Comments on: Review: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser https://fabbookreviews.com/2017/09/28/review-the-vanderbeekers-of-141st-street-by-karina-yan-glaser/ Book reviews & bookish goodness from a Librarian in Canada Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:31:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Must Read Monday (85): Children’s Fiction from Tracey Baptiste, Paul Mosier, Karina Yan Glaser & more! – Fab Book Reviews https://fabbookreviews.com/2017/09/28/review-the-vanderbeekers-of-141st-street-by-karina-yan-glaser/comment-page-1/#comment-2514 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:31:53 +0000 http://fabbookreviews.com/?p=4488#comment-2514 […] This week is another focus on children’s fiction/middle grade literature- one of my favourite genres! On the roster for this Must Read edition: Rise of the Jumbies, the sequel to the mesmerizing and eerie The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste which I read earlier this year; Varian Johnson’s mystery The Parker Inheritance, which I have read just the most terrific reviews about from journals as well as bookish friends; the contemporary and unique-sounding The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty, about a young girl who survives a lightning strike and has to take on her biggest challenge yet: middle school; Laura Shovan’s terrifically described contemporary middle grade Takedown, a title which I believe I came across after finishing K.A. Holt’s excellent and wrestling-centered Knockout; acclaimed novelist Paul Mosier’s Echo’s Sister which sounds as intensely beautiful as it will likely be heartbreaking; Jacqueline’s Woodson’s latest, the already much-praised and highly recommended Harbor Me; book three in Canadian author Casey Lyall’s supremely awesome Howard Wallace, P.I. mystery series, called Sabotage Stage Left; and last but not least, The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden, Karina Yan Glaser’s the follow-up the wonderful and much-acclaimed The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street. […]

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]]> By: Best of 2017, Part 1: Children’s Lit, Young Adult, Adult Fiction & more! | Fab Book Reviews https://fabbookreviews.com/2017/09/28/review-the-vanderbeekers-of-141st-street-by-karina-yan-glaser/comment-page-1/#comment-2136 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 00:44:32 +0000 http://fabbookreviews.com/?p=4488#comment-2136 […] Grade: The Goat by Anne Fleming Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes by Mary E. Lambert The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling Greetings From Witness Protection by […]

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