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Book Review: Lizard Boy 2

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The Most Perfect Summer Ever by Jonathan Hill

The Most Perfect Summer Ever (Lizard Boy #2)
by Jonathan Hill 

5 out of 5 stars

Tommy has a secret. His family are actually lizard people trying to blend in with the human world. Tommy has to wear a human skin over his green lizard face.
It’s difficult trying to fit in, but Tommy has other non-human friends who have the same struggles. One of his human friends, Dung, is a Vietnamese boy who is dealing with culture shock and trying to learn English. They bond over their differences, discovering that you don’t have to be the same species to find something in common.

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Book Review: Letters to Galatians and Ephesians

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The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians by William Barclay

The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians (New Daily Study Bible)
by William Barclay

5 out of 5 stars

This was so inspiring and wonderful to dive deep into Scripture and analyze each passage. I really liked that this book includes a lot of history and facts about Roman and Jewish culture during Paul’s time. It puts his letters into perspective.

I read a little bit each day, and really enjoyed using this as a devotional book each morning!

Book Review: House of Elephants

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House of Elephants by Claribel A. Ortega

House of Elephants (Witchlings #3)
by Claribel A. Ortega 

2.5 out of 5 stars
Seven and Thorn are trying to find a magical cure for one of their friends who has been hexed. They begin to realize that the answers lie in the past history of all the Spares in the Twelve Towns. If they can uncover the secrets of the past, they will be able to restore the magical balance and save their friend from the hex.

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Book Review: The Dark Prophecy

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The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, #2)
by Rick Riordan

3 out of 5 stars

Zeus punishes Apollo by turning him into a mortal human. Apollo must complete various trials and serve a demigod named Meg, so that he can regain his godly status. But Meg has a complicated relationship with her stepfather, the evil emperor Nero. In this second book, they are travelling with Leo Valdez and Calypso to find the oracle of dark prophecy. Anyone who enters the dark caves will go insane when they are given a prophecy, unless they can sit in the throne of memory and expel the prophecy to regain their sanity. But the throne of memory is missing, and the caves of the oracle are heavily guarded.

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Book Review: The Accidental Stowaway

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The Accidental Stowaway by Judith Eagle

The Accidental Stowaway
by Judith Eagle (Goodreads Author),Kim Geyer (Illustrations)

3.5 out of 5 stars
Patch is a little girl who is roller-skating around town with Arturo, when he steals candy from a shop. While they are running from the cops, Patch follows Arturo onto a steamship right before it sets sail, and she accidentally becomes a stowaway. She makes friends who help to hide her aboard the steamship so that she won’t be caught by the steward and forced to work for her passage across the Atlantic. Patch quickly realizes that some of the other passengers are not exactly who they seem to be either. She and her friends must unravel the mystery of RMS Glorious before they reach New York in five days, or some dangerous criminals could get away.

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Book Review: Ruby Holler

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Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

Ruby Holler
by Sharon Creech

4 out of 5 stars

Dallas and Florida are called the “trouble twins” at the orphanage. When an elderly couple takes them in for the summer, they find a loving home where they are allowed to run and yell and play, unlike the abusive foster homes they have had in the past. The twins were planning to run away on the next freight train, but they gradually settle into the rhythm of life at the old cabin in Ruby Holler and discover that they are truly home.

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Book Review: From Achilles to Christ

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From Achilles to Christ by Louis A. Markos

From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics
by Louis A. Markos

5 out of 5 stars

Christians can look back on the pagan classics from Homer and Virgil and see the universal human longing for a Savior. As Achilles and Odysseus struggle through their heroic adventures, the Christian can draw parallels to Christ’s own heroic deeds, finding the completion of every myth in the person of Christ. In the Bible, God often uses pagan kings to reveal His truth and further His kingdom. The truth of Christ can be found reflected in all of creation and especially in the greatest creative literature of the ancient world.
The author says that “…the great, overarching symbols of literature can function as they do only because history and the universe are inherently meaningful and moving toward a purposeful end.”pg. 133
The pre-Christian myths of the Greeks and Romans include the same symbols and themes that are present in the Bible, and which find their final fruition in Christ.

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Book Review: Reunited

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Reunited by Colleen Houck

Reunited (Reawakened, #3)
by Colleen Houck

3.5 out of 5 stars
Lily has lost all memory of her Egyptian prince, Amon, and all the adventures she had in the netherworld with his brothers, Asten and Ahmose. But she still has supernatural abilities as a sphinx, and voices in her head that she doesn’t recognize. Seth, the god of chaos, has begun his final battle against the Egyptian gods and the battle is not going well. A goddess has hidden all three Egyptian princes away so that Seth can’t find them, and now only Lily has a heart connection that could trace them and bring them back. Lily sets off through the cosmos to find her beloved prince and her lost memories.

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Book Review: The Lost Library

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The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead

The Lost Library
by  Rebecca Stead, Wendy Mass (Goodreads Author)

4.5 out of 5 stars

Evan is intrigued when someone starts a Free Little Library and the books all appear to be old books from the library that burned down years ago. Evan begins to investigate who could have started the library fire and why these particular books were the only ones that survived the fire. He soon learns that many people in the town are unwilling to talk about the old library fire, and he wonders what they could be hiding.

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Book Review: Recreated (Reawakened #2)

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Recreated by Colleen Houck

Recreated (Reawakened, #2)
by Colleen Houck (Goodreads Author)

4 out of 5 stars

In this second book of the series, Lily must venture into the underworld to save her beloved Amon. She begs the ancient gods to help her, knowing they will use her strength for their own purposes to keep the god of chaos at bay. But Lily is willing to sacrifice anything to help Amon, even her own sanity.

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