by Pam Withers | May 3, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Although ten years have passed, Rhett Littlefield has always blamed himself for his father abandoning him and his family. When the troubled fourteen-year-old gets kicked out of school for his latest run-in with the vice principal, his frazzled single...
by Pam Withers | May 3, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (5/5) In this thrilling conclusion to the Blackthorn Peak duology, secrets and manipulations are revealed, and no one is who they seem.Six months after Shaun Treadway and his friends escaped Blackthorn Peak Asylum, they are hiding deep in the Appalachian...
by Pam Withers | May 3, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Barker Mifflin never leaves home without his go bag, army boots and trusty fly swatter. As the town of Nevermind’s resident eleven-year-old survivalist, Barker knows catastrophe can strike anytime, anywhere. But now that school is out for the...
by Pam Withers | May 3, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (3/5) Suleikha, Leo and Kai, a group of 12-year-olds known as “The Freezies,” befriend the intriguing Mr. Christaki, a traveller who camps with his converted bus on their village green. Exposed as an illegal immigrant from Syria, he goes on the run with a...
by Pam Withers | May 3, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding fantasy novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward dangerous truth, legendary love and extraordinary power. Acclaimed author Kacen Callender turns their formidable skill to young-adult fantasy...
by Pam Withers | May 3, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) A hilarious story about a group of underdogs who come together when they are forced to attend summer school—for failing PE. Funny and fast-paced like all of Gordon Korman’s stories, this one offers whacky characters and situations, and winning lines....