Kristina's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:01:41 -0700 60 Kristina's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Mouse and His Dog: A Dogtown Book]]> 201103076
Determined to help Buster find his forever home, even if means losing his best pal, Mouse embarks on a bold quest with three of Dogtown’s “unadoptables�: Buster, Stewie--a huge, lovable dog whose ex-owner said he was mean, and Smokey--a robot dog hardwired with a smoke alarm he can’t control.

But Mouse is just a mouse, and the world is big and complicated. How’s a little guy supposed to find homes for the dogs he loves?]]> 330 Katherine Applegate 1250345014 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.53 Mouse and His Dog: A Dogtown Book
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]]> <![CDATA[Sylvester and the Magic Pebble]]> 59883026 The charming Caldecott Medal–winning story about a magic pebble that makes wishes come true is now available as an adorable Classic Board Book!

When Sylvester finds a magic pebble that will grant any wish, he can’t believe his luck! But after an unexpected scare on the way home, Sylvester makes a wish that has big repercussions.]]> 32 William Steig 1665925116 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.08 1969 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
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average rating: 4.08
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]]> <![CDATA[The Master Butchers Singing Club]]> 142900
With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis sets out for America, getting as far as Argus, North Dakota, where he settles, building a business and a home for his family, which now includes Eva and four sons, and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town.

What happens when the Old World meets the New, in the person of Delphine Watzka, becomes one of the great adventures of Fidelis's life. Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted. She meets Fidelis, and the ground trembles. These momentous encounters will determine the course of Delphine's life, and the trajectory of this brilliant new novel in which Louise Erdrich creates a world filled with memorable characters who grapple with the worst and best of human nature.]]> 389 Louise Erdrich 0060837055 Kristina 0 to-read 4.06 2003 The Master Butchers Singing Club
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> The Mighty Red 199793431
Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his.

Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker.

Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter’s and her own.

Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day.

The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.

A new novel by Louise Erdrich is a major literary event; gorgeous and heartrending, The Mighty Red is a triumph.]]> 384 Louise Erdrich 0063277050 Kristina 4 3.78 2024 The Mighty Red
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Extraordinary ordinary protagonists.
]]> Shred Sisters 208107364 A wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sisters

It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight, but when her stunning confidence morphs into something erratic and unpredictable, she becomes a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Put simply, she has no brakes.

Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, survives Ollie’s bullying and outcast status throughout her school years. She dreams of winning a Nobel Prize and unlocking the mysteries of the mind. Amy believes in facts, proof, and the empirical world. Except none of that can explain what’s happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the bipolar disorder that will shatter Amy’s carefully constructed world.

As Amy comes of age and seeks to find her place—first in academics, then New York publishing, and through a series of troubled relationships—every step brings collisions with Ollie, who slips in and out of the Shred family without warning. For all that upends and unsettles these sisters, an inextricable bond always draws them back.

Spanning two decades, Shred Sisters is an intimate and bittersweet story exploring the fierce complexities of sisterhood, mental health, loss and love. If anything is true it’s what Amy learns on her road to self-acceptance: No one will love you or hurt you more than a sister.]]> 272 Betsy Lerner 080216370X Kristina 0 to-read 3.76 Shred Sisters
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]]> Sky Full of Elephants 207293815 In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial� America in search of answers.

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charles Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old who watched her white mother and step-family drown themselves in the lake behind their house.

Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across America headed for Alabama, where Sidney believes she may still have some family left. But neither Sidney or Charlie is prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.

When they enter the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, Cebo Campbell’s astonishing debut novel is about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.]]> 304 Cebo Campbell 1668034921 Kristina 0 to-read 3.82 2024 Sky Full of Elephants
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]]> <![CDATA[The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)]]> 178019710 The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature

It’s been four years since Jade Daniels last set foot in Proofrock, Idaho. Since then, her reputation, and everything around Indian Lake, has changed dramatically. There’s a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there’s one aspect of the savage history of Proofrock, Idaho, no one’s got the mettle to confront � no one except a final girl, making her last stand, this time for everything.

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones has crafted an epic horror trilogy of generational trauma and stolen hope. It’s the story of the American West written in blood. And it’s the story of one girl who doesn’t know how to give up.]]> 455 Stephen Graham Jones 1668011662 Kristina 0 to-read 4.15 2024 The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
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]]> The Bog Wife 205673392 In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-buried secrets to carve out a future when the supernatural bargain entwining their fate with their ancestral land is suddenly ruptured

Since time immemorial, the Haddesley family has tended the cranberry bog. In exchange, the bog sustains them. The staunch seasons of their lives are governed by a strict covenant that is renewed each generation with the ritual sacrifice of their patriarch, and in return, the bog produces a “bog-wife.� Brought to life from vegetation, this woman is meant to carry on the family line. But when the bog fails—or refuses—to honor the bargain, the Haddesleys, a group of discordant siblings still grieving the mother who mysteriously disappeared years earlier, face an unknown future.

Middle child Wenna, summoned back to the dilapidated family manor just as her marriage is collapsing, believes the Haddesleys must abandon their patrimony. Her siblings are not so easily persuaded. Eldest daughter Eda, de facto head of the household, seeks to salvage the compact by desecrating it. Younger son Percy retreats into the wilderness in a dangerous bid to summon his own bog-wife. And as youngest daughter Nora takes desperate measures to keep her warring siblings together, fledgling patriarch Charlie uncovers a disturbing secret that casts doubt over everything the family has ever believed about itself.

Brimming with aching loss and the universal struggle between honoring family commitments and the drive to strike out on one’s own, The Bog Wife is a haunting invocation of the arcane power of the habits and habitats that bound us.]]> 336 Kay Chronister 1640096620 Kristina 0 to-read 3.59 2024 The Bog Wife
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]]> <![CDATA[A Sunny Place for Shady People]]> 203956643 A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors� (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women.

Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.

Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”]]> 257 Mariana Enríquez 0593733258 Kristina 0 to-read 3.79 2024 A Sunny Place for Shady People
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]]> In Ascension 197063361
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms � what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings. Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency.

Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.

Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars,ĚýIn AscensionĚýis a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how â€� no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope â€� we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.]]> 496 Martin MacInnes 0802163467 Kristina 0 to-read 3.69 2023 In Ascension
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> <![CDATA[Extinction (Cash & Colcord #1)]]> 65213662 370 Douglas Preston 0765317702 Kristina 0 to-read 3.88 2024 Extinction (Cash & Colcord #1)
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]]> The Fox Wife 127278666 Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .

Manchuria, 1908.
In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman’s identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they’ve remained tantalizingly out of reach—until, perhaps, now.

Meanwhile, a family who owns a famous Chinese medicine shop can cure ailments but can’t escape the curse that afflicts them—their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays. When a disruptively winsome servant named Snow enters their household, the family’s luck seems to change—or does it?

Snow is a creature of many secrets, but most of all she’s a mother seeking vengeance for her lost child. Hunting a murderer, she will follow the trail from northern China to Japan, while Bao follows doggedly behind. Navigating the myths and misconceptions of fox spirits, both Snow and Bao will encounter old friends and new foes, even as more deaths occur.

New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection. Epic in scope and full of singular, unforgettable characters, The Fox Wife is a stunning novel about old loves and second chances, the depths of maternal love, and ancient folktales that may very well be true.]]> 390 Yangsze Choo 1250266017 Kristina 0 to-read 3.97 2024 The Fox Wife
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]]> The Institute 43798285
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.

As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King's gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good versus evil in a world where the good guys don't always win.
--front flap]]> 561 Stephen King Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.17 2019 The Institute
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Beauty (A Stepping Stone Book)]]> 10517765

From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 96 Cathy East Dubowski Kristina 0 4.38 Black Beauty (A Stepping Stone Book)
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]]> On the Horizon 48550528 96 Lois Lowry 0358129389 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.23 2020 On the Horizon
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average rating: 4.23
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]]> Demon Copperhead 60194162 "Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."

Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.]]> 560 Barbara Kingsolver 0063251922 Kristina 5 4.46 2022 Demon Copperhead
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average rating: 4.46
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Tragic and triumphant. As with Charles Dickens, takes you inside the lives of oft marginalized people. More review later
]]> A Horse Named Sky 65646898 A stand-alone companion to the acclaimed national bestsellers A Wolf Called Wander and A Whale of the Wild.

Exiled from his band, a young, wild horse must find his way across treacherous terrain to reunite with his family after being captured for the Pony Express. A fast-paced animal survival story about wild horses, family bonds, and a changing environment. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout.

Young colt Sky was born with the urge to run. Alongside his band, he moves across the range searching for fresh water and abundant grazing. But humans have begun to encroach on Sky's homelands. With fewer resources to share, Sky knows that he must leave if his family is to survive. He hopes that one day, he'll be strong and brave enough to return and challenge the stallion to lead the herd.

Being a lone wild horse in a vast landscape is not easy, and things get even more dangerous when Sky is captured and forced to run for the Pony Express. Now, against all odds, Sky must find a way to escape and reunite with his family.

