by envisionmg | Feb 24, 2021 | Ari Reviews, YA Fiction
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky is a children’s fantasy book that will take young readers into a world of gods, monsters, villains, and heroic folklore legends. The story tells of a seventh grader named Tristan Strong who feels horrible in not being able to...
by envisionmg | Feb 17, 2021 | Staff Review, YA Fiction
I came across The Kingdom of Back on Tumblr and I had to purchase this book since it had a story involving Mozart and his sister Nannerl since I am a big fan of classical music and the Mozart family. The story takes place when the Mozart children are young and the...
by envisionmg | Jan 18, 2021 | Ari Reviews, YA Fiction
Stepsister is a dark version of the tale of Cinderella that is told from the viewpoint of the stepsister named Isabelle. Isabelle does not have the qualities compared to Cinderella with beauty, grace, kindness, etc. Isabelle tries to deceit the prince to claim him...
by envisionmg | Jan 14, 2021 | Becca H Reviews, YA Fiction
I understood too well what it was like to feel like you were defined by one superficial thing- to feel like you would never escape the box people had put you in.” Despite being an avid reader, there are only a few books that I have read all in one sitting, and Tahereh...
by envisionmg | Jan 7, 2021 | Ari Reviews, YA Fiction
The Downstairs Girl is set in 19th century Atlanta, Georgia that tells the story about a young seventeen-year-old girl named Jo Kuan. Jo and her guardian Old Gin live secretly under Mr. Bell’s house who is a publisher for the newspaper called “The Focus” that is not...
by envisionmg | Dec 21, 2020 | YA Fiction
The War that Saved My Life – Kimberly Brubaker Bradley “Ten-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the...
