Inside The Book of Ellen’s Broom w/ Kelly Starling Lyons by JMcManus
Kelly has a wonderful and delightful way of creating characters that connects with young readers. And that connection takes you on a journey through a moment in time. It’s like the characters hold your hand as they tell you about history…what a way to learn.
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Inside The Book of Mama’s Boyz w/ Jerry Craft by JMcManus
Article first published as Interview: Jerry Craft, Creator of Mama’s Boyz on Blogcritics. Welcome back everyone! ...
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Mama, When Will I Be Popular Book Giveaway
A mother and daughter talk, that provides insight into how today’s struggles will teach her daughter to triumph in her future endeavors. It’s the concept of, what people mean for evil now will eventually work out for the good in you! Don’t give up!
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Inside The Book of Mama, When Will I Be Popular w/ Thomasina F. Johnson by JMcManus
A mother and daughter talk. That provides insight into how today’s struggles will teach her daughter to triumph in her future endeavors. It’s the concept of, what people mean for evil now will eventually work out for the good in you! Don’t give up!
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Inside The Book of Nalia and the Potion Maker w/ Queenbe Monyei by JMcManus
It comes easily enough in times of distress, Giving the beholder no chance of any good rest. It knows no distinction between evil and good. And leaves not when the bearer wishes it would. It is a thief of all things good, for sure. But, alas, for this curse there is no quick cure. All great and small will eventually find. It is not easily lost whether mean or kind.
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Sneak Peak of what’s to come: Nalia and the Potion Maker
In the once beautiful Aetheria, a spreading evil stems in the great Land of The North. It is a world that has been ravaged by vengeance and fury. But Nalia knows nothing of this world.
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Inside The Book of One Million Men and Me w/ Kelly Starling Lyons by JMcManus
Like a quilt of moving pieces, we walked together, singing songs that made my heart dance.
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Inside The Book of The Septavalent Stone w/ J.O. Jones by JMcManus
I went to a friend's house, and saw that he had the most bizarre looking wallpaper full of lions and stuff, and then it hit me. WHAT IF YOU WERE ASLEEP AT NIGHT, AND THEY CAME TO LIFE.
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Sneak Peak of what’s to come: One Million Men and Me
With her Daddy, Nia travels by bus to Washington, D.C. on October 16, 1995, to march with a million Black men to pray and be strengthened.
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Sneak Peak of what’s to come: The Septavalent Stone
Mrs. Ama never told Andrew that she was a renowned witch or that his uncle was a retired magical salesman who traded contraband dark magical objects. If she had, he would have known that:
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