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Tag Archives: young adult fiction
Wild Magic by Cat Weatherill
For some odd reason my kids love to visit Barnes & Noble. They love to hang out on the stage in the children’s section or play with the train set. My son in particular likes two story stores but that … Continue reading
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Tagged Cat Weatherill, Folklore, Magic, Pied Piper of Hamelin, young adult fiction
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Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast by Jane Yolen & Robert Harris
A while back I stumbled on Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast by Jane Yolen & Robert Harris at Half Priced Books and picked it for a couple of bucks. After having read the Merlin Triology by Yolen I decided it … Continue reading
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Tagged Atalanta, Fiction, Greek mythology, Jane Yolen, Myths and Folktales, Robert Harris, young adult fiction
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The Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen
I recently took my kids to the public library and, as usual, came home with a couple of YA titles – three to be exact. They make up the The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlin by Jane Yolen. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Jane Yolen, King Arthur, legend, Merlin, myths, young adult fiction
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The Children of Odin – The Book of Northern Myths
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have developed a keen interest in myths and fairy tales. Natural I suppose with my history background as myths are the past handed down in storytelling form; not in the modern … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien, Literature, Neil Gaiman, Norse mythology, Padraic Colum, young adult fiction
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The Time Quake (Gideon Trilogy) by Linda Buckley-Archer
It ain’t always easy being an “objective” book reviewer. I so often find that expectations and mood can have a big impact on my particular take on a book. So afterwords I try to think about why I reacted a … Continue reading




