Libby Kelting has just landed a history aficionado’s dream job: an internship at Maine’s oldest Living History Museum. Adios cell phones and Facebook, hello corsets and baking! Libby knows this is going to be the best summer ever. Except it’s not. Her roommate is a prissy bitch, a local reporter seems determined to get under…
Tag: young adult fiction
Review: The Copper Sign
The year of our Lord 1161 is not a great time to be a girl — even less so a girl who wants to become a swordsmith. Forced to flee her home in rural England, our young heroine Ellenweore disguises herself as a boy and travels with a famous swordsmith to Normandy, where sons of…
Review: Eyes Like Stars
The Théâtre Illuminata is as old as time itself. Its inhabitants are magical, held together by the words their creators wrote, and bound to the theatre by The Book. Bertie lives in the theatre, but she is not truly a part of it. She is an orphan, left on the theatre’s doorstep by the mother…
Review: The Book Thief
It is 1939, and Liesel Meminger has just lost her brother and mother; her journey to the small German town of Himmel and into the hands of foster parents is made with bleeding hands and frozen heart. Her loud-mouthed foster mother scares her, but Hans, her new papa, is different. He plays the accordion. He…
Review: Huntress
Nothing is quite right in the human kingdom. The sun has been obscured by clouds for years, and season after season crops continue failing. Menacing creatures lurk in the darkened woods, and even the wealthiest of families find themselves in danger. Taisin is a sage-in-training, blessed and cursed with powers she has not learned to…