Princess nevaeh Book Tour

Princess Nevaeh: Lessons on Self- Discovery 

by Paulette Harper

Paperback: 34 pages

Publisher: Thy Word Publishing (August 27, 2014)

ISBN-13: 978-0989969147

About The Book

Six year old Nevaeh wants to be something she already is. She will soon learn that her wish to be a princess takes a little more than just asking. Lessons on self-discovery are taught by her Mimi who makes her understand that being a princess takes work.

My Thoughts

This was a lovely book.  It is great for teaching children how to be a productive member of society. This book is full of great character traits that we want to teach our children. only did the author show what we want our children to exhibit, but also show the child the negative traits we don't want them to exhibit.  Definitly a book that should be on shelves in every home.

About The Author

Paulette Harper is an award-winning and best-selling author. She is the owner of Write Now Literary Virtual Book Tours and is passionate about helping authors succeed in publishing and marketing their books. Paulette has been writing and publishing books since 2008. Paulette is the author of That Was Then, This is Now, Completely Whole, Living Separate Lives and The Sanctuary. She resides in Northern, Ca.

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Paulette Harper is an award-winning and best-selling author. She is the owner of Write Now Literary Virtual Book Tours and is passionate about helping authors succeed in publishing and marketing their books. Paulette has been writing and publishing books since 2008. Paulette is the author of That Was Then, This is Now, Completely Whole, Living Separate Lives and The Sanctuary. She resides in Northern, Ca.

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Desperate Reflections by Shay West

                

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Source: I received an electronic copy to help facilitate my review. The opinions expressed here are my own 
            
In This final book in the series, you can find reviews of the first and second book here and here,  we find Alexis Davenport dealing with even more issues.  She has broken up with her long-time boyfriend.  It was funny that it bothered her to find out through social media they were broken up, after she had ignored him for more than a month.  She has finally been given the okay to get her learner’s permit.  This is something everyone has joked about for a long time.  She, her mom and aunt have finally reached a point where she has set hours and expectations at her job, so that she has time for friends and a social life.  Things are going well until she learns her mom has a boyfriend.  I found this section to be absolutely hilarious.  She began to act like a spoiled little kid who couldn’t have her way.  There was a reason, an underlying cause for her behavior, which eventually comes out.

Then we get to the meat and potatoes of this book.  Her ability to travel back in time to stop things from happening that would change and have an adverse effect on history.  The reasons behind the Drifter’s plan to stop her become clear.  She has learned to use her gift to find the Traveler and is shocked to learn he doesn’t live in the past, he lives in the present and through a mistake he now knows who she is, and is set on coming after her. He will do whatever it takes to her family to get to her.

I sat up to finish the book.  I could not sleep until I read the last page.  I have recommended the series to our media specialist at school and will soon have all three copies on my own classroom shelves.  I wanted to wait until all three were out.  I have students who hate when a book comes out and they have to wait forever to read the next one in the series.  This is a series you want to read from cover to cover.  I can only hope that Shay West comes out with something new soon.  She is one of my favorite new authors.

My Cousin’s Keeper - Simon Frency

Genre: Middle Grade Realistic Fiction

Source: I won a copy from LibraryThing

The main characters in this story are like many of my middle schools students. They want to fit in, and be accepted by others in school.  Looking and acting different make that difficult.  Associating with someone who is different is just as bad.  The main character Kieran has been trying to be part of the “in crowd” since his best friend moved away. He is always on the fringe as if he just isn’t quite good enough.  It is usually these kids who get into trouble by going too far to fit in.  In Kieran’s case, his difficulty fitting in just got harder.  His cousin Bon, whom he’s only met once before and doesn’t really like, shows up at his school and his home.  Kieran’s friends Mason and Lucas make fun of  Bon for his long braid and his not as nice clothes.  Bon seems unfazed.  He doesn’t care about fitting in.  Things get tougher when Julia the new girl that Kieran has a crush on, starts hanging with Bon.  Kieran really feels betrayed.  He joins in the bullying of his cousin. 

Things aren’t always what they seem, and this author did a wonderful job of showing that.  Bon is a character I not only felt so sorry for, yet admired.  He had his eyes set on where he wanted to go in life and kept his head up as he headed that way.  He was a true friend and cousin.  We learn more about Julia and her secrets as the story progresses and see how and why Bon and Julia became such good friends.  We have all had that one black sheep in the family that we didn’t want to acknowledge. This book made me look back at when we were younger and how I treated that cousin.  My treatment of them may not have gone to the extremes that Kieran’s did but I was just as guilty. They are someone I now look up to and admire. 

I think one of the reasons I liked this book so much is because I can see the value of reading it to  my students and having it on my shelves at school. I also love books that take me back to my own childhood and show me how I was not much different than the character,s and teach melessons I should have learned long ago.  Yes I can say I learned a lot.  I am currently dealing with one of those black sheep in the family and realized I was headed the wrong way. This book was a great reminder.  It is a great thing when a children’s book can teach a lesson to an adult.  Because after all, we all want to fit in.  This book looks at the dynamics of “family”, bullying, and jealousy. This is definitely a book I will tell my school librarian needs to be on our shelves.