A Horse Named Sky is a stand-alone companion novel to Rosanne Parry's New York Times bestsellers A Wolf Called Wander and A Whale of the Wild. Chronicling the perils of westward expansion and the grueling Pony Express from the perspective of a wild horse, A Horse Named Sky is a gripping animal survival story about family, courage, trust, leadership, and loyalty. Impeccably researched and illustrated in black-and-white throughout, A Horse Named Sky is an excellent read-aloud for parents and teachers, and a wonderful choice for fans of DreamWorks's Spirit and Anna Sewell's Black Beauty.

Includes black-and-white illustrations throughout, a map, and extensive backmatter about wild horses and their habitats.]]> 272 Rosanne Parry 0062995979 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.19 2023 A Horse Named Sky
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average rating: 4.19
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]]> <![CDATA[I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone With Mental Illness Accept Treatment]]> 383396 168 Xavier Francisco Amador 0967718929 Kristina 0 4.38 2000 I am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help!: How to Help Someone With Mental Illness Accept Treatment
author: Xavier Francisco Amador
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2000
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]]> Redwall: The Graphic Novel 32987687

From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 148 Stuart Moore 1524740292 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.37 2007 Redwall: The Graphic Novel
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average rating: 4.37
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bad Seed (The Food Group #1)]]> 39991777 Mas um dia decide que não quer mais ser malvada e escolhe ser feliz. Porém, não é fácil tornar-se melhor quando nos habituámos a ser maus. Mas ela resolve tentar, um dia de cada vez� O que será que acontece quando tentamos mudar a imagem que construímos de nós mesmos?
Este livro mostra-nos até onde nos levam as consequências das nossas escolhas e de como podemos mudar para melhor. É uma história divertida e comovente que nos relembra o poder notável e transformador da força de vontade e da aceitação de nós mesmos."]]> 40 Jory John Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.37 2017 The Bad Seed (The Food Group #1)
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average rating: 4.37
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ember Stone: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #1)]]> 36305742 104 Katrina Charman 1338122428 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.44 The Ember Stone: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Scholastic Gold)]]> 18881609
In this emotive, Newbery Honor-winning page-turner, 12 year-old orphan Homer runs away from Pine Swamp, Maine, to find his older brother, Harold, who has been sold into the Union Army. With laugh-aloud humor, Homer outwits and outruns a colorful assortment of Civil War-era thieves, scallywags, and spies as he makes his way south, following clues that finally lead him to the Battle of Gettysburg and the dramatic story of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top. Even through a hail of gunfire, Homer never loses heart--but will he find his brother? Or will it be too late?With engaging wit and comical repartee reminiscent of Mark Twain, master storyteller Rodman Philbrick introduces us to the unforgettable character of Homer in this groundbreaking historical novel.The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!]]> 213 Rodman Philbrick 0545370876 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.13 2009 The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Scholastic Gold)
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep]]> 32442721 Add variety to your child’s bedtime routine with the latest book from the author of The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep, theĚýNew York TimesĚýand international bestsellerĚýthat parents have been raving about!ĚýFeatures all-new child-tested, parent-approved techniques to reclaim bedtime and provide a sweet and tender end to each day. Ěý Your child joins Ellen the Elephant on a journey through a magical forest that leads to sleep. Along the way, children meet different fantastical characters and have calming experiences that help them relax and slip into slumber quickly. The story works perfectly for either naptime or bedtime. Ěý Children will love switching between stories about both Roger the Rabbit (The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep) and Ellen the Elephant (The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep), and parents will appreciate the diverse ways each character will help their loved ones fall asleep quickly and easily.Ěý Ěý Includes never-before-seen material that will make a difference at bedtime, including insightful sleep tips and answers to frequently asked questions to help guide families to an even more satisfying nighttime routine! Ěý Advance Praise from Parents “Even better thanĚýThe Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep.â€� Ěý “It's nice to have an alternative for a bit of variety.â€� Ěý “You only have to read a few pages and you have a sleeping child!â€� Ěý “A must-have book in our home!â€� Ěý Praise forĚýThe Rabbit Who Wants to Fall New York TimesĚýBestseller USA TodayĚýBestseller Publishers WeeklyĚýBestseller Translated into 43 LanguagesĚý Ěý “The magical book that will have your kids asleep in minutes.â€� —New York Post Ěý “On the cover of [The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep] there’s a sign that reads, â€I can make anyone fall asleep’—and that’s a promise sleep-deprived parents can’t resist.â€� —NPR Ěý “For many parents, getting kids to fall asleep can be a nightmare. But [The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep] . . . promises to make the process easier and help kids to drift off to sleep faster.â€� —CBS News Ěý “A book whose powerfully soporific effects my son is helpless to resist.â€� —The New York Times]]> 41 Carl-Johan ForssĂ©n Ehrlin Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.00 The Little Elephant Who Wants to Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep]]> 26215264 27 Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin 9186749064 Kristina 0 currently-reading 3.98 2001 The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep: A New Way of Getting Children to Sleep
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]]> Charlotte’s Web 24178 Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!

Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.

E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. This edition contains newly color illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books.]]> 184 E.B. White 0064410935 Kristina 3 4.20 1952 Charlotte’s Web
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average rating: 4.20
book published: 1952
rating: 3
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]]> My Side of the Mountain 45363788 � The New York Times Book Review

Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever.Ěý

Ěý“An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.â€�
�The Horn Book]]> 189 Jean Craighead George 0593115007 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.45 1959 My Side of the Mountain
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name: Kristina
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1959
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]]> <![CDATA[Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor]]> 124011048 Shinan, a Chinese merchant ship laden with riches from the 14th century, to the HMS Erebus and Terror, two polar exploration ships that mysteriously disappeared in the early 1800s. Combining new research, stunning archival material, and vivid storytelling, Shipwrecked! dives deep into the world of marine archaeology and shows readers what each discovery reveals about the world before our time.]]> 138 Martin W. Sandler 1662602057 Kristina 0 currently-reading 3.89 Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor
author: Martin W. Sandler
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.89
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]]> Pax 37709336
Told from the alternating viewpoints of Peter and Pax, this story truly showcases Sara’s mastery of characterization and her fluent ability to pay off small yet beautiful details. The conflicts that Peter faces are mostly internal and center around the anger that has affected both him and his father in the wake of his mother’s unexpected death. Peter can’t shake his grandfather’s claim that “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree� when he wants so badly to distinguish himself from his closed-off father. Pax’s hardships, on the other hand, are more external; his domestication has left him an unskilled hunter and misled him as to the true nature of men. However, it is the beautifully-crafted characters that Peter and Pax encounter on their separate journeys who ultimately help the protagonists find what they are looking for, in addition to each other. These distinctive and multi-dimensional individuals leave a rare kind of impression on the reader while subtly infusing it with themes of loyalty, self-worth, denial, and truth.

PAX is ready to become a universal and timeless classic, like CHARLOTTE’S WEB, to be read and discussed by whole communities and generations to come.]]> 289 Sara Pennypacker Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.35 2016 Pax
author: Sara Pennypacker
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1)]]> 54161259 Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, infused with humor and heartache.
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No one wants a skunk.
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They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock Rooms. Skunks should never, ever be allowed to move in. But Skunk is Badger’s new roommate, and there is nothing Badger can do about it.
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When Skunk plows into Badger’s life, everything Badger knows is upended. Tails are flipped. The wrong animal is sprayed. And why-oh-why are there so many chickens?
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â€�±·´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç´Ç!â€�
Ěý
Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake spins the first tale in a series about two opposites who need to be friends.
Ěý
New York Times bestselling author/illustrator and Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen completes the book with his signature lushly textured art. This beautifully bound edition contains both full-color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations.
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Skunk and Badger is a book you’ll want to read, reread, and read out loud . . . again and again.]]> 136 Amy Timberlake 1643751212 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.14 2020 Skunk and Badger (Skunk and Badger, #1)
author: Amy Timberlake
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (Encyclopedia Brown, #1)]]> 8195821 98 Donald J. Sobol 1101007117 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.25 1963 Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (Encyclopedia Brown, #1)
author: Donald J. Sobol
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1963
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/16
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]]> Odder: The Novel 61306348 Now a #1 New York Times bestseller! A touching and lyrical tale about a remarkable sea otter, from Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, author of Wishtree. Meet Odder, the Queen of Nobody has her moves.She doesn’t just swim to the bottom,she dive-bombs.She doesn’t just somersault,she triple-doughnuts.She doesn’t just ride the waves,she makes them.Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she’s known. She’s a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself—and about the humans who hope to save her.Inspired by the true story of a Monterey Bay Aquarium program that pairs orphaned otter pups with surrogate mothers, this poignant and humorous tale told in free verse examines bravery and healing through the eyes of one of nature’s most beloved and charming animals.]]> 280 Katherine Applegate 1250147433 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.47 2022 Odder: The Novel
author: Katherine Applegate
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Watership Down: The Graphic Novel]]> 62803452
“Every rabbit that stays behind is in great danger. We will welcome any rabbit who joins us.�

Watership Down is a classic tale of survival, hope, courage, and friendship that has delighted and inspired readers around the world for more than fifty years. Masterfully adapted by award-winning author James Sturm and gorgeously illustrated by bestselling artist Joe Sutphin, this spectacular graphic novel will delight old fans and inspire new ones, bringing the joy of Watership Down to a new generation of readers.]]> 384 James Sturm Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.45 2023 Watership Down: The Graphic Novel
author: James Sturm
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/12/16
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]]> <![CDATA[I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived Graphic Novel #5)]]> 57653664 I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967, with text adapted by Georgia Ball.

