A great year in books

It’s been an amazing year to learn and find new books that I have loved.  I’ve read and listened to a lot of books (120 to be exact) this year between school reading and reading for pleasure. It’s been a combination of picture books, middle grade books and teen books, which I’m drawn to most. [...]

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Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

When Grace was younger she was taken from her tire swing and dragged into the woods by a pack of wolves. One wolf saved her from the others and Grace has never forgotten the wolf’s eyes. In winter, Sam is a wolf with the warmth of spring and summer, he is human. Sam has been [...]

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Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Five months ago, Valerie’s boyfriend Nick was responsible for a shooting at the end of their junior year of high school. Valerie was shot as she was trying to stop Nick from shooting another student before Nick turned the gun on himself. Ever since the day of the shooting, Valerie’s tried to put her life [...]

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Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

I was intrigued by this cover when we received it at our library. Hearing about it at a recent conference made me want to read it but the book trailer definitely sold me on it. In 1888, Will Henry is the orphaned assistant of Dr. Pellinore Warthrop. Dr. Warthrop has a very strange specialty, monstrumology, [...]

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