Charlotte's Library: This week's round up of middle grade fantasy and s...

Charlotte's Library: This week's round up of middle grade fantasy and s...: Here's what I found this week; let me know if I missed your post! The Reviews A Boy Called Christmas, by Matt Haig, at The Reading N...

Charlotte's Library: The Mountain of Kept Memory, by Rachel Neumeier

Charlotte's Library: The Mountain of Kept Memory, by Rachel Neumeier: It has been a hard week here (including bonus water pipe breaking, and no water for too many days....).  But happily, very happily, I had ...

I MOVED MY AUTHOR'S BLOG TO WORDPRESS

Yes, I moved my author's blog to wordpress and I couldn't be happier...it's a blog solely dedicated to my work as an author.  You will find a perfectly displayed cover and synopsis of all books written by me...so please take a look, and follow along to keep up on my books and giveaways...thx for your support...June

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Charlotte's Library: Tell the Story To Its End, by Simon P. Clark

Can't wait to read this one...check it out!

Charlotte's Library: Tell the Story To Its End, by Simon P. Clark: I had not heard of Tell the Story To Its End, by Simon P. Clark (published in the UK in 2014 as Eren , published by St. Martin's Gri...

Charlotte's Library: The First Last Day, by Dorian Cirrone, for Timesli...

This sounds like a really interesting, fun and sweet story to read...check it out for your young one!





Charlotte's Library: The First Last Day, by Dorian Cirrone, for Timesli...: The First Last Day , by Dorian Cirrone, is one of those time slip books where the clock resets every day.  In this case,  11-year-old Hale...

Charlotte's Library: The First Last Day, by Dorian Cirrone, for Timesli...

This sounds like a really interesting, fun and sweet story to read...check it out for your young one!





Charlotte's Library: The First Last Day, by Dorian Cirrone, for Timesli...: The First Last Day , by Dorian Cirrone, is one of those time slip books where the clock resets every day.  In this case,  11-year-old Hale...

BITTERSWEET by Tyffani Clark Kemp

From Girls Heart Books an introduction to Bittersweet, Book One in the Kaveesh Series by Tyffani Clark Kemp.  For Mature YA's, a multi genre, dystopian sci-fi.  The book is due to release on October 15th...follow links for more information.

Title- Bittersweet

Series- The Kaveesh #1

By Tyffani Clark Kemp

Publication Date- October 15th

She'd reconciled her life without him. His return would be Bittersweet.

Welcome to Mother Cora’s, where the offspring of the Kaveesh learn to coexist with humans.

One hundred and twenty years ago, the Kaveesh came to Earth to save the dying planet from a disease that gorged itself on anything in its wake. Buildings crumbled to dust. Soil and plant life were consumed. Two-thirds of the Earth’s population perished.
The only thing the Kaveesh asked in return was to help save their dying race. Breeding programs began and the half-breeds were born.
Lirabel is a half-breed and an overachiever. Despite a few setbacks, she’s scheduled to graduate early from Mother Cora’s and become the Half-breed Ambassador to the Humans.

Enter Jonas. They were best friends until he broke her heart and disappeared five years ago. Now, he’s back, but Lirabel couldn’t care less. There are more important things to worry about…

Like finishing her last year of school and becoming ambassador. Or the half-bred students losing control of their Kaveesh strengths who are being sent into quarantine. Or how the breeding programs are still up and running.

And somehow, Jonas’ bittersweet return is connected to it all.

  

About the Author-

Tyffani Clark Kemp might be the quietest person in the room, but that just means she’s probably the biggest freak too. She is a multi-genre author with a gift for the written word and a desire to help all Indies reach their full potential. In 2012, she and her best friend Kimberly Fudge started SideStreet Cookie Publishing for authors who want to remain independent, but don’t have the time or the knowledge to do it all themselves. From the age of eleven she dedicated her life to writing and making sure she was good at her craft. Now, she passes that knowledge on to others. Her friends would describe her as determined and giving. She may be quiet, but she always has a story to tell.

Stalker Links-

Goodreads- https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6557179.Tyffani_Clark_Kemp

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/authorclarkkemp/

Twitter- @tyffanickemp

Instagram- @tyffanickemp14

Website- http://www.tyffanickemp.com

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Charlotte's Library: The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart, by Lauren De...

Charlotte's Library: The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart, by Lauren De...: If you like orphans and ghosts, and creepy mysteries, The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart , by Lauren DeSteano (Bloomsbury, middle grade,...

Charlotte's Library: No roundup today; but have some Cybils recommendat...

