...Wow... These reviews are intimidating, they're so mature...This is a great book. The description is well done, the characters are great, location, etcetera.I'm going to try and not rave about the book entirely, so here's a downside.Sometimes the plot can get somewhat confusing, and I'm pretty ...
Self-aware from the opening endpages to its closing endpages, Rex’s second volume of Frankensteinian verse is simultaneously the gift and the curse--a paean to the horror fiction of the past two centuries as well as a lyrical skewering of it. Because of the rather broad body of work to which it a...
Almost as much fun as the first one. I laughed out loud when I read it, and I have to give 4 stars for that. It's especially good for reading out loud, the rhymes make more sense and it sounds funnier. It was very clever, but the first one in the series stuck with me more. My kids are still singi...
Part of my personal Adam Rex festival.The quiet blue and brown opening spreads and the hyper-realistically drawn characters set the reader up beautifully for the surprising and magical events ahead.Favorite line: "It doesn't belong in our backyard," said Mom. "And I could do without the dogs."Th...
Scott, short for Scottish Play Doe, his father John Doe, stage name Reggie Dwight, his sister and friends, which consist of a leprechaun, a pooka, a pixie prince, time traveler Merle Lynn, and a fire-breathing finch fight valiantly against the forces of the Good and Harmless Freeman of America, a...
I’m Lucy Rose and here’s the thing about me: I am eight and according to my grandfather I have the kind of life that is called eventful, which means NOT boring. According to my mom and my grandmother, I’m what they call a handful. And according to my dad, I am one smart cookie.I say I am one girl...
It all starts with a school essay.When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through...
“I like them,” she told Cat. “They’re almost Bollywood but slower, no? How do you say their name again?” “Like ‘Suzy,’” said Cat into her cavernous, dark closet. “Siouxsie and the Banshees. They’re totally old school, right?” She parted and reparted the dark curtains of her wardrobe, tossing this...
Then straight through a narrow river and up an embankment that had been cleared of anything growing. Gray stones lay in ragged piles around the barest hints of castle walls.“Ho there!” called a mason to the soldiers. “You’ve strange chickens in that coop!”“Not chickens,” answered the driver. “Lam...
A dragon only slightly less intimidating for being constructed out of fabric, wood, carnations, and wire. The chorus sang, “Oh, Great Dragon Saxbriton, leave your lair— the door we tore in earth and air that lays the way ’tween Here and There awaits its blushing bride!” Scott turned to Mick. “Sax...