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Runaway at Sea

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] A hold-on-to-the-edge-of-your seat childrens’ adventure book for salty dogs and their sea-mates everywhere. Robert and Michael, twelve and fourteen years old, respectively, are runaways - each of them seeking escape from the harshness of a young world that seems to have no place for them. “Robert had…

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Down With The Dance

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Middle-school mayhem magic. Austin Davenport, grade six, is an everyman (or an everymiddle-schooler, at least). Slightly nerdy, awkward, insecure and trying desperately to fit in with the “cool” kids, Austin and his struggles are immediately relatable and universally compelling. Where he differs though, is in that Austin…

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My Story Friend

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What happens when you have something sad or desolate to share, and you can’t find someone willing to listen? This beautiful little picture book explores this very theme, handling the story with such charm and grace that the overall messaging, far from being sad, instead becomes a lovely and…

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Amanda In Malta

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book continues the excellent children’s book travel series featuring twelve year old Amanda as she visits remote locations, where she joins us in learning about history and culture, and manages to also squeeze in time for adventures and solving a mystery or two. In this book, Amanda visits…

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The Graceful Ghost

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book is an absolute delight! Or should I say - Phantastic! Meet Gracie and Rodney - two ghostly spirits (who also happen to be children of about twelve years old). This spectral duo have haunted the Amberwood Ballet School for Girls for approximately two centuries, where they (mostly)…

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Finding Her Spirit

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What a gorgeous book. Quiet and unassuming, this book takes you into the mind of Maren Markey, as she re-lives her junior-high and high school years through an old journal she finds and reads as she is preparing to move away from home to college. Equally suitable for a…

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Songbird

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️➕ I found this gorgeous picture book incredibly endearing. (It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I teared up at the end of it, so touched was I by the messaging and so deeply did it resonate with me). From the very first notes, drifting across the park to…

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Blossom and Bud

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What an absolute delight! This picture book, written by a New Jersey psychologist (and spectacularly illustrated by an amazing artist) tells the story of Blossom, a tall and gangly sunflower, and Bud, a little stem, not yet fully opened, who share space in Mr. Baxters floral shop with an…

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Alex and the Shaming Monster

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shame. It’s such an overwhelming stomach-churning terrible feeling, that can be so quick to rear its nasty head, particularly when you are young and vulnerable. Alex and the Shaming Monster is a charming picture book that deals with this very issue, helping children understand that shame, like a scary…

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Nick and the Shadow Monster

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What child (and this applies to many adults too!) isn’t afraid of dark things that go bump in the night. This beautifully illustrated picture-book introduces us to Nick, a chubby four year old boy, and his visitor, a shadow monster that comes to feed in his room at night.…

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