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[Miss K's Reads] Remarkable by Lizzie K. Foley

Miss K is a 10-year-old reader who wants to share her thoughts and opinions on books she's read. Please let her know what you think :)

In the mountain town of Remarkable, everyone is extraordinarily talented, extraordinarily gifted, or just plain extraordinary. Everyone, that is, except Jane Doe, the most average ten-year-old who ever lived. But everything changes when the mischievous, downright criminal Grimlet twins enroll in Jane’s school and a strange pirate captain appears in town.



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What's Up Wednesday

What I'm Reading

Prep School Confidential by Kara Taylor. LOVING it so far. Anne's voice is hilarious with just the right amount of snark. If you like mysteries and snappy protags, you'll love this book. Full review once I finish. :)



What I'm Writing

Just finished revisions on GoTaS. Revising on a deadline is insanity! But also exciting. But also insanity. Also, my husband doesn't seem to get that I can't come to bed because at night is the only time I can write/edit uninterrupted and has be...

[Miss K's Reads] The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

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“The first kidnappings happened two hundred years before. Some years it was two boys taken, some years two girls, sometimes one of each. But if at first the choices seemed random, soon the pattern became clear. One was always beautiful and good, the child every parent wanted as their own. The other was homely and odd, an outcast from birth. An opposing pair,...

[Miss K's Reads] The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

Miss K is a 10-year-old reader who wants to share her thoughts and opinions on books she's read. Please let her know what you think :)

Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane.



One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things righ...

[Miss K's Reads] Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey

Miss K is a 10-year-old reader who wants to share her thoughts and opinions on books she's read. Please let her know what you think :)

It was a beautiful, warm summer day, the day Danny died.



Suddenly Wren was alone and shattered. In a heartbroken fury, armed with dark incantations and a secret power, Wren decides that what she wants--what she must do--is to bring Danny back.



But the Danny who returns is just a shell of the boy Wren fell in love with. His touch is icy; his skin, smooth and...

[Miss K's Reads] Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter

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The last thing Cammie Morgan remembers is leaving the Gallagher Academy to protect her friends and family from the Circle of Cavan-an ancient terrorist organization that has been hunting her for over a year. But when Cammie wakes up in an alpine convent and discovers that months have passed, she must face the fact that her memory is now a black hole. The only...

[Miss K's Reads] Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

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Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.



The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dang...

[Miss K's Reads] Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

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Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy.



Her visions of a raging...

[Miss K's Reads] Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard

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The year is 1876, and there’s something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia…



Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off to any rich young man who walks by. But this is nothing compared to what she’s just read in the newspaper—



The Dead are risin...

[Miss K's Reads] Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

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The fates of Cinder and Scarlet collide as a Lunar threat spreads across the Earth...



Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.



Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's gran...