No grizzly has ever killed a human in Glacier National Park before... until tonight. Eleven-year-old Melody Vega and her family come to Glacier every year. Mel loves it here the beautiful landscapes and wildlife make it easy to forget her real-world troubles. But this year is different. With Mom gone, every moment in the park is a reminder of the past.

Then Mel comes face-to-face with a mighty grizzly. She knows basic bear safety: Don't turn your back. Don't make any sudden movements. And most importantly: Don't run.

That last one is the hardest. Mel's been running from her problems all her life. Can she find the courage to stay put this time, and face her fear?

Based on the real-life grizzly attacks of 1967, this bold graphic novel tells the story of one of the most tragic seasons in the history of America's national parks a summer of terror that forever changed ideas about how grizzlies and humans can exist together in the wild.

Lauren Tarshis's New York Times bestselling I Survived series comes to vivid life in graphic novel editions. Perfect for readers who prefer the graphic novel format, or for existing fans of the I Survived chapter book series, these graphic novels combine historical facts with high-action storytelling that's sure to keep any reader turning the pages. Includes a nonfiction section at the back with facts and photos about the real-life event.]]> 160 Georgia Ball 1338766929 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.51 I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived Graphic Novel #5)
author: Georgia Ball
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.51
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]]> <![CDATA[The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) (Publication Order, #5)]]> 7806746
On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a battle that will decide their fate and the fate of Narnia itself.

The Horse and His Boy is the third book in C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia a series that has become part of the canon of classic literature, drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters for over fifty years. This is a novel that stands on its own, but if you would like to return to Narnia, read Prince Caspian , the fourth book in The Chronicles of Narnia.]]> 170 C.S. Lewis 0061974137 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.14 1954 The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) (Publication Order, #5)
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1954
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/11/26
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]]> A Whale of the Wild 54376316
“A dreamily written, slyly educational, rousing maritime adventure.� —New York Times Book Review

In the stand-alone companion to theĚýNew York Times–bestsellingĚýA Wolf Called Wander,Ěýa young orca whale must lead her brother on a tumultuous journey to be reunited with their pod. This gorgeously illustrated animal adventure novel explores family bonds, survival, global warming, and a changing seascape. Includes information about orcas and their habitats.

For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family’s matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on their journey. Will Vega become the leader she’s destined to be?

A Whale of the WildĚýweaves a heart-stopping tale of survival with impeccable research on a delicate ecosystem and threats to marine life.ĚýNew York Times-bestselling author Rosanne Parry’s fluid writing and Lindsay Moore’s stunning artwork bring the Salish Sea and its inhabitants to vivid life. An excellent read-aloud and read-alone, this companion toĚýA Wolf Called WanderĚýwill captivate fans ofĚýThe One and Only IvanĚýandĚýPax.

Includes black-and-white illustrations throughout, a map, and extensive backmatter about orcas and their habitats.]]> 324 Rosanne Parry 0062995944 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.41 2020 A Whale of the Wild
author: Rosanne Parry
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (I Survived Graphic Novel #3)]]> 56279273 A graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's novel. In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from German soldiers into the nearby forest and are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, grenades are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?]]> 160 Georgia Ball 1338756257 Kristina 0 4.42 I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (I Survived Graphic Novel #3)
author: Georgia Ball
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.42
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]]> Year of Wonders 4965
Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition.

As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love.

As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders."

Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. ]]> 304 Geraldine Brooks 0142001430 Kristina 4
This book is a good reminder that when you throw people in hot water, you find out what they are really made of. Do they become hard like an egg, soft like a carrot, or change the water like tea?Those we thought were strong can become weak and go into hiding. Those we thought were weak emerge as being a kind of moral compass and guide for a confounded people.

This was a beautiful story, well written on every level. In spite of the setting being a small plague ridden village in 1666, you will see everyone you know in that town. ]]> 4.00 2001 Year of Wonders
author: Geraldine Brooks
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2012/03/31
date added: 2023/11/11
shelves: extraordinary-ordinary-people, historical-fiction, love-it-2-times-or-more
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As brutal as tender can be and likewise. A constant subliminal counterbalance is offered through the simple acknowledgement of life and death in a way that reminds us that simpler times were not easier times. When gathering the goods for a simple meal or a simple salve for a wound involve complex actions, there is not alot of time for pretense. This story clearly depicts that people have always sought refuge in the same things we do today. God, the pursuit of knowledge, chemical relief, mysticism. Yet in a time when people were more tightly knitted together, the consequences for our decisions, beliefs and actions bore fruit much more directly and much more clearly.

This book is a good reminder that when you throw people in hot water, you find out what they are really made of. Do they become hard like an egg, soft like a carrot, or change the water like tea?Those we thought were strong can become weak and go into hiding. Those we thought were weak emerge as being a kind of moral compass and guide for a confounded people.

This was a beautiful story, well written on every level. In spite of the setting being a small plague ridden village in 1666, you will see everyone you know in that town.
]]> <![CDATA[A Wolf Called Wander (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel)]]> 45617281
This gripping novel about survival and family is based on the real story of one wolf’s incredible journey to find a safe place to call home. Illustrated throughout, this irresistible tale by award-winning author Rosanne Parry is for fans of Sara Pennypacker’s Pax and Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

Swift, a young wolf cub, lives with his pack in the mountains learning to hunt, competing with his brothers and sisters for hierarchy, and watching over a new litter of cubs. Then a rival pack attacks, and Swift and his family scatter.

Alone and scared, Swift must flee and find a new home. His journey takes him a remarkable one thousand miles across the Pacific Northwest. The trip is full of peril, and Swift encounters forest fires, hunters, highways, and hunger before he finds his new home.

Inspired by the extraordinary true story of a wolf named OR-7 (or Journey), this irresistible tale of survival invites readers to experience and imagine what it would be like to be one of the most misunderstood animals on earth. This gripping and appealing novel about family, courage, loyalty, and the natural world is for fans of Fred Gipson’s Old Yeller and Katherine Applegate’s Endling.

Includes black-and-white illustrations throughout and a map as well as information about the real wolf who inspired the novel.

Plus don't miss Rosanne Parry's stand-alone companion novel, A Whale of the Wild.]]> 255 Rosanne Parry 0062895958 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.53 2019 A Wolf Called Wander (A Voice of the Wilderness Novel)
author: Rosanne Parry
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Better Boundaries Workbook: A CBT-Based Program to Help You Set Limits, Express Your Needs, and Create Healthy Relationships]]> 59559035 Do you have trouble saying "no," or constantly sacrifice your own needs to please others? If so, this evidence-based workbook will help you set healthy boundaries in all aspects of your life—without feeling guilty or afraid.

If you find yourself feeling responsible for others� happiness, worrying about letting people down, or struggling to speak up for yourself, you probably have difficulty setting healthy boundaries. Establishing clear personal boundaries is essential to creating and nurturing mutually respectful relationships based on equality. Setting limits can also protect you from getting involved in exploitative relationships, and help you avoid toxic personalities who don’t have your best interests at heart.

This evidence-based workbook will show you how to set healthy boundaries across all aspects of life—without sacrificing your kindness or compassion for others. You’ll learn to define your boundaries and discover why they’re so important for your emotional well-being. You’ll also find a wealth of tips for maintaining boundaries in a "constantly-connected" world, strategies for what to do when people get upset or threatened by your assertiveness, and ways to make sure your needs are met.

If you’re tired of feeling guilty or afraid of putting your mental and physical health first, are ready to take back control of your life, and create healthy and balanced relationships, this book will show you how to step up and set limits, assert yourself confidently, and realize your full potential.]]> 241 Sharon Martin 1684037603 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.18 The Better Boundaries Workbook: A CBT-Based Program to Help You Set Limits, Express Your Needs, and Create Healthy Relationships
author: Sharon Martin
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[Holiday Gifts Kids Can Make: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-165 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin)]]> 19304790 35 Storey Publishing Kristina 0 currently-reading 3.54 1997 Holiday Gifts Kids Can Make: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-165 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin)
author: Storey Publishing
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/08/19
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]]> <![CDATA[A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Best Breeds, Creating a Home, Care and Handling, Outdoor Fun, Crafts and Treats]]> 25264160 145 Melissa Caughey 1612124194 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.17 2015 A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Best Breeds, Creating a Home, Care and Handling, Outdoor Fun, Crafts and Treats
author: Melissa Caughey
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/08/08
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say]]> 35498710 205 Melissa Caughey 1612129129 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.10 How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say
author: Melissa Caughey
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.10
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]]> <![CDATA[I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us]]> 57347345
Emile may seem timid and shy on the outside, but on the inside he is bustling with imagination. While grownups and even other kids may see Emile as the shy kid who doesn’t raise his hand in class, we know that Emile is actually a high-seas adventurer, a daring explorer, and a friend to wild beasts.

This story honors and encourages the beauty of knowing ourselves for exactly who we are. Emile’s world shows us that the mind of a quiet child can be as rich, expansive, and bold as that of any other (more extroverted) child.]]> 32 Andie Powers 1611809843 Kristina 0 to-read 4.15 2022 I Am Quiet: A Story for the Introvert in All of Us
author: Andie Powers
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> Brave Like That 52090793
This uplifting tale, which award-winning author Leslie Connor dubbed “a perfectly paced journey of the heart� is perfect for fans of Lisa Graff and Lynda Mullaly Hunt.

