The Tocks on the Clock is a story about a girl named Desi who travels with her cat and dog to visit the twelve monsters known as the Tocks. The monsters represent each hour on the clock, teaching children about time. The books is fun, silly, and written in rhyme scheme to keep little ones attention span. The illustrations are eye popping, and there are small texts converted into the illustrations in the background for an extra read for fun. For example, the nursery rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock is written on the wall in the background where one of the monsters lives.
Friddie Rosenthal has always been charismatic and quite the troublemaker, always making her own decisions in life. Growing up in a strict French private school and a Jewish household in Romania in the 1920s, Friddie quickly learned the power of acting innocent and being persuasive to get what she wants. Despite being a partier throughout her youth, she tells her parents that she will eventually settle down with a nice Jewish man who they will approve of.
My Own Lightning is a youth and young adult novel written by Lauren Wolk, which is a sequel to her book Wolf Hollow. This is the story of a girl by the name of Annabelle. The story takes place in a small township in Western Pennsylvania in 1944. One day in June when Annabelle and her teacher were cleaning the one room schoolhouse on a hot, sticky day, a stranger from a nearby town came looking for his dog. Annabelle also noticed that a fellow student was lurking outside as well. Annabelle and the teacher decided to call it a day when it looked like a storm was
Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse alternates between two stories: one before and one after the tornado. Before the tornado, Jesse's dad is arrested for stealing the money in the library fund, which he did not do. Jesse, and her new friend, Springer, decide to investigate who really took it, while also standing up to bullies. They also try to train Sam-Sam to sniff out containers so he can learn to be a bomb-sniffing dog. After the tornado, Jesse runs back to her house in search of her beloved dog.
ReInception written by Sarena Straus is a science fiction/futuristic novel for adults. To start with, a definition of ReInception means modification, and in the story, the characters are modified in such a way that various behaviors are changed or deleted like eating junk food and now eating healthy.
Thirteen-year-old Moth is kind of an outcast at school. She wants nothing more than to be a witch and spends her time watching TV shows about magic and reading about folklore. Then, on Halloween, something strange happens. When some kids at school are making fun of her, she *literally* takes their voices away.
In Count Me In, there is a girl named Karina. Her Grandpa comes to live with them and decides to work as a tutor for Karina´s school. He ends up tutoring a boy named Chris who treated Karina badly in earlier years, but Chris and Karina both realize that the other may not be so bad after all and they begin to become friends. Then, when they are walking home with Karina´s grandpa one day, her grandpa is attacked because he and Karina are not white. Karina´s grandpa is put in the hospital, and a lot of people are really supportive.
Doodleville #2: Art Attacks! is a story about a kid named Drew and her friends. In this story, doodles can move on their own, if you draw food they can eat and dress in clothes they can wear. One day, one of Drew’s doodles named Mike took a hat from a century-old painting from The Art Institute of Chicago. Then Drew sends her other doodle named Levi to return the hat, but Levi came back with a baby from a century-old painting. Drew was confused and scared so she called her friends for help. They make a plan to slip the baby back into the Institute the very next day.
Everyone else in Anna's family has "useful magic". From being able to read people's thoughts to sensing auras, they are the people tourists come to Ravenfall (her family's magical inn) to visit. Anna's power is a lot darker because she senses death. If she touches anyone who has seen death, she sees the memory of what exactly happened during that time through their eyes. And since most people don't want to be reminded of those horrible memories, no one seeks out her magic.
Weeny Meeny is a little witch who turned 1000 years old. Her little tribe does not consider her a toddler from now on, which makes her happy. She is granted to fly on her own, but one thing bothers her . The streets are littered with garbage and weeds. She cannot tolerate seeing the little witches walk through them full of obstacles. Before Halloween night, no matter what she does to sleep she cannot, for the worries of streets of Witchburg are on her mind.
