My First Review for Circle of Secrets!!!

I love the whole review, but the last line made me feel pretty thrilled. Go Here to Read the Full Review! 

It's always intriguing to read the way different readers encapsulate a story, I personally love that aspect of reviews, especially when the reviewer is a good writer themselves and knows children's books so well.


"A Book and A Hug" is a new website for me. I hadn't stumbled across it before, but wow, what a site! I am honored that Barb Langridge read my book and reviewed it. She's a past bookseller and librarian and does book reviews on Baltimore's NBC affiliate PLUS has her own cable TV show, "Books Alive"! Impressive.

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 the elderly

 theater

 thoughtful

 three-dimensional shapes

 thunderstorms

 tigers

 time

 time travel

 timelines (math)

 tiny people

 tissue box book

 Titanic

 toddler

 tolerance

 tools

 tooth fairy

 tornadoes

 touch and feel

 town

 toys

 tractors

 traditions

 tragedy

 trains

 transportation

 travel

 treason

 treasure

 trees

 Trickster Tales

 trilogy

 trick or treat

 trolls

 trucks

 trust

 truth

 tsunamis

 Turkey

 turkeys

 turtles

 twins

 Uganda

 Ukrainian

 Underground Railroad

 understanding others

 underwear

 unicorns

 universe

 uprising

 urban fiction

 vacations

 Valentine's Day

 values

 vampires

 vegetables

 Vermeer

 very mature readers

 Veteran's Day

 veterinarians

 video games

 Vietnam War

 Vikings

 Vincent Van Gogh

 violence

 Vivaldi

 vocabulary

 volcanoes

 voting

 Walter Dean Myers

 war

 water

 weapons

 weather

 weddings

 wells

 werewolves

 West Virginia

 Western

 wetlands

 whales

 White House

 Wild West

 wilderness

 wildlife

 wildlife biologists

 wind

 winter

 wisdom

 wishes

 witches

 wizardry

 wolf

 wolves

 women

 women's rights

 wonder

 word families

 wordless

 wordplay

 World War I

 World War II

 worms

 worrying

 writing

 yellow fever

 young listener

 zombies

 Zimbabwe

 zoo

 Jokester/Thrill Seeker/Party Animal

 Belonger/Connector

 Seeker/Leader

 Answerman

 Heart/Home/Friends Forever

 Joan of Arc/Empath

 Wild Thing/Annie Oakley/Mirette

 Investigator/Analyst

 test

 memoir

Books Paranormal Circle of Secrets   Circle of Secrets Book Information Title Circle of Secrets Author Kimberley Griffiths Little Book Publisher Scholastic October 2011 Fiction/Non-Fiction Fiction Reading Level Middle Readers (Ages 8-10) Older Readers (Ages 11-13)