024/03/31
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: adventure, fantasy, mythology, recommended-by-asia-evan, recommended-by-a-freind, retellings
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]]> <![CDATA[Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)]]> 12936
As she did in The Giver, Lowry challenges readers to imagine what our world could become, and what will be considered valuable. Every reader will be taken by Kira's plight and will long ponder her haunting world and the hope for the future.

]]> 240 Lois Lowry 0385732562 Emilia 4 adventure, dystopia 3.82 2000 Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
author: Lois Lowry
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/06
date added: 2025/01/06
shelves: adventure, dystopia
review:

]]> Ferris 177721372 Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up.

It’s the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferris’s mother’s chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And Charisse, Ferris’s grandmother, has started seeing a ghost at the threshold of her room, which seems like an alarming omen given that she is also feeling unwell. But the ghost is not there to usher Charisse to the Great Beyond. Rather, she has other plans—wild, impractical, illuminating plans. How can Ferris satisfy a specter with Pinky terrorizing the town, Uncle Ted sending Ferris to spy on her aunt, and her father battling an invasion of raccoons?

As Charisse likes to say, “Every good story is a love story,� and Kate DiCamillo has written one for the ages: emotionally resonant and healing, showing the two-time Newbery Medalist at her most playful, universal, and profound.]]> 226 Kate DiCamillo 1536231053 Emilia 0 to-read 4.22 2024 Ferris
author: Kate DiCamillo
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/05
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)]]> 123257687
ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem and terror, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits.

With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn’s most infamous Villain results in a job offer―naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don’t find evil so attractive, Evie.

But just when she’s getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel, Evie suspects this dungeon has a huge rat…and not just the literal kind. Because something rotten is growing in the kingdom of Rennedawn, and someone wants to take the Villain―and his entire nefarious empire―out.

Now Evie must not only resist drooling over her boss but also figure out exactly who is sabotaging his work…and ensure he makes them pay.

After all, a good job is hard to find.]]> 342 Hannah Nicole Maehrer 1649375808 Emilia 0 to-read 3.88 2023 Assistant to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #1)
author: Hannah Nicole Maehrer
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/02
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Tuck Everlasting 84981 148 Natalie Babbitt 0374480095 Emilia 4 fantasy, family 3.90 1975 Tuck Everlasting
author: Natalie Babbitt
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1975
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/01
date added: 2025/01/01
shelves: fantasy, family
review:

]]> The Magic Finger 6670
To the Gregg family, hunting is just plain fun. To the girl who lives next door, it's just plain horrible. She tries to be polite. She tries to talk them out of it, but the Greggs only laugh at her. Then one day the Greggs go too far, and the little girl turns her Magic Finger on them. When she's very, very angry, the little girl's Magic Finger takes over. She really can’t control it, and now it's turned the Greggs into birds! Before they know it, the Greggs are living in a nest, and that's just the beginning of their problems�
]]> 67 Roald Dahl 0141311290 Emilia 0 3.69 1966 The Magic Finger
author: Roald Dahl
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1966
rating: 0
read at: 2024/12/31
date added: 2024/12/31
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]]> <![CDATA[The Enchantress Returns (The Land of Stories, #2)]]> 17722973 517 Chris Colfer 0316201545 Emilia 5 4.43 2013 The Enchantress Returns (The Land of Stories, #2)
author: Chris Colfer
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2023/10/20
date added: 2024/12/31
shelves: on-kindle, fantasy, recommended-by-asia-evan, made-me-cry
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Romeo and Juliet (A Shakespeare Story)]]> 245153
When Romeo and Juliet meet at a masked ball it's love at first sight. But their families are sworn enemies, and the very next day a deadly brawl breaks out between the Montagues and Capulets. Young Romeo is caught up in the fighting and as punishment is banished from the city - and sent away from Juliet for ever...

A beautiful retelling of Shakespeare's most famous love story.]]> 64 Andrew Matthews 1841213365 Emilia 3 3.90 1996 Romeo and Juliet (A Shakespeare Story)
author: Andrew Matthews
name: Emilia
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1996
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/31
date added: 2024/12/31
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review:

]]> <![CDATA[Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4)]]> 6407514 Rin is sure that something is wrong with her . . . something really bad.

Something that is keeping her from feeling at home in the Forest homestead where she's lived all her life. Something that is keeping her from trusting herself with anyone at all.

When her brother Razo returns from the city for a visit, she accompanies him to the palace, hoping that she can find peace away from home. But war has come to Bayern again, and Rin is compelled to join the queen and her closest allies—magical girls Rin thinks of as the Fire Sisters—as they venture into the Forest toward Kel, the land where someone seems to want them all dead. Many beloved Bayern characters reappear in this story, but it is Rin's own journey of discovering how to balance the good and the bad in herself that drives this compelling adventure.]]> 389 Shannon Hale 1599901676 Emilia 5 4.04 2009 Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4)
author: Shannon Hale
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/31
date added: 2024/12/30
shelves: adventure, family, fantasy, on-kindle, recommended-by-asia-evan, relatable, siblings, spies, made-me-cry
review:

]]> Go the Distance 54817211 What if Meg had to become a god?

