4 stars   Awesome, entertaining, rhyming book that goes through the alphabet and gives a description of a vehicle for each letter. I really liked that the book included well-known vehicles (car, fire truck, airplane) as well as lesser known ones (iceboat, dog sled, zeppelin). Very creative. I also like that the rhymes are set…

3 stars A good read for fans of superheroes. This book features members of the Justice League including Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Aquaman. They team up against Black Manta to save the day. Overall, a good action-packed read. The only problem I had with this book was the number of idioms and various…

1 star This book is just bad. For one thing, it has nothing to do with Halloween, despite the slightly punny title. In the book, Branch just lists some scary things (mostly things that tried to eat Poppy or succeeded in eating each other). There is no real story. Branch literally just tells you a…

3 stars A nice story about working together as a team and putting differences aside. I really liked how the majority of the characters in this book are female. It was also cool to see characters from other schools (Mongal, Blackfire, Bleez, Speed Queen, Artemiz). Great illustrations, fast paced storyline. This is a Step 3…

3 stars   A very funny book about a superhero named Wedgieman and a giant bunny. This is a very silly and humorous book in the same vein as Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants/Super Diaper Baby/Dogman. Wedgies and poop jokes galore. It has the same dumb humor as many of Pilkey’s series. Take the villain, whose…

2 stars This was an okay adaptation of My Little Pony: The Movie. I liked the graphic novel format, but adapting a full-length movie into a graphic novel is a difficult task, one that is not undertaken easily. For me, this adaptation just didn’t work. The dialogue was very choppy and the scenes jumped a…

4 stars Awesome continuation of the Cleopatra in Space series. This is the third book in the series and I highly recommend reading the first two before reading this one. A lot happens with this one in terms of the prophesy, time tablets, and overall story arch. There are many references to what happened in…

3 stars A very simplified version of My Little Pony: The Movie, good for young readers. It is a Reading Level 2 with many sight words though some of the sentences are a bit lengthy. The pictures appear to be taken from the actual movie, but do not have the grainy or blurry quality many…

3 stars A cute book that serves as a prequel to The Angry Birds Movie. In this book, Red goes to Prudence (multiple times) to try to find a job. Not sure how relatable it would be to kids, but it’s still entertaining. It is a nice story, a bit lengthy, but overall interesting. I…

3 stars A cute holiday book for fans of the minions. Phil feels bad that he stranded his friends on an island and they are missing Christmas. So he decides to make it up to them by bringing Christmas to them. A cute story. I’m usually not a huge fan of Christmas books (because I’m…