Genre: Mystery

{The Science Fair is Freaky!: Jack Chabert}

{The Science Fair is Freaky!: Jack Chabert}

{Synopsis} – Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic’s early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! Eerie Elementary is having a science […]

Posted February 15, 2017 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Unlocked: Margo Kelly}

{Unlocked: Margo Kelly}

{Synopsis} – There is so much about this book that I enjoyed. To begin the cover is amazing. It pulled my interest from the beginning. Then I noticed who wrote it and I just had to read it. There are few writers that I have come across in recent years that have the ability to […]

Posted December 14, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Local Girl Swept Away: Ellen Wittlinger}

{Local Girl Swept Away: Ellen Wittlinger}

{Synopsis} – Stark, uncompromising, seductive, beautiful – this describes the tourist town of Cape Cod, where a young woman’s body remains to be found. Three friends struggle to come to terms with their missing leader and with the secrets each endeavor to hide. Set in the Cape Cod village of Provincetown, Massachusetts, this is the […]

Posted June 23, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{The Fixer: Jennifer Lynn Barnes}

{The Fixer: Jennifer Lynn Barnes}

{Synopsis} – his thriller YA is Scandal meets Veronica Mars. Sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick has spent her entire life on her grandfather’s ranch. But when her estranged sister Ivy uproots her to D.C., Tess is thrown into a world that revolves around politics and power. She also starts at Hardwicke Academy, the D.C. school for the […]

Posted May 13, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Recess Is a Jungle!: Jack Chabert}

{Recess Is a Jungle!: Jack Chabert}

{Synopsis} – This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! Sam, Antonio, and Lucy are passing around a soccer […]

Posted March 7, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Hush Little Baby: Caroline B. Cooney}

{Hush Little Baby: Caroline B. Cooney}

{Synopsis} – My ex-stepmother just handed me a baby, and she’s driving away. When Kit Innes’s estranged ex-stepmother, Dusty, unexpectedly drives up and pushes a large cloth-covered parcel into Kit’s arms, Kit doesn’t know what to expect. Especially when the bundle turns out to be a tiny, adorable baby. A tiny, adorable, mysterious baby boy. […]

Posted February 23, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Perdita: Faith Gardner}

{Perdita: Faith Gardner}

{Synopsis} – Granted, Arielle has a vast, excitable imagination. But she's not imagining how strange and out of control her life becomes after the death by drowning of her older sister's best friend, Perdita. Not only does this death echo the death of Arielle's own older brother, ten years before, it leads to dreams and […]

Posted February 15, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Half in Love With Death: Emily Ross}

{Half in Love With Death: Emily Ross}

{Synopsis} – It's the era of peace and love in the 1960s, but nothing is peaceful in Caroline's life. Since her beautiful older sister disappeared, fifteen-year-old Caroline might as well have disappeared too. She's invisible to her parents, who can't stop blaming each other. The police keep following up on leads even Caroline knows are […]

Posted January 15, 2016 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Woof: Spencer Quinn}

{Woof: Spencer Quinn}

{Synopsis} – There is trouble brewing in the Louisiana swamp — Bowser can smell it. Bowser is a very handsome and only slightly slobbery dog, and he can smell lots of things. Like bacon. And rawhide chews! And the sweat on humans when they're lying. Birdie Gaux, the girl Bowser lives with, also knows something […]

Posted November 12, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Sweet Madness: Trisha Leaver& Lindsay Currie}

{Sweet Madness: Trisha Leaver& Lindsay Currie}

{Synopsis} – Seventeen-year-old Bridget Sullivan is alone in Fall River, a city that sees Irish immigrants as nothing more than a drunken drain on society. To make matters worse, she's taken employment with the city’s most peculiar and gossip-laden family—the Bordens. But Bridget can’t afford to be picky—the pay surpasses any other job Bridget could […]

Posted October 4, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments