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About the book:
Messy Tessy by Leah Orr
ISBN: 978-1438993980
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Date of publish: August 18, 2009
Pages: 36





About the book:
Through the Triangle by C.P. Stewart
ISBN: 9781432740368
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Date of publish: Aug 29, 2009
Pages: 388





About the book:
Triangle of Deception by Haggai Carmon
ISBN: 978-0843961928
Publisher: Leisure Books
Date of publish: Oct 27, 2009
Pages: 336






About the book:
Crack the $$ Code by Patricia Annino
ISBN: 978-1439247426
Publisher: BookSurge
PublishingDate of publish: July 3, 2009
Pages: 80



About the book:
Chris Dreams BIG by Chris Dudley & Chris Love-Dudley
ISBN: 978-0982322406
Publisher: CCD Productions
Date of publish: April 1, 2009
Pages: 38

Book Review - Emily the Emerald Fairy by Daisy Meadows

Title: Emily the Emerald Fairy

Author: Daisy Meadows

Genre: Young Adult

Challenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, 2009 Second Chances, Pages Read Challenge, 2009 YA Challenge, 100+ Reading Challenge – 2009, the confuzzled Faerie Book Challenge, Summer Reading Challenge 2009,

Rating: 3/5

No. of Pages: 70

Published: 2005

From the back: Jack Frost is up to no good again! This time, he’s stolen the seven jewels from Queen Titania’s crown. Without them the Jewel Fairies can’t do their jobs. The Magic in Fairyland is fading fast!

Without her magic emerald, Emily the Emerald Fairy can’t see the future! Can Rachel and Kirsty help make things right again?

Mine: Another great story in the Fairy series. The goblins seem to always be in a rush to fool the girls and get into trouble. This time he is found in the toy store. The stuffed animal cat with the emerald eye is taken from the girls, but they do chase him around. They finally get him when he gets on the skateboard and head for the elevator. Boy is that back wall hard and then the doors close.

Book Review: Beany Wakes Up For Christmas by Lisa Bassett

Title: Beany Wakes Up For Christmas

Author: Lisa Bassett (Pictures – Jeni Bassett)

Genre: Children’s

Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, Pages Read Challenge, Young Reader's Challenge 2009, Read a Book a Month Challenge, 100+ Reading Challenge – 2009, Summer Vacation Reading Challenge 2009, Summer Reading Challenge 2009, Christmas in July, What an Animal II, August Reading Challenge,

Rating: 3/5

No. of Pages: 32

Published: 1988

From the back: Scamp Squirrel agreed to wake Beany Bear from his long winter’s nap in time for Christmas. In fact, he planned a surprise. He would decorate a tree and fix a Christmas feast.

Just as Scamp finished the preparations and was headed home to await Christmas morning, Beany cried out, “Scamp, there is a wild beast in my house!” Scamp knew they had to do something about that. Would pretending to be ghosts work? A wild beast surely wouldn’t stay in a haunted house.

It wasn’t an ordinary Christmas at all, but finally the two friends settled down to exchange presents and enjoy the Honey Punch. Merry Christmas, Scamp! Merry Christmas, Beany!

Mine: What a wonderful story of friendship. Scamp wants to make this a very special Christmas for Beany so goes about preparing treats that are Beany’s favorite.

Book Review - Amy the Amethyst Fairy by Daisy Meadows

Title: Amy the Amethyst Fairy

Author: Daisy Meadows

Genre: Young Adult

Challenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, 2009 Second Chances, Pages Read Challenge, 2009 YA Challenge, 100+ Reading Challenge – 2009, the confuzzled Faerie Book Challenge, Summer Reading Challenge 2009,

Rating: 3/5

No. of Pages: 65

Published: 2005

From the back: Jack Frost is up to no good again! This time, he’s stolen the seven jewels from Queen Titania’s crown. Without them the Jewel Fairies can’t do their jobs. The Magic in Fairyland is fading fast!

Amy the Amethyst Fairy’s magic jewel controls the power to make things disappear. But now the amethyst has disappeared, too! What will Amy do without it?

Mine: Another great story in the Fairy series. The goblins seem to always be in a rush to fool the girls and get into trouble. This time they are caught in the in the tree ladders, so the girls are able to save Fern.

Book Review - Fern the Green Fairy by Daisy Meadows

Title: Fern the Green Fairy

Author: Daisy Meadows

Genre: Young Adult

Challenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, 2009 Second Chances, Pages Read Challenge, 2009 YA Challenge, 100+ Reading Challenge – 2009, the confuzzled Faerie Book Challenge, Summer Reading Challenge 2009,

Rating: 3/5

No. of Pages: 67

Published: 2003

From the back: Fairyland is home to seven colorful sisters. Together, they are the Rainbow Fairies! They keep Fairyland dazzling and the bright. But when evil Jack Frost sends them far away, the sisters are the big trouble. If they don’t return soon, Fairyland is doomed to be gray forever!

