Candy Bunny Reader

    Underrated middle grade contemporary fiction! Linus and Etta Could Use a Win by Caroline Huntoon is a dual POV book about two 13 year olds named Linus and Etta. Linus is a trans boy who just moved houses and starts going to a new school. Etta is an girl with an "alternative" fashion style who is rather cynical about everything, but especially middle school. Shortly after the two of them meet and befriend each other, student council elections are their school start up. Etta finds herself making a secret bet with her former best friend, Marigold, to get Linus to be student council president (they are mostly competing just to get into the same prestigious private high school). Etta really likes Linus and wants to be best friends with him, but she is worried that her ulterior motives as his campaign manager will ruin everything between them. She also genuinely thinks Linus could make the school a more inclusive, safe place. The whole secret bet is also a problem because Linu...

The last book I read for Middle Grade March! The first book of the Witchlings series by Claribel Ortega follows Seven: a girl who gets placed in the "Spare" coven of her town. Being a Spare witch is practically considered a curse since they don't have full powers and are looked down upon by everyone. But Seven tries to break out of this situation to become a full-fledged witch by requesting to do an impossible task: hunting down the Nightbeast! It's been so long since someone invoked an impossible task, and anyone who fails to complete it gets turned into a toad. Seven, her new friend Thorn, and her bully-turned-friend Valley waste no time researching the Nightbeast and finding how to capture it. But at the same time, the Nightbeast and its minions called cucos have been attacking citizens in their town and nearby towns. The attacks always seem to happen whenever the towns (or at least Seven's town) try to vote on giving more rights to Spares. Someone Seven tho...

  Something I have been thinking about recently!     PS. I do not own Barbie. Barbie is owned by Mattel.

  Can you believe we are 20 parts in? You can find the previous posts in this series under Navigation above.   I decided to switch things up a little for this post and show what I have over on Instagram...since it's a special one!    I guess in this case, swipe or scroll down...  

  Well, I read Under their Skin and Nightbooks and loved both of them, but I also DNF these two:    Luckily I am currently reading Witchlings, and so far I am loving it!

  I saw this being done over on Instagram so of course I had to join! I tagged some people over on my Instagram, but anyone is free to do this tag. 1. 5 books I thought would be 5 stars, but weren't: This Time It's Real by Ann Liang (3.5 stars) Serafina and the Seven Stars by Robert Beatty (3.5 stars) Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson (3 stars) Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch (2 stars) Magic for Marigold by LM Montgomery (2 stars)        2. 5 books I thought would be 5 stars, and were! Flip the Script by Lyla Lee  Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan If You Still Recognize Me by Cynthia/Holden So Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger The Mothkeeper by K O'Neill  3. 5 books that unexpectedly turned out to be 5 stars Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Winans The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Morisaki Bookshop duology by Satoshi Yagisawa Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 4. 5 books on my TBR that I t...