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The sky had never seemed so sky, the world had never seemed so world.
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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R.J. Jr. in The Underground Underground - Page 63
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A Look at Goosebumps Slappyworld (Part 2)
A Look at Goosebumps SlappyWorld (Part 1)
Hello, Spongey here.
It’s time to finally end a saga. By that, I mean another Goosebumps series. In Part 1, I lined up what we’re doing here so you can visit that to hear all about SlappyWorld. Basically, it’s the follow up to Most Wanted where Slappy gets more stories because he sure needed more. At the time I didn’t know when the series end, but soon…
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Can’t wait to find out all about 2023’s LGBTQ+ Middle Grade selection? Good news - you don’t have to! Today on the site we’re featuring our most anticipated titles in MG releasing from January-June 2023! #LGBTQReads #MG #MiddleGrade #Bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CmEkc7ALxxT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Clockwork City - The Birthday Party (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1414971578-clockwork-city-the-birthday-party?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=DRCarmel Still plotting. Will update soon. Thought the cover looked cool!
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Camp Sylvania by: Julie Murphy
Published by: HarperCollins Children’s Books
This was a good book. Such a good book. I ate this book up.
Camp Sylvania follows Maggie Hagen at the start of summer break. Her and her best friend are planning to go to Camp Rising Star, a performing arts summer camp. Sadly, she’s got pretty awful stage fright. She’s determined to be a big star and it all comes crashing down.
Maggie’s mom sends…
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Blog Tour + #Review: CITY SPIES: CITY OF THE DEAD by James Ponti (w/ #giveaway)!
Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the Rockstar Book Tours blog tour for the fourth installment in the City Spies series by James Ponti, City Spies: City of the Dead, which releases next Tuesday, 7 February! If you’ve followed my reviews before, you’ll know what a huge fan I am of this series, so I’m thrilled to tell you all about this latest installment. You can also find my review and a giveaway below!
About the Book
title: City Spies: City of the Dead
author: James Ponti
publisher: Aladdin
release date: 7 February 2023
In this fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies go codebreaking in Cairo in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls.
Codename Kathmandu, better known as Kat, loves logic and order, has a favorite eight-digit number, and can spot a pattern from a mile away. So when a series of cyberattacks hits key locations in London while the spies are testing security for the British Museum, it’s clear that Kat’s skill for finding reason in what seems like randomness makes her the perfect candidate to lead the job.
And while the team follows the deciphered messages to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead to discover who is behind the attacks and why, Kat soon realizes that there’s another layer to the mystery.
With more players, more clues, and involving higher levels of British Intelligence than ever before, this mission is one of the most complex that the group has faced to date. And it’s also going to bring about a change to the City Spies…
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About the Author
JAMES PONTI (he/him/his) is the New York Times bestselling author of three middle grade book series: City Spies, about an unlikely squad of five kids from around the world who form an elite MI6 Spy Team; the Edgar Award–winning Framed! series, about a pair of tweens who solve mysteries in Washington, DC; and the Dead City trilogy, about a secret society that polices the undead living beneath Manhattan. His books have appeared on more than fifteen different state award lists and he is the founder of a writers group known as the Renegades of Middle Grade. James is also an Emmy– nominated television writer and producer who has worked for many networks including Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, PBS, History, and Spike TV, as well as NBC Sports. He lives with his family in Orlando, Florida.
Connect with James: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Goodreads | Amazon
My 5-Star Review
If you’ve followed my reviews for any length of time, you may know just how much I love this middle grade series. My son and I have both read them all (though he hasn’t yet gotten his hands on this latest one!), and we’ve also read, both separately and out loud together, Mr. Ponti’s Dead City series, which we also love. (He has also read the Framed! series, though I have not.) Naturally I was going to jump at the chance to read and review book four! (You can find my reviews of book one here and book two here.)
While I suppose you technically could read this as a standalone, I would highly recommend reading the first three books first -- you’ll get a much better feel for the characters, and they’re totally all worth reading! In each book, a different one of our “city spies” (their codenames are each the cities in which they were found) is the alpha, or leader, of the mission. In book four, it’s Kat’s turn, and she leads in several missions throughout the book, which take the spies from London to Berlin to, ultimately, Cairo and Luxor, Egypt. Kat has always been a favorite character of mine -- she has Asperger’s and is able to see patterns amid all the chaos of life. She’s truly brilliant and refreshingly honest and plain-spoken! The spies continue hot on the heels of Umbra in this installment, and there’s a surprise addition to the City Spies team that no one was expecting. I literally read the entire book in one sitting; I just couldn’t stop flipping the pages!
I highly, highly recommend this series for all middle grade readers (will be especially good for reluctant readers!), as well as anyone who just enjoys a good spy thriller (one appropriate for kids, of course). This installment continues the unbroken string of five-star reviews for each book in the series. And with *that ending*, I can’t wait to read book five!
Rating: 5 stars!
**Disclosure: I received a copy of the book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. This review is voluntary on my part and reflects my honest rating and review of the book.
About the Giveaway
One (1) lucky winner will receive a finished copy of City Spies: City of the Dead by James Ponti! This one is US only and ends on 6 February 2023. Enter via the Rafflecopter below, and good luck!
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About the Blog Tour + James’ Tours
Here’s the schedule for this second and final week of the blog tour, as well as James’ schedule of tours for the book launch!
