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ZERO TOLERANCE by Claudia Mills Farra Straus Giroux, 2013 978-0-374-33312-6 Middle Grade Contemporary Grades 4-8 Review copy received from publisher in return for honest review. All opinions expressed are solely my own. ABOUT THE BOOK Seventh-grader Sierra Shepard has always been the perfect student, so when she sees that she accidentally brought her mother's lunch bag to school, including a paring knife, she immediately turns in the knife at the school office. Much to her surprise, her beloved principal places her in in-school suspension and sets a hearing for her expulsion, citing the school's ironclad no weapons policy. While there, Sierra spends time with Luke, a boy who's known as a troublemaker, and discovers that he's not the person she assumed he would be--and that the lines between good and bad aren't as clear as she once thought. Claudia Mills brings another compelling school story to life with  Zero Tolerance . ABO...

SHIP OUT OF LUCK A companion to the award-winning The Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman Dutton Children's Books, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-525-42226-6 Review copy provided by publisher in return for honest review. All opinions expressed are solely my own. ABOUT THE BOOK In honor of Old Man Crawley’s eightieth birthday, the Bonano family has been invited to celebrate with a weeklong cruise to the Caribbean aboard the world’s largest, grandest ship. But whether on land or at sea, Antsy can’t manage to stay out of trouble: He quickly finds himself the accomplice of stowaway and thief Tilde, whose self-made mission it is to smuggle onto the ship and across the U.S. border illegal immigrants from her native Mexico. When Antsy steps in to take the fall for Tilde, he becomes the focus of a major international incident and the poster child for questionable decisions. Equal parts clever and riotous, Ship Out of Luck brings back the beloved cast of characters from Neal Shu...

THE EMERALD RING DenaBooksforKids THE BARFTASTIC LIFE of LOUIE BURGER Georgia Hatheway Beckman

THE BUTTERSMITH'S GOLD by Adam Glendon Sidwell BATTLES.BLUEBERRIES. BOVINES.TORBJORN AND STORFJELL’S HISTORY UNFOLDS IN AN EPIC EVERTASTER NOVELLA. Everyone knows the most coveted treasure of the Viking Age was blueberry muffins.Blueberry muffins so succulent that if you sniffed just a whiff, you'd want a whole bite. If you bit a bite, you'd want a batch; if you snatched a batch, you'd stop at nothing short of going to war just to claim them all. Young TorbjornTrofastsonn comes from the clan that makes them. He's a Viking through and through – he's thirteen winters old, larger than most respectable rocks, and most of all, a Buttersmith. That's what he thinks anyway, until a charismatic merchant makes Torbjorn question his place among the muffin-makers. When Torbjorn lets the secret of his clan's muffin recipe slip, he calls doom and destruction down upon his peaceful village and forces his brother Storfjell and his clansmen to do the one thi...

Welcome to the Best Books Ever Giveaway Hop.   This hop is being hosted by The Best Books Ever and I am a Reader, Not a Writer . For this giveaway, the books need to fit into one of the categories from the Best Books Ever website. I am offering one winner a choice from the following books, all but one of which I have read and loved.   RULES One of above books Ends June 10th, 2013 Fill out form below. Must be over 13 to enter. Open internationally as long as Book Depository ships to you. Void where prohibited. a Rafflecopter giveaway

THE EMERALD RING Cleopatra's Legacy #1 by Dorine White Sweetwater Books, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-4621-1133-6 Middle Grade Fantasy Grades 3-6 Reviewed from copy provided by author for blog tour. All opinions expressed are solely my own. ABOUT THE BOOK  Ordinary tween life turns upside down when Ancient Egypt intrudes on modern middle school life. Twelve year old Sara Guadalupe Bogus reads about adventures, but unexpectedly is drawn into one when a mystical emerald ring that once belonged to Cleopatra becomes stuck on her finger.   A series of burglaries spook Sara’s small Ohio hometown. Concluding that the root of all the crimes is the emerald ring, Sara realizes it’s up to her and her friends, Heidi and African exchange student Kainu, to save the town and protect Cleopatra’s legacy. Filled with magic, the ring thrusts Sara into a world filled with nightmares, allows her to shape shift into an Egyptian cat and battle assassins. ABOUT THE AUTHOR ...

