 Dragon Slippers
By Jessica Day George Bloomsbury USA Childrens.2008, 352pgs. Juvenile Fantasy When Creel’s parents die she and her brother are sent to live with their aunt and uncle but there is not enough to go around to take care of everyone and so her aunt comes up with this scheme to have Creel get kidnapped by a dragon and force someone rich to save her and marry her and take care of her whole family. The adventure begins when she is actually kidnapped by a dragon and she has to bargain for her life. I love Jessica Day George and this is a really fun beginning to a delightful trilogy. I love the characters and their growth over the course of the books. If you love books with dragons, spies, and adventures you will love this series. MEH
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 First, we miss all you all so much! We miss having you in the library, we miss having you here for story times and our programs and activities, and we cannot wait to have you back. Now I don't know about y'all, but this is one of my favorite times of year because there is always something going on at the library, especially with our Portneuf Library Summer Reading Adventure.
This year is going to look rather different so that we can comply with what the Health Department has determined will help us keep you and our employees safe. We will not have our Friday parties, our in house activities, or the Lava Passes. BUT! our summer program will be longer since it will end the 21st of August instead of the end of July. We will still have programs for all ages, and there will be some amazing prizes. This year we are also moving to a partially digital format so you will have the option to use either www.portneuflibrary.readsquared.com or to use a paper which has been the traditional means of tracking your reading. If you choose to go digital and not keep track of papers, you can register as an individual or as a family this way AND you can log your hours through the program. When you reach 500 points you can come in to the library for a treat. When you complete the program with 1000 points you can come in to the library to claim your completion prize. If you choose to continue to use our paper reading logs, that's fine too! Finishing one side will get you a treat and finishing both sides will get you a treat AND a prize. Now for our programs: we will have two days a week when you can come and pick up some activities to take home with you. All of these activities are first come first serve and there will only be kits for the first 200 participants. On Tuesdays between 12-2 you can come in and grab a Grab-n-Go STEM activity and on Thursdays between 12 and 2 you can come pick up a Grab-n-Go ART activity. We are so excited to see all of you again! We miss you and are so excited to find new ways to support our community during this odd time. MEH  A Court of Thorns and Roses
by Sarah J. Maas Bloomsbury. 2015, 448 Pages. Young Adult Fantasy Feyre must hunt for survival, but after killing a wolf that was pursuing the deer she spotted, her life is turned upside down. The wolf was a faerie creature from another land. Feyre is captured and forced to live in a magical kingdom for murdering the faerie. Feyre fears her capture at first, but then as she learns about the mysterious kingdom and the residents, her fear becomes passion and she must fight to break an ancient curse or lose the ones she loves forever. This is my all time favorite book so far. It is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but as you read farther into the series there are a lot of twists that you would not expect. I loved how the story kept me guessing....I thought I knew the fairytale of Beauty and the Beast, but after reading this series it took me on a whole other journey past the story we all know. - available on Overdrive LKS  A Ranger Called Solitary
by Barry Cord Center Point. Large Print Edition. 2018,191 Pages. Adult Western Marshal Tom Benton summoned a Ranger called Solitary Jackson to come to Muleshoe Country because the Baron and his gang had been bringing nothing but fear and death to the town. When Jim Jackson showed up, he was surprised to find that he was not welcome in the town and was under attack himself by not the Baron, but the Marshal himself along with the townsfolk. Jackson now had another mission on his hands: not only did he need to help this town more than ever from the Baron but he also needed to solve the mystery of why he was under attack by good people. I don't normally read Westerns, but this was a very good book. It kept me on my toes and I never figured out who the real villain of the story was until the end of the book. Not only was this a western, but it is also a mystery. This book had a great story line and it was fun to play detective while reading it. LKS  The Bromance Book Club
By Lyssa Kay Adams Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Berkley, 2019. 344 Pgs, Romance The Bromance Book Club is a contemporary romance about a major league baseball player named Gavin Scott who’s wife has just asked for a divorce. He is wallowing in defeat, and self-pity, staying in a hotel, when a team member invites him to a book club to try and win back his wife. First rule of book club is you don’t talk about book club. It’s a book club full of guys reading exclusively romance books to try and better understand their relationships and it might be just what Gavin needs. Bromance Book Club is a fun and funny read that is mostly in Gavin’s point of view, which is a switch from the usual with romance books. It also shows a couple trying their best and putting in the work to fix their marriage. It has swearing and the usual scenes that can be found in a romance book so it’s not for everyone but it is definitely worth the read if romance is your genre. Overdrive CB  Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake
