Cover Reveal: ALMOST MAGIC by Kathleen Bullock (MG)

ALMOST MAGIC

by Kathleen Bullock

Expected release date: May 2015

Published by: Spencer Hill Press Midgrade

Genre: Middle Grade

Format: Paperback, eBook

SUMMARY

Ever since she turned twelve, Apple Bramblewood’s life has been plagued by visits from weird creatures. It seems she is a rare Attractor, a Wizard whose sole talent is solving the clamorous demands of very odd beings, usually in the most unorthodox, haphazard, and klutzy ways. 

Apple doesn't want to be an Attractor; her most passionate goal is to attend the ordinary middle school with ordinary kids where her perfect older sister, Cornelia, is allowed to go.

Her parents have no doubts about Cornelia’s magical prowess, but Apple seems destined to be home-schooled forever.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Kathleen Bullock

In addition to Almost Magic, Kathleen Bullock is the author of Far Corners (Time Travel/ Historic) and The End of Dominion (MG/YA Fantasy). 

She is the author-illustrator of ten picture books for children (Simon & Schuster and other publishers), a winner of the ABA Before Columbus Award for Illustration, and a first place winner in the 2011 Surrey International Writing Contest. 

She works as a free-lance author/illustrator for Guardian Angel Books and magazine and for Incentive Publications (now owned by World Book, Inc.) illustrating over one hundred educational books and programs. 

Kathleen lives with her boisterous, extended family in beautiful Southern Oregon.

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Cover Reveal: LITTLE MISS EVIL by Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen (MG)

LITTLE MISS EVIL

by Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen

Expected release date: 

Published by: Spencer Hill Press Midgrade

Genre: Middle Grade

Format: Paperback, eBook

SUMMARY

When you live in a volcano, ride to school in a helicopter, and regularly see your dad on the news with the caption “EVIL GENIUS” underneath his picture, it takes a lot to rattle you.

Until you get a message that says: We have your father. Deliver the NOVA in 24 hours or we will kill him.

What’s a NOVA you ask? It’s a nuclear bomb capable of turning the city into a radioactive mushroom cloud, and ever since Fiona’s dad built it, it’s caused nothing but grief. But telling him to stop building weapons is like telling Michelangelo to stop painting.
And that’s why thirteen-year-old Fiona has a flamethrower strapped to her arm. After all, who’d mess with a girl who can throw fireballs?

Apparently, these guys.

Big mistake.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Bryce Leung and Kristy Shen

Bryce and Kristy are a tag-team writing duo with way too many voices in their heads. 

As engineers living in Toronto, they can’t be safely contained by mere cubicle walls, and therefore must spend every other waking moment writing to keep the crazy from leaking out at the office. 

When not writing or working, they spend their time parachuting into volcanoes and riding polar bears while tossing dynamite at rabid kangaroos. Yup, that’s right. Sometimes they can’t even believe how awesome their lives are.

Cover Reveal: BEN FOX, SQUIRREL ZOMBIE SPECIALIST AT YOUR SERVICE by Daisy Whitney (MG)

BEN FOX, SQUIRREL ZOMBIE SPECIALIST AT YOUR SERVICE
by Daisy Whitney
Expected release date: October 14th, 2014
Published by: Spencer Hill Middle Grade
Cover design: Slake Saunders
Genre: Middle Grade 
Format: Paperback, eBook

SUMMARY

Ten-year-old Ben Fox has good friends, a great dog, and a lightning-fast little sister who drives him a bit batty. The only thing in the fifth grader’s life that’s truly annoying–well, besides having to wear braces on his feet every day–is the family’s wily Siamese cat, Percy. Ben has always suspected something was off about Percy...

But now he’s sure of it—Percy has raised an army of squirrel zombies in the backyard and they’re ready to take on Ben's beloved dog, Captain Sparkles.

Now Ben must figure out how to stop the dastardly cat, especially since Percy and his newly reanimated squirrel friends are gunning for nothing less than a full-scale Animal Zombie Apocalypse—when all the dogs start to behave like cats!

The battle won’t be easy though, because squirrel zombies are the most dangerous animal zombies of all…

MY THOUGHTS

"A modern-day cross between Bunnicula and Goose Bumps."

My boys and I give this cover a 5 out of 5 stars!

Totally gives the a great "Goose Bump" vibe!

And what's better than having a 10yo and 7 1/2 yo approval ;)


ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Daisy Whitney

By day, Daisy Whitney is a reporter and ghostwriter. At night, she writes novels for teens and is the author of THE MOCKINGBIRDS and its sequel THE RIVALS (Little, Brown). Her third novel WHEN YOU WERE HERE releases in June 2013 (Little, Brown), and her fourth novel STARRY NIGHTS (Bloomsbury) hits shelves in September 2013. When Daisy's not inventing fictional high school worlds, she can be found somewhere north of San Francisco walking her adorable dog, watching online TV with her fabulous husband or playing with her fantastic kids.  A graduate of Brown University, she believes in shoes, chocolate chip cookies and karma. 

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