Blog Tour, Week Two:
1/30/2023 - Nerdophiles - Review
1/30/2023 - Eye-Rolling Demigod's Book Blog - Review/IG Post
1/31/2023 - Wanderingwitchreads - TikTok Review/IG Post
1/31/2023 - Review Thick And Thin - Review/IG Post
2/1/2023 - @ChristenKrumm - IG Review
2/1/2023 - Two Points of Interest - Review
2/2/2023 - Book-Keeping - Review/IG Post
2/2/2023 - @bookmama85 - IG Review
2/3/2023 - OneMoreExclamation - Review/IG Post
2/3/2023 - @froggyreadteach - IG Review
James’ launch tours:
Monday, February 7, 2023 at 6:00pm CT
Virtual launch event hosted by Blue Willow Bookshop (Houston, TX)
In conversation with Kelly Yang (author of NEW FROM HERE and FINALLY SEEN)
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at 7:00pm ET
In-person event hosted by Little Shop of Stories (Decatur, GA)
In conversation with Laurel Snyder (author of ORPHAN ISLAND and CHARLIE & MOUSE)
Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 6:00pm ET
In-person event hosted by Malaprop’s (Asheville, NC)
In conversation with Alan Gratz (author of REFUGEE, GROUND ZERO, and TWO DEGREES)
Friday, February 10, 2023 at 5:00pm ET
In-person event hosted by RJ Julia Booksellers (Madison, CT)
In conversation with Lauren Tarshis (author of the I SURVIVED series)
Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 3:00pm ET
In-person event hosted by Books of Wonder (New York, NY)
In conversation with Sayantani DasGupta (author of THE FIRE QUEEN series), Chris Grabenstein (author of DOG SQUAD and THE SMARTEST KID IN THE UNIVERSE), and Karina Yan Glaser (author of THE VANDERBEEKERS series)
Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 2:00pm CT
In-person event at St. Louis Public Library hosted by The Novel Neighbor (St. Louis, MO)
In conversation with George Jreije (author of SHAD HADID AND THE ALCHEMISTS OF ALEXANDRIA)
Monday, February 13, 2023 at 7:00pm CT
In-person event hosted by Wild Rumpus Books for Young Readers (Minneapolis, MN)
In conversation with Jacqueline West (author of THE BOOKS OF ELSEWHERE and LONG LOST)
Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 5:30pm ET
In-person event hosted by Quail Ridge Books (Raleigh, NC)
In conversation with Kwame Mbalia (author of the TRISTAN STRONG series)
Thursday, February 16, 2023 at 10:30am ET
In-person event hosted by Politics & Prose (Washington, D.C.)
Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 2:00pm ET
In-person event hosted by The International Spy Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 2:00pm ET
In-person event hosted at Lake Highland Prep School hosted by Writer’s Block Bookstore (Orlando, FL)
In conversation with Jerry Craft (author of NEW KID and CLASS ACT)
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I had a great time today at my school talk. I gave two assemblies And two classrooms including a writers workshop that was a blast! We came up with an idea so fun I’m even attempted to use it… But I will leave it to the kids :) #Writing #SchoolTalk #Read #picturebook #MiddleGrade #Mystery #Cats #kidlit #scbwi #authorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CoJLZisrIMs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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#when you reach me#rebecca stead#middlegrade#science fiction#book poll#have you read this book poll#polls
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But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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Garvey in the Dark by Nikki Grimes is a beautiful novel in verse about the beginning of COVID pandemic and other events that transpired. The story is told from Garvey's point of view. He is an introvert who loves to escape into books, loves to sing and plays guitar with his dad. The story unfolds as the country is about to go into lockdown & the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd transpire a few months later. Through Garvey's eyes, you experience all the anxiety and uncertainty of not knowing when the world would be "normal" again. He worries about the mental & physical toll the pandemic is taking on his parents. You work through Garvey's sadness about constantly seeing death news, worrying about other kids having food to eat, and always being on edge when seeing police because he's a Black boy. This was a quick & powerful read that left me reflecting on the pandemic era and the ways that we are still feeling the long-lasting mental effects. This book made me cry but it also left me hopeful because of the little moments of joy and caring for others that Grimes sprinkled throughout the story. This would make a perfect read for parents & educators to use with children to process some of the anxiety of living through COVID & adjusting to life during lockdown. This book had so much depth. I am still thinking about: 🎸 the mental and physical decline of essential workers, especially teachers and nurses 🎸 the ways adults have to suppress their own anxieties and fears to make children/students feel safe 🎸 how Black people don't have safety in daily life 🎸 the economic disparities and how marginalized communities were affected the most by COVID 🎸 how social connections changed during lockdown 🎸 the lasting education deficits in Black and Brown communities post-COVID 🎸 how daily confrontation with death affects both adults and children 🎸 the rise in anxiety and depression in students Thank you @goodreads and @astrakidsbooks for the giveaway win. #GarveyInTheDark #NikkiGrimes #bookcommunity #bookstagram #bookreview amreading #books #tbr #20booksbyblackwomen #reading #bookstagrammers #middlegrade #bookphotography #readersofinstagram #bookish #poetry (at Starbucks) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl46mb-r5ZS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Treat yourself and all the MG readers in your life to some gorgeous upcoming middle grade! Get it now for 25% off your preorders at B&N, or order through a beloved indie in celebration of the upcoming Independent Bookstore Day! #LGBTQReads #Bookstagram #MiddleGrade #TweenReads #BookSale #BookLove #MGLit https://www.instagram.com/p/CrjDKmcLu4C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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