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Tag: adventure

May 6, 2022 by Esther Keller

Review: Red Scare

Young readers who pick up this book won't know much about the red scare. In NYC it’s not part of the social studies curriculum until 8th grade if they even get that far.

March 10, 2022 by Esther Keller

Hilo: Gina and the Big Secret | Review

Esther reads Hilo: Gina and the Big Secret, to find out what happened after the last volume's big cliffhanger.

July 2, 2021 by Esther Keller

Hilo, vols. 1-6 | Series Review

Esther brought the first six volumes of Hilo home to review, but her kids kept taking them to read. Is there a better endorsement than that?

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The Spy Who Raised Me | Review

May 27, 2021 by Esther Keller

The Spy Who Raised Me is a quirky and exhilarating graphic novel with so many twists that readers will want to go back and read it again.

Review: Juana and the Dragonewt’s Seven Kingdoms Volume 1

July 16, 2018 by Lori Henderson

Nid, a young adult dragonewt, finds a creature that can only be a thought-to-be-extinct Muernandes, or human, seemingly hatching from an egg. Feeling responsible for the girl, Juana, he decides to try to take her to the place she calls home, a land far to the north of the dragonewt kingdoms. They start on a […]

Review: Dream Jumper 2

December 13, 2017 by Esther Keller

It’s been a while since I read the first volume of Dream Jumper, but the story starts off at a fast pace. It doesn’t really fill in what happened before, so readers will benefit from a quick re-read to appreciate the nuanced details. Dream Jumper: Curse of the Harvester By Greg Grunberg. Lucas Turnbloom Graphix. […]

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Review: ‘Compass South’

July 27, 2016 by Esther Keller

The worst part of this book? That I already finished. After all, when I first noticed it was 224 pages, I thought, even in comic form this might keep me busy for a little while—but before I knew it the book was done and I wanted more! The good news? There are three more planned […]

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