Goodreads Blurb

Between 1933 and 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were responsible for the persecution of millions of Jews across Europe. This extraordinary graphic novel tells the true stories of six Jewish children who survived the Holocaust.

From suffering the horrors of Auschwitz, to hiding from Nazi soldiers in war-torn Paris, to sheltering from the Blitz in England, each true story is a powerful testament to the survivors’ courage. These remarkable testimonials serve as a reminder never to allow such a tragedy to happen again.

Features a current photograph of each contributor and an update about their lives, along with a glossary and timeline to support reader understanding of this period in world history.

My Review: Rated 4 out of 5 stars

This is a powerful graphic novel about six children telling their survival story from the Holocaust. The illustrations take you through each child’s journey of survival, without graphic images. The illustrations were spot on with the SS being the terrible bullies and evil men that they were. Each story had a different outcome. It lets the reader understand the different situations many children went through in order to survive. The stories were all short, but they were detailed and powerful.

At the end of the novel you get to see pictures the 6 survivors and get to read what became of them after the war. The book also includes definitions on different vocabulary words used throughout the book, to help children understand what they read and saw. It also provides websites that can give you more information on the Holocaust. We need to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself. This past few weeks the Jewish community where I live, have been under attack by people who want to cause them harm because of their religion. We need to stand together and protect each other regardless of race, religion and gender. 

Author Biography

Kath Shackleton is Producer of Fettle Animation, a multi-award winning animation production company in Pennine Yorkshire. Fettle is a service studio, making animation for broadcast, education, businesses and charities and is currently in development with a children’s animation series.

Fettle’s animated series made with BBC Learning, based on accounts of Holocaust survivors, won a Japan Prize, a Sandford St Martin’s Award and two Royal Television Society Award, and has been broadcast in 12 countries, and made into a graphic novel.

Goodreads Blurb

Middle grade supernatural horror series takes young readers Just Beyond the reality they know…Just Beyond their normal lives…Just Beyond the real world to an always surprising place of fantasy and fright.

Surviving middle school is hard enough but when Jess, Josh, and Marco encounter a strange and deadly creature wandering the halls of The Scare School, it leads them to a sinister secret in the boiler room…

As they leave their school behind, these three unsuspecting students enter a horrifying reality just beyond the one they know, one filled with supernatural terror and fright. Will they survive the harrowing journey and save the other children they find trapped there, or will they forever be trapped on the wrong side of The Scare School?

R.L. Stine, the worldwide bestselling author of Goosebumps, and visionary illustrators Kelly & Nichole Matthews (Pandora’s Legacy), take you to the other side where the only constant is fear.

My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Imagine being in the same school but in two different worlds. One world is real, while the other is make another dimension. A school where middle school kids are being taught at a kindergarten level. I think no one wants to be coloring for the rest of their lives, with crazy robots ready to keep you in check. I like the illustrations and the idea of the two different schools was very thought out. Having the school in the middle of nothing was truly creepy in every sense. The added bonus is huge robot insects ready to keep two worlds apart. It started off pretty confusing, since no back story was given. It eventually unravels what is going on as you continue reading. The book had a total of three different comic stories that ended all in a weird creepy way. The stories weren’t as scary as the books R.L. Stine usually writes. I was waiting to be at the edge of my seat, but I was too busy looking at the cool illustrations. The Scare School lacked the scare factors.

Author Biography

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children’s literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children’s author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids’ Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA’s Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

Goodreads Blurb

Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.

Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they’re reunited every September 1.

But this Halloween is different—Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye.

Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: What if—instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut—they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years…

What if their last shift was an adventure?

My Review: Rated 4 out of 5 stars

If you need some cheering up with some added pumpkin spice, then look no further. This YA graphic novel brings you to the most amazing pumpkin patch you could ever imagine. The adventure Deja and Josie has, will leave you craving all those delicious treats only available in the autumn season. Deja and Josie are such fabulous friends. They are both so upset that this will be their last year working at the patch, since they’re going to college. Josie has had a crush on the fudge girl Marcy for three years. Deja decides they need to check out all the stops at the patch, have fun, eat delicious treats and have Josie talk to Marcy for once. His love at first sight truly ends with unexpected reality. Love most times is right under your nose. You just need to see the signs and connect the dots. The illustrations really brought this beautiful pumpkin patch come to life.

