Friday, February 13, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan



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Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan by R. A. Spratt

When Mr. Green decides to get married, his children are horrified.  If he carries out his diabolical plan, he'll fire their beloved nanny.  Breakfast withuot chocolate?  Never!  Their father must be stopped, and Nanny Piggins, a former circus Pig and a champion baker, is just the pig to do it!


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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Stella by Starlight

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Stella lives in the segregated south--in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it.  Some stores she can go into.  Some stores she can't.  Some folks are right pleasant Others are a lot less.  To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years.  But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something that they're never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, change not welcome by any stretch of the imagination.  

As Stella's community--her world--is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire, and learns that ashes don't necessarily signify and end . . .

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Teen Pick of the Week: Tear You Apart

Tear You Apart
by Sarah Cross

If you want to live happily ever after, first you have to stay alive.

Viv knows there's no escaping her fairy-tale curse. One day her beautiful stepmother will feed her a poison apple or convince her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Henley, to hunt her down and cut out her heart before she breaks his. In the city of Beau Rivage, some princesses are destined to be prey.
But then Viv receives an invitation to the exclusive club where the Twelve Dancing Princess twirl away their nights. There she meets Jasper, an underworld prince who seems to have everything--but what he really wants is her. He vows to save her from her dark fate if she'll join him and be his queen.

All Viv has to do is tear herself away from the huntsman boy who still holds her heart. Then she might live to see if happily ever after is a promise the prince can keep. But is life as an underworld queen worth sacrificing the true love that might kill her?

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