Charlotte's Library: No roundup today; but have some Cybils recommendat...: Life was too much for me this week, and for the first time since I started doing these round-up (years and years ago) I just can'...

Charlotte's Library: Mighty Jack, by Ben Hatke--review and favorite fai...

Charlotte's Library: Mighty Jack, by Ben Hatke--review and favorite fai...: The moment Mighty Jack , Ben Hatke's newest graphic novel for kids (First Second Sept 2016), arrived in our home, it was being read. ...

THE DREAM WALKER, by Michelle Murray

The Dream Walker 

by Michelle Murray

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From Goddess Fish Promotions, 
a new tour for the first book in 
the Land of Mystica Series, for MG, 
by Michelle Murray, The Dream Walker.
Michelle will be awarding all three books 
of the Land of Mystica Series to one 
lucky randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter 
during the tour.  Make sure to follow along with the
rest of the tour (here) and leave your comments.  The more
you leave, the better your chances of winning!  Enjoy the tour!

GENRE:  Middle grade fanstasy

BLURB:

Miranda is plagued by vivid dreams of a another world. A world of castles, forests, Ice Caves, and dragons. She goes to a bookstore to see why she is having these visions, and learns she is a Dream Walker. Miranda heeds the call of need, and travels to Mystica. For years, the wizards have been trapped in stone. Now, one curious boy has released Midnight. Midnight gathers an army, and prepares for war. Miranda needs to find the white wizard Lightning and free from his stone prison. Can Miranda free Lighting and save Mystica?

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Excerpt:

The spell book was worn and torn at places. It was musty and full of mildew. Yet, Midnight could make out one spell. This spell was all he needed. The spell trapped people’s souls in stones. 

Midnight traveled to Mystica looking for the ingredients for his spell. It made him giddy and somewhat impatient to have the spell he needed. Being impatient, he decided to travel in smoke form. It made for far faster journeying. A trail of  black smoke zipped through the air of Mystica. 

His first landing was a waterfall on the west side of the Dwarf  Mountains. Materializing into his wizard form, he landed softly on the crevice of the mountain. His smoke form would not help him here, so he was forced to travel the rest of the way on foot. Precariously, he made his way across the slippery rocks to the back of the waterfall. Blue water splashed his robe, face, and hands. The sound almost deafened him, and drowned out everything else. Levitating himself to the other side, he only managed to hit his head on the cliff. As he rubbed his head, he landed with a splash in the cool water. He swam, paddling madly with his arms to fight the currents to the cave at the end of the waterfall.  Climbing out of the water, he reached the sandy terrain of the ledge. He shook the water off his robe, and gathered five stones. One stone for each of the wizards he wanted to entrap. The stones were clear, almost opaque. They fit in the palm of his hand, and were smooth and round. Polished by the water. 

Triumph filled him! Mystica would be his! A laugh, maniac in nature, escaped his lungs. Morphing into cloud form, he continued on to the next ingredient. He needed fire flowers next. Fire flowers were flowers with orange petals and a red center. They had double petals that resembled the two suns on Mystica.   They grew on the heart of an island in the middle of Lily Lake. Lily Lake breamed with seaweed, algae, and green moss. It was more of a swamp than a lake. Fish swam beneath the green slime, often biting each other. The island itself had sharp green thorny plants all around the perimeter. In the very center, was a clearing with the fire flowers. Midnight came down from his smoke form on the island, snatching his robe on the thorny plants.  Blood trickled down his arm from the thorns. He barely noticed. The blood dripped down into the water, making the fish hungry. Grabbing his cape from its entanglement, he strode purposely forward. Ripping the fire flowers from their beds, he added them to his potion bag. Fish from the water jumped from the lake and started attaching him. Swarms of fish with sharp fang like teeth came toward him. They bit into his skin leaving red marks and spilling more blood. The blood called more and more fish from the water. Surrounded by attacking fish, Midnight said a spell:

Clouds of dark

Clouds of black

Take these fish back!

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Michelle is a married working mother of two fine young men (her children). She lives in Wisconsin. When not writing, she enjoys reading especially science fiction/fantasy and classics.
Her favorite authors include Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Margaret Weiss, and Colleen Houck.
She also enjoys doing painting and crafts, and spending time with her family. She enjoys going for walks, and swimming. She has been known to jump in Lake Michigan with no life jacket!
She has been writing since high school. Michelle took a break from writing to concentrate on raising her children.She has an app on her IPad that gives her a word of the day and poem of the day.

