Angelina's Halloween By Katherine Holabid

Angelina's Halloween (Angelina Ballerina)
byKatharine Holabird, Helen Craig

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

A wonderful treat of a read that teaches and explains all the fun parts of Halloween and the most important trick of all...sticking together! After visiting a haunted house big sister finds herself having lost her little sister after having a fun time at a party. When she discovers where her missing sister was, she realizes the importance of sticking together and how much family means to her. This was so cute and pefect to read for a nice little Halloween treat!

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site By Sherri Duskey Rinker

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Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
bySherri Duskey Rinker (Goodreads Author), Tom Lichtenheld (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

This was a really cute ryhming book that is good to help explain why going to bed at night by a certain time is important to young kids. It also explained what different construction machines were used for and the jobs they performed and what they were called. I think this was a wonderful book for reading to any young child, weather it is a boy or a girl!

Ella Bella Ballerina and Swan Lake By James Mayhew

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Ella Bella Ballerina and Swan Lake
byJames Mayhew (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

My 4 year old daughter loves every form of dance invented and of course the storie that are about princesses. This story about a young girl who loves the dance and beauty of ballet is drawn into the classic tale of Swan Lake. While she dances alone on the stage her mind drifts off to the story of the princess who is under the spell of an evil sorceor who turns the princess into a swan, and can only be a princess by night. The only way the spell can be broken is if the prince professes his undying love to her! Almost tricked by the evil spell caster the prince almost lost his one true love and then the story is over, the princess falls in love and lives happily ever after with her prince and is once again turned into her true self. Told by ballet, the little girls find herself not only in love with the story but with the dance itself.

Bailey By Harry Bliss

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Bailey
byHarry Bliss

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

Bailey, spotted white dog who loves going to school explains the process to little school aged kids on how to go to bed early, and upon waking how to get dressed, groom themselves, brush their teeth, etc. I had fun reading this to my kids because both of them are in school and are very young, so this helped them understand the meaning behind why we have schedules and time limits for the things that we do when involved with school.

Bailey By Harry Bliss

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Bailey
byHarry Bliss

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

Bailey, spotted white dog who loves going to school explains the process to little school aged kids on how to go to bed early, and upon waking how to get dressed, groom themselves, brush their teeth, etc. I had fun reading this to my kids because both of them are in school and are very young, so this helped them understand the meaning behind why we have schedules and time limits for the things that we do when involved with school.

Siren's Storm-Lisa Papademetriou

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Siren's Storm
byLisa Papademetriou (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read from October 18 to 23, 2011

A young man struggling with the loss of his brother. Seeing people and things that are not there, messing with his mind. All taking place on an island that is known for it's ability to attract tourists to come spend the summer and their money. Dealing with this pain has driven him to the brink of madness, a twister churning inside his soul, and a storm that blows his thoughts all over the place and cannot be calmed.

I had trouble in the beginning of this book, reading it was a little hard and then as I turned the pages and got more towards the middle of the book, it became better. A little slow in the first 10 chapters but as I got further in the book, the true excitment of the story unraveled itself.

Persistence of Memory-Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Persistence of Memory
byAmelia Atwater-Rhodes

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 18, 11 · edit

bookshelves: paranormal-romance, young-adult

Read from October 10 to 18, 2011

Trapped in her own mind, consisting of it's own world that is different to the normal world around her, a young lady is forced to battle the demons running rampant inside her own head. Trying to exist in a public school setting and aviod her past violent behavior, suffering from a strange form of multiple personality disorder, she tries to battle her own mind that takes her to another person, another being..a vampire! The battle between both personality comes to an end like no other.

However, a little slow and a little hard to read and understand at times, this was still a good book.

Kissing Kate-By Lauren Myracle

Kissing Kate
byLauren Myracle

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 10, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read from October 06 to 10, 2011

High school is probably the main point in a young woman's life when she is just beginning to understand who she really is and who she really wants to become in the future. Growing up with your best friend, all the time spent together, laughing, playing, sharing secrets and discovering themselves together.

One night, while enjoying themselves at a high school party, these two girls whom have done nearly everything together decide to escape to more private settings. During their moments and confessions to each other about how "curious" they are about exploring other possible love alternatives, Lissa's best friend Kate, makes the first move and begins by slowly kissing, touching, and providing sensuality to each other. Lissa, on the receiving end, felt emotions and feelings that she had never experienced. Then as quickly as it had started...it ended.

Walking thru the halls, keeping their distances from each other began to get to both friends and with this they both decided that trying to make up the friendship was never going to work because everytime Lissa approached Kate about "that night", Kate would throw up denial and brick walls thick in form. Slowly, Lissa found herself and realized that her sexuality did not make her a "freak" but made her, her.

This was a very good read and I would recommend it to any yound lady that questions her sexuality or is even friends with someone or close to someone or even has a family member that is confused about their individuality, maybe within these pages they may find the answers.

Thirteen Reasons Why-Jay Asher

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Thirteen Reasons Why
byJay Asher

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 06, 11 · edit

bookshelves: fiction, young-adult, bio-auto-self-biography

Read from September 27 to October 06, 2011

A girl, feeling alone, depressed and let down by those closest to her, prepares everyone that she was close to and had confided in, with cassette tapes explaing in her own words, 13 reasons why she committed suicide. She begins by providing tapes to someone left in charge to see to it that her message is carried on thru the delivery of a box containing nothing but her final words, recorded in her own voice, about why she decided that she was not meant to live in the world anymore and about the people that drove her to making that decision. Her high-school crush, who was too shy in the end to tell her how he felt about her, thinking that he maybe could have changed her mind about her taking her own life, finds out everything about her by receiving those tapes and listening to them in a day. He discovers the rumors that where visciously spread about her where un-true, that those that were "supposed" to be her true friends and the lies they spreaded, how girls were raped, pushed around and forced upon in physcial, and sexual manners by young men, still just boys, and unable to defend themselves against them, going un-punished for their actions. Girls, pretending to be straight A students and the mindset expected of them in that type of position, faslified, pretending to be someone they are not. How, a teacher could have prevented this girl's suicude from happening if he had only asked the right, simple questions by showing that he cared about her as a person. Her legacy and those of the students at her school that show everyone who their "fake" person is but reveals their "true" selves by hitting and killing someone that goes to their school after leaving a party, having been too drunk to drive, but decided no one could tell. How boys took advantage of young girls that were too drunk to put up a fight, behind closed doors, taking something from them that was'nt theirs to take, but did so without their permission while laying unconscious and their male counterparts allowing these atrocious acts to take place with their knowledge.

This was wonderful, dark, scarey, and so close to the truths of those in school growing from young kids into young adults.