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Middle School Monday: The House in Poplar Wood by K.E. Ormsbee

Lee and his twin brother Felix live separate lives in the same house. Lee and his mother live with Memory on the west side of the house, and Felix and his father live with Death on the east side of the house. The only day the boys are allowed to leave the house together is on Halloween. It’s all part of the Agreement.

But then Gretchen, the mayor’s daughter, asks the boys to help her solve the murder of a local girl. And if they help her, she promises to help them break the Agreement, which would completely change both of their lives.

This is a strange and suspenseful story that sometimes feels like a fairy tale. Give this book to older kids and younger teens who are looking for one-of-a-kind stories that feel old and new at the same time.

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Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee, K.E. Ormsbee ebook

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Lucky Few by Kathryn Ormsbee, K.E. Ormsbee ebook Stevie, Max, and Sanger: keeping Austin weird. Stevie Hart is homeschooled, but don’t hold that against her. Sure, she and her best (okay, only) friend, Sanger, will never be prom queens, but that’s just because the Central Austin Homeschool Cooperative doesn’t believe in proms. Or dancing. Still, Stevie and Sanger know how to create their own…

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The Doorway and the Deep by K.E. Ormsbee

Release Date: October 4th, 2016

Even after escaping from the Southerly Kingdom, Lottie Fiske and her best friend Eliot have returned to the magical Albion Isle, despite the fact that she is a wanted criminal there, because she is seeking answers about her abilities, and her parents--but war is threatening Limn, and the answers she needs seem to lie in the Northerly Kingdom, along a road full of dangers.

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Lately, I seem to have fallen into the habit of reading children’s books on a Sunday. I’m not sure what that says about me and my attitude towards the working week - probably nothing good - but there we go. The Water and the Wild was one of those Sunday reads. I figured anything with a Yeats quotation for a title and a papercut on the cover would probably be up my street. It was. 

This is such a charming little book: it’s about an orphaned girl who lives an unremarkable life in a small town, until one day she falls through a door in an apple tree, into a world of faerie. Too often, stories with that kind of plot fall on the wrong side of whimsical, with self-conscious writing styles and silly tropes that, frankly, set my teeth on edge. Not so this one: it’s light and lovely without ever becoming saccharine or irritating. 

I’ve got to say, though, that I wasn’t convinced by the ending, mainly because almost all of the important plot points remain firmly unresolved, which in my opinion isn’t really cool in a children’s book. It looks like a sequel is in the works, which is fine (and obviously, I’ll read it), but I’d still prefer a few more things to have been tied up. In any case, apart from that minor niggle, this was quite a delight.

How to read it: Sitting by an apple tree (watch out for hidden doors).

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FALL 2016.

-sits impatiently and waits for the next book to come out-

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