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Parker, N. (2018) Seafire. New York, NY: Penguin Random House LLC On the Bullet Seas, the only thing you can trust is your family.  For Captain Caledonia Styx, that refers to her crew, her sisters.  She had another family once, but that was taken away by Aric Athair bullets.  Her family was murdered, her ship burned, and she was left for dead.  She didn't die though.  Instead she grew stronger, rebuilt her ship, and raised an all girl crew to sail it. Now her new family is being threatened, but this time she's going to give it right back. I absolutely loved this book!  I laughed, I cried, I got angry, I felt tense, and I lusted for adventure.  This book took me for a ride that I'm not ready to get off from.  I can tell you I'll be checking out the sequel, Steeltide, as soon as I can.  The characters are engaging and the setting is so interesting.  It' s sort of a post apocalyptic world, in which those errors of the previous civiliza...

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe by Ryan North and Jessica Henderson Squirrel Girl is back in her very own stand-alone graphic novel!  Doreen Green isn't just your average college computer science student, she's also a super hero! With the proportional strength and agility of a squirrel, the ability to speak to squirrels, and her upbeat positive attitude she is a force to be reckoned with!  When her pal Tony Stark calls her asking for help, she gathers her team and they run off to Stark tower immediately! When they reach Tony however, they find out he just wants to use her squirrel talking ability to gather test subjects for some tech he nabbed from the high evolutionary!  Squirrel Girl of course declines, but at that moment the high evolutionary's goons attack!  in the fray Squirrel Girl is knocked into the mysterious chamber! Strangely enough, two Squirrel Girls jump out!  Doreen and her clone are fast friends and kick butt toget...

Chanani, N. (2017) Pashmina . New York, NY: First Second Priyanka is a great artist and cartoonist.  That doesn't really save her from the troubles of being a teen raised by a single mom. When her uncle has a new baby, she starts to feel the loss of the attention she once took for granted.  When she finds a mysterious pashmina scarf in one her mom's old suitcases she doesn't think much of it.  When she puts it on though, it transports her to a beautiful, idealistic version of India.  She begins to withdraw from her family and escape into this colorful India within the pashima.  After begging her mom to let her go to India, she finally gets her way.  In India she gets a rude awakening.  It's not the India of her visions.  There is much hardship mixed in with all the beauty.  After tracking down the origins of her pashmina, she finds the magic within is designed to show women the power of their choices.  She goes home a changed person...

King, A. (2010) Please Ignore Vera Diets . New York, NY: Random House Spoilers!   Vera’s best friend just died.   Except that he’s not her best friend anymore.   She loved him. She hated him.   It’s all pretty complicated.   They say his dead body was just thrown onto his lawn.   They say that he started the fire that killed all those animals.   They say a lot of things, but Vera knows not everything they say is true. Charlie Kahn and Vera were neighbors.   They’ve been best friends since they were children.   Charlie had a sort of rebellious air about him that Vera adored.   He always did his own thing, even if it was weird.   She knew that his father was abusive to his mother, but they kind of just ignored it.   Instead they would hang out in the woods between their houses or go up to the pagoda.   When they were twelve Vera helped Charlie build a tree house in the woods.   They kept improving it, and...