The Lunch Witch by Deb Lucke
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) Grunhilda is a witch who comes from a long line of witches (most of whom live beneath her house and are loudly opinionated about how Grunhilda should be...
View ArticleTruly Devious by Maureen Johnson
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) Truly Devious is a mesmerizing mystery (1) tucked inside another mystery (2). (1) 1936: The eccentric, rich founder of elite boarding school Ellingham Academy...
View ArticleCity of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) Cassidy’s parents move the family to Edinburgh to film the first episode of their new ghost hunting reality television series. Moving to one of the most haunted...
View ArticleSmall Spaces by Katherine Arden
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) On a field trip to a Vermont farm with her classmates, Ollie becomes tangled up in a decades-old sinister mystery involving a dark bargain and scarecrows that...
View ArticleThe Lying Woods by Ashley Elston
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) The tangled roots of this taut mystery unfold in alternating chapters and these parallel narratives were the perfect way to tell this story, growing the tension...
View ArticleCicada by Shaun Tan
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) This is a strange little book in a long line of strange little Shaun Tan books. Always thought-provoking, always more than a little bizarre, I am continually...
View ArticleA Question of Holmes by Brittany Cavallaro
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) This fourth and final book in the Charlotte Holmes series was wonderful and I am here to recommend the entire series to you. Beginning with A Study in...
View ArticlePrince Charming by Rachel Hawkins
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) Daisy was all set for a fabulous summer until her sister became engaged to the Prince of Scotland. Now she is reluctantly surrounded by stuffy royals and...
View ArticlePowers of a Girl by Lorraine Cink & Alice X. Zhang
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) This beautiful little book is a biography of 65 fictional ladies who grace the pages of the Marvel Universe, from Captain Marvel and Black Widow to Valkyrie and...
View ArticleOut of the Blue by Sophie Cameron
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) Teenage Jaya lost her mom in an accident eight months ago. Since then, mysterious winged Beings have been falling to earth from the heavens. Out of the dozens...
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Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Guillermo del Toro & Cornelia...
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) Much, much more than a novelization, Cornelia Funke’s illustrated adaptation of Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 award-winning Spanish film is spellbinding. Set in...
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Juliet, Naked (2018)
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) I don’t watch very many movies. They make it to my “To Watch” list and languish there for months or years while I read books instead. But when I heard about...
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Mike by Andrew Norriss
Reviewed by Melissa Beck (Library Staff) In this quick novel (barely over 200 pages), teenage tennis prodigy Floyd feels like his life is going just fine until a boy named Mike begins harassing him....
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