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Category: Action/Adventure

The Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein

January 19, 2021

Review by Louise Brecht

Louisa Adair didn’t know what Sergeant Lind was talking about. None of them did, not really. They’d only wanted to save lives, not hoard the machine that is the key target of a massive British Intelligence operative.
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The Iron Will of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee

January 12, 2021

Review by Claudine Yip
Last time, she saved the city. Next up: the universe? Or worse: college applications?
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Brother’s Keeper by Julie Lee

December 8, 2020

Review by Lisa Matthewson

Did you think having to practice the piano was bad? Twelve-year-old Sora has to practice hiding her father in a hole in the ground. If she makes a mistake, he will be captured by the North Korean military. … More Brother’s Keeper by Julie Lee

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The Stone of Sorrow by Brooke Carter

December 1, 2020

Review by Logaine Navascués

Runa is an apprentice runecaster, but she wishes she were somebody else. Someone who’s not short, skinny and pale, with wild, wiry, white hair and strange eyes. … More The Stone of Sorrow by Brooke Carter

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The Bone Thief by Breeana Shields

October 27, 2020

Review by Louise Brecht

As overcome by sorrow as Saskia is in the opening pages of The Bone Thief, she is fiercely determined to avenge the loss of her loved ones and to stop the man responsible for their disappearance dead in his tracks…if she can find him. … More The Bone Thief by Breeana Shields

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The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif

October 20, 2020

Review by Emily-Anne Mikos

The world has wondered how the story of James Bond would change if the titular character were a woman, and the answer is in The Athena Protocol. Jessie Archer takes the stereotypical male-focused spy story and gives it a unique voice that only a woman can deliver—and it’s awesome. … More The Athena Protocol by Shamim Sarif

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Bloom by Kenneth Oppel

September 1, 2020

Review by Shalon Sims

Bloom, the first book in Kenneth Oppel’s new Overthrow series, is a breakneck thriller and a real page-turner set on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. … More Bloom by Kenneth Oppel

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My Long List of Impossible Things by Michelle Barker

March 3, 2020

Review by Louise Brecht

Seconds after this excerpt, Mutti is shot for the slip of her daughter’s tongue and Katja’s dress is splattered with her mother’s blood. The Soviet army that surges into Germany in the dying months of World War II displays little regard for its enemy’s people. … More My Long List of Impossible Things by Michelle Barker

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Ember and the Ice Dragons by Heather Fawcett

November 5, 2019

Review by Kelsey Elizabeth Moorhouse

Ember St. George is a fire dragon, and the last of her kind—but nobody, apart from her adoptive father, the great Magician and Stormancer Lionel, and her aunt, the notorious thief and Scientist Myra, can ever know. … More Ember and the Ice Dragons by Heather Fawcett

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The Starlight Claim by Tim Wynne-Jones

October 22, 2019

Review by Juhyun Tony Bae

Five months ago, Nate’s best friend Dodge drowned in a tragic accident along with his family up near their cabin, but his body was never recovered. … More The Starlight Claim by Tim Wynne-Jones

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