Captivate
Children's Literature The last few weeks have been hard for Zara. She "kidnapped her dad…accidentally saved a pixie…car blew up…skin changed color…not to mention…a Spanish test and an art project due and…nothing to wear to the dance." Worse yet, the trapped pixies (Read the author's first book, Need, to learn about pixies and why Zara […]
Need
VOYA A fast-paced novel worthy of the fantasy greats, Need will take you for a ride. The setting was a little strange at first, but being out in the middle of nowhere allowed the story to take on a more fantastical plot while seeming possible at the same time. Zara and Nick's relationship is one […]
Larklight, Or, The Revenge of the White Spiders!, Or, To Saturn's Rings and Back!
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Reeve (the Hungry City Chronicles) evidently has a fascination with giant, mobile structures, but here he turns his considerable talent to a whimsical story of Victorian houses floating in space, a Jules Verne?like concoction filtered through the sensibilities of Douglas Adams. Art and Myrtle live with their scientist father in […]
Kiki Strike : Inside the Shadow City
Publisher Weekly Review: Narrator Ananka Fishbein recounts life as sidekick to Kiki Strike, girl detective, in this deliciously entertaining debut novel. The girls meet at age 12 in a ritzy private school, when both independently discover the Shadow City?a 19th-century labyrinth of tunnels 50 feet below Manhattan's Chinatown, built to hide smuggled goods. At school, […]