After Hercules proves he's a true hero and regains his godship, all seems right in the world. That is, until Zeus tells Meg that she can't be with Hercules because she's, well, mortal. Luckily, Hera has a solution, offering Meg a chance to prove herself worthy of a spot on Mt. Olympus--as a god. All Meg has to do is complete a mysterious quest.

The mission? Oh, just to rescue her ex's current wife from the Underworld. The ex-boyfriend she saved by selling her soul to Hades. The ex-boyfriend who immediately moved on to someone else while she was stuck in the Underworld. Can Meg put her past behind her and use her quick-wit to defeat monsters and gods alike, including the nefarious Hades? Will she finally figure out her place and contribution to the world? Or will her fear of commitment have her running away from an eternity of godhood with Herc?

Written by the author of Mirror, Mirror and Conceal, Don't Feel, Jen Calonita's latest twist is sure to delight and surprise.]]> 336 Jen Calonita 1368063802 Emilia 3 4.04 2021 Go the Distance
author: Jen Calonita
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: adventure, listened-to, mythology, retellings, romance, fantasy
review:

]]> Camp (Click #2) 42873833 Olive and Willow are happy campers!
Or are they?
Ěý
Olive is sure she’ll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow â€� but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows â€� Olive.ĚýIt’s ˛ő’m´Ç°ů±đ than Olive can handle! The stress of being Willow's living security blanket begins to wear on Olive and before long…the girls aren’t justĚýfighting, they may not even be friends by the time camp is over. Will the two be able to patch things up before the final lights out?]]> 224 Kayla Miller 1328530825 Emilia 3 4.10 2019 Camp (Click #2)
author: Kayla Miller
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/23
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Medusa the Mean (Goddess Girls, #8)]]> 12052534 Medusa is the ultimate mean girl in this series that blends modern drama with ancient myths.Well researched and true to the original myths, each volume in the Goddess Girls series addresses contemporary issues, like friendships and relationships, from a classically accurate—and entertaining—perspective.

In Medusa the Mean, Medusa is sick and tired of being the only mortal at Mount Olympus Academy. Not only is she surrounded by beautiful, powerful, immortal classmates, but she also has snakes for hair and a reputation for being mean. Immortality, she thinks, will solve everything. So when she finds out about a necklace that promises just that, she’s sure it will help her get the two things she covets most: to be as popular as the four Goddess Girls and to have her supercrush, Poseidon, finally notice her. But when the necklace brings about popularity in the totally wrong way, things go from bad to worse. Can Medusa overcome her “meanie� status and prove that there’s more to her that meets the eye?

]]> 256 Joan Holub 1442433795 Emilia 4 4.25 2012 Medusa the Mean (Goddess Girls, #8)
author: Joan Holub
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/26
date added: 2024/12/26
shelves: my-books, mythology, boarding-school
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #13)]]> 39304888
It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighborhood meltdown. When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even survive to see another day?]]> 218 Jeff Kinney 1419727435 Emilia 0 4.25 2018 The Meltdown (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #13)
author: Jeff Kinney
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at: 2024/12/23
date added: 2024/12/22
shelves:
review:

]]> The Squad (The Tryout #2) 202773056 Break out your pom poms! The highly anticipated, stand-alone companion to the instant #1 bestseller The Tryout promises even more cheer, higher stakes, and relatable middle-school drama. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier.



STEP UP. COMMIT. FOLLOW THROUGH.

After the crushing disappointment of not making the cheerleading squad, Christina and her besties, Megan and Leanne, are thrilled to discover they can try out again in eighth grade. Christina is more confident this She dresses in her own style and has amazing friends, even her first crush. But what if the girls don't all make the squad? Worse than that, Christina learns her parents' marriage is collapsing. Suddenly, her family, her future, and her identity seem in total freefall. Can Christina keep it together and still make her cheerleading dreams come true?

This high-flying, heart-filled story will make you laugh harder, cry more, and cheer louder than ever!]]> 288 Christina Soontornvat 1338741322 Emilia 0 to-read 4.28 2024 The Squad (The Tryout #2)
author: Christina Soontornvat
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/12/21
shelves: to-read
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]]> The Tryout (The Tryout #1) 59806053 STAND TALL.

BE LOUD.

GAME FACE ON.

When cheerleading tryouts are announced, Christina and her best friend, Megan, literally jump at the chance to join the squad. As two of the only kids of color in the school, they have always yearned to fit in-and the middle school cheerleaders are popular and accepted by everyone. But will the girls survive the terrifying tryouts, with their whole grade watching? And will their friendship withstand the pressures of competition?]]> 272 Christina Soontornvat 1338741268 Emilia 4 4.22 2022 The Tryout (The Tryout #1)
author: Christina Soontornvat
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/01/01
date added: 2024/12/21
shelves: based-on-their-expirience, family, middle-school-drama, random-library-find-that-was-good, graphic-novels
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Kristy and the Snobs: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #10)]]> 57047913 160 Chan Chau 1338304615 Emilia 4 4.18 2021 Kristy and the Snobs: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #10)
author: Chan Chau
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2022/01/01
date added: 2024/12/21
shelves: graphic-novels, realistic-fiction
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase (The Candymakers, #2)]]> 28118451 The highly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Candymakers by beloved author Wendy Mass

It has been a few months since the nationwide New Candy Contest, and Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when the winning candy bar comes down the conveyor belt at the Life is Sweet candy factory, Logan realizes something's very wrong....

