Reviews of three Middle Grade fiction adventures.
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The Fifty Year Sword, by Mark Z. Danielewski: 4/5
Narrators tell the story of Chintana, an East Texas seamstress who went to a party against her own inclination, and there in the company of five children, with the woman who …
Continue reading →Every Day, by David Levithan: 3.5/5
Each day, A wakes up in the body of a different person. A can access some of their memories, and makes an honest effort not to royally screw up their lives. But one day, A meets Rhiannon …
Continue reading →The Rook, by Daniel O’Malley: 5/5
In the rain, surrounded by unconscious attackers, she opens the envelope in her pocket. It says her name is Myfanwy Thomas. It says, ‘The body you are wearing …
Continue reading →Summer and Bird, by Katherine Catmull: 4/5
Sisters Summer and Bird awaken one morning to find the house empty and cold. Their parents—and the family cat—have disappeared. Following an encoded message from …
Continue reading →The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne M. Valente: 3.5/5
September has waited all year for Fairyland to reveal itself to her again. She wants nothing more than to experience the lightness and joy that Fairyland has to offer, after the darkness …
Continue reading →Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman: 4.5/5
Though humans and dragons have lived peacefully for 40 years, old tensions run high. Dragons take human form and act as ambassadors, and as lightning rods for anti-dragon sentiment …
Continue reading →The Aviary, by Kathleen O’Dell: 3.5/5
Clara Dooley has spent most of her life in the decaying Glendoveer mansion with her mother; the maid, Ruby; and Mrs. Glendoveer herself, a magician’s widow. The only other company …
Continue reading →The Passage, by Justin Cronin: 4/5
A government experiment to prolong human life goes horribly wrong, releasing 12 Virals—mutated, super-strong, undying creatures with an insatiable hunger and a desire to spread—upon …
Continue reading →Locke & Key, by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez: 5/5
After their family is attacked and their father is brutally murdered, the Locke siblings, Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode, move with their mother to Keyhouse, their ancestral New England home …
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