Cyrus Olson’s dad is a hero—Northfield’s former football star and now one of their finest firefighters. Everyone expects Cyrus to follow in his dad’s record-breaking footsteps, and he wishes they were right—except he’s never been brave like that. But this year, with the help of a stray dog, a few new friends, a little bit of rhythm, and a lot of nerve, he may just discover that actually…he is.

Lauded as “remarkable� by the New York Times Book Review, Lindsey Stoddard’s heartfelt stories continue to garner critical acclaim, and her latest novel will have fans new and old rooting for Cyrus and Parker’s special bond and the courage it helps them both to find.

Critical Praise
“Family, love, loyalty, friendship, and bravery are tested in this small-town narrative. A great novel for any tween learning to find their own voice.� � Booklist

“Heartfelt and triumphant. Cyrus’s journey toward self-acceptance will inspire readers of all ages.� � School Library Journal (starred review)

“Help comes from surprising directions in this moving, character-driven tale. With a strong, never-preachy anti-bullying message, this one scores a touchdown.� � Kirkus Reviews

"A heartrending and compassionate read about how standing up for something can help you stand up for yourself." � Lesa Cline-Ransome

"Lindsey Stoddard creates a highly relatable character in Cyrus Olson then puts him on a perfectly paced journey of the heart. Destination: the bravery to reveal his most authentic self to the people he loves." � Leslie Connor, author of The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle

“This exploration of courage has a good strong heart-beat: both in terms of compassion and suspense.� � Newbery award winning author Laura Amy Schlitz

Praise for Right as Rain: â� “This touching middle grade novel addresses the heartache of loss while also providing an insightful, accessible introduction to privilege, homelessness, and gentrification. Honest, gut-wrenching, and hopeful, this is a story about letting people in and discovering you’re a part of something larger.â€� â€� School Library Journal (starred review)

â� “Timely, well-integrated themes, a vibrant setting, and well-drawn, likable characters make this a winner.â€� â€� Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Stoddard has a knack for writing strong, feisty protagonists [and] her exploration of grief’s grip on a family rings true and tender. A remarkable job.� � New York Times Book Review

“Stoddard excels at low-key atmosphere and characterization. Rain’s an admirably strong and sensitive heroine, and her approach to a tough transition will appeal to many readers.� � Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

“Stoddard has written a beautiful story about a resilient girl many readers will be able to relate to, and she gently hits on tough topics, such as death and divorce, in a tender and truthful manner.� � Booklist

PRAISE FOR Just Like Jackie: “I was truly moved by this refreshing story about a scrappy young heroine and her struggle to protect her family.� � Sara Pennypacker, New York Times bestselling author of Pax

A story about scratching the surface (and welcoming what you find below). It’s also a lovely story of acceptance - about what makes a family and how we make our own families, and about embracing our differences.� � Ann M. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Rain Reign

“As close to perfect as a book for middle-grade children can get! Readers will cheer for Robbie as she comes to terms with the family she has and finds the family she needs.� � Cammie McGovern, author of Just My Luck

“A coming-of-age novel as feisty, funny, and forthright as its protagonist. Robinson overcomes obstacles with wit, grit, and a growing compassion for others, showing us that families are what we make them and happiness is found in the simple gifts we take for granted. A rich, rewarding read.� � John David Anderson, author of Ms. Bixby’s Last Day

â� “Stoddard debuts with a quiet but powerful narrative that gently unpacks Alzheimer’s, centers mental health, and moves through the intimate and intense emotional landscape of family—what seems to break one and what can remake it. Validating, heart-rending, and a deft blend of suffering and inspiration.â€� â€� Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

â� “This emotionally honest, sensitively written novel confronts a range of difficult topics and offers an inclusive view of what family can look like.â€� â€� Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A home-run story that will resonate with all who feel they might not fit into the perfect definition of a family.� � School Library Journal]]> 272 Lindsey Stoddard 0062878115 Kristina 0 4.32 2020 Brave Like That
author: Lindsey Stoddard
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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shelves: adoption, alijah, animals, childrens, coming-of-age, dogs-and-other-animals
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]]> <![CDATA[A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters]]> 43330899
Life is not a problem to be solved. ACT shows how we can live full and meaningful lives by embracing our vulnerability and turning toward what hurts.

In this landmark book, the originator and pioneering researcher into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) lays out the psychological flexibility skills that make it one of the most powerful approaches research has yet to offer. These skills have been shown to help even where other approaches have failed. Science shows that they are useful in virtually every area--mental health (anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, PTSD); physical health (chronic pain, dealing with diabetes, facing cancer); social processes (relationship issues, prejudice, stigma, domestic violence); and performance (sports, business, diet, exercise).

How does psychological flexibility help? We struggle because the problem-solving mind tells us to run from what causes us fear and hurt. But we hurt where we care. If we run from a sense of vulnerability, we must also run from what we care about. By learning how to liberate ourselves, we can live with meaning and purpose, along with our pain when there is pain.

Although that is a simple idea, it resists our instincts and programming. The flexibility skills counter those ingrained tendencies. They include noticing our thoughts with curiosity, opening to our emotions, attending to what is in the present, learning the art of perspective taking, discovering our deepest values, and building habits based around what we deeply want.

Beginning with the epiphany Steven Hayes had during a panic attack, this book is a powerful narrative of scientific discovery filled with moving stories as well as advice for how we can put flexibility skills to work immediately. Hayes shows how allowing ourselves to feel fully and think freely moves us toward commitment to what truly matters to us. Finally, we can live lives that reflect the qualities we choose.]]> 448 Steven C. Hayes 073521400X Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.25 2019 A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters
author: Steven C. Hayes
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> The Covenant of Water 180357146 From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the hardships undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.]]> 715 Abraham Verghese 0802162177 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.34 2023 The Covenant of Water
author: Abraham Verghese
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance]]> 58460580 how); wrestles with issues like cultural appropriation, materialism, andĚýracism; and explores the ways we can all use yoga as a tool for self-love.Ěý]]> 208 Jessamyn Stanley 1523505214 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.17 2021 Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
author: Jessamyn Stanley
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> The Fountainhead 2122
This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...

“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”—The New York Times]]> 704 Ayn Rand Kristina 5 historical-fiction
Ayn Rand objectivism was way ahead of her time. Brave. Her books in her time were social and political challenges that could cost a person, for coloring outside the lines, so to speak. And that's what her major protagonist characters did.

There's been such extensive analysis and commentary on all of her works that I don't have much to add that an inquiring mind won't have already found. I will say that there's likely "rebel readers" like myself that may be put off by all the extensive analysis. Don't rip yourself off that way! Her characters are very engaging, easy to invest in their hoped-for outcome.]]> 3.87 1943 The Fountainhead
author: Ayn Rand
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1943
rating: 5
read at: 2015/04/30
date added: 2023/07/26
shelves: historical-fiction
review:
I found myself relating in some way to all of the characters, rooting even for the antagonists at times. At the very least dying to know what they'll do next. Rand addressed so many facets of life that shape a person, including sexuality. Her approach was unique in that there was no effort to dress anything up in a titillating manner, yet that's a word that applies, whether it was construction, meals, or traveling being discussed. I just always wanted to known would happen next. Rest of review repeats my review on her other work.

Ayn Rand objectivism was way ahead of her time. Brave. Her books in her time were social and political challenges that could cost a person, for coloring outside the lines, so to speak. And that's what her major protagonist characters did.

There's been such extensive analysis and commentary on all of her works that I don't have much to add that an inquiring mind won't have already found. I will say that there's likely "rebel readers" like myself that may be put off by all the extensive analysis. Don't rip yourself off that way! Her characters are very engaging, easy to invest in their hoped-for outcome.
]]> Atlas Shrugged 662 This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?

Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor � and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.

Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life � from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy � to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction � to the philosopher who becomes a pirate � to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph � to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad � to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels.

You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.

This is a mystery story, not about the murder � and rebirth � of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.]]> 1168 Ayn Rand 0452011876 Kristina 5 dystopian, historical-fiction
There's been such extensive analysis and commentary on all of her works that I don't have much to add that an inquiring mind won't have already found. I will say that there's likely "rebel readers" like myself that may be put off by all the extensive analysis. Don't rip yourself off that way! Her characters are very engaging, easy to invest in their hoped-for outcome.]]> 3.67 1957 Atlas Shrugged
author: Ayn Rand
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1957
rating: 5
read at: 2016/07/03
date added: 2023/07/26
shelves: dystopian, historical-fiction
review:
Ayn Rand objectivism was way ahead of her time. Brave. Her books in her time were social and political challenges that could cost a person, for coloring outside the lines, so to speak. And that's what her major protagonist characters did.

