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Read @ InfoSoup is your source for book and library related resources, including book reviews, book lists, information about library summer reading programs, web sites for readers, & more!
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The children’s book review blog from InfoSoup librarians and users.
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Book reviews by and/or for teens from InfoSoup librarians and users.
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Recommended-reads for adults from InfoSoup librarians and users.
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Recent Reviews
Review from Appleton Public Library
Title: The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Author: Louise Murphy
Will we ever truly understand what it was like to be Jewish in World War II? Probably not, but this book adds another perspective. Just like in the fairy tale you remember, two children are...
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Review from Appleton Public Library
Title: The Stupidest Angel
Author: Christopher Moore
Are you weary of all the tireless holiday cheer? Does the thought of one more caroler have you reaching for the Pepto? If you answered yes to either of these questions then The Stupidest Angel...
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Review from Appleton Public Library
Title: A Very Babymouse Christmas
Author: Jennifer L. Holm
In A Very Babymouse Christmas, the latest in the graphic novel...
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Review from Appleton Public Library
Title: A Christmas Tree for Pyn
Author: Olivier Dunrea
Oother is a big, gruff, widowed mountain man who lives with his small, gentle, pigtailed daughter, Pyn. While he loves Pyn, Oother is not the kind to soften for anyone; when Pyn calls him “Papa,”...
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Review from Appleton Public Library
Title: It's a Miracle! A Hanukkah Storybook
Author: Stephanie Spinner
This charming and cheerful holiday book, published in 2003, is recommended by the Cooperative Children's Book Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Little...
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Review from Appleton Public Library
Author: Mary Lyn Ray
Perhaps it is because I love the outdoors, planting and gardening that this was among my favorite holiday books recommended by Cooperative Children's...
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Review from Appleton Public Library
Title: White Christmas: the story of an American Song
Author: Jody Rosen
What’s the most popular Christmas song of all time? Based on record sales, it may well be Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas.” The song was written for a specific situation in a movie,...
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Review from Appleton Public Library
Author: John Lescroart
In The 13th Juror, Dismas Hardy, lawyer/investigator, undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well as her first husband, who had...
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Review from (Seymour) Muehl Public Library
Title: The Secret Ingredient
Author: Laura Schaefer
Set in Madison, WI this is an easygoing book about three friends named Annie, Zoe, and Genna. Annie works for her grandmother, Louisa, in a tea shop and she has entered a scone contest. In the...
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Review from (Seymour) Muehl Public Library
Title: Inside Out and Back Again
Author: Thanhha Lai
This book, written in terse verse, is easy to read but packed with emotions. Ten year old Ha escapes with her family from South Vietnam in 1975 and eventually ends up in Alabama. The journey is...
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Community Reviews
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