Book Review - The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

"What If?"
"What If?" A fortuneteller told you to follow an elephant?
"What If?" A Magician could do real magic, not that fake rabbit out of the hat stuff?
"What If?" An elephant came crashing from the ceiling onto your lap?
"What If?" The person you trusted the most, kept from you a secret that could answer your prayers?
"What If?" The elephant could make all your hopes and dreams come true?
"What If?"
Ten year old Peter Augustus Duchene life suddenly changes when the most amazingly, wonderful thing happens....an elephant....."What If?".

NEW SERIES !!!

Come and check out the new mystery series at the library called: Ghost Detectors.

Join Malcolm and his best friend Dandy as they start their new career's as Ghost Detectors. It's sure to be a blast




Books in this series

Book 1: It Creeps!
Book 2: I'm Gonna Get You!
Book 3: Tell No One!
Book 4: I Dare You!
Book 5: Draw!
Book 6: Don't Read This!

Book Review - 43 Old Cemetery Road: Dying To Meet You (Book 1) by Kate Klise

Can you guess what happens when you take a boy, a cat, a grumpy old man, a very old ghost, a haunted house and put them all together? You get this very funny tale about, a writer that rents a house for the summer only to find out that he does not live alone. Told in mostly letters and a few newspaper articles 43 Old Cemetery Road: Dying To Meet You, will have you dying with laughter.



Other books by Kate Klise:
Regarding the Fountain
Regarding the Sink
Regarding the Trees
Regarding the Bathrooms
Regarding the Bees
Letters from Camp
Trial by Journal and many more....

Book Review - Smoke by Mavis Jukes

What would you do, if you had to move far away from home? Away from almost everyone and everything you loved. Twelve-year old Colton and his mom move from Idaho to California. They are leaving everything behind, the furniture, the car, Colton's friends and his family. Colton's only saving grace is his cat Smoke. But when Smoke goes missing Colton not only feels lonely, he feels like his life is slipping away from him.
Don't miss out, this heart warming quick read will be enjoyed by boys and girls alike.

Book Review - Max Quigley: Technically NOT a Bully by James Roy

What is the definition of a bully? Every one that knows Max Quigley thinks that he is a bully except for Max. According to Max, "Technically, I'm not actually a bully. Bullies wait behind lunch shed and steal kids' Twinkies. I've never stolen anything in my life. Bullies beat people up. I've never actually punched anyone in my entire life......I've never caused anyone to get taken to the hospital. Or cyr...I've never eveen mad Nerdstrom cry, and he's about the cryingest-looking perosn I've ever seen.
When one of Max's pranks goes a little to far, his punishedment is to be tutored by one of his "geeky" classmates.

If you liked Diary of a Wimpy Kid, you just might like Max.....

Book Review - The Last Apprentice: Revenge of The Witch by Joseph Delaney

Do you know what happens when your a seventh son of a seventh son? You become a Spook. A Spook is a person that drives away and protect people from evils like ghost, boggarts, witches and other things that harm us. Sounds exciting right, but it is a very scary, dangerous and lonely job. That the position Thomas Ward finds himself in when he becomes the Spook's Apprentice. Thomas only want's to make his mother proud of him but two big mistakes may cost not only his life but also the lives of his loved ones.
If you looking for a scary adventure then this is the book for you. You'll be scared but won't want to put it down, I know I was.

Tomas Ward's adventure continues in The Last Apprentice:
Curse of the Bane
Night of the Soul- Stealer
Attack of the Fiend
Wrath of the Bloodeye
The Spook's tale
Clash of The Demons

Book Review - The Doll People by Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin

Annabelle Doll is just like any other eight year old, she likes to play and sing, she loves her family and she likes exploring. The only difference between Annabelle and other girls is that she's a porcelain doll, and has been for over a hundred years.
Annabelle lives in a beautiful doll house with her mother, father, little brother, baby sister, uncle and nanny. Everyone's where they should be in the Doll's house except for Aunt Doll. Auntie Sarah has been missing for forty- five years and Annabelle believes that she can help find her missing aunt. With the help of their new neighbors the Funcrafts and Auntie Sarah's diary, Annabelle is determined to find her aunt and will even risk permanent doll state to do it.


Other books in the Doll people series:

The Meanest Doll in the World.







The Runaway Dolls

Book Review- Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

"One minute I was twelve years old and wondering where I could get enough money for an inner tube for my old used ten-speed. I didn't have any money and my parents didn't have much either". But that all changed when my grandmother gave me grandpa's old lawnmower. I had a few clients in my payroll, then I met Arnold the Stockbroker. That summer he taught me a valuable lesson in business and made me rich. " Five, six weeks ago I was sitting in my yard wondering about an inner tube. Now I'm a thousandaire". I thought I would just mow a few yards and make enough to fix my bike, but that summer I learned a whole lot more.

This humorous and quick pace story will have you pulling out that old lawnmower to try and make some extra cash.

Lawn Boy is a great book for summer reading list and those reluctant readers.

Book Review - Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

When will 12 year-old Addie’s life be normal? Living with your mentally unstable mother in a trailer with empty boxes of mac ‘n cheese in the cupboards and boxes upon boxes of unused office supplies, is that normal? Hanging out at the gas station mart with your two best friends, who are old enough to be your parents, is that normal? Lying to your ex-stepfather so he will not find out your mother sometimes doesn’t come home for days on end, is that normal? Follow Addie as she searches for happiness and attempts to overcome her life of instability, all the while trying to keep a bright outlook on life. Will her life ever be normal? Read it and find out!

Book Review - Nightmare Academy ( Monster Hunters Bk. 1) by Dean Lorey

Charlie Benjamin is your average thirteen year old, he wants to make friends, have fun and just fit in. Unfortunately for Charlie he can never fit in, Charlie has a secret. When ever he goes to sleep he has nightmares and his nightmares come to life, harming everyone around him. Charlie is special and he has a gift that opens portals into the Netherworld, where the nightmares live.
Fortunately for Charlie he has found a school called the Nightmare Academy that will teach him how to control and banish his nightmares. But there's one small problem, Charlie must first learn to control his fears. With the help of new friends and his own cleverness Charlie just might make it out alive.

If you loved the Harry Potter series you might want to give Nightmare Academy a try.

Nightmare Academy Bk.1 just won "Best children's novel of the year" by The Sciba (Southern California Independent Booksellers Association).