Month: May 2023

Exploding Experiment by M.M. Downing & S.J. Waugh: Review & the Authors’ Top Ten Addictions

Today I’m featuring THE ADVENTURES OF THE FLASH GANG: EXPLODING EXPERIMENT by M.M. Downing & S.J. Waugh, a page-turning middle grade historical fiction mystery! Read on for my review of the book, and then make sure you also check out the authors’ list of top ten addictions to find out more about them! Buy from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Bookshop.org I have to say that Exploding Experiment was a delightful surprise! I won’t lie–this isn’t my favorite cover (I […]

Posted May 31, 2023 in Author Top Ten Lists, Reviews / 3 Comments

Sunday Post & Book Pre-order Campaigns Galore: 5/28/23

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. What’s been happening since my last Sunday Post: Danielle is off to Spain for her study abroad! She’s having a fantastic time already. There are two other girls staying with the host family, […]

Posted May 28, 2023 in Sunday Post / 13 Comments

May 2023 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up and Giveaway

The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up is hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight. We’ve decided to go with a yearly giveaway for this one, just like the Discussion Challenge. We will have three winners: Two from the usual rafflecopter, and one that we will pick out of the folks who link up every month (via random.org, we’ll just list the names and pick that way)! So commenting and […]

Posted May 27, 2023 in Current Giveaways, Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up / 0 Comments

Sunday Post & Book Pre-order Campaigns Galore: 5/21/23

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. What’s been happening since my last Sunday Post: I didn’t post last weekend because we were busy celebrating Mother’s Day and my daughter Danielle’s birthday! We had a really fun day – went […]

Posted May 21, 2023 in Sunday Post / 8 Comments

18 Delightfully Frightening MG Books for Young Horror Fans

I often have kids coming into B&N looking for something spooky to read, so I thought I’d create a post with some of my favorite MG horror reads. I’m featuring ten of them, plus eight more books I’ve heard great things about and I’m planning to read (hopefully soon!). TEN I’VE READ (Okay, technically 11 – oh, wait, 12) (Click on the links for full reviews.) The Monsterious Series by Matt McMann I just recently […]

Posted May 19, 2023 in Let's Discuss / 15 Comments

Bite-Sized Reviews of Two Degrees, School Trip, The Guardian Test, Global, and The Stranded

Today, I’m reviewing four MG reads and a YA dystopian. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! Two Degrees is a heart-pounding climate change adventure, perfect for kids who loved the I Survived Series and are ready for a read that takes them to the next level. The story follows four kids caught up in three different climate change disasters. Akira is trying to escape a wildfire, while Natalie is swept […]

Posted May 12, 2023 in Reviews / 4 Comments

Sunday Post & Book Pre-order Campaigns Galore: 5/7/23

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): This week was spent being very sick. I left work early on Monday because I got a sore throat and ended up being […]

Posted May 7, 2023 in Sunday Post / 12 Comments

May 2023 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway!

Welcome to the May monthly link-up for the 2023 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! If you don’t know what this challenge is all about or haven’t signed up yet (but want to), head on over to the challenge sign-up page to learn more! Even if you’d rather not join, we hope you’ll stop by occasionally to check out the MANY discussion […]

Posted May 1, 2023 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Current Giveaways / 0 Comments