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Bunnies vs. Bullies: The Green Ember Quadrilogy

"Parents or teachers whose concerns include finding safe literature for their brood of voracious young rabbits might wish to consider S. D. S..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

The Green Ember

Manners Make (More Than) the Man

"Some books have you read them slowly. Some books have you keep turning the pages. The best books do both. Such is A Gentleman in Moscow by A..." - Robert Greving Read the Review

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Quick Pull That’s Well Worth the Effort

"From the opening moments of Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat, we learn that there’s more to “the boat” than the finely crafted ra..." - Peter Vitz Read the Review

The Boys in the Boat

Armageddon in Slow Motion

"Mankind will end in four hundred fifty years, and its opinions about that fact may be largely irrelevant. That is upshot of Cixin Liu’s Hu..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

The Three-Body Problem

The Most Dangerous Quest of All

"Children of the eighties and nineties may remember the film The Neverending Story with a combination of wonder and dread, but the novel upon..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

The Neverending Story

A Series of Unfortunate Events – Reviewed

"The thirteen books in Daniel Handler’s A Series of Unfortunate Events provide humorous if formulaic escapism which, like an emergency room..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Man in a Mosaic – A Review of Joe Breslin’s Other Minds

"Samuel Johnson claimed the two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Heights fifth-grad..." - Tom Cox Read the Review

Other Minds: 13 Tales of Wonder and Sorrow

Skullduggery, Published

"Skullduggery Pleasant is about as bodiless as its titular character. Notice I didn’t say “protagonist,” for Skullduggery, the skinless..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

Skullduggery Pleasant, Book One

Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)

"As Roald Dahl did in his childhood memoir, Boy, Nayeri takes painful, embarrassing, and sometimes violent moments, and reframes them. Nayeri..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

Everything Sad Is Untrue

Miss Peregrine’s World-Weary Children

"Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a story that grew out of old photographs. When author Ransom Riggs approached Quirk Books w..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Elves, Boys, and Mean Girls

"Keeper of the Lost Cities, by Shannon Messenger, is a derivative but ultimately wholesome fantasy adventure written for a female audience. N..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

Keeper of the Lost Cities

The Hollow Heart of Merlin’s God

"Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy is a well-written, but ultimately troubling take on the Arthurian mythos . Stewart took great pains to give ..." - Joe Breslin Read the Review

Merlin Trilogy

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