Here are the winners from my last couple of giveaways. CONGRATULATIONS! Children's Book Week Giveaway Hop DeeDee Brinkman Griffin   KID LIT BLOG HOP Natasha Donohoo Rebecca Douglass Karen Palmer Arrowood Congratulations to all the winners and thanks for participating!  

TRAIL OF BONES by Chris Salisbury Seerstone Media, 2013 ISBN: 9781483917009 YA Fantasy ABOUT THE BOOK Ready for a new adventure? Are you a fan of fantasy, young adult, science fiction and action stories? “No mercy, No rules - Welcome to the Trail of Bones!” Run with Purpose – battle cry of the Shade Wolves. Magnus, the runt of a litter of Shade Wolves, wants nothing more than to be a loyal, strong member of the pack. But when an ancient enemy threatens his friends and family, he faces a choice that could tear him from all he's known and loved. Born in captivity, the giant panther Kelor knows nothing but suffering and loss. He struggles to find his place in this world of terror, and he battles to protect his family without succumbing to the darkness lurking inside him. Falling captive to the evil Warden, the two are forced to fight in the battle of the beasts known as 'The Trail of Bones'. How will Kelor and Magnus learn to work together? How ...

MOONLIT Eighteen-year-old Tanzy Hightower knows horses, has grown up with them on Wildwood Farm. She also knows not to venture beyond the trees that line the pasture. Things happen out there that can’t be explained. Or undone. Worse, no one but she and the horses can see what lurks in the shadows of the woods. When a moonlit ride turns into a terrifying chase, Tanzy is left to question everything, from the freak accident that killed her father to the very blood in her veins. Broken and confused, she turns to Lucas, a scarred, beautiful stranger, and to Vanessa, a charming new friend who has everything Tanzy doesn’t. But why do they seem to know more about her than she knows herself? Amazon Kindle * Amazon * Goodreads WiDo Publishing * Barnes & Noble PRAISE  "Virginia's trees look like they're burning. Most of them blaze crimson or gold, but some still have a chokehold on their green. I wish they'd give it up already. Leaves are more beautiful wh...

Jack Templar and the Monster Hunter Academy (Book 2) After barely surviving the onslaught of monsters that tried to kill him the day before his fourteenth birthday, Jack Templar leaves his hometown on a quest to rescue his father and discover the truth about his past. Joined by his friends Will and T-Rex, and led by Eva, the mysterious one-handed monster hunter, Jack sets out for the Monster Hunter Academy where he hopes to find answers to his questions. Little does he suspect that the Academy is filled with dangers of its own, many of them more terrifying than anything he’s faced so far. Amazon Jack Templar: Monster Hunter Orphan Jack Templar has no memory of his parents and only the smallest details from his Aunt Sophie about how they died. The day before Jack's fourteenth birthday, things start to change for him. At first it's great: A sudden new strength helps him defend his nose-picking friend "T-Rex" from the school bully, and even his crush, Cindy ...

PARENTING WITH SPIRITUAL POWER by Julie K. Nelson Cedar Fort, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-4621-1168-8 LDS Nonfiction Book received from publisher in return for honest review. All opinions expressed are solely my own. ABOUT THE BOOK "I wish children came with an instruction manual!" How many times have we heard this lament by a frustrated or overwhelmed parent? Perhaps we have said these words ourselves.  There are "how-to" manuals for practically anything: installing a new faucet, building a remote control car, baking an apple pie, refinishing an antique chair, or assembling a bicycle.  Is there a formula or a perfect manual for raising children? Yes! The scriptures. In Parenting With Spiritual Power, Julie Nelson examines the lives of mothers and fathers in the scriptures (the best instruction manual) and the parenting principles we can learn from them.  Discover powerful parenting examples from Adam and Eve, Moses, the brother of Jared, and Captain Mor...