Author Biography

Rainbow Rowell writes books. Sometimes she writes about adults (ATTACHMENTS and LANDLINE). Sometimes she writes about teenagers (ELEANOR & PARK and FANGIRL). But she always writes about people who talk a lot. And people who feel like they’re screwing up. And people who fall in love.

When she’s not writing, Rainbow is reading comic books, planning Disney World trips and arguing about things that don’t really matter in the big scheme of things.

She lives in Nebraska with her husband and two sons.

More at rainbowrowell.com

Goodreads Blurb

Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Marie Lu, this graphic novel adaptation brings to life the dark mysteries behind the gates of Arkham Asylum. Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and 18 year-old Bruce Wayne is next on their list.

Bruce Wayne is turning 18 and inheriting his family’s fortune. But on the way home from his birthday party, he makes an impulsive choice that leads him to Arkham Asylym, the infamous mental hospital. There, he meets Madeline Wallace, a brilliant killer . . . and Bruce’s only hope. Madeline is the mystery Bruce must unravel, but is he convincing her to divulge her secrets, or is he feeding her the information she needs to bring Gotham City to its knees?

Bruce Wayne is proof that you don’t need superpowers to be a superhero, but can he survive Madeleine’s game of tense intrigue and deception?

This graphic novel adaptation from New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu and artist Christian Wildgoose is a dark, action-packed thrill ride!

My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Bruce just turned 18 and has become a billionaire. There is trouble in Gotham with a gang named Nightwalkers. They have been murdering rich people and taking their money. Bruce wants to unravel the Nightwalkers to bring Gotham peace, even if he put himself in danger. He meets Madeleine at Arkham Aslylum, she isn’t who she leads him to believe. Can Bruce survive and save his friends? Can Madeleine be trusted? I was upset Bruce didn’t have his Batman suit in the book. He was running around with a mask. The illustrations were detailed but cover was lacking the Batman feel. It was a great plot just felt something was missing that would give you a true Batman novel.

Author Biography

Stuart Moore

STUART MOORE is a writer, a book editor, and an award-winning comics editor. Among his current writing projects are THE ZODIAC LEGACY, created and cowritten by Stan Lee and published by Disney, featuring an all-new team of teenaged super heroes in a series of illustrated prose novels and graphic novels; DOMINION: LAST SACRIFICE, a comic book series for Amazon/Jet City; and THANOS: DEATH SENTENCE, an original Marvel prose novel. Recent work includes EGOs, an original comic book series from Image Comics, and GARTER’S BIG SCORE, an original ebook novella for Kindle. He also contributed two series, TEACH and OUT WITH A BANG, to the launch of the online comics app Stela. Other comics work includes WOLVERINE NOIR and NAMOR: THE FIRST MUTANT (Marvel); FIRESTORM (DC Comics); assorted Star Trek and Transformers projects; and the science-fiction graphic novels EARTHLIGHT, PARA, SHADRACH STONE, and MANDALA. Prose writing includes the novel version of Marvel’s CIVIL WAR, and Disney Worldwide’s JOHN CARTER: THE MOVIE NOVELIZATION. 

Marie Lu

Marie Lu is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites series, as well as the blockbuster bestselling Legend series. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry as an artist. Now a full-time writer, she spends her spare time reading, drawing, playing games, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles with her illustrator-author husband, Primo Gallanosa, and their dogs.

Visit her online at Marielubooks.com or on Twitter @Marie_Lu.

I started the New Year on the right foot. I was able to finish this book today. Remember all Barnes & Noble will have a book club on January 7th at 7 pm. If you live close by to the B&N in Paramus, NJ, Lisa Jewell will be attended the book club.

Goodreads Blurb

From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and Watching You comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

In The Family Upstairs, the master of “bone-chilling suspense” (People) brings us the can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets. 

My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A dark thriller that will keep you turning the page til the very end. This book truly sucked me right up into this messed up prison. These characters got me so mad. I myself wanted to attack them to set myself free. The evil is eminent. I was truly angry at Henry and Lucy’s parents. How can they allow such manipulation and turn their backs on their own kids? Lisa was looking to bring us a story that will tangle your heart, drag you through pain, anger and revenge and let me tell you she succeeded. You had a story of a family of four that allowed another family of four stay for sometime until they were able to get back on their feet. Sometimes evil comes disguised as an angel but true evil will show it’s face in due time. Birdie and David I have no words left to say. I despise these characters. How evil, manipulating, disgusting and power seeker they were. These characters truly made my time reading this book stressful and infuriating. I could never imagine living in these conditions. When everything is taken away from you, food, clothes and your freedom, nothing will seem heartless when you finally fight back. I felt so bad for Lucy. From all the characters she truly had a terrible past that continue to follow her. If you are looking for a page turner that will having you wanting to free the characters from the torment, then look no further. Be careful of who you let in your house!

