Beetle & the Hollowbones

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Beetle & the Hollowbones
by Aliza Layne (Author / Illustrator), Natalie Riess (Colorist), and Kristen Acampora (Colorist)

Booktalk: In the eerie town of ‘Allows, some people get to be magical sorceresses, while other people have their spirits trapped in the mall for all ghastly eternity.

Then there’s twelve-year-old goblin-witch Beetle, who’s caught in between. She’d rather skip being homeschooled completely and spend time with her best friend, Blob Glost. But the mall is getting boring, and B.G. is cursed to haunt it, tethered there by some unseen force. And now Beetle’s old best friend, Kat, is back in town for a sorcery apprenticeship with her Aunt Hollowbone. Kat is everything Beetle wants to be: beautiful, cool, great at magic, and kind of famous online. Beetle’s quickly being left in the dust.

But Kat’s mentor has set her own vile scheme in motion. If Blob Ghost doesn’t escape the mall soon, their afterlife might be coming to a very sticky end. Now, Beetle has less than a week to rescue her best ghost, encourage Kat to stand up for herself, and confront the magic she’s been avoiding for far too long. And hopefully ride a broom without crashing.

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Makers in the Kitchen


My new Focus on STEM column: Makers in the Kitchen is in the October Quick Tips for Schools and Libraries newsletter.

Booktalk: Use these new books about food for a bundle of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry fun for makers and bakers (and eaters!) in the kitchen this fall.

Snippet: An after-school South Asian cooking club brings sixth-graders Sara and Elizabeth together as they struggle to adjust to middle school in A Place at the Table, a novel with alternating chapters from both girls written by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan.

It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

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