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Surviving middle school is hard

Just Beyond #1 The Scare School by R.L. Stine, Nichole Matthews and Kelly Matthews

December 26, 2024 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

R.L. Stine, Nichole Matthews and Kelly Matthews adapted Just Beyond #1 The Scare School into a graphic novel format. Or I am assuming it was a novel first, then a graphic novel. However, regardless of which came first (or didn’t come out) this is an old school RL Stine story. The theme is classic: We start with a couple of kids in “unusual clothing” (cue the “not from our world”) and how they are being chased by a robotic monster. We then see who lives […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Fantasy & Magic, friendship, Just Beyond, Kelly Matthews, Middle schools, Nichole Matthews, R.L. Stine, R.L. Stine, Nichole Matthews and Kelly Matthews, school, siblings, students, teachers

BlackRaven's CBR16 Review No:617 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Fantasy & Magic, friendship, Just Beyond, Kelly Matthews, Middle schools, Nichole Matthews, R.L. Stine, R.L. Stine, Nichole Matthews and Kelly Matthews, school, siblings, students, teachers ·
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The saddest book you could ever read going into the Trump administration.

December 31, 2016 by Blingle Bells Leave a Comment

Brooke Hauser follows the goings-on at International High School at Prospect Heights for a school year. International High School accepts recent immigrants with or without documentation. Their admissions requirements are that they must be recent immigrants (I want to say within a year?) and they have to take an English test and fail. It roughly follows about 10-20 students of varying nationalities and a few teachers. The year she follows is at the very beginning of the Obama administration and it’s truly heartbreaking to juxtapose […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: brooke hauser, high school, Immigration, Non-Fiction, students

Blingle Bells's CBR8 Review No:51 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: brooke hauser, high school, Immigration, Non-Fiction, students ·
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