Good Reads The Dream Walker

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Twitter Tweet @#thedreamwalkerseries

Amazon:The Dream Walker

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Barnes and Nobles: The Dream Walker

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You tube the dream walker land of mystica series

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ENLIGHTENMENT, by Liz Keel

Enlightenment

by Liz Keel

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From Goddess Fish Promotions a new tour
with YA Fantasy Author
Liz Keel, and Enlightenment.

Liz will be awarding 2 randomly drawn 

commenters each a $10 Amazon or 

Barnes and Noble GC via rafflecopter during the tour.

So make sure to leave your comments and follow

along with the rest of the tour...and thx for stopping by

Thornton Berry Shire Press.

GENRE: Fantasy/YA

BLURB: 

After losing everything, all seventeen-year-old Thea wanted was to be a normal teenager. Instead, she was attacked by a mysterious creature she thought only existed in fairy tales. Now thrown into the unknown realm of Faey, Thea is forced to determine the difference between reality and fantasy, in a world ruled by a dark elite and a society wracked by intolerance and prejudice. With the support of her new friends and a mysterious dark haired, blue-eyed guardian watching her every move, Thea will discover that when it comes to Faey, nothing is what it seems. Will her courage and desire to save this new world from darkness be enough? Or will Thea be the next victim to fall to the dark whispers of fate..

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Excerpt 

I awoke to an incessant bleeping and hushed whispers of ‘So 

young’ and ‘Such a shame’ and it was at that point I knew both 

of my parents were dead. Upon opening my eyes, a numb feeling 

began to take over as I realised I was in the local hospital with 

doctors giving me sympathetic looks and calling me sweetie 

whilst a nurse asked me who they should contact. That was an 

easy answer: no one. My parents had both been only children 

and their parents, my grandparents, had died when they were 

young. 

There was no one else.

A couple of hours later Eli turned up with his family. Who’s 

Eli? Explaining him isn’t exactly one of the easiest things to 

do, as our relationship was complicated to say the least. 

Foremost, he’s my best friend, even with his over-protective 

nature, which I think stems from his need to look out for me, 

kind of like how I imagined a brother would for a sister. This 

would make sense as I’ve always been really close to his family, 

who seem to have been in my life for forever. Yes, it was helped 

by the fact they lived in the same neighbourhood as us and that 

he went to the same high school as me; but more than that Eli 

seems to have been there at all my major life events. From losing 

my first tooth, to falling off my bike and then taking me for walks 

in the forest when I needed the company, he’s always been there, 

someone I could rely on.  And again on this eventful day, he 

turned up knowing exactly what I needed: for someone not to say 

anything, but instead just to sit with me. He completely ignored 

his mother’s sobs as he only had eyes for me, walking quickly 

over to my bed and wrapping his arms around me. He pulled me 

onto his lap and once again I seemed to fit perfectly as he 

cocooned me, wrapping his arms around my back, his warmth 

spreading through me like a drug. We were both seniors but he 

looked older, probably due to the growth spurt he had had over 

the summer. At six foot one he was a whole seven inches taller 

than me and had these tanned muscular arms that were freakishly 

strong, probably due to his part-time job as a labourer on the local 

farm. His dark blond hair spent most of the time being brushed 

back from his forehead, as it always fell into his eyes, but it 

always really suited him that way. One of the things I loved most 

about him were his eyes, which sparkled different shades of 

emerald green and I swear just looking at them let me know how 

he was feeling. On that day they had been a dull green.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

I live in Surrey, England, a short walk from the beautiful Windsor Park, with my husband Richard and our two gorgeous children Noah and Olivia. For me, writing is nothing short of an addiction and I often find myself sneaking out to my writing shed for just a few minutes, which can often turn into hours of pure, unadulterated bliss catching up with my characters and continuing their story. In-between writing, I teach in a primary school where there’s never a dull moment! I will also often be found Kindle in hand, reading a wide variety of genres but with YA fantasy and paranormal romance at the forefront of my reading list. Although I’m currently writing the second book in the Driel trilogy, other characters involving all things fantasy, paranormal and YA romance are jockeying for position, wanting me to write their story next, so watch this space! It is such a privilege to share my stories with you the reader. Thank you enough for taking the time to find out more about me. 

To find out more about Liz, visit her website: www.lizkeelauthor.com

Enlightenment will be $0.99 during the tour.

Purchase Links:

Barnes and Noble

ibooks

Kobo Books

Amazon

Amazon Paperback

Extra links:

https://twitter.com/LizKeelAuthor

https://www.facebook.com/lizkeelauthor/

https://instagram.com/lizkeelauthor

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Charlotte's Library: This Week's Round Up of Middle Grade Sci fi and Fa...

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TWO DAYS LEFT ON McTISH BOOK TOUR...

Friday, July 29, 2016

'Benjamin McTish and the Hidden Caverns of Bristonbel' by June M. Pace Reviews Blast Schedule

4:30 AM | Posted by Melissa Simmons | 

July 29th-

1. Girls Heart Books Tours- Schedule
2. Recent Reads - Review of All 3 Books
3. Crazy Beautiful Reviews - Spotlight
4. Mel and Lana Write - Spotlight

July 30th-

1. Mythical Books- Spotlight
2. The Avid Reader -Spotlight
3. Roxy’s Reviews- Spotlight
4. Girls Heart Books- Spotlight

July 31st-

1. KJ Reads a Lot - Review of Book 3
2. Manifestations of my Mind- Spotlight
3. Indy Book Fairy- Spotlight
4. Out There Reviews and Stuff- Spotlight

SIGN OF THE GREEN DRAGON, by C.Lee McKenzie

A Book Blast Tour hosted by Goddess Fish Promotions,

a new, MG fantasy 

Sign of the Green Dragon

by C. Lee McKenzie

Some of you may recall this author from an in-depth interview

we did back in May 2015, for the addition of her AMAZING 
short story, in an anthology celebrating Alice in Wonderland, 
called Beware the Little White Rabbit..check out 
that terrific interview here (C. Lee is under day five).  
In the meantime she pulled together her dream of 
writing about a dragon and here it is. 

 C. Lee will be awarding a $15 Amazon/BN GC 

to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. 

The more you follow along with the tour, the better your chances

of winning...enjoy the rest of the tour...leave us a comment to

let us know you were here...thx for participating!

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BLURB:

When a wall of their cave hideout crumbles, three boys discover a skeleton, clutching a treasure map. They set off to trace the story of an old murder, but stumble into a modern crime, and confront ancient Chinese dragons.

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Excerpt: 

Sam inched forward and aimed the flashlight inside. “Uh oh.” 

“What?” Joey gasped.

“It’s a ... well, kind of a ... skeleton.”

“Awww,” Roger screamed, ran, tripped, and sprawled on his stomach.

“It can’t hurt you, Roger,” Sam said. “Come on. 

Take a look.” One thing about being in a family of paleontologists, you got used to bones.

Roger quick-shook his head. “No. No. No.” 

Joey took three slow steps and stood next to Sam. “Sweet. A dead guy. Man, let’s get out of here.” 

“Hold this.” Sam handed Joey the flashlight. “Keep the light on him, okay?” 

The skeleton was partly covered by a tattered shirt and pants. Bony fingers clutched a wooden box with a piece of thin metal about two inches long on its top. 

Reaching inside, Sam tried to pry the box from the skeleton’s grasp, but the finger bones fell through the rib cage and clattered to the bottom of the chest. The box lodged between the ribs. 

The light jiggled in Joey’s hand. “Come on Sam, enough already.” 

Sam picked up the thin metal piece from the top of the box, and held it under the light. One end of it was bent at a right angle. A faded red tassel looped through the other end. 

“Here, take this.” Sam handed Joey the strange object, then reached inside the chest and gripped the box. He lifted it slow and easy. It could be a trap. It could be dangerous. His hands twitched and the edge of the box caught on a rod that held the chest lid open. He barely snatched the box free before the lid crashed down. 

What sounded like an angry dragon exploded around the cave. 

The walls trembled, and the floor heaved under foot.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

C. Lee McKenzie has a background in Linguistics and Inter-Cultural Communication. Her greatest passion is writing for young readers. Sign of the Green Dragon is her third Middle Grade novel. Alligators Overhead and the sequel, The Great Time Lock Disaster were her first two. She has traditionally published four young adult novels: Sliding on the Edge, The Princess of Las Pulgas, Double Negative and Sudden Secrets.

AUTHOR’S NOTE:

I'd like to highlight the fact that I always have a free ebook (a different one every few months) available on my website for visitors. http://cleemckenziebooks.com 

Website: http://cleemckenziebooks.com 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2809083.C_Lee_McKenzie    

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/signofgreendragon/     

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleemckenzie/ 

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cleemckenzie/movie-cast-for-sign-of-the-green-dragon/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Sign-Green-Dragon-Lee-McKenzie/dp/1532721250 

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sign-of-the-green-dragon-c-lee-mckenzie/1123482000 

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