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Review: Friends to the End, by C. L. Colyer
Question: Where can you find scary, funny, and sad all in the same story? Answer: Friends to the End, a captivating middle-grade novel by...
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Sep 27, 20211 min read
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Review of The Safekeeper, by Esther Archer Lakhani
This YA fantasy/sci-fi novel begins with a seemingly normal fifteen-year-old girl on her way home from school and quickly evolves into a...
bibbetybo
Feb 2, 20212 min read
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Excerpt From THE HAUNTED PURSE
Toni and I sat on the bedroom floor, the purse centered between us. We were eying it uneasily, as if it were a wild animal that might...
bibbetybo
Jul 31, 20205 min read
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The Calendar That Predicted My Husband's Death
Christmas day 1994. I was a young wife and mother living a comfortable domestic life with my husband, Richard, and our three children,...
bibbetybo
Jul 13, 20202 min read
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The Haunted Purse: Inspired by a True Story
My YA paranormal novel The Haunted Purse is about a teenage girl who buys an old purse at a thrift store. When random items in the purse...
bibbetybo
Jul 10, 20202 min read
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Reading: For Me, It's All About Premise
Give me a story I can lose myself in. As a reader, I’m a sucker for a high-concept, uniquely premised story. I want something hot off the...
bibbetybo
Jun 26, 20204 min read
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Nostalgia, Part 2
Is there anything sweeter than being a happy, healthy young person with decades of life ahead of you? Not in my book. Maybe that’s why...
bibbetybo
Jun 6, 20201 min read
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We Found a Secret Fairyland
Me, Sharon, and Merrill. Median age: eight. Inseparable, wiry, bouncy as grasshoppers. Our summer days were toy chests filled with squirt...
bibbetybo
May 29, 20203 min read
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