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Myrtle is a fantastic character. If you like precocious youth and witty banter with a bit of mystery, you will love this one.

My class is working on rough drafts of their mystery stories, so in between answering questions, I can catch up on my re-read of the course text. It's always amusing to me how many tiny details I remember and how many big plot points I forget.

I adore this book! Sure I had to stop reading because I saw something moving in the hallway, and sure my fear of “someone in the mirror” was reawakened, and sure the description of “not quite a ghost” turned my stomach, but it‘s inspired by The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (love it!) and the doctors are enRAGing, and Violet learns to stand up for herself. 👻

💛 Bread recipes and the making of bread, of all kinds and flavors

🩵 Cass, who has a ghost for a best friend, is able to pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead and enter the world of spirits.

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Lots of love for the "Torak books"! ❤️ I first read the original ones with my daughter when she was a kid.
The world-building is fab, the characters are loveable (Wolf!), there's plenty of jeopardy (this volume even opens with a forest-destroying comet/meteor strike) and you can rest assured that everything will come to the good in the end.
A perfect bank holiday weekend read. ☺️

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander month so that our theme this Monday! #AAPI

Christina Soontornvat wrote the tagged book- a Thai-inspired retelling of Les Mis with magical elements that rocked my world and in doing so became a must-read author for me! In this version, the daughter of the prison warden hunts down a prison-born boy who is trying to escape his doomed life.

What titles would you recommend for #MiddleGradeMonday ?

I was not anticipating this #MiddleGrade to be as sad as it was in parts - the cover and synopsis made me think it would be more light and comical. Magical realism plays a role in this as the reader hears from the perspective of tween Ernest and Olivetti the typewriter. It‘s apparent early on that there is a big #ElephantInTheRoom when it comes to Ernest‘s family, and the mother‘s disappearance only adds layers to the situation. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I‘m on the team helping with our county‘s Battle of the Books for 5th-8th grades at the local schools, and this was one of the assigned books for the 7th/8th grade group. What a heartbreaking, eye-opening read. 😭 #freelunch #rexogle #memoir

A sweet book

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4/5

This is the story of Bug, who, when looking in the mirror, thinks, “It looks like someone‘s idea of what I look like, without me behind it.”
This is a ghost story, a grief story, a growing up story. This is a story about finding yourself.
This is a beautiful middle grade novel.
I loved it.

I mostly listened to the audio version which was well done.