Author Biography

Lisa was born in London in 1968. Her mother was a secretary and her father was a textile agent and she was brought up in the northernmost reaches of London with her two younger sisters. She was educated at a Catholic girls’ Grammar school in Finchley. After leaving school at sixteen she spent two years at Barnet College doing an arts foundation course and then two years at Epsom School of Art & Design studying Fashion Illustration and Communication.

She worked for the fashion chain Warehouse for three years as a PR assistant and then for Thomas Pink, the Jermyn Street shirt company for four years as a receptionist and PA. She started her first novel, Ralph’s Party, for a bet in 1996. She finished it in 1997 and it was published by Penguin books in May 1998. It went on to become the best-selling debut novel of that year.

She has since written a further nine novels, as is currently at work on her eleventh.

She now lives in an innermost part of north London with her husband Jascha, an IT consultant, her daughters, Amelie and Evie and her silver tabbies, Jack and Milly.

I had a fabulous 2019. I met so many wonderful authors and attended BEA and RWA for the first time. I’m happy I completed my Goodreads reading challenge of 76 books out of 75. I was able to finish one more book before the end of the year.

Here are some pictures from some of the authors I met this year.

Cheers to a new decade of health, love, dreams, friendship, books, possibilities and goals.

Goodreads Blurb

It’s Christmas Eve, 1859, and everyone who’s anyone is headed to the glorious St. Nicholas Hotel for the most talked about ball of the season. It’s the kind of Texas night where anything can happen—even love . . .

ONE NIGHT AT THE ST. NICHOLAS

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Jodi Thomas

To escape her stepmother’s plot to marry her off, Texas heiress Jacqueline Hartman spends Christmas Eve sharing a hideout with an accused bank robber. After a night in Nathanial Ward’s arms, Jacqueline is certain she has met her match after all. But will his heartfelt promise of love lead to his demise at the hands of the law?

BIRDIE’S FLIGHT * Celia Bonaduce

Seamstress Birdie Flanagan gets the surprise of her life when she receives a beautiful gown—and a sudden invitation—for the ball of the season! Birdie creates a stir from the moment she arrives, capturing the eye of the dashing Captain Douglas Newcastle. But will a secret from her past keep her from her long awaited happily-ever-after?

SPIRIT OF TEXAS * Rachael Miles

When lovely spinster Eugenie Charpentier makes a trip across the Texas frontier with former Texas Ranger Asher Graham, she dreams of an adventure, and the rough-and-tumble cowboy is happy to oblige. But both Jenny and the rugged lawman are keeping secrets. Can they find each other–and love–on the dance floor at the Christmas ball? 

My Review: Rated 4 out of 5 stars

A wonderful anthology of three stories that take place in Texas, 1859. The first story was written by Jodi Thomas “One Night at the St. Nicholas”. This story started with a little action pack. Nathaniel was arrested by Cash who thought he was the outlaw he was looking for. Jacqueline is being made to attend a ball and find a man to marry. Her stepmother will stop at nothing. Nathaniel is able to escape and finds a place to hide, but he isn’t alone. Jacqueline decides to hide from her stepmother and father. She and Nathaniel have a wonderful evening talking to each other. That one night was enough to fight to save him after he is recaptured and blamed for causing harm to Jacqueline. I loved that Jacqueline and Katie a hotel maid become friends and both find love. You fall in love with Cody Lamar the hot cowboy and veteran and Nathaniel Ward was the sexy convict. This was action pack with a team of girls that will fight for the love they found.

The second story is by Celia Bonaduce “Birdie’s Flight”. This was my favorite story. In part it’s because I love fashion and this included many beautiful gowns from this time-frame. Birdie was trying to hide away from someone that was trying to harm her. She is Irish and is in Texas looking for work and hoping she can blend in and not be found. Birdie gets captivated by Captain Newcastle, just like all the other single ladies in town. She is an excellent seamstress and found a job pretty quickly. She is asked to help Miss Charlotte Rutherford who is the pickiest girl in town. Charlotte and Birdie become friends and allies. Charlotte is suppose to hopefully merry Captain Newcastle but she has her eyes on Sheriff Holden. Birdie is smitten with Captain Newcastle. In the story everyone was getting ready for the grand ball. At the end the person Birdie was running from ended up finding her, but someone was close by to assist. Great story with fashion elements, a fancy ball, with some sexy men in uniform.

