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Emily
I read anything and everything. I love the smell of books. My kids giggle at me when I open a new box of books from Amazon and I inhale the new pages and rub the shiny new spine against my face! 🙂 My husband just rolls his eyes at me and is grateful he has me on a budget! 🙂

My Antonia

My Ántonia is a portrait of a life well lived that begins in early childhood and moves all the way through adulthood—with all the foibles and mishaps in between.  What a beautiful, lovely, rambling na…
Emily

The Undrowned Child

What a lovely, exciting and thorough story!  By the time I finished this book, I felt like it could be possible for me to walk through Venice and name every building I saw!  I loved the hist…
Emily

The Girl Behind the Glass

How scary it must be to live in a haunted house.  Hannah and her twin sister Anna (and their family) have moved into a house that is purported to be haunted by a ghost with green eyes.  But ghosts are…
Emily

The Odyssey (Classic Starts)

Ah, the joys of the Greeks and Mythology! This little book is a ‘Classic Start’—in other words, it’s a watered-down version intended to whet the appetites of young readers for the originals.  I l…
Emily

The Very Little Princess: Rosea’s Story

The Very Little Princess: Rose’s Story is the sweetest little princess story!  What little girl doesn’t secretly wish she is a princess…or wish that her dolls are real and can talk to her!  Of course,…
Emily

Skary Chilrin and the Carousel of Sorrow

Meet the Scary Children (or Skary Childrin, as spelled by Beatrice):  Adelaide is shunned because everyone believes she is a werewolf!  Yes, her ears are pointed, her fingernails look more like claws,…
Emily

The Forgotten Locket

“This is where the story changes,” Valerie whispered to me from behind her hands.  “If Dante says yes, the story goes one way. If he says no…”How often do we really think about the things we do and th…
Emily

Night of the Living Dust Bunnies (Stone Rabbit #6)

What happens if you take a very dusty and filthy house, and leave your atomic nightlight on unsupervised?  You get huge mutant dust bunnies who eat all the trick-or-treaters in town!  Now Stone Rabbit…
Emily

Here Lies Linc

From the title, and even the cover art, of this book, I admit that I was expecting something in the way of a silly spooky teen story to get you ready for Halloween.  Wasn’t I surprised to find, i…
Emily

The Hourglass Door

The Hourglass Door is engrossing from page one.  The tension of crushes and spats with friends send you traveling back to your days in high school!  It’s a perfect read for young adults—the average so…
Emily

The Golden Spiral

Wow.  The Golden Spiral is the perfect example of why time travel—whether possible or not—should not be messed with!  What a ride!  We experience with Abby the horrors of having someone mess with your…
Emily

Gregor and the Code of Claw

Gregor and the Code of Claw marks the end of our adventures in the Underland with Gregor and his friends and family.  This book had even ‘more’ than the others in the series: More indepth characters, …
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