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Showing posts with label strong female character. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strong female character. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Rebel Girls Powerful Pairs by Rebel Girls

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is one of a series pf books aimed at younger reade...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The Fastest Woman on Earth by Francesca Cavallo, Luis san Vicente

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a remarkable story of a truly strong female cha...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Alpha Bots by Ava Lock

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is one of the most original, entertaining, and amu...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Girl Warriors by Rachel Sarah

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is a book consisting of short bios of 26 young fem...

That Thing about Bollywood by Supriya Kelkar

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This middle-grade work of fiction is about Sonali, a yo...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Gender Rebels by Anneka Harry

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Rating: WORTHY! Promoted as "50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers", this audio boo...
Thursday, October 1, 2020

Malice by Heather Walter

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Erratum: "Noses grew bumps when hair was supposed ...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

When Women Ruled the World by Kara Cooney

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Rating: WORTHY! Dr Cooney is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA and she wrote this non-fiction book about six female ...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Gringo Love by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, William Flynn, Débora Santos

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Subtitled "Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil" thi...
Monday, May 11, 2020

The Girl of Hawthorn and Glass by Adan Jerreat-Poole

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Adan Jerreat-Poole is, I believe, Canadian which may accou...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

The Candy Mafia by Lavie Tidhar, Daniel Duncan

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a middle-grade book that amused the heck out of m...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Don't Mess With This Witch by Liz Lorow

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Rating: WARTY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. Errata: “...not a plant like a Fichus or Gardenia.” A fic...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Ella Has A Plan by Davina Hamilton, Elena Reinoso

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This is the second book I've enjoyed by this team of w...

Single That by Acamea Deadwiler

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. I agreed very nearly 100% with everything this author said...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Fly Girls by Keith O'Brien

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Rating: WORTHY! Fly Girls details the lives of a handful of early female pilots back when air travel was new, largely experimental, an...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

The Storybook of Legends by Shannon Hale

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Rating: WORTHY! Errata: On one page I read, "She treaded water" - the past tense of 'to tread' is 'trod' (an...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

The Secret Notebook by DA D’Aurelio

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Rating: WORTHY! This book had some minor issues, but the power of the message overwhelmed those in my opinion. Also it’s aimed at midd...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

A Girl Like Me by Angela Johnson, Nina Crews

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Rating: WORTHY! From an advance review copy for which I thank the publisher. This was a rip-roaring lion of a book in which young women...
Sunday, December 29, 2019

The Story of My Life by Farah Ahmedi, Tamim Ansary

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Rating: WORTHY! For my last review of 2019 I have found a real cracker! Books like this are essential reading because such a book almo...
Monday, December 23, 2019

The Princess in Black by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, LeYuen Pham

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Rating: WORTHY! Written by the Hales and illustrated exquisitely by Pham, this short, large print chapter book tells the story of a cut...