When the Candymaker announces that they will be going on tour to introduce the new candy bar, the four friends see this as an opportunity to make things right. But with a fifty-year-old secret revealed and stakes higher for each of them than they ever imagined, they will have to trust one another--and themselves--in order to face what lies ahead.

In this action-packed sequel to the bestselling novel The Candymakers, prepare to embark on a journey full of hidden treasures, secret worlds, and candy.

LOTS and LOTS of candy.
]]> 544 Wendy Mass 0316089192 Emilia 5 4.20 2016 The Candymakers and the Great Chocolate Chase (The Candymakers, #2)
author: Wendy Mass
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/28
date added: 2024/12/19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Candymakers (The Candymakers, #1)]]> 8112318
Logan, the Candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate by touch alone?

Miles, the boy who is allergic to merry-go-rounds and the color pink?

Daisy, the cheerful girl who can lift a fifty-pound lump of taffy like it's a feather?

Or Philip, the suit-and-tie wearing boy who's always scribbling in a secret notebook?

This sweet, charming, and cleverly crafted story, told from each contestant's perspective, is filled with mystery, friendship, and juicy revelations.]]> 453 Wendy Mass 0316002585 Emilia 5 4.29 2010 The Candymakers (The Candymakers, #1)
author: Wendy Mass
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/10
date added: 2024/12/19
shelves: on-kindle, recommended-by-asia-evan, adventure, mystery, spies, food
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Nyx the Mysterious (Goddess Girls, #22)]]> 30312737
Being the goddess of night is not as easy as it seems-after all, Nyx is in the constant shadow of Eos, Goddess of Light. When Nyx has the chance to go to MOA as an Unsung Hero, she thinks she can finally shine in her own way. But Principal Zeus is so scared of the darkness Nyx brings, he still sleeps with a nightlight! And her arrival seems to bring on more nightmares than sweet dreams. Can Nyx convince everyone that a little darkness is a good thing?]]> 288 Joan Holub 1481470140 Emilia 4 my-books 4.16 2017 Nyx the Mysterious (Goddess Girls, #22)
author: Joan Holub
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/18
date added: 2024/12/18
shelves: my-books
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel]]> 34227894 Schoolyard rivalries. Baking disasters. Puffed sleeves. Explore the violet vales and glorious green of Avonlea in this spirited adaptation.

The magic of L.M. Montgomery’s treasured classic is reimagined in a whimsically illustrated graphic-novel adaptationĚýperfect for newcomers and kindred spirits alike. When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert decide to adopt an orphan who can help manage their family farm, they have no idea what delightful trouble awaits them. With flame-redĚýhair and an unstoppable imagination, eleven-year-old Anne Shirley takes Green Gables by storm. Anne’s misadventures bring a little romance to the lives of everyone she meets: her bosom friend, Diana Barry; the town gossip, Mrs. Lynde; and that infuriating tease, Gilbert Blythe. From triumphs and thrills to the depths of despair, Anne turns each everyday moment into something extraordinary.]]> 231 Mariah Marsden 144947960X Emilia 4 retellings, realistic-fiction 4.30 2017 Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel
author: Mariah Marsden
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/19
date added: 2024/12/18
shelves: retellings, realistic-fiction
review:

]]> Where the Crawdads Sing 36809135
But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens’s debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.]]> 384 Delia Owens 0735219117 Emilia 0 to-read 4.35 2018 Where the Crawdads Sing
author: Delia Owens
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Persephone the Phony (Goddess Girls, #2)]]> 7199829 Persephone the Phony, Persephone develops a crush on bad-boy Hades. Her mom (Demeter) and friends don’t approve, and Persephone finds herself sneaking around to see him. Hades convinces her to tell the truth, and it’s revealed that he isn’t all that bad, just misunderstood!]]> 137 Joan Holub 1416982728 Emilia 5 mythology, boarding-school 4.17 2010 Persephone the Phony (Goddess Girls, #2)
author: Joan Holub
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/12/17
shelves: mythology, boarding-school
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Amphitrite the Bubbly (Goddess Girls, #17)]]> 23309723
Amphitrite is a mergirl with a big crush on Poseidon—but will his quirks make her fall out of like?]]> 288 Joan Holub 1442488336 Emilia 4 my-books 4.20 2015 Amphitrite the Bubbly (Goddess Girls, #17)
author: Joan Holub
name: Emilia
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/17
date added: 2024/12/16
shelves: my-books
review:

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