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Beatriz would rather live with her father in Florida than on a boat, home-schooled and sharing one bedroom with her mother, but life doesn’t always give us what we want.

Beatriz explores a small island where her mother is researching jellyfish. She thinks she sees and horse and returns the next day to check. The horse is stuck in the mud, and Beatriz tries to rescue her but becomes stuck herself. They are rescued by Annie, a dreadlocked older woman who lives alone on the island. What does Annie give Beatriz that changes her, her mother, and the horses’ lives?

I enjoyed the mystery of the horses.

Recommended for readers 8 years and older

Published by HarperCollins Children’s books 2014

Read and reviewed by Judy Wollin.

Clancy and Tash are shipped off to stay with Aunt Polly due to a family emergency. After visiting their grandfather in a nursing home, they know he’s not happy there and kidnap him.

On the run with their grandfather, a wheelchair user and aphasic, they need somewhere to stay. Grandfather’s house is a train trip away, but it’s for sale.

How do Clancy and Tash find somewhere to live and help with their grandfather?

I enjoyed the richness of the story, the complexity and the problems the characters had to solve.

Recommended for readers ten years and older.

Published by Allen & Unwin 2020.

Read and reviewed by Judy Wollin.

Colin, AKA Mark Anchovy, is sent on a mission to find valuable jewelled egg cups that have been missing for 100 ears. Heidi Hyde High, a famed crook, and her gang are also after the extremely valuable egg cups.

Colin is shot out of a plane, sent on an exchange program, and has terrible luck. How does he survive? Are the jewels saved?

I enjoyed the humour of the story.

Recommended for middle-grade readers.

Published by Piccadilly Press 2021.

Read and reviewed by Judy Wollin.

I enjoyed this reader-determined graphic novel. The story options I could choose from caught my imagination and led me through several versions.

Recommended for eight years plus.

Published by Amulet Books 2010

Read and reviewed by Judy Wollin

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