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Generally good. Interesting stories about Morgans, Tennessee Walkers, and ASH. Also info on trotters and thoroughbreds. Obviously this guy was a huge racing fan, as well as the underdog, because there was a lot of excited discussion on a particularly persistent thoroughbred with a very long racing career. Also, pretty much every chapter had sections on racing of horses between even just owners. Nothing on quarter horses, though. Or aztecas. As detailed in his memoir series, the author, Ralph Moody was racing horses as young as ten years old in Colorado, and worked on cattle drives throughout his early teens. Insightful and fresh-- A MUST READ FOR HORSE LOVERS!

The protagonist of the story, Apple is much more than a character I could relate to. A Filipino main character who migrated in the US at an early age, is currently having a mid-life crisis figuring herself out. Identically and culturally speaking, we are very much attuned. That never happened to me before. I rarely see myself and my culture get represented in any medium, I consumed. This is why, I’m terrific to have Blackbird Fly in my life. Blackbird Fly follows the story of Apple Yengko, an aspiring musician. Having moved to Louisiana from the Philippines when she was little, she always felt estranged by her Filipino roots. Her mother expects her to embrace her culture, but Apple always feels she’s inadequate to belong. In a meanwhile, her friends ditch her after learning she is part of the “Dog Log”, a list of the least attractive girls in the school. Honestly, I don’t have anything much to say about this book, aside from discrimination and the diaspora we regularly experience. So if you want to stop reading now, you should go ahead. In other words, YES, you should definitely get it. As I already lamented above, Apple has a difficult time celebrating her culture. According to our default’s standard, her mom has an accent that isn’t pleasing to the ears. She still cooks food that would be considered unappealing, and so on. That cause, an understandably embarrassment from Apple’s side. All of her friends necessarily don’t understand her culture. For the most part, they don’t want to. Most of the kids in her school subjected her to vicious taunts about her identity. Her identity is constantly ripped off from her, kids often interchange her ethnicity with others. This is not a surprising scenario. Children are just as brutal with their minority alienation as much as their parents and forefathers. Which reminds me, how do children hurtful remarks? Did they heard it from the medium they regularly consume or do they constantly hear it from their parents and adults around them? Blackbird Fly has a very special place in my heart. It makes me even more thankful to my parents, who sacrificed a great deal of things, so we could live a comfortable life.

This book is stunning. The quality of the printing and the weight of the pages make it feel like something special and well worth the money. The early production sketches and the comments from the Ghibli staff are greatly appreciated and provide a decent amount of insight into the creative process. Whilst the amount of film stills could be off putting to people who want to see things they haven't before, the images look so good on the glossy paper, particularly the full page ones, it's hard to imagine anyone feeling too disappointed. The inclusion of the film script to finish out the book was a nice unexpected bonus too. For this book I cannot sing its praises high enough. The animated films from Studio Ghibli are world renowned translated in to multiple languages and back from the likes of Walt Disney in their distribution and recognition. The artwork and storyline blend together to form a timeless story which you cannot help be transported away with, from the world of Howls Moving Castle to the forests of Princess Mononoke to the magic of My Neighbour Totoro, Studio Ghibli have an uncanny ability to tell stories like no other. This book written in part by Hayao Miyazaki captures much of the art work used in the film - with explanatory notes and comments. As such the book is sumptuously illustrated with full and double page illustrations. For anyone who loved the film this is a must but it also appeals to anyone who appreciate artwork and the beautiful of a well crafted story told through images. The only problem I have now is trying to put out of my mind how good the entire Ghibli Library would look on my shelf...

After reading Counting By 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan it is evident that this book truly deserved it’s spot on the 2015-2016 Rebecca Caudill Award book list. It's a definitely a five star book! This realistic fiction book will take you straight into the heart of the story of the first page, it's an attention grabber and is sure to keep you wonder what's going to happen next. The story follow a twelve year old girl named Willow Chance, she's a super genius who is obsessed with plants and medical conditions. When Willow takes a state standardized test and scores 100% on it the school suspects that she cheated and sets her up to meet with a school counselor. Dell Duke, the counselor, later finds out that that Willow really did not cheat but, instead she is incredibly smart. While with Dell Duke, Willow meets a friend, Mai, this is something she hasn't had since her old friend Margaret moved to Canada. When things couldn't seem to get any better tragedy strikes, Willows adoptive parents were killed in a car crash, she's put into to foster care center, but she has trouble connecting with anyone. Mai comes up with the idea of her family taking her into foster care. Mai’s mother agrees but it's only temporary, Willow will need to find a permanent home soon. This book is a real tragedy, Willow never met her biological parent and loses her adoptive parents at a very young age, this is something a child should never have to go through. But this book can also be very uplifting, Willow seems some hope in her future and you can't help but to be excited for her, when Mai mother decided to take her in for a while Willow finally gets the break she needs and the reader can connect to her easily. Counting By 7’s is an amazing book that could be compared to Out Of My Mind because of the strong young girl characters who deal with teasing and bullies but are both incredibly smart and have to show people what they can do. Willow, like Melody, the main character in Out Of My Mind, are both the smartest kids at their school. Willow and Melody preserve through what life gives them. Melody can't speak or move without someone else's help. For a while after Willows parents died she didn't talk much or do anything, she didn't go to school or bother to read and learn anything. These similarities are why they could be compared to each other. The type of reader who would like this book is someone who likes an underdog, tragedy, and a story about finding family. Holly Goldberg Sloan Has written various other types of books including mostly young children's books, one recently published this past year entitled Appleblossom the Possum. Overall the book Counting By 7’s is a five star book I would recommend to just about anyone who is over 5th grade.

Kid Chef Bakes is a really good cookbook with easy to follow recipes. Some feature garlic knots, sprinkle cake pops, and monkey bread bites.

Six hostages left, and no time to lose. Amy and Dan are sent on another impossible hunt for a random item demanded by the Vespers, a secret society set on taking over the world and abusing the secrets of Gideon Cahill himself. After learning the Vesper plot, all Amy and Dan can really do is to await the Vespers to unleash the doomsday device that will, sooner rather than later, move and destroy the world. Only it is already too late to save Dan.

This is the last book in an incredible series! Dan and Amy now know that they have been collecting these very specific items for a doomsday device and have some impossible decisions to make it they want to save their family and the world! It's a good thing Dan has been collecting the ingredients because they are going to need the serum! They also end up having an unexpected rescuer!

A very good continuation to the Hunger Games.