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Bibliography: Potter, Alexandra. (2010).  The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather. New York: Penguin Group. ISBN: 978-0452295889 Plot Summary:  30 something American living in London Charlotte appears to have it all–her own successful PR firm that pursues top clients and a boyfriend who wants to buy a house and move in together.  Why isn’t she [...]

Bibliography: Miller, Kirsten. (2010).  The Eternal Ones.  New York: Razorbill.  ISBN: 978-1595143082 Plot Summary:  Living in small town Tennessee, 17 year old Haven has never really fit in and can’t wait to leave.  For one, she is a talented seamstress and fashion designer.  For another, she has strange visions and feelings about a present day [...]

Bibliography: Werlin, Nancy. (September 2010).  Extraordinary.  New York: Dial. ISBN: 9780803733725 Plot Summary:  Ordinary Phoebe meets extraordinary Mallory in seventh grade, and they become better than best friends, inseparable.  Years later when Phoebe meets Mallory’s brother, Ryland, she falls for him hard only slowly coming to realize that neither Mallory or Ryland are exactly what [...]

Bibliography: George, Jessica Day. (2010). Princess of Glass.  New York: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books. ISBN: 9781599904788 Plot Summary:  After the curse that forces Poppy and her sisters to dance night after night in Princess of the Midnight Ball was broken, she decides she has had enough of dancing and balls, thank you very much.  When [...]

As mentioned briefly here, I am joining Amber at The Literary Wife in an informal reading challenge of sorts as we read and blog our way through  the top 100 children’s books as voted on by readers of Elizabeth Bird’s A Fuse #8 Production. Dahl, Roald. (1983).  The Witches. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.  [...]