Candy Bunny Reader

  It's been a while since I did an entry in this long running series of mine! Here are some more underrated books I've read over the years that I think need more love:  1. Firefly Summer by Morgan Matson -Ryanna spends the summer with her mom's side of the family for the very first time, and they go on a scavenger hunt to prevent their campgrounds from being shutdown. Also the author's middle grade debut!  2. Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin -set at an inn, a boy named Rendi helps his new friends restore the moon in the sky with help from a mysterious storyteller. Interwoven throughout the story are lots of Chinese folk tales!  3. Call the Name of the Night manga series by Tama Mitsuboshi --a short but heartwarming shojo manga series about a girl named Mira who comes to accept her magical powers. Great for cottagecore lovers!  4. Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Winans --Bianca, their best friend Anderson, and crush Elaine solve a murder myste...

  In March, I read a total of 15 books and I DNF 9 books.     Here are the books I read and their rankings: The Shadow of Kyoshi by FC Yee and Michael DiMartino -4 stars Amari and the Great Game by BB Alston -5 stars Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones -3 stars Kilala Princess Volume 1 by Rika Tanaka -5 stars Dungeon Meshi Volume 1 by Ryoko Kui -4 stars The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix -4.5 stars Sign of Affection Volume 9 by Suu Morishita -5 stars Neighborhood Story Vol 3 by Ai Yazawa -5 stars Our Not So Lonely Planet Travel Guide by Mone Sorai -5 stars Firefly Summer by Morgan Matson- 5 stars Yotsuba&! Volumes 13, 14, and 15 by Kiyohiko Azuma -4.5 stars for 13, and 5 stars for the other two   Bye Forever I Guess by Jodi Meadows -5 stars Batter Royale by Liesl Adams -5 stars    Books I DNF because I couldn't get into them: Ophelia After All by Raquel Marie Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder Liesl and Po by La...

 TW: Mention of a parent dying This is Morgan Matson's middle grade debut, and I had a blast with it!   Firefly Summer is about Ryanna, who lives with her father, who is a famous movie director, and stepmother. One day they get a letter in the mail from Ryanna's maternal grandparents, the Van Camps, whom she's never met. They want her to come to their vacation house to meet the rest of her late mom's side of the family. The vacation house happens to be situated it what was formerly a summer camp site, that was also owned by the Van Camps. Ryanna's father is a little relunctant to send her at first since he had a falling out with his in-laws after his wife's death, but when he sees a note in the letter that it might be the last summer the Van Camps might be able to get together as a family, he agrees to send Ryanna. It coincidentally happens to be around the same time he has to go to Hungary to film a new movie, too.  When Ryanna gets there, things get off to a...

This is a sample list of some books I've read before making this blog about books. And I highly recommend all of them! You might already recognize several of these books since I've talked about them a couple of times on my before. But here they all are in a nice little list.  1. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 2. The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon 3. Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu 4. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson 5. Close Enough to Touch by Colleen Oakley 6. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix 7. Running out of Time  by Margaret Peterson Haddix 8.  The Shadow Children series  by Margaret Peterson Haddix 9.  Schooled by Gordon Korman 10. Anne of Green Gables (only the first three books) by LM Montgomery 11. Kisses and Croissants by Anne-Sophie Johanneau 12. Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon 13. I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee 14. Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla 15. Smile (and the sequel Sisters ) by Reina Telgemeier 16. Drama   by Rei...

(Pic was found on Google Images) This is my second Morgan Matson book! This first book I ever read from her was Since You've Been Gone back in 2021 or 2022, which I really liked. Did I like this book, too? Well... Take Me Home Tonight is about two best friends: Kat and Stevie. They are both passionate about theatre. Their school's theatre department will be putting on King Lear by William Shakespeare, but for some reason, their theatre director, Mr. Campbell, doesn't put the cast list up on Friday like he usually does. The girls can't understand why, but Kat finds out that down the road in New York City, he will be putting on a play that same Friday night that he wrote himself. Kat decides in order to show Mr. Campbell what a great student she is and to get the role of Cordelia in the play, she and Stevie will go watch his show.  The thing is, that Friday night, Kat gets called to babysit some kids. She decides to lie to her parents that she's going to go babysit ...