There's been such extensive analysis and commentary on all of her works that I don't have much to add that an inquiring mind won't have already found. I will say that there's likely "rebel readers" like myself that may be put off by all the extensive analysis. Don't rip yourself off that way! Her characters are very engaging, easy to invest in their hoped-for outcome.
]]> <![CDATA[Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up)]]> 25899679 Spark Joy is an in-depth, line illustrated, room-by-room guide to decluttering and organising your home. It covers every room in the house from bedrooms and kitchens to bathrooms and living rooms as well as a wide range of items in different categories, including clothes, photographs, paperwork, books, cutlery, cosmetics, shoes, bags, wallets and valuables. Charming line drawings explain how to properly organise drawers, wardrobes, cupboards and cabinets. The illustrations also show Ms Kondo's unique folding method, clearly showing how to fold anything from shirts, trousers and jackets to skirts, socks and bras.

The secret to Marie Kondo's unique and simple KonMari tidying method is to focus on what you want to keep, not what you want to get rid of. Ask yourself if something 'sparks joy' and suddenly it becomes so much easier to understand if you really need it in your home and your life. When you surround yourself with things you love you will find that your whole life begins to change.

Marie Kondo's first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying, presents her unique tidying philosophy and introduces readers to the basics of her KonMari method. It has already transformed the homes and lives of millions of people around the world. Spark Joy is Marie Kondo's in-depth tidying masterclass, focusing on the detail of how to declutter and organise your home.]]> 298 Marie KondĹŤ 1607749734 Kristina 4 educational, non-fiction 4.11 2012 Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up)
author: Marie KondĹŤ
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2023/02/01
date added: 2023/07/26
shelves: educational, non-fiction
review:
Love Marie Kondõ! This book basically repeats and restated (like I cleverly did there) the same information in "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up". But that's okay! She sparks joy and motivation in listening. Very helpful and informative.
]]> <![CDATA[The Shapes Trilogy Series 3 Books Collection Set By Mac Barnett (Triangle, Square, Circle)]]> 139458559 Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched The Shapes Trilogy Series 3 Books Collection Set By Mac Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks. . . . With this first tale in a new trilogy, partners in crime Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen will have readers wondering just who they can trust in a richly imagined world of shapes. This book is about Square. Square spends every day taking blocks from a pile below the ground to a pile above the ground. This book is also about Square’s friend Circle. Circle thinks Square is an artistic genius. But is he really? With the second story in a trilogy of tales about Triangle. Triangle and Square are visiting Circle, who lives at the waterfall. When they play hide-and-seek, Circle tells the friends the one not to go behind the falling water. But after she closes her eyes to count to ten, of course that's exactly where Triangle goes.]]> 138 Mac Barnett 9124231940 Kristina 5 4.44 The Shapes Trilogy Series 3 Books Collection Set By Mac Barnett (Triangle, Square, Circle)
author: Mac Barnett
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.44
book published:
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2023/07/26
shelves: allegorical, childrens, educational, illustrated, toddler
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition] : A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated,Chronically Inflexible Children]]> 61042746 0 Ross W.Greene 0063225344 Kristina 3 disability
I like that this book gave real examplesof real situations, alternatives for not just coping, but problem solving. It also identifies the "problems" as being very real challenges for the children, not just the caregivers. I can't really rate or review as an informed person on this subject. Just starting to take in this specific topic.

I believe this is a highly charged topic, with deep familial and emotional investments for those struggling. Not to mention the financial cost or the limited choices with median or below income. Any book of this nature can be rejected at one point only to be considered extremely helpful months later. And vice versa.]]> 4.19 The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition] : A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated,Chronically Inflexible Children
author: Ross W.Greene
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.19
book published:
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2023/07/26
shelves: disability
review:
This subject matter is a journey, a process, with evolving understanding and sometimes fluctuating ability to be "all in" at all times. For that reason, for now, I'm going with a neutral "3 star" on anything of this nature. What seems relevant and informative now may be discarded for more insightful information later.

I like that this book gave real examplesof real situations, alternatives for not just coping, but problem solving. It also identifies the "problems" as being very real challenges for the children, not just the caregivers. I can't really rate or review as an informed person on this subject. Just starting to take in this specific topic.

I believe this is a highly charged topic, with deep familial and emotional investments for those struggling. Not to mention the financial cost or the limited choices with median or below income. Any book of this nature can be rejected at one point only to be considered extremely helpful months later. And vice versa.
]]> This Way, Charlie 53678785 From the award-winning team behind Ida, Always comes a story about a friendship that grows between a blind horse and a gruff goat Ěý All the animals at the Open Bud Ranch can see that Jack likes keeping his space to himself. But when Charlie arrives, he doesn’t see Jack at all. He’s still getting used to seeing out of only one of his eyes. The two get off to a bumpy start. At first, Jack is anxious and distrustful. But one day, he summons his courage and guides Charlie to his favorite sunlit this way, Charlie. And so begins a powerful friendship that will be tested by life’s storms—but will ultimately change each life for the better. Ěý]]> 40 Caron Levis 1683358546 Kristina 5 4.50 2020 This Way, Charlie
author: Caron Levis
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/26
date added: 2023/07/26
shelves: childrens, animals, grief-and-loss
review:
Excellent book that covers so many children's interests and issues. Beyond the obvious of a goat and blind horse friendship, there's coping with perceived insult, receiving criticism, forgiveness. It's worth keeping on my bookshelf or library borrow multiple times!
]]> Ida, Always 29967807 Gus lives in a big park in the middle of an even bigger city, and he spends his days with Ida. Ida is right there. Always. Then one sad day, Gus learns that Ida is very sick, and she isn’t going to get better. The friends help each other face the difficult news with whispers, sniffles, cuddles, and even laughs. Slowly Gus realizes that even after Ida is gone, she will still be with him—through the sounds of their city, and the memories that live in their favorite spots.
Ida, Always is an exquisitely told story of two best friends—inspired by a real bear friendship—and a gentle, moving, needed reminder that loved ones lost will stay in our hearts, always.
--caronlevis]]> 40 Caron Levis 1481426419 Kristina 4 animals, childrens 4.83 2016 Ida, Always
author: Caron Levis
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.83
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2023/07/26
date added: 2023/07/26
shelves: animals, childrens
review:
Ecpxcellent story reminding us animals have feelings and relationships too. I believe it belongs in the top 25 for coping with grief for children. For understanding hospice and palliative care situations. It a great starter for many important topics. Theres much to say but most has likely been covered by other readers.Conflicted feelings about zoos make me hold back a 5th star.
]]> The Three Billy Goats Gruff 61746071

Instant New York Times bestseller!

The MOMENTOUS debut of a groundbreaking Fairy Tale series -- a brilliantly crafted, hilarious twist on this beloved classic, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, from renowned, award-winning, and New York Times bestselling duo and picture book pioneers Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen!









Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats! This is the first in a groundbreaking new collection of fractured fairy tales crafted by one of today's most celebrated and acclaimed authors, Mac Barnett, and brought to stunning visual life by award-winning and beloved creator of I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klassen.

Told with pitch perfect timing and pacing, hilarious detail, and Barnett's signature narrator voice, this is Billy Goats Gruff as never before. High-stakes page turns will have readers on the edge of their seats and giggling along, as they join each goat and anticipate the arrival of the hungry and terrible troll living under the bridge. With Klassen's brilliantly restrained scenes, arresting characters, and celebrated artistic style, this first of three fairy tales is destined to be a true publishing event!

With a multitude of Caldecott Medals, Honors, international awards, and New York Times bestsellers to their names both independently and in collaboration, this is a creative pairing that is electric. So get ready to experience picture book magic... all you have to do is cross the bridge!]]> 48 Mac Barnett 133883228X Kristina 5 So fun!

My grands love playing Billy goat gruff anywhere we can. These fun, clever, memorable little rhyme ditties will add whole new waves of giggle time. And likely inspire new rhymes!]]> 4.38 2022 The Three Billy Goats Gruff
author: Mac Barnett
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/07/18
date added: 2023/07/18
shelves:
review:
So fun!

My grands love playing Billy goat gruff anywhere we can. These fun, clever, memorable little rhyme ditties will add whole new waves of giggle time. And likely inspire new rhymes!
]]> Better with Butter 54776553
Twelve-year-old Marvel is afraid of absolutely everything-amusement park rides, food poisoning, earthquakes, and that big island of plastic floating through the ocean. She also obsesses about smaller worries like making friends, getting called on by the teacher, and walking home alone.

Her parents and the school therapist call her worries an anxiety disorder, but Marvel calls them armor. If something can happen, it will. She needs to be prepared.

But when Marvel stumbles on a group of older kids teasing a baby goat that has mysteriously shown up on the soccer field, she momentarily forgets to be afraid and rescues the frightened animal.

Only Butter isn't any old goat. She's a fainting goat. When Butter feels panic, she freezes up and falls over. Marvel knows exactly how Butter feels and precisely what Butter needs-her.

