10. Detective Comics # 27
Author: Bill Finger
Who is the “Bat-Man?” Commissioner Gordon puzzles over this mysterious figure, but there’s more important things happening tonight. Gordon has just gotten a report about a murder, and since this is the 1930’s he just invites his friends to the crime scene! This comic is all fun and games until Batman punches a guy into a vat of acid!
9. Fables Vol 6: Homeland
Author: Bill Willingham
The Adversary was beaten back but not defeated. The fables must brace themselves for a full scale war. . . So Jack is just going to skip town and make a Hollywood movie out of this mess. . . Hey, no point in dying poor. If the world is going to end, you may as well be comfortable while it burns.
8. A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning
Author: Lemony Snicket
The Baudelaire children have just been orphaned. If that’s not bad enough, they are sent to go live with a relative they have never met, Count Olaf. The Count is cruel to the children and it’s not long before Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, suspect that Olaf is trying to scam them out of the Baudelaire family fortune. Can the siblings come together and prove Olaf is up to no good?
7. Half Magic
Author: Edward Eager
Jane, Mark, Kathrine and Martha know that this summer is going to be long and dull. While all their friends go on vacation, they are stuck in the city. So you can imagine how excited they are to discover a magical talismans that grants exactly half of a wish. and you thought proper grammar was useless.
6. City of Ghosts
Author: Victoria Schwab
Cassidy’s parents wrote a book about the paranormal “The Investigators” and it’s getting picked up for a TV show! The whole family (with Cassidy’s ghost friend Jacob) head to the most haunted cities in the world to film the series. Cassidy soon finds herself (and Jacob) surrounded by ghosts, who are not all friendly. What’s a girl and her ghost to do?
5. The Day the Crayons Quit
Author: Drew Daywalt
The book is a hilarious chronicle of the “drama” inside this dysfunctional crayon box. Well worth the read for the young and old.
4. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Author: Henry Farrell
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Hudson? You remember her? That child actress who took vaudeville by storm. What happened to her? Wasn’t her younger sister Blanche Hudson, the movie star during the golden age of Hollywood? I saw one of her old movies on TV last night. Whatever happened to them?
3. Mistborn: Well of Assentation
Author: Brandon Sanderson
2. Mistborn: Hero of Ages
Author: Brandon Sanderson
1. Mistborn: The Final Empire
Author: Brandon Sanderson
This was my first Brandon Sanderson series, but it will not be my last. Mistborn was such a good trilogy. I love when authors use little pieces of their worldbuilding to pull the rug out from under you! In the world of Mistborn, the magic all revolves around metal. what if you find a new metal? or you put a piece of metal inside your body? What do you do if your world depends on a “chosen one” and they screw it up? Sanderson’s worldbuilding might be the best I’ve ever seen. The plot of the first novel is a heist plot with superpowers and a dash of My Fair Lady. It is a very unique mix and I love it.
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