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The Cardboard Kingdom
The Cardboard Kingdom shows that every kid not only belongs in an adventure, but also deserves to have a hand in creating it.
Posted by Book Rex on October 5, 2018
Dare to Be Wild
While Mary Reynolds admits that filmmakers took artistic liberties with her story, she feels that the movie gets all the important parts right and is very happy with the result.
Posted by Book Rex on September 26, 2018
Zach and Lucy and the Museum of Natural Wonders
Meet creative brother and sister duo, Zach and Lucy, whose escapades leave their neighbors curious, excited and maybe a little worried. The Pifferson Sisters and illustrator Mark Chambers have created...
Posted by Book Rex on September 12, 2018
Speak: The Graphic Novel
Carroll uses a grayscale palette to wonderful effect in this highly successful and modernized graphic novel adaptation of Anderson’s classic, and the accessible writing is all the more commanding due...
Posted by Book Rex on August 30, 2018
Black Hammer Vol. 2: The Event
Marooned in a small country farm town, Abraham Slam and his family of strange heroes cannot leave. Their adventures in Spiral City woking as unlikely heroes seem like another life...
Lincoln in the Bardo
Amidst the rising tensions of the Civil War, President Lincoln is dealing with more than the state of the country; his son Willie caught something akin to typhoid fever and...
Posted by Book Rex on August 25, 2018
Women Who Launched the Computer Age
In this, one of many books in a nonfiction series that follows industry trailblazers, Calkhoven gives an in depth introduction of the six women first involved in the ENIAC project...
Posted by Book Rex on August 23, 2018
Learning to Drive
Learning to Drive is a leisurely, character-driven movie billed as a "comedy drama" but its overall tone is more hopeful and reflective than hilarious.
Posted by Book Rex on August 18, 2018
The Serpent’s Secret
It’s not until her twelfth birthday that Kiranmala discovers she’s a demon-slaying princess, and not just a normal girl from New Jersey.
Posted by Book Rex on August 13, 2018
Beep and Bob: Too Much Space
After failing to fail his entrance exam, Bob has started school at Astro Elementary, the only school located in the orbit of an outer planet, but there’s just one problem:...
Posted by Book Rex on August 6, 2018
Listful Thinking
When reviewing a book about lists, one is compelled to write a list or two....
Posted by Book Rex on July 31, 2018
Going Rogue
Going Rogue is the third book in Drew Hayes’s series “Spells, Swords, and Stealth.” Our story continues to follow the two groups from “Split the Party.” Thistle, Grumph, Gabrielle, Eric,...
The Thickety: A Path Begins
Kara Westfall is known as the witch girl. As she uncovers the underlying truth of her island home, her mother, and her own powers, Kara realizes not everything is as...
Posted by Book Rex on July 26, 2018