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The Quirks cover The Quirks: Welcome to Normal
Author: Erin Soderberg
Reviewed by: Geoff Habiger
Release date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013

The Quirks are not your typical family. Sure Molly is a fairly normal 10 year old. But her twin sister Penelope can make her imagination come to life. Her brother Finn has been invisible for years, her mom can control minds, and Grandpa Quirk can...

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The Quirks cover The Quirks: Welcome to Normal
by Erin Soderberg

On shelves 06/04/2013

The Quirks are not your typical family. Sure Molly is a fairly normal 10 year old. But her twin sister Penelope can make her imagination come to...
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Steelheart book cover Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson

On shelves 09/24/2013

David has lived through his adolescence with one goal. He eats, sleeps, breaths that one thing. (And no, it is not that one thing.) He...
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The Lightning Catcher book cover The Lightning Catcher
by Anne Cameron

On shelves 05/07/2013

The Lightning Catcher is great fun. It begins with showers of amphibians, proceeds quickly to explosions and mysterious strangers...
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Count the Monkeys cover Count the Monkeys
by Mac Barnett

On shelves 06/25/2013

The reader of this fun book is given one simple task - count all the monkeys on the page. Should be simple, that is, if it wasn't for all the...
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The Summer Prince book cover The Summer Prince
by Alaya Dawn Johnson

On shelves 03/01/2013

June's father is dead. She believes that he died disappointed in her. June's father was a great musician, but June's talents were not his. He...
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We Need New Names book cover We Need New Names
by NoViolet Bulawayo

On shelves 05/21/2013

We Need New Names a portrait of a childhood — a childhood spent on two continents, in two climates, in two vastly different cultures. A...
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald book cover Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Anne Fowler

On shelves 03/26/2013

I have one complaint against this novel. It is a brilliant portrayal of the Flapper Girl that fueled the Jazz Age writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald...
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The Golem and the Jinni book cover The Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker

On shelves 04/23/2013

The Golem and the Jinni is magnificent. In scale and scope, in lush detail and rich flavor, in intricate characterizations and...
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Maggot Moon book cover Maggot Moon
by Susan Gardner

On shelves 02/12/2013

This is not for the squeamish. Nor is it one for the heartless. Maggot Moon is a dark tale of a future Britain that feels uncomfortably...
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May B cover May B: A Novel
by Caroline Starr Rose

On shelves 09/01/2011

I will admit that at first I was not immediately attracted to this book; for while I enjoy historical fiction, I was not sure if I could be...
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An Army of Frogs: A Kulipari Novel book cover An Army of Frogs: A Kulipari Novel
by Trevor Pryce

On shelves 05/07/2013

I am embarrassed to admit that I hadn't even considered ordering An Army of Frogs until the ABA picked it for their Celebrating Debut...
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Rebel Spirits book cover Rebel Spirits
by Lois Ruby

On shelves 06/01/2013

Lori has a secret. She hasn't even told her best friend. Lori can see ghosts. Not often, and nothing much has happened beyond having brief,...
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The Clockwork Princess (3 Infernal Devices) book cover The Clockwork Princess (3 Infernal Devices)
by Cassandra Clare

On shelves 03/19/2013

There is nothing deep or introspective about Cassandra Clare's writing. No higher meaning or hidden truths (though I still think Jewish vampires...
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The Sasquatch Escape (1 Imaginary Veterinary) book cover The Sasquatch Escape (1 Imaginary Veterinary)
by Suzanne Selfors

On shelves 04/02/2013

I love Suzanne Selfors' sly humor. Every books she writes makes you smile. Guess it's hard not to like that.

The Sasquatch Escape...
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Sugar book cover Sugar
by Jewell Parker Rhodes

On shelves 05/07/2013

Jewell Parker Rhodes is a master of writing plucky characters that don't feel saccharine and about dark times that don't feel choked by despair....
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