The third story was written by Rachael Miles “Spirit of Texas”. This had some fun elements. You have Eugenie Carpentier who is a spinster and she is going to Texas to pick up her mom to take her back to London. Unfortunately, she needs to travel alone with the sexy former Texas Ranger Asher Graham. Together they experience near death with a twister which steams up a little more than the dust clouds the twister left behind. She fell in love with a man who wrote a story about Texas his experiences and moments he felt. A twist in the story will leave you wondering if destiny had anything to do with their adventure.

I loved how all three stories were interwoven to each story. I love reading about men in uniform it adds a little more spice to the story. Enjoy your time in Texas, because I sure did.

Author Biography

Jodi Thomas

With millions of books in print, Jodi Thomas is both a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over 50 novels and countless short story collections. Her stories travel through the past and present days of Texas and draw readers from around the world.

In July 2006, Jodi was the 11th writer to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. With five RITA’s to her credit, along with National Readers’ Choice Awards and Booksellers’ Best Awards, Thomas has proven her skill as a master storyteller.

Honored in 2002 as a Distinguished Alumni by Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, Thomas also served as Writer in Residence at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas.

When not working on a novel or inspiring students to pursue a writing career, Thomas enjoys traveling with her husband, renovating a historic home, and “checking up” on their grown sons and four grandchildren.

Celia Bonaduce

Celia Bonaduce has the coolest day job – a field producer on HGTV’s House Hunters. Her credits include other HGTV shows, including Tiny House Hunters, Where Are They Now and ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

If you’re sensing a theme – a love of houses – so did she. After her mother moved into a tiny house of her own, it seemed like a new book series revolving around what it’s like to live in a tiny house was nothing less than providential.

While Celia’s other books – the Venice Beach Romance series and the Fat Chance, Texas trilogy – are anchored in particular places, the heroines of the Tiny House Novels are off to discover life’s big mysteries while living tiny!

Rachael Miles

Rachael Miles has always loved a good romance, especially one with a bit of suspense and preferably a ghost. She was also a professor of book history and nineteenth-century literature whose students frequently found themselves reading the novels of Ann Radcliffe and other gothic tales. A native Texan, Rachael lives in upstate NY with her indulgent husband, three rescued dogs and an ancient cat.

Rachael loves to hear from her readers: find her at her website: rachaelmiles.com, on Facebook (rachaelmilesauthor) or twitter (rachael_miles1)

On January 7, 2020, all Barnes and Nobles will be having their book club at 7 pm. You still have a week to read book before event. I’m excited about this book. I’m almost done with reading it and so far it’s really good. What’s awesome is that my Barnes and Nobles in Paramus, NJ will be hosting the author at our book club. So if you don’t live far, stop by so you can meet Lisa Jewell and get your book signed. I have read other books by Lisa and she is a wonderful thriller writer.

Goodreads Blurb

From the New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and Watching You comes another page-turning look inside one family’s past as buried secrets threaten to come to light.

Be careful who you let in.

Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am.

She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them.

Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone.

In The Family Upstairs, the master of “bone-chilling suspense” (People) brings us the can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.

Goodreads Blurb

In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the New York Times # 1 best-selling author of Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed by unexpected events.

In 1987, Miri Ammerman returns to her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, to attend a commemoration of the worst year of her life.

Thirty-five years earlier, when Miri was fifteen, and in love for the first time, a succession of airplanes fell from the sky, leaving a community reeling. Against this backdrop of actual events that Blume experienced in the early 1950s, when airline travel was new and exciting and everyone dreamed of going somewhere, Judy Blume imagines and weaves together a haunting story of three generations of families, friends, and strangers, whose lives are profoundly changed by these disasters. She paints a vivid portrait of a particular time and place — Nat King Cole singing “Unforgettable,” Elizabeth Taylor haircuts, young (and not-so-young) love, explosive friendships, A-bomb hysteria, rumors of Communist threat. And a young journalist who makes his name reporting tragedy. Through it all, one generation reminds another that life goes on.

In the Unlikely Event is a gripping novel with all the hallmarks of Judy Blume’s unparalleled storytelling. 