Soon, Butter and Marvel are going everywhere together, and Butter thrives under Marvel's support. Butter also helps Marvel. Everything is easier for her with Butter by her side. But just when Marvel starts to imagine a life in which she can manage her anxiety, instead of letting it control her, Butter's owner shows up to claim her. Will Marvel find a way to keep her friend? Or will she revert back to the anxious, lonely person she used to be?]]> 320 Victoria Piontek 1338662198 Kristina 3 4.28 2021 Better with Butter
author: Victoria Piontek
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2023/07/04
date added: 2023/07/04
shelves: coming-of-age, dogs-and-other-animals, extraordinary-ordinary-people, teachers-and-students
review:
Plan to edit again. 22 minutes into audiobook and the opening scene is still not done. But lots of books have a slow start...so we'll see
]]> Cress Watercress 60716430 A lavishly illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair—from the fertile imagination behind WickedGregory Maguire turns his trademark wit and wisdom to an animal adventure about growing up, moving on, and finding community. When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It’s a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what’s left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone’s business. Can a dead tree full of annoying neighbors, and no Papa, ever be home? In the timeless spirit of E. B. White and The Wind and the Willows—yet thoroughly of its time—this read-aloud and read-alone gem for animal lovers of all ages features an unforgettable cast that leaps off the page in glowing illustrations by David Litchfield. This tender meditation on coming-of-age invites us to flourish wherever we find ourselves.]]> 225 Gregory Maguire 1536224553 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.14 2022 Cress Watercress
author: Gregory Maguire
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/19
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body]]> 18875177 276 David Emerson 1583945334 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.25 2011 Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body
author: David Emerson
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/07
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> The Bookstore Sisters 62337113 From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, independence, and finding your place in the world.

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again.

But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island. What she finds there may forever alter her path—and change everything she thought she knew about her family, her home, and herself.]]> 36 Alice Hoffman 1662510500 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.00 2022 The Bookstore Sisters
author: Alice Hoffman
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/04
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic]]> 18920380 334 Helen L. Taylor Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.61 1947 Little Pilgrim's Progress: From John Bunyan's Classic
author: Helen L. Taylor
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.61
book published: 1947
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/03
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> Pastoralia 15704898
The stories in Pastoralia are set in a slightly skewed version of America, where elements of contemporary life have been merged, twisted, and amplified, casting their absurdity—and our humanity—in a startling new light. Whether he writes a gothic morality tale in which a male exotic dancer is haunted by his maiden aunt from beyond the grave, or about a self-help guru who tells his followers his mission is to discover who's been "crapping in your oatmeal," Saunders's stories are both indelibly strange and vividly real.]]> 210 George Saunders Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.03 2000 Pastoralia
author: George Saunders
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2000
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/03
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip]]> 26161787 From the bestselling author of Tenth of December comes a splendid new edition of his acclaimed collaboration with the illustrator behind The Stinky Cheese Man and James and the Giant Peach! Featuring fifty-two haunting and hilarious images, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is a modern fable for people of all ages that touches on the power of kindness, generosity, compassion, and community.
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In the seaside village of Frip live three families: the Romos, the Ronsens, and a little girl named Capable and her father. The economy of Frip is based solely on goat’s milk, and this is a problem because the village is plagued by gappers: bright orange, many-eyed creatures the size of softballs that love to attach themselves to goats. When a gapper gets near a goat, it lets out a high-pitched shriek of joy that puts the goats off giving milk, which means that every few hours the children of Frip have to go outside, brush the gappers off their goats, and toss them into the sea. The gappers have always been everyone’s problem, until one day they get a little smarter, and instead of spreading out, they gang up: on Capable’s goats. Free at last of the tyranny of the gappers, will her neighbors rally to help her? Or will they turn their backs, forcing Capable to bear the misfortune alone?
Ěý
Featuring fifty-two haunting and hilarious illustrations by Lane Smith and a brilliant story by George Saunders that explores universal themes of community and kindness, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is a rich and resonant story for those that have all and those that have not.
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]]> 88 George Saunders 0812989643 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.22 2000 The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip
author: George Saunders
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2000
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/06/01
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> Fox 8 18893984 From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Tenth of December comes a darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the environment—now available for the first time as an eBook.
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Fox 8 has always been known as the daydreamer in his pack, the one his fellow foxes regarded with a knowing snort and a roll of the eyes. That is, until Fox 8 develops a unique skill: He teaches himself to speak “Yuman� by hiding in the bushes outside a house and listening to children’s bedtime stories. The power of language fuels his abundant curiosity about people—even after “danjer� arrives in the form of a new shopping mall that cuts off his food supply, sending Fox 8 on a harrowing quest to help save his pack. Told with his distinctive blend of humor and pathos, Fox 8 showcases the extraordinary imaginative talents of George Saunders, whom the New York Times called “the writer for our time.�
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Praise for George Saunders and Tenth of December
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“The best book you’ll read this year . . . more moving and emotionally accessible than anything that has come before.”�The New York Times Magazine
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“Saunders is a complete original, unlike anyone else.”—Dave Eggers
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“Affecting [and] wincingly funny . . . It’s no exaggeration to say that the short story master George Saunders helped change the trajectory of American fiction.”�The Wall Street Journal
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“Subversive, hilarious, and emotionally piercing.”—Jennifer Egan
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“Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.”—Zadie Smith
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“George Saunders makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We’re lucky to have him.”—Jonathan Franzen
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�Tenth of December isn’t just [Saunders’s] most unexpected work yet; it’s also his best . . . as weird, scary, and devastating as America itself.”—NPR
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“An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times.”—Thomas Pynchon
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“The best short-story writer in English alive.� —Mary Karr]]> 52 George Saunders Kristina 5 4.22 2013 Fox 8
author: George Saunders
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2023/05/30
date added: 2023/05/30
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Shower Habit: 10 Steps to Increase Energy, Boost Confidence, and Achieve Your Goals Without Waking Up Earlier (Optimize Your Life Series, #1)]]> 57559274
Start your day with confidence without getting up earlier.
Boost your productivity in meeting your goals.
Reduce stress and increase happiness by following this simple morning habit.
You are not lazy. You are not a hopeless procrastinator. You just need to practice a little self-care through ramping up your morning routine. This process is designed to be enjoyable, rewarding and highly addictive so you won’t want to miss it!
Don’t miss this opportunity to makeover your morning routine, motivating you to take action toward your goals. These simple changes will transform your life!

With just an hour or two, you can read and implement this short book! Do it now!]]> 76 Stephanie Ewing 1736968718 Kristina 0 currently-reading 3.65 The Shower Habit: 10 Steps to Increase Energy, Boost Confidence, and Achieve Your Goals Without Waking Up Earlier (Optimize Your Life Series, #1)
author: Stephanie Ewing
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.65
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/05/19
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> Saving CeeCee Honeycutt 6617928
The day CeeCee discovers Camille in the front yard wearing a tattered prom dress and tiara as she blows kisses to passing motorists, she knows her mother has completely flipped. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, a previously unknown great-aunt comes to CeeCee’s rescue and whisks her away to Savannah. Within hours of her arrival, CeeCee is catapulted into a perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricities—a world that appears to be run entirely by women.

While Tootie is busy saving Savannah’s endangered historic homes from the wrecking ball, CeeCee encounters a cast of unforgettable, eccentric characters. From the mysterious Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in an outdoor tub under the watchful eyes of a voyeuristic peacock, to Oletta Jones, the all-knowing household cook, to Violene Hobbs, the loud-mouthed widow who entertains a local police officer in her yellow see-through peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer.

But CeeCee’s view of the world is challenged in ways she could have never imagined: there are secrets to keep, injustices to face, and loyalties to uphold. Just as she begins to find her ballast and experiences a sense of belonging, her newfound joy collides with the long-held fear that her mother’s legacy has left her destined for destruction.

Laugh-out-loud funny, at times heartbreaking, and written in a pitch-perfect voice, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt is a spirited Southern tale that explores the intricate frailties and strengths of female relationships while illuminating the journey of a young girl who loses her mother but finds many others.]]> 10 Beth Hoffman 0143145541 Kristina 5 juvenile, coming-of-age, gr 3.94 2010 Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
author: Beth Hoffman
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2023/05/16
shelves: juvenile, coming-of-age, gr
review:
Laugh out loud, cry out loud, be reminded of friendships with the very old, young, eccentric. CeeCee loses her mother to untreated mental illness in the 1951, ending up with her aunt Tutti in Savanna. Women of all types, strengths, carry her through as she comes into her peace with life events.
]]> <![CDATA[Alone, Untouched, Soulless (The Girl in the Box, #1-3)]]> 20887481
Books included:

1. Alone
2. Untouched
3. Soulless

Alone

Sienna Nealon was a 17 year-old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years. Then one day her mother vanished, and Sienna woke up to find two strange men in her home. On the run, unsure of who to turn to and discovering she possesses mysterious powers, Sienna finds herself pursued by a shadowy agency known as the Directorate and hunted by a vicious, bloodthirsty psychopath named Wolfe, each of which is determined to capture her for their own purposes...

Untouched

Still haunted by her last encounter with Wolfe and searching for her mother, Sienna Nealon must put aside her personal struggles when a new threat emerges � Aleksandr Gavrikov, a metahuman so powerful, he could destroy entire cities � and he's focused on bringing the Directorate to its knees.