Rachel and Kirsty are sure that the garden maze holds a special secret. If they make all the right turns, could it lead them to Fern the Green Fairy?

Mine: Another great story in the Fairy series. The goblins seem to always be in a rush to fool the girls and get into trouble. This time they are caught in the in the tree ladders, so the girls are able to save Fern.

Book Review - The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett

Title: The Wild Christmas Reindeer

Author: Jan Brett

Genre: Children’s

Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, The Year Of Readers – 2009, Pages Read Challenge, Young Reader's Challenge 2009, Read a Book a Month Challenge, Summer Vacation Reading Challenge 2009, Summer Reading Challenge 2009, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, 100+ Reading Challenge – 2009, Christmas in July, What an Animal II, August Reading Challenge

Rating: 4/5

No. of Pages: 32

Published: 1990

From the inside cover: This Year Santa asks Teeka to get his reindeer ready to fly on Christmas Eve. She’s happy but a little worried too. She’s never workd with the reindeer before and she’s not sure they’ll want to come in from the tundra, where they run wild and free.

Once she finds them, Teeka’s strong hand does more harm than good, and soon the reindeer are wilder than they were before she began training them. How will she ever get them ready to pull Santa’s sleigh on time?

Mine: Beautifully illustrated book. Teeka finally gets the picture and when she tries to kindly train the deer they finally do cooperate. Teeka feels the pressure, since these are Santa’s best reindeer.

Just in time the reindeer to come around so that Santa can deliver his presents on time.

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Library Loot #8

I went to the library on Saturday to return and then pick up some books.

I picked up the following books:

Book Review - Water Street by Patricia Reilly Giff

Title: Water Street
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Genre: Young Adult
Challenges: 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, Book Around the States Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 2009 Audiobook Challenge, 20 Books in 2009, Pages Read Challenge, 2009 YA Challenge, 100+ Reading Challenge – 2009, Summer Vacation Reading Challenge 2009,

Rating: 5/5
No. of Pages: Audio (176)
Published: 2006
From the back: Brooklyn, 1875. Bird Mallon lives on Water Street, where you can see the great towers of the Brooklyn Bridge being built.
Bird wants nothing more in life than to be brave enough to be a healer, like her mother, Nory; to help her sister Annie find love; and to convince her brother, Hughie, to stop fighting for money with his street gang. And of course, she wishes that a girl would move into the empty apartment upstairs so that she could have a friend close by.
But Thomas Neary and his father move in upstairs. Thomas, who writes about his life in his journal – about Pop, who spends each night at a bar; about the mother he wishes he had; and about the Mallon family downstairs, which he desperately wants to be part of. Thomas, who has a secret that only Bird suspects, and who turns out to be the best friend she could ever have.

Mine: What a wonderful period story and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. It must have been such an exciting time to watch the bridge being built. The times were so different and what was expected. It tells the story of 2 children who become friends and protect each other from the evils of what may be.

What a nice way to hear about how the city was buzzing about the new bridge and how it affected all the levels of the city. Nory the midwife and healer, Annie the box maker and a wonderful baker, Hughie here brother becomes hard after getting the bends after going down in the water to help with the bridge.

Book Review - The Christmas Hat by A J Wood

Title: The Christmas Hat

Author: A. J. Wood (Illustrated: Maggie Kneen)

Genre: Children’s

Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, The Year Of Readers – 2009, Pages Read Challenge, Young Reader's Challenge 2009, Read a Book a Month Challenge, Summer Vacation Reading Challenge 2009, Summer Reading Challenge 2009, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, 100+ Reading Challenge – 2009, Christmas in July, What an Animal II, August Reading Challenge

Rating: 4/5

No. of Pages: 32

Published: 2005

From the inside cover: When Rabbit and Badger adopt a lost baby owl, they don’t realize how challenging it will be to look after him – especially when his downy white feathers help him disappear in the snow!

Rabbit creates a Christmas surprise for Little Owl that will make finding him easier. But danger lurks in the woods, and Rabbit and Badger are not the only ones who see Little Owl more clearly in his new red hat….

Mine: Beautifully illustrated book with textured pages. What a wonderful story about how we all need to take care of each other in this world. So that owl could be found in the snow (since he is a snow owl – white). Rabbit makes him a red hat so that he can be spotted when he’s out in the snow.

