Tag: Keeper

Mazie

Cover of Mazie by Melanie Crowder, which shows a girl in front of the front of a theater, with her name in lights (and the author's on the board where they'd usually name the featured show.)

Mazie, the newest book by Melanie Crowder, is a great story about one young woman’s journey toward Broadway. As a small town girl from Nebraska, Mazie doesn’t know any professional […]

The Kingdom of Back

Cover of Marie Lu's The Kingdom of Back -- a light blue stylized tree on a blue background.

Marie Lu’s The Kingdom of Back surprises with its mix of fantasy and historical fiction. I expected a fantasy, but at first, got nothing but a tale of Mozart’s forgotten […]

New Kid

New Kid--by Jerry Craft The book sits on a chair On the cover, a kid in a gray hoodie and black slacks scribbles in a notebook

New Kid, by Jerry Craft was 2020’s Newbery award winner. Like other Newberys, it is incredibly well-written, and rich in detail. It has well-rounded characters and a tale that tugs […]

Cress

A paperback copy of Cress sits on a Christmas quilt next to a red document tubedecorated for Chinese New Year. There's lots of red.

Marissa Meyer has written another fabulous book with Cress. Book Three of The Lunar Chronicles lives up to the high standard set by Cinder and Scarlet. (My daughter would say […]