Hi everyone, this week’s review post is quite special to me. It’s a book that I found quite recently and one I didn’t expect to have an impact on me until I finished it. LGBTQI themes are more prevalent now in MG fiction and this one is a shining example of an exemplary title that touches on a myriad of such issues. Shall we delve further and find out more…
Continue reading “Ana on the edge by A. J. Sass”Category: Diverse story
Celebrating Rainbow Reads this February
Hi everyone, it’s Pride month here in New Zealand and we’re celebrating the LGBTQI community in Auckland Libraries!! To reflect the work we do and the commitment my team and I put in every year I thought I’d do my bit and showcase Rainbow Reads on my blog this month!!
Continue reading “Celebrating Rainbow Reads this February”Allie, first at last by Allie Cervantes
Hi everyone, this first post for December is a tween review. It’s funny how some titles pop out and when you look closely it’s actually one that resonates with you. Maybe I was meant to choose this particular title. Shall we find out what makes it so….
Continue reading “Allie, first at last by Allie Cervantes”A hilarious teen series to enjoy
Hi friends, this post is one I have been itching to write about ever since I finished the last book in this hilarious and hugely enjoyable teen series!! Well, to find out more you’re going to have to go on blind faith and press the button below…
Continue reading “A hilarious teen series to enjoy”Five tween titles that bring happy smiles and laughs
Hi everyone, welcome to the month of October. We have not long to go until Christmas, and summer is not too far away for us here in New Zealand. That should have brought a smile to most of you who call Auckland home!! So, in ensuring you keep smiling, even those who are facing autumn or fall, here are five tween titles that kept me smiling and laughing, sometimes even out in public!!
Continue reading “Five tween titles that bring happy smiles and laughs”Classic reads and their modern adaptations
Hi everyone, this week I’m sharing a bookish advice post on the various adaptations we find these days based on classic reads. We get many different forms of media that provide our youngsters these days with not just graphic novels of classic reads but with adapted versions into musicals, movies, and all sorts of other streaming platforms such as Netflix and Disney plus. If you’re curious and want to find out more why don’t you press the button below…
Continue reading “Classic reads and their modern adaptations”My Top Five Time-Slip Tales for Tweens
Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the build up of suspense I’m planning for you this month of August. Well, as the title reads, this week’s post is a short booklist of my Top Five Tween Time-Slip reads to date!! If you want to find out which titles made the final list, go one, press the button below…
Continue reading “My Top Five Time-Slip Tales for Tweens”Time to groove with some musical tween reads
Hi everyone, are you in the mood for some musical tween reads? Well, today’s post will give you a booklist of specially curated tween reads just for you music lovers out there!! So, if you want to find out what they are, you know what to do next…
Continue reading “Time to groove with some musical tween reads”The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Hi friends, here is my last post for April. Winter is not too far along now here in Auckland. I hope you enjoyed last week’s personal post about my life in Zambia during my childhood. This last post is a review about a book I had heard about but didn’t read until recently. This biographical junior read is about an actual young African teenager who was inspired to do more for his family and community.
Continue reading “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba”A taste of adventure in Africa…
Hi everyone, how would you like to go on an adventure in Africa?? What about exploring ancient tombs, trekking through the jungle or getting lost in the Sahara? If you are one of the few who have done this, then please don’t read any further because that’s exactly what our young protagonists of these reads end up doing while having to save the world… oops!! I’ve said too much!! Press the button to find out more…if you dare…
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Miss Mahee's Library of Reads 