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I've decided to come up with a new feature, sound bites, or mini bites, bite sized reviews. Still working on the name. But the basic concept will be books that I've only said a few sentences about, which generally are when I review picture books I check out from the library. But may not be limited to them. So Welcome I guess to Mini bites? (Hmm maybe) Book 1: Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall  Series: Jabari #1 Published: May 19, 2017 Candlewick Press Hardcover 32 pages My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jabari Jumps is a cute book in which a little boy name Jabari is going to show is dad that he can jump off the diving board, even though it's so high up. This book teaches children a way to over come a fear, and the reward that comes along with facing them.  Book 2: Freedom Soup by Tami Charles Standalone Published: December 10th, 2019 Candlewick Press My rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ As a child and her Grandmother gather in the kitchen making soup, freedom soup. Her Grandmother asks her they called it ...

  Cemetery   Songs by Julie Gilbert Publication date: December 15th 2020 Genres: Young Adult Blurb Poignant and uplifting,  Cemetery   Songs  is a compelling YA about a girl, a ghost, and the graveyard that sends them both on a journey of self-acceptance. When Polly Stone’s birthmother dies, she feels lost and adrift. How do you mourn someone you never knew? Even the dead, whose final thoughts Polly can hear, offer no advice. Instead Polly fails her classes, alienates her friends, gets fired from her summer job, and accidentally sets fire to the high school. At a loss, Polly’s parents ground her and insist she volunteer at the local archives. The dusty boxes are boring, but Polly is intrigued by her assignment: mapping an abandoned Black settlement on the edge of town. At the very least, it gives her time to examine her confused feelings for Billy Meyer, a former classmate who is also blackmailing her. Amid weedy tombstones, Polly a...

  The Boy Who Walked Too Far by Dom Watson Series: The Xindii Chronicles (#1) Published: September 22, 2020 Genre: Science Fiction Horror Age Group: Adult Pages: 409 Blurb: It ’ s the end of the universe, and everything has come undone. Entropy has won the war, but one last battle rages in the half-ruined city of Testament.   No one knows who created this last outpost and peopled it with billions of species. However, it is here, under a sky with no stars, that the last remnants of life in the universe live, love, and pray to their many gods. It is here where Godrich Felstrom dies.   Most residents of Testament care little for the affairs of a single, fragile human, but the event brings back bad memories for Heironymous Xindii.  I t has been many years since the dreamurlurgy professor discovered his true potential and doomed four people in the process. Now, he lectures to bored students who dream of the many pleasures Testament has to offer. Xindii, on the ...

    Steel & Stone by Kate Haley Series: The War of the North Saga (#1) Published: May 6, 2020 Genre: Epic Fantasy Age Group: Young Adult Pages: 251 Book Blurb   Ten years. Thousands dead. No memories.   The amnesia was supposed to be a good thing. Other soldiers bask in its freedom. Except for Elvac it doesn ’ t feel right. When he returns from his first year at war he can ’ t shake the niggling sensation that something is missing. His life has been turned upside down, yet he can ’ t remember being gone. The only proof of his time away are the scars, and the haunting dreams of fire.   With the help of his friends, Elvac begins to regain his lost memories, and with them uncover the truth of his missing year, and what the Church of Sunne is really doing with their War of the North… ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Elvac is back from war in the South, and he can not remember anything of that past year. Or at least he shouldn't. None of the soldiers do, the horrors that they witnessed and...

Havenfall by Sara Holland Young Adult Fantasy Pub: March 3rd, 2020 Bloomsbury Ya ⭐⭐⭐ Havenfall is an Inn that is located in the mountains of Colorado. The inn houses and protects the door ways to the other realms. They are Fiordenkill, who are considered noble and stoic, yet secretive. Their magic is in healing. Then Bryn who deal with elemental magic. The realm of Solaira, who are shapeshifters and lastly we have Haven, aka Earth, the human world. Humans don't know about the magic, well they don't remember it once they leave. Maddie, is spending her Summer at Havenfall, it is home to her. She hopes to one day take over for her uncle, the current inn keeper, as it's been her family line that does so. It is the innkeepers job to play host and maintain the peace. All who seek refuge and peace are free to come and go to Havenfall, those who break it are no longer welcome. Which has resulted in one of the doors to the realms being sealed off due to an incident that took place ...