Genre: Middle School

{Journey Through Ash and Smoke: Kate Messner}

{Journey Through Ash and Smoke: Kate Messner}

{Synopsis} – Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, goes to Viking age Iceland! Ranger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to Viking age Iceland, which proves to be tough terrain for Ranger to navigate. Usually it’s Ranger’s job to save the day before he can return […]

Posted October 13, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Race to the South Pole: Kate Messner}

{Race to the South Pole: Kate Messner}

{Synopsis} – Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, is back! This time, he joins a dangerous expedition to the South Pole! Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, joins an early twentieth-century expedition journeying from New Zealand to Antarctica. He befriends Jack Nin, the stowaway turned cabin boy of Captain Robert Falcon […]

Posted October 12, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Long Road to Freedom: Kate Messner}

{Long Road to Freedom: Kate Messner}

{Synopsis} – Ranger is a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training. In this adventure, he goes to a Maryland plantation during the days of American slavery, where he meets a young girl named Sarah. When she learns that the owner has plans to sell her little brother, Jesse, to a plantation in the Deep South, […]

Posted October 11, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{The Last Present: Wendy Mass}

{The Last Present: Wendy Mass}

{Synopsis} – Amanda and Leo have a history with birthdays. Now their friend’s little sister, Grace, has fallen into a strange frozen state on her birthday, and Amanda and Leo must travel in time in order to fix whatever’s wrong. As they journey back to each of Grace’s birthdays, they start seeing all sorts of […]

Posted October 10, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Pugs in a Blanket: J. J. Howard}

{Pugs in a Blanket: J. J. Howard}

{Synopsis} – Sam’s parents run a catering company, which doesn’t leave them much time for Sam. Though she has begged for a dog, her parents say they are just too busy. But when she finds two pugs wrapped up in a blanket on her back porch, Sam can’t not take in the abandoned pups. Trying […]

Posted October 9, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Shake it Off: Suzanne Nelson}

{Shake it Off: Suzanne Nelson}

{Synopsis} – Bria is used to city life in Chicago, but is headed to her aunt and uncle’s Iowa creamery for the summer. Their dairy operation offers a taste of country living to passersby, who can stop in for a milkshake, a wagon ride, and a trip through the corn maze. Bria is definitely out […]

Posted October 8, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Pugs and Kisses: J. J. Howard}

{Pugs and Kisses: J. J. Howard}

{My thoughts} – Ana is a sweet girl. She helps her upstairs neighbor out by walking her dog for her. Her upstairs neighbor is elderly and cannot manage to go up and down five flights of stairs on a regular basis. So, since she can’t do that, she pays Ana to do it for her. […]

Posted October 7, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Making Friends: Kristen Gudsnuk}

{Making Friends: Kristen Gudsnuk}

{Synopsis} – Sixth grade was SO much easier for Danielle. All her friends were in the same room and she knew what to expect from her life. But now that she’s in seventh grade, she’s in a new middle school, her friends are in different classes and forming new cliques, and she is completely lost. […]

Posted October 6, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Sit, Stay, Love:  J. J. Howard}

{Sit, Stay, Love: J. J. Howard}

{Synopsis} – Cecilia Murray has been wishing for a dog for as long as she can remember. And when a cute pug named Potato is brought in to Orphan Paws, the shelter where she volunteers, she knows he is the dog she’s been waiting for. There’s just one problem: Eric Chung — a popular, arrogant […]

Posted September 29, 2019 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments