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Terrorific Spring Break Reads: Day Four

The Ruins Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine. Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation–sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle […]

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Terrorific Spring Break Reads: Day Two

Vampire Beach Jason Freeman is stoked when his family relocates to exclusive DeVere Heights, Malibu. The kids at his posh new high school are surprisingly friendly, and pretty soon Jason’s part of the in-crowd. He even gets to meet the hot-but-unattainable girl. Then, the morning after one off-the-hook party, a girl washes up on the […]

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My Father’s Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett illustrated by Ruth Chrisman Gannett   I am revisiting one of my favorite childhood reads. My Father’s Dragon is the first book in a series of three: My Father’s Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, The Dragons of Blueland.  If you have not read My Father’s Dragon, know it is a children’s read. There […]

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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

“During my chocolate parfait I whispered, ‘I’m wearing a bra. Can you tell?’ ‘Of course I can tell,’ Grandma said. ‘You can?’ I was really surprised. I stopped eating. ‘Well, how do you think it makes me look?’ ‘Much older,’ Grandma said, between sips of her coffee. I didn’t know whether to believe her or not so I believed her.”

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