Soulless

After six months of intense training with the Directorate, Sienna Nealon finds herself on her first assignment - tracking a dangerous meta across the upper midwest. With Scott Byerly and Kat Forrest at her side, she'll face new enemies and receive help from unlikely allies as she stumbles across the truth behind the shadowy organization known only as Omega.
Additional books not included in set:]]> 502 Robert J. Crane Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.06 2014 Alone, Untouched, Soulless (The Girl in the Box, #1-3)
author: Robert J. Crane
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/05/07
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Bushcraft Illustrated: A Visual Guide (Bushcraft Survival Skills Series)]]> 40333990 “An appealing coffee table book.� —The Wall Street Journal From Dave Canterbury—wilderness expert, New York Times bestselling author, and YouTube sensation—comes a fully illustrated guide to everything you need to know to hone your bushcraft, or wilderness survival skills, from types of shelter, to useful tools, to edible plants—and much more!Before you venture into the wilderness, learn exactly what you need to bring and what you need to know with this ultimate outdoor reference guide, by survivalist expert Dave Canterbury. Filled with more than 300 illustrations, Bushcraft Illustrated showcases the necessary tools and skills for an awesome outdoor adventure, including such Learn the different types and how to craft and pack your own. Essential knot knowledge for outdoor survival. How to start a fire with a variety of materials. Tips for catching small game. A catalog of edible plants to forage. …And much more! With its many helpful illustrations and detailed, easy-to-follow instructions, this illustrated Bushcraft guide is a must-have for the seasoned outdoor lover and adventure novice alike!]]> 432 Dave Canterbury 1507209061 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.38 Bushcraft Illustrated: A Visual Guide (Bushcraft Survival Skills Series)
author: Dave Canterbury
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.38
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/05/06
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster, #1)]]> 18990419
In a time when the sun revolved around the Earth, and the animals could speak, Chauntecleer the Rooster rules justly over his kingdom. But while peace reigns for Chauntecleer, evil is brewing across the river, as the monstrous Cockatrice pillages his own lands and people, preparing for the return of Wyrm.

Imprisoned within the Earth to contain this ancient evil, Wyrm is determined to return, with the help of Cockatrice. Keeping Wyrm in his prison is a task too great for any individual animal, so it is up to Chantecleer to rally all of the animals, great and small, to work together to keep the Earth safe once again.]]> 258 Walter Wangerin Jr. Kristina 0 currently-reading 3.96 1978 The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster, #1)
author: Walter Wangerin Jr.
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1978
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/21
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo]]> 32620332
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the �80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story nears its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]> 389 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1501139231 Kristina 5 Really great listen. 4.39 2017 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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date added: 2023/03/20
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Really great listen.
]]> <![CDATA[Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 1: The Ronin (Usagi Yojimbo, #1)]]> 291865 144 Stan Sakai 0930193350 Kristina 0 to-read 4.16 1987 Usagi Yojimbo, Vol. 1: The Ronin (Usagi Yojimbo, #1)
author: Stan Sakai
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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]]> A Taste for Rabbit 1918320
Imagine a world in which there are no people, but foxes are civilized. They wear clothes, they fight, they elect corrupt officials. They eat all kinds of things, but only lower orders with limited brainpower. Like mice. Or rabbits.
Now imagine that one day the rabbits disappear, and slowly develop their OWN society away from the foxes. What happens when the two societies once again collide? A TASTE FOR RABBIT is a brilliant, piercing look at Harry the Fox, Quentin the Rabbit, the price of honor, and the "animal" parts of human nature.]]> 310 Linda Zuckerman 0439869773 Kristina 0 to-read 3.66 2007 A Taste for Rabbit
author: Linda Zuckerman
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> The Sage of Waterloo: A Tale 23316518 224 Leona Francombe 0393246914 Kristina 0 to-read 3.36 2015 The Sage of Waterloo: A Tale
author: Leona Francombe
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)]]> 19321 "Now, my dears," said old Mrs Rabbit one morning, "you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden."

Follow the story of naughty Peter Rabbit as he squeezes—predictably—under the gate into Mr. McGregor's garden and finds himself in all kinds of trouble! But how does Peter Rabbit get himself out of this tricky situation? Beatrix Potter's story about one mischievous but ultimately endearing little creature will tell us, accompanied by beautiful illustrations and timeless verses which have transcended generations.

'The Tale of Peter Rabbit', first published in 1902, is still today one of Beatrix Potter's most popular and well-loved tales. It is the first of the illustrious series that is The World of Beatrix Potter', and a story which has endured retelling after retelling at bedtimes all over the world.

Beatrix Potter (1866�1943) loved the countryside and spent much of her childhood drawing and studying animals. 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit', first published in 1902, was her first book. She later went on to publish more than twenty tales and collections of rhymes.

Age Rating: 3�12+ / Preschool - 2+ / Lexile Measure AD660L]]> 72 Beatrix Potter 0723247706 Kristina 0 4.22 1902 The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)
author: Beatrix Potter
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1902
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)]]> 281235 BEWARE THE HARE!
Is he or isn't he a vampire?

Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits... and fangs!]]> 98 Deborah Howe 1416928170 Kristina 0 to-read 3.88 1979 Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery (Bunnicula, #1)
author: Deborah Howe
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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]]> The Complete Tales 19330
Beatrix Potter's tales were often connected with real places, people or animals so each story has a brief introductory note about its history. The volume also includes four other works by Beatrix Potter which for one reason or another remained unpublished in her lifetime but show new facets of her talent as an illustrator and storyteller.

The world of Beatrix Potter, presented here in its entirety, is as appealing now as when it was first created over one hundred years ago.]]> 400 Beatrix Potter 072325804X Kristina 0 to-read 4.36 1986 The Complete Tales
author: Beatrix Potter
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.36
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> The Legend of Podkin One-Ear 35429280 A thick white blanket covers the wide slopes of the band of hills some call the Razorback Downs...

Podkin One-Ear is a legend: a fearsome warrior rabbit whose reputation for cunning and triumph in battle has travelled the ages. But how did he become such a mighty fighter? The answer may surprise you... When a travelling bard arrives at Thornwood Warren on Midwinter night, he is warmly welcomed. In return for food and lodging, he settles down to tell of how Podkin One-Ear - and soon the rabbits are enthralled to hear the story of how one lost little rabbit overcame the cruellest enemy imaginable, and became the greatest warrior their land has ever known.]]> 282 Kieran Larwood 0571340202 Kristina 0 to-read 4.31 2016 The Legend of Podkin One-Ear
author: Kieran Larwood
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Kenny & the Dragon 3418156 151 Tony DiTerlizzi 1416939776 Kristina 0 to-read 3.95 2008 Kenny & the Dragon
author: Tony DiTerlizzi
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> We3 22358 104 Grant Morrison 1401204953 Kristina 0 to-read 3.91 2011 We3
author: Grant Morrison
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[War Bunny (War Bunny Chronicles, #1)]]> 58496078 If you love fierce bunnies, lots of fun characters, and a brisk pace with plenty of adventure and world building, you may like this YA/adult adventure story about a young rabbit who fights back.

In a post-apocalyptic world where humans are extinct and animals thrive, a young rabbit starts to wonder why rabbits must accept their status as prey animals. She asks pointed questions of the warren elders, and gets exiled for it.

Without a warren, she's enormously vulnerable, but she reaches out to others in desperate straits. Soon, she's locked in a ferocious battle for survival—and maybe even freedom.

Part naturalistic adventure, part modern-day fable, War Bunny is a fast-paced story about friendship, honor, standing up for yourself, and coming of age.

This is the first book in the War Bunny Chronicles. Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, and Scribd.

A great adventure read for teens and adults!

Summerday, (War Bunny Chronicles, #2), is available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, and Scribd. ]]> 442 Christopher St. John Kristina 0 to-read 3.94 War Bunny (War Bunny Chronicles, #1)
author: Christopher St. John
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[Fairy Tales Written By Rabbits]]> 26894836
Rabbits have told stories since the sky dust fell. Heath and his sister Millet are young rabbits struggling with questions that their ancestors never thought to ask.

When a bushfire ravages the warren, Heath and Millet find themselves suddenly isolated in a new land. Other animals are asking questions about the dust, and the unknowable race known as They. Lost in an unfamiliar landscape the rabbits must work with the other inhabitants of this land, which are not all that they seem.

The enigmatic Stares-at-moon reads books, and claims to have seen the unicorn of legend that can guide them home.

But they must be brave. Hidden dangers lurk in the abandoned homes of the They, and the traditional rabbit tactic of simply running will not be adequate. They must adapt and become something more than rabbits if they are to survive.]]> 240 Mary A. Parker 0994306008 Kristina 0 to-read 4.08 2015 Fairy Tales Written By Rabbits
author: Mary A. Parker
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane: (A Heartwarming Tale of a China Rabbit's Quest for Love & Belonging - A Middle-Grade Chapter Book for Kids Ages 7-10 in Grades 2-5)]]> 37186
Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely.

And then, one day, he was lost.

Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. And along the way, we are shown a true miracle � that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again.]]> 228 Kate DiCamillo 0763625892 Kristina 0 to-read 4.38 2006 The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane: (A Heartwarming Tale of a China Rabbit's Quest for Love & Belonging - A Middle-Grade Chapter Book for Kids Ages 7-10 in Grades 2-5)
author: Kate DiCamillo
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> Frost Dancers 58453677 352 Garry Kilworth Kristina 0 to-read 0.0 1992 Frost Dancers
author: Garry Kilworth
name: Kristina
average rating: 0.0
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Rabbit's Bad Habits (Rabbit and Bear, #1)]]> 28537964
A tale of friendship, gravity, and just a little bit of poo.]]> 112 Julian Gough 1444929313 Kristina 0 to-read 4.11 2016 Rabbit's Bad Habits (Rabbit and Bear, #1)
author: Julian Gough
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Tales from Watership Down (Watership Down, #2)]]> 29440034 Watership Down was one of the twentieth century’s best-loved children’s novels, winner of both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and Tales from Watership Down is its enchanting sequel.

