Monthly Bulletin features:
June’s Big Picture – Drizzle by Kathleen Van Cleve, reviewed by yours truly. Thoughtful in the vein of When You Reach Me but with a bit more younger audience appeal, considering the talking bugs and magical rhubarb.
June’s Dozen – Caped Crusaders and Daring Deeds – A Superhero Dozen to satisfy both kid and teen readers.
June’s Stars – what we starred this month.
What is on my TBR shelf -
Nancy Werlin’s Extraordinary
“In seventh grade, Phoebe befriends Mallory, the secretive new girl in school. The girls become as close as sisters until Mallory’s brother appears and takes hold of Phoebe. Phoebe soon learns the truth about Mallory and Ryland and the age-old debt they expect her to repay.” – from the publisher
The Death and Further Adventures of Silas Winterbottom by Stephen M. Giles
“Meeting for the first time, cousins Milo, Adele, and Isabella soon realize that nothing is as it seems: Lured to their sick Uncle Silas’s home under the pretense of becoming heirs to a vast fortune, the trio figures out too late that Silas is a bone-chilling villain who will stop at nothing to prevent his own death.” – from the publisher
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
“Edward Scissorhands meets The Catcher in the Rye in this wildly imaginative and frighteningly beautiful horror novel about an unusual boy and his search for a place to belong.” – from the publisher
This is the first I’ve heard of The Replacement — thanks for the heads up! Gotta get my hands on that one. The blurb had me at “Edward Scissorhands meets The Catcher in the Rye.“