Book Review: Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent; by Bill Peet

   I was attracted by the cute.. I mean handsome illustration of the green serpent, who turned out to be Cyrus, the main character of this picture book. Yup, I have weird cute level taste. Anyhoo, honestly, it horrifies me Cyrus was pressured into being violent by the other creatures. And of course, *click* excellent teaching tool...

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Book Review: The Haunted Library; by Dori Hillestad Butler

   I was looking for a new series to indulge for the kids at work, and I’ve bumped up onto this. Cute, it’s about a library and it happens to be haunted. Sorry, can’t get the job pun off my system in this one. It’s like reading Casper meets Ghost Whisperer, except Kaz (the ghost) is wee afraid to learn most of the ghostly abilities,...

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Book Review: The School Is Alive; by Jack Chabert

I was intrigue. Come on, it sounded like RL Stine all over. If you grow up reading these you would understand why. I just got to pick this one up! It’s a worth fit read. Hey, I just spent 3 months reading the same book, I needed a quick read, to rush the last one down. Plot is fast and the characters are.. how do I say.. cute? Even the...

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Book Review: The Pact; by Jodi Picoult

   This has been on my shelves for a bit, until Lifetime Channel showed the movie version of this book. I was incredibly hook and armed with the knowledge, the book version must be better and of course, it is Jodi Picoult, so that means it ran differently. I was right.    The book is frustratingly good. (Yes, using the...

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2015 Mount TBR Reading Challenge

January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Host by: My Reader’s Block. Challenge Levels: Pike's Peak: Read 12 books from your TBR pile/s Mount Blanc: Read 24 books from your TBR pile/s Mt. Vancouver: Read 36 books from your TBR pile/s Mt. Ararat: Read 48 books from your TBR piles/s Mt. Kilimanjaro: Read 60 books...

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2015 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge

  January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Hosted by: Escape With Dollycas Into a Good Book. Details This challenge will run from January 1st, 2015 until December 31st, 2015. You can join anytime. You do not have to review the book. Books can come from any genre. You do not need to link up each spoonful. Make a page or a post...

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2015 TBR Pile Reading Challenge

January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Host: Roof Beam Reader. The Goal: To finally read 12 books from your “to be read” pile (within 12 months). Specifics: 1. Each of these 12 books must have been on your bookshelf or “To Be Read” list for AT LEAST one full year. This means the book cannot have a publication date of 1/1/2014 or...

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2015 Outdo Yourself Reading Challenge

January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 Reading Challenge Details: Runs January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 (books read prior to 1/1/2015 do not count towards the challenge). You can join anytime before 9/30/2015. Sign up on The Book Vixen’s blog. The goal is to outdo yourself by reading more in 2015 than you did in 2014. See the different...

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2015 Authors A to Z Reading Challenge

January 1, 2015, December 31, 2015 Hosted by: Samantha Lin. Here are the details/rules: – The challenge runs from 1 January to 31 December 2015 – Read a book written by authors with last names from A to Z, and try to collect every letter of the alphabet – Only last names count, so William Shakespeare would...

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2015 Just For Fun Reading Challenge

January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015 This group will start out as a PUBLIC GROUP but will close to new members on January 31, 2015. As bloggers we are all on timetables to read books, get reviews posted, host giveaways, etc. But we also travel around to other blogs and see books we would just like to read because of their...

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