by Barbara Park Random House Books. 1995. 80 pgs. Juvenile Fiction. Junie B.’s school is having a carnival! Good thing Junie B. is the bestest game winner . . . or not. Nothing is going right as Junie B. tests her skills against friends and rivals, but things start looking up when Junie B. wins the cakewalk. So many delicious looking delights litter the table in front of her! But ooh!—what is that shiny tin foil wrapped mystery at the end? It must be the most deliciousest cake of all . . . My personal favorite of the Junie B. Jones series, Junie B. is in true form in this fifth installment. Parents and kids alike will enjoy this look at the possibilities and disappointments of the school carnival through the eyes of everyone’s favorite kindergartener. Junie B. struggles to find the positive as everything seems to be going all wrong, but at the end of the day discovers that with a little thinking outside of the box, sometimes our biggest disappointments can become our most “usefulest” assets. -this book is on Overdrive- MH  Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley Create Space Independent Publishing. 2017 original 1818, 144pgs, Classic Horror and Science Fiction Victor Frankenstein a student of science is obsessed with what creates life and wanting to give life to something without life. Victor steals human body parts and assembles them to create a human being, but when he’s able to bring it to life, he is horrified by what he has created. Set free to be alone Frankenstein’s creature turns evil and starts his revenge on his creator. I like this book because given the time that it was written it was something that was not really thought of, bringing something like that to life and from multiple different bodies. I wanted to read this book when I was younger in elementary school but I was allowed to read until I was in High School. It shows that if we could reanimate something after that long amount of time, that there can be consequences of doing so. It’s also an entrancing story that has kept readers captivated for hundreds of years. Available on Overdrive MT  Good Omens
By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman William Morrow 2006, 512 pgs, Humorous Fantasy Aziraphale a fussy good angel and Crowley a demon find themselves at the end of the world with the coming apocalypse. They have been on the earth since the beginning and have grown fond of the type of lifestyles they have. When the demons are in charge of delivering the antichrist to a certain family, someone misplaces the baby. Aziraphale and Crowley do everything that they can to save the earth and its inhabitants because they want to keep their lifestyles. I have been wanting to read this book for some time now, because I read the back of the cover when it was returned to the library and it looks entertaining. Then the tv series came out and I loaned that from the library and it’s really good and funny and it just made me want to read this book even more. There are mixed reviews on this book which I think it’s some of the british humor causing that, but if you are fine with that you should be fine with this book. Available on Overdrive MT  Long Way Down
by Jason Reynolds New York: Atheneum, 2017. 306 pgs, Young Adult. A Long Way Down is an intense snapshot of grief stricken fifteen year old, Will, as he deals with his brother’s shooting. He was taught by his brother who was taught by his father and so on that there are rules to follow in this situation. The Rules are don’t cry, don’t snitch, always get revenge. A Long Day Down is written in free verse and that really help to emphasize the tone of the story. It’s a quick read that gives you an intense look at teenage gun violence and how cycles of violence can tear people apart. As a plus the audio version on Overdrive is read by the author! This title is available on Overdrive CB  Overlord 1: The Undead King
by Kugane Maruyama Yen Press. 2012. 256 pgs. Dark Fantasy. After over a decade since its release, a virtual online game is shutting down their servers. One player, Suzuki Satoru, who has been playing the game for as long as it's been out, is logged in waiting for the game to shut down. As he sits alone at a round table, he reminisces about all the great memories he had with his online friends who have slowly stopped playing the game as the years went by. As the in-game clock strikes midnight, the scheduled time for server shut off, the game is still running. In fact, the clock begins counting anew. He goes to manually log off but there is no logout button. He can't leave the game. I really enjoyed reading this series. Our main character is a regular salermyan but in the game he is a powerful undead Lich who is the leader of an evil guild. His character is an anti-hero who borders the line of becoming a villain while struggling to remain human in his new undead body. Packed with action and comedy, this light novel is a lot of fun. AS |
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