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Book Review: Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess

All of us are born naked, helpless, and defenseless. Not so Pallas Athena. I may have mentioned a time or two that my daughter is interested in Greek mythology. Hence, why I...

Nostalgia: Sharing Sam

"You know, just because she's sick, hon, it doesn't mean you have to put your life on hold. Just because something bad's happened to Izzy doesn't mean you can't have good things...

Book Review: Runaway

I couldn’t help lifting my hand to finger the spot on my own scalp where, more than three months earlier, surgeons at the Stark Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery had cut...

Book Review: Flight #116 Is Down

[Patrick] tried to be glad that so few local lives were in danger, but deep down he was hoping for a really good catastrophe. In Flight #116 Is Down by Caroline B. Cooney,...

Book Review: Scarlett Fever

The questions that Scarlett was asking herself at the moment weren't quite that dramatic. They weren't even that specific. What was going through her head was a querulous...

Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time

"No, Meg. Don't hope it was a dream. I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be." I never...

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Book Review: Icon: A Hero’s Welcome

When you can fly, there's no burden you can't bear.  When you can fly, gravity can't touch you.  When you can fly...you can do anything. I love the cartoon Static Shock, and so I...

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Book Review: Calamity Jack

I think of myself as a criminal mastermind...with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. Calamity Jack, the sequel to Rapunzel's Revenge [my review is here], by Shannon & Dean...