Charlotte's Library
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At Charlotte's Library, readers delve into a world of science fiction and fantasy literature for kids and teens, sprinkled with diverse genres. Charlotte, an archaeologist by day and volunteer for a small New England library by night, immerses herself in the realms of fantasy and science fiction. With a passion for storytelling, she invites visitors on a literary journey filled with..
Charlotte's Library
2d ago
The First State of Being, by Erin Entrada Kelly (March, 2024, Greenwillow Books) is a delightful and heartwarming middle grade time travel book that I enjoyed lots.
In August, 1999 (which will seem very strange and far away to the target audience), 12-year-old Michael prepares for the potential disaster that is Y2K. When we first meet him, he's shop lifting a can of peaches to add to his survival stash kept under his bed--his mom is working three jobs and can't give him the money he'd like to spend getting properly prepared. Though money his tight, his mother insists on paying 1 ..read more
Charlotte's Library
5d ago
Hi all, and greetings from a cold spring morning here in Rhode Island (a good day to read by the fire....)
Please let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews
Bubba and Squirt's Shield of Athena, by Sherry Ellis, at Bookworm for Kids
Cloudlanders, by Christopher Mackie, at Mark My Words
The Deadlands: Survival (The Deadlands #3), by Skye Melki-Wegner, at The Story Sanctuary
Enchanted Glass, by Diana Wynne Jones, at Staircase Wit
Ferris, by Kate DiCamillo, at ReadWonder and Redeemed Reader
The Island at the Edge of Night, by Lucy Strange, at Scope ..read more
Charlotte's Library
6d ago
Sona and the Golden Beasts (March 5, 2024, Quill Tree Books) is Rajani LaRocca's first other world fantasy, and having read and enjoyed many of her other books (especially Midsummer's Mayhem) this was a must read for me with no languishing on the tbr pile as soon as I got my hands on it!
The alternate world is a fantasy version of India under British rule. Devia is a place where music calls forth magic, now forbidden by the conquering and exploiting Malechians. They grow rich from Devia's gems, mined at great cost to its people. Sona has lived relatively sa ..read more
Charlotte's Library
1w ago
It's end of spring break, which means me about to set to take my kid back to college....see you next week ..read more
Charlotte's Library
2w ago
Today's Timeslip book is The Other Place, by Nancy L. Robison (1978).
Mine, happily picked up at a booksale, turned out to be a review copy (very cool to see the retro promotional info, shown below), but I don't think I'll send in two clippings as requested.
I'm making no effort to hold back on spoilers here with this whacky 1970s sci fi story for kids, so if you are a little kid who's never read any science fiction (which you aren't), go read the book and see if you agree with the two Goodreads readers whose first sci fi it was, and who loved it before I ruin everything.
The Other Place st ..read more
Charlotte's Library
2w ago
Here's what I found this week, please enjoy and let me know if I missed anything! I had good intentions to read and review lots this past week, which got derailed when I found out I would not just be getting my kid home from college this week, but lots of friends too, so instead of reading I cleaned and decluttered...
The Reviews
Closet of Dreams, by Mark Ukra & Tara Mesalik MacMahon, at Mark My Words:
Creepy Creations, by Jennifer Killick, at Sifa Elizabeth Reads
Ferris, by Kate DiCamillo, at Cracking the Cover, Fuse #8, and Log Cabin Libr ..read more
Charlotte's Library
3w ago
Anne Frank and Me, by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld (1997), is this week's Timeslip Tuesday offering. It tells of a teenaged girl, Nicole, who's mind is full of stereotypical teen stuff, including pining over Jack. Her diary thoughts of pining will perhaps be familiar to many readers who are, or once were, teenaged girls with their own hopeless crushes.
At school, her history teacher is trying to explain the horrors of the holocaust, but it seems distant, and even Anne Frank's diary seems, according to the internet searches Nicole does, a possible fake....so she ..read more
Charlotte's Library
3w ago
Hi all, here's what I found this week! Let me know if I missed anything.
The Reviews
Bumps in the Night, by Amalie Howard, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Daughters of the Lamp, by Nedda Lewers, at Islamic School Librarian
Dread Wood: Creepy Creations, by Jennifer Killick, at Scope for Imagination
Dreamstalkers: The Night Train, by Sarah Driver, at Bellis Does Books and Books Up North
Fright Bite, by Jennifer Killick, at Sifa Elizabeth Reads
Impossible Creatures, by Katherine Rundell, at Mark My Words
Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing ..read more
Charlotte's Library
1M ago
I very much enjoyed meeting Ethan Fairmont and his friends, including the alien they call Cheese in his first outing (my review) so I dove into Too Many Interesting Things Are Happening to Ethan Fairmont, by Nick Brooks, (middle grade, November 2023, Union Square Kids), with pleasure, and was rewarded by a good read.
Ethan is happily planning interesting inventing and pleasant hanging out at the old industrial building now turned maker space where he met Cheese, and foiled the other hostile aliens hunting down Cheese and his people. And he's happily looking forward to the start of ..read more
Charlotte's Library
1M ago
Here's what I found this week; let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews
The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander, at Semicolon
Bumps in the Night, by Amalie Howard, at Jenjenreviews
The Clockwork Crow, by Catherine Fisher, at Pages Unbound
Crystal Shadows: Gripping New Blood, by R.J. Parker, at Pages and Paws
Daughters of the Lamp, by Nedda Lewers, at Cracking the Cover
The Doll Twin, by Janine Beacham, at Valinora Troy
Elf Dog and Owl Head, by M.T. Anderson, at Sonderbooks
Ferris, by Kate DiCamillo, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Fox Snare (Thousand Worlds #3 ..read more