My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Truly an exceptional master piece that brings history and tragedy back to the present. I couldn’t put this book down. I had moments of happiness, sadness, despair, hopelessness and love. The 50’s was a time when the USA was nervous that the Communist were going to take over. Life was so much simpler and families were united. Judy writes each character with love and tells you about each character’s life. By doing so I feel like I’m part of them, but then tragedy comes and takes them away from me. My heart was in my hands all three times the birds fell from the sky. If I was living in Elizabeth NJ, it would have been traumatic for me. Innocent people dying right in front of you and you’re not able to help them. I was so angry at the tough times Miri had to go through with her family, friend and boyfriend. It was like the three previous events weren’t bad enough to hurt such an innocent soul who loved, respected and enjoyed life at its fullest. Family values were very important, but it hurts when someone you trusted lied and does thing that are not what you were raised up with. This book taught me that life is too short to be worrying about things that are small and irrelevant. Friends and boyfriends come and go. Trust needs to be earned and you need to be honest with everyone. I’m so glad I read this book, because I had no idea these event ever occurred. Highly recommend this fascinating read.

In 2015, I was able to meet the fabulous Judy Blume at her book tour. Below are some pictures from event.

Author Biography

Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Blubber; Just as Long as We’re Together; and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has also written three novels for adults, Summer Sisters; Smart Women; and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. More than 80 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-one languages. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her.
Judy received a B.S. in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement. Other recognitions include the Library of Congress Living Legends Award and the 2004 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
She is the founder and trustee of The Kids Fund, a charitable and educational foundation. She serves on the boards of the Author’s Guild; the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; the Key West Literary Seminar; and the National Coalition Against Censorship.
Judy is a longtime advocate of intellectual freedom. Finding herself at the center of an organized book banning campaign in the 1980’s she began to reach out to other writers, as well as teachers and librarians, who were under fire. Since then, she has worked tirelessly with the National Coalition Against Censorship to protect the freedom to read. She is the editor of Places I Never Meant To Be, Original Stories by Censored Writers.
Judy has completed a series of four chapter books — The Pain & the Great One — illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson. She has co-written and produced a film adaptation of her book Tiger Eyes, and is currently writing a new novel.
Judy and her husband George Cooper live on islands up and down the east coast. They have three grown children and one grandchild. 

Goodreads Blurb

It’s school picture day and Juno Valentine is having a fashion emergency! Her mom wants her to wear fabulous florals, her dad wants her to wear rainbow ruffles, but Juno’s not sure what to choose. And just when Juno thinks her conundrum couldn’t get any more complicated, her little brother, Finn, disappears into the magical hall of shoes!

In an epic chase through time, Juno gets some help from female icons like Simone Biles, Audrey Hepburn, Annie Oakley, and Michelle Obama. Along the way, she discovers the self-confidence she needs to express herself in her own magical way.

My Review: Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I love adventures in the closet. My closet with all the fun clothes and shoes really empowers me. Juno needed an outfit for her class picture. Her brother ran to her closet, where it took then both to a world of adventure no one would ever expect. As Juno went through her adventure, she meet iconic women from different centuries. They all ended up giving her something to add to her outfit. Each item would encourage strength and empowerment for her to catch her brother. Her fashion adventure concluded with an outfit that was perfect for Juno, because she was able to be herself. I loved this book. It teaches children to have adventures, to be iconic, bold and unique. I love fashion and being different. The world is so much brighter when you can dress how you want.

Author Biography and Illustrator

Eva Chen is a first-generation Chinese-American who grew up in New York City. She blames her deviation from pre-med at Johns Hopkins University on a love of fashion and beauty instilled in her by her mother, whose perfect bob and lipstick made a permanent imprint on her impressionable young mind. Previously the editor in chief of Lucky, Eva has also written for ELLE, Vogue, Teen Vogue,Vogue China, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. She is currently the head of fashion partnerships at Instagram, where she is guilty of the occasional duck-face selfie. Eva lives in New York City with her husband and two children. She is the author of Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes, A Is for Awesome, and Juno Valentine and the Fantastic Fashion Adventure.

Derek Desierto is a Vancouver-based illustrator, designer, and overall nice guy from a nice family. His animation work has been recognized by the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the National Cartoonist Society, and 9 Story Media Group. Currently, he is living the dream as a freelance artist for animated TV shows and picture books. His ultimate goal in life is to meet Oprah and become one of her Favorite Things.