magickware | January 11, 2012
Young Roo is an expert hider. In fact, she prefers to be hidden and listening to the whispers of the earth around her. When her parents are killed in a drug deal gone bad Roo is taking into foster care soon to be sent on to an uncle she didn’t know she had. This uncle [...]
magickware | November 12, 2011
I seriously fell in love with this book. Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half Jewish American, learns her father has lost his job at the end of 5th grade. Because of this she will start 6th grade next year in public school instead of the private one she’s always attended. She wishes summer would never [...]
magickware | November 11, 2011
In a series of short poems the reader is taken around the world to see how children in many cultures celebrate the full moon. The text is slightly disjointed if the reader is expecting a story with a beginning, middle and end, but taken one poem at a time there is a pleasantness in the [...]
magickware | September 30, 2011
I’m a long time fan of Ms. Yolen’s picture books. I was excited to be able to review this graphic novel. In this story,the dragons are ancient history and extinct. Or so the residents of Meddlesome thought until livestock and people start disappearing from the town. Then the dragon is sighted. The town’s people do [...]
magickware | August 26, 2011
(for ages 12 and up) Twelve-year-old Malora is one of a small tribe of people. In the far future, humans are nearly extinct. Yet they eke a meager living from the brutal plains where they live. Much of their heritage becomes forgotten or lost in the struggle to survive. Though they live a rough life [...]
magickware | August 5, 2011
15 year old Lyza loves her small reclusive family. Her mother is estranged from her family and her father is thought to be insane. Lyza does what any girl does, she studies, she has a part time job and she wonders about her future. The story takes place in a small coastal village during the [...]
magickware | January 10, 2011
MG Book Review: The Unicorn’s Tale (Nathaniel Fludd: Beastologist, Book 4) by R. L. LaFevers (Author), Kelly Murphy (Illustrator) This book will be released in April 2011. I received an electronic copy from the publisher for review. I have not read the first three books of the series so I’m coming into the story in [...]
magickware | January 10, 2011
I received an ARC of this book as a prize. The subject matter is not one I’d search out on my own. I am just not that into werewolves, vampires and other creepy soulless things. That aside, this book kept me up late reading it. Scarlett and Rosie March are sisters, Scarlett being the elder [...]
magickware | November 26, 2009
If you are a fan of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, you’ll fall in love with this book. Even readers who are not fans of old Bill’s works will be drawn into he improbable world where Titania and Oberon are real beings. As the days draw close to Samhain, the door between the world of [...]
magickware | October 29, 2009
The story opens with an image of 3 ladies. The accompanying text says “Ladies of light and Ladies of darkness…” Both the text and imagery are things that a Pagan child can identify with. The end of the opening page has the line “this is a prayer for a blueberry girl.” While Pagans don’t specifically [...]