Unfortunately the Red Fox can see the owl. Everyone is shouting – “take the hat off” when he does the fox walks right by. Owl finds a new wonderful use for his red hat – a nice bed to sleep in.

Book Review: Twelve Lizards Leaping by Jan Romero Stevens

Title: Twelve Lizards Leaping

Author: Jan Romero Stevens (Illustrated: Christine Mau)

Genre: Children’s

Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, Read Your Name Challenge 2009, 20 Books in 2009, Pages Read Challenge, Young Reader's Challenge 2009, Read a Book a Month Challenge, 100+ Reading Challenge – 2009, Summer Vacation Reading Challenge 2009, Christmas in July, What an Animal II, August Reading Challenge

Rating: 4/5

No. of Pages: 32

Published: 1999

From the inside cover: Children will delight in following Lizard as he romps through this new version of the traditional carol The Twelve Days of Christmas. The festivities of the holiday come to life as kids count and sing along with Lizard while he sneaks candy from six swaying piñatas, swirls with seven dancers, and is lassoed by one of the eight cowpokes twirling. Pared with vibrant illustrations, Twelve Lizards Leaping is destine to become a classic sing-along.

Mine: Great illustrations and what a wonderful take on the time honor song of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. It’s cute to have a southwestern spin on it. Prickly Pears, A Quail in a Paloverde tree, horned toads, silver spurs, turquoise rings, piñatas, dancers, cowpokes, luminaries, tamales, coyotes, and finally twelve Lizards leaping.

Book Review: Old, New, Red, Blue by Melissa Lagonegro

Title: Old, New, Red, Blue (Cars)

Author: Melissa Lagonegro

Genre: Children’s

Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, The Year Of Readers – 2009, Pages Read Challenge, Young Reader's Challenge 2009, Read a Book a Month Challenge, Summer Vacation Reading Challenge 2009, Summer Reading Challenge 2009

Rating: 4/5

No. of Pages: 32

Published: 2006

From the back: what this book is about….Old, New, Red, Blue ! Old Cars. New Cars. Red Cars. Blue Cars. Cars, cars, cars!

Mine: My youngest nephew is sorting through his early books. He’s going to donate them to the local used book store, but in the mean time we are going to try to read them before they go. I love reading with my nephews

What a cute story about all the different cars. He’s a big Cars (the movie) fan.

Book Review - The Sea Serpent and Me by Dashka Slater

Title: The Sea Serpent and Me

Author: Dashka Slater (illiustrated by Catia Chien)

Genre: Children’s

Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, Read Your Name Challenge 2009, Pages Read Challenge, Young Reader's Challenge 2009, Read a Book a Month Challenge, Summer Vacation Reading Challenge 2009

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: 40
Published: 2008

From the inside cover: When a tiny sea serpent tumbles from the bathtub faucet, a little girl finds an unexpected friend. As rainy day after rainy day passes, the two sing songs, take baths, and talk about the sea.
But little girls live on land, and a growing sea serpent needs wave upon wave of water.

Here’s a story about the true meaning of friendship, erfect for children, patrents, and anone one who has ever had a second thought about growing up.

Mine: A wonderfully illustrated book that talks about the true meaning of friendship between a girl and a sea serpent. The sea serpent needs the water and the little girl love to be sung to sleep at night.

The rainy keeps the little girl from returning the sea searpent to the sea, but finally she knows she must take him to his real home, before he grows too big.

Book Review: Wild Cherry Makes A Wish by Pippa LeQuesne

Title: Wild Cherry Makes A Wish
Author: Pippa leQuesne
Genre: Young Adult
Challenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, Series Challenge Season 3, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, Pages Read Challenge, 2009 YA Challenge, the confuzzled Faerie Book Challenge, Summer Vacation Reading Challenge 2009, Flower (OnThePorchSwing)

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: 80
Published: 2006
From the back: Wild Cherry is feeling very sad. She wishes that she could dance but is too shy to ask for help. Then she has a misunderstanding with Pansy, the one fairy that could teach her.
So, when Pansy is in danger and it is up to Wild Cherry to help, will she be brave enough to save her? And will her wish ever be granted?

Mine: Wild Cherry wants to learn to dance like everyone else, but doesn’t know how. She knows there is one fairy that can help, but is too shy to ask for help. Pansy is so exciting about all the new things for the spring that she get caught up and doesn’t notice how fair she has gone into the other side of the fairy garden.

Wild Cherry must come to her rescue and save the day. Wild Cherry drops her petals as a distraction while Pansy runs away from the people come. When Pansy is finally safe she asks what she can do to repay Wild Cherry and the answer is to teach her to dance like the other flower fairies.