Here Adams returns to the vivid and distinctive world he created in that enduring work, reacquainting readers with the characters we know and love, including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion and the legendary rabbit hero El-ahrairah. These whimsical tales include all-new exploits, with the younger generation of rabbits eager to find out about the heroic age that existed before they were born.

Charming us once again with stories of adventure and explorations, courage and survival, the millions of readers who enjoyed Watership Down now have the chance to re-enter this unique and spellbinding world.]]> 242 Richard Adams 1780747896 Kristina 0 to-read 3.66 1996 Tales from Watership Down (Watership Down, #2)
author: Richard Adams
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Royal Rabbits Of London (The Royal Rabbits of London #1)]]> 29361036 Shylo has always been the runt of the litter, the weakest and quietest of all of his family, his siblings spend their days making fun of him for not being like the rest of them. But when Shylo stumbles across a band of ratzis and overhears their evil plan to take a photo of the Queen in her nightie, it's up to this unlikely hero to travel to London and inform the Royal Rabbits of London about the diabolical plot!ĚýThe Royal Rabbits of London have a proud history of protecting the royal family and now the secret society need to leap into action to stop the ratzis...ĚýBut can a rabbit as feeble and shy as Shylo convince them that Queen is in danger?
The Hobbit meets Fantastic Mr FoxĚý meetsĚý Watership Down in this charming novel from bestselling authors Santa and Sebag Montefiore, which provesĚýeven the smallest rabbit can be the biggest hero.
Ěý]]> 368 Santa Montefiore 1471157873 Kristina 0 to-read 3.76 2016 The Royal Rabbits Of London (The Royal Rabbits of London #1)
author: Santa Montefiore
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Fifteen Rabbits (Bambi's Classic Animal Tales)]]> 22546121
Hops and his young rabbit friends must face all the triumphs and trials in the first year of life in the woods.

Life is dangerous in the forest, especially for the fifteen young rabbits who are learning to navigate their home. While there are many wonderful things and other animals to get to know—including a deer by the name of Bambi—there are also dangers, and the constant threat of man. In order to thrive, the rabbits must stick together...

Felix Salten’s story of the lives of fifteen rabbits is brought back to life in this beautiful repackage.]]> 256 Felix Salten 1442487542 Kristina 0 to-read 3.55 1929 Fifteen Rabbits (Bambi's Classic Animal Tales)
author: Felix Salten
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1929
rating: 0
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]]> Foxglove Hollow 3306733
Sitting at the paws of his master, Bartholomew began his odyssey into adulthood. Mastering hare skills, discovering hare history, and preparing for the ultimate danger—the rabbit migration that could destroy hare civilization as they knew it.]]> 192 Dennis Phillip Brown 0449144844 Kristina 0 to-read 2.89 1982 Foxglove Hollow
author: Dennis Phillip Brown
name: Kristina
average rating: 2.89
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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]]> The Wild Before 58939391 215 Torday Piers 1786541114 Kristina 0 to-read 3.74 The Wild Before
author: Torday Piers
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.74
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]]> Land of Deep Shadow 7580660 192 Pat Hynes 0863273440 Kristina 0 to-read 4.08 1994 Land of Deep Shadow
author: Pat Hynes
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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]]> The Graveyard Book 6746355
Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are beings such as ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other.

The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal and is a Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel.]]> 325 Neil Gaiman 0061972657 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.39 2008 The Graveyard Book
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2022/11/19
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel]]> 35251493 Together Marsden and Thummler conjure all the magic and beauty of Green Gables. Like Anne herself, you won't want to leave.Ěýâ€� Brian Selznick, author/illustrator of “The Invention of Hugo Cabretâ€� and “The Marvels”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, 11-year-old Anne Shirley takes Green Gables by storm.Anne’s misadventures bring a little romance to the lives of everyone she 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.Ěý]]> 236 Mariah Marsden 1449488366 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.48 2017 Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel
author: Mariah Marsden
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Rabbit Hill 333735 127 Robert Lawson 0142407968 Kristina 0 to-read, alijah 3.81 1944 Rabbit Hill
author: Robert Lawson
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1944
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, alijah
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]]> <![CDATA[Cottons: The White Carrot (Cottons, 2)]]> 40864804 In Cottons: The White Carrot, the second volume in Jim Pascoe and Heidi Arnhold's graphic novel trilogy, we go deeper into a fantasy world where art is both coveted and feared.

For the rabbits of the Vale of Industry, cha is everything. It’s the fuel that lights their homes, powers their factories, and makes modern life possible. But to Bridgebelle, cha means so much more. It’s the vital ingredient she needs to make thokchas—beautiful works of art that glow and transform, as if by magic.

But Bridgebelle isn’t the only one captivated by thokchas. Outside the Vale, the nefarious foxes have discovered the destructive power they hold. They plan use thokchas as the ultimate weapon in their age-old war against the rabbits. When the foxes attack, Bridgebelle is left with an impossible choice: make them a thokcha, or offer up her life.]]> 272 Jim Pascoe 1626720614 Kristina 0 to-read 3.97 2020 Cottons: The White Carrot (Cottons, 2)
author: Jim Pascoe
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)]]> 11594337
Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line.

Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home—and his own art—through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.

Katherine Applegate blends humor and poignancy to create Ivan’s unforgettable first-person narration in a story of friendship, art, and hope.]]> 304 Katherine Applegate 0061992259 Kristina 0 to-read 4.25 2012 The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)
author: Katherine Applegate
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Uki and the Outcasts (The Five Realms #4)]]> 52074115 'But there will be action, won't there? And daring deeds and fights and things?'
'Oh yes, lots of those,' says the bard. 'Once the story gets going. You have to let it
build up first, though. A good story comes to the boil slowly, just like a good vegetable stew.'

A thrilling new book set in the Five Realms of Podkin One-Ear, Uki and the Outcasts is the stirring tale of another legendary rabbit hero. But unlike Podkin, Uki wasn't a Chieftain's son - he was an outcast from his tribe, due to his strange half-black, half-white fur and mismatched eyes.

Uki's story begins when, near death as a child, his body is brought back to life by Iffrit, a spirit-guardian. Iffrit then shows Uki how to capture one of four powerful escaped spirits, to boost his own strength. With this new power, Uki is tasked to capture the other three spirits, so that their power cannot be harnessed to evil ends. First, though, Uki must decide whether to take vengeance on the bullies who cast him out of his tribe. With the help of two other outcasts who become his travelling companions, he embarks on a dangerous and thrilling quest.]]> 320 Kieran Larwood 0571342817 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.74 2019 Uki and the Outcasts (The Five Realms #4)
author: Kieran Larwood
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.74
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> When You Trap a Tiger 51824653 Would you make a deal with a magical tiger? This uplifting story brings Korean folklore to life as a girl goes on a quest to unlock the power of stories and save her grandmother.

Some stories refuse to stay bottled up...

When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni's Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. Now they want it back. And when one of the tigers approaches Lily with a deal--return what her grandmother stole in exchange for Halmoni's health--Lily is tempted to agree. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice...and the courage to face a tiger.]]> 300 Tae Keller 1524715727 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.42 2020 When You Trap a Tiger
author: Tae Keller
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Whispering Oak: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #3)]]> 36617705
Pick a book. Grow a Reader!

This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!

In the third book in this page-turning series, Tag, Skyla, and Blaze journey to the Whispering Oak in search of the next piece of the Ember Stone. There, they find strange creatures called grumblebees. But where is the magical stone? Thorn's dark magic continues to spread. If Tag and his friends don't find all of the pieces soon, Perodia will be destroyed! This action-packed series makes a great introduction to fantasy and quest stories for younger readers. Realistic black-and-white artwork appears on every page!]]> 104 Katrina Charman 1338122606 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.61 2018 The Whispering Oak: A Branches Book (The Last Firehawk #3)
author: Katrina Charman
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)]]> 37442 When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?

Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to be the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

]]> 406 Gregory Maguire 0060987103 Kristina 4 3.52 1995 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
author: Gregory Maguire
name: Kristina
average rating: 3.52
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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Was a fun listen! Audio narrator was great! Kept me interested the whole way through. "Wicked" witch was really a pretty cool person, a sympathetic character. I'd read more from same author
]]> <![CDATA[The Hobbit, or There and Back Again]]> 5907 Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).]]> 366 J.R.R. Tolkien Kristina 5 4.29 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Kristina
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1937
rating: 5
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Andy Serkis narration absolutely brings this story to life like no other! He plays Gollum in all the movies, and brings equal character, nuance and uniqueness to all of the characters in the book. Even my 5 year old grandson has taken to saying "Granny, the other one please. The other reader". There not much else to say about an 80 year old beloved book that hasn't been said.
]]> <![CDATA[Recycle and Play: Awesome DIY Zero-Waste Projects to Make for Kids - 50 Fun Learning Activities for Ages 3-6]]> 61757201 309 Agnes Hsu 0760373191 Kristina 0 currently-reading 4.00 Recycle and Play: Awesome DIY Zero-Waste Projects to Make for Kids - 50 Fun Learning Activities for Ages 3-6
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name: Kristina
average rating: 4.00
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