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January is Walk Your Dog Month!

January is Walk Your Dog Month and what better way to kick start your New Years Resolutions by reading some great YA books that feature dogs?  If you are like me, you love dogs and want to spend more time with them because they just get you.  This awareness month is a great way to help dust off the January blues, read a few good books, maybe go out and adopt a new dog, or if you already have one start taking him/her out for more walks.  It's a fun way to get out of the house and your dog will love you for it! Here is a list of YA books that will have you begging for more! Last Chance by Norah McClintock In this charming YA novel by Norah McClintock, the main character Robyn is scared of dogs—like, really scared. But she agrees to spend her summer working at an animal shelter anyway. (It's a long story.) Robyn soon discovers that many juvenile offenders also volunteer at the shelter—including Nick D'Angelo, a boy from Robyn's past. A boy she hoped to never see again. Ni...

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MARY'S MONSTER: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge / Book Review #MarysMonster #Frankenstein


Written & Illustrated by: Lita Judge
Published by: Roaring Brook 
Released on: January 30th, 2018
Ages: 15 & up
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Source: arc from the publisher in exchange for my honest review
Rating: 5 stars

A young adult biography of Frankenstein's profound young author, Mary Shelley, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its publication, told through free verse and 300+ full-bleed illustrations.

Mary Shelley first began penning Frankenstein as part of a dare to write a ghost story, but the seeds of that story were planted long before that night. Mary, just nineteen years old at the time, had been living on her own for three years and had already lost a baby days after birth. She was deeply in love with famed poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a mad man who both enthralled and terrified her, and her relationship with him was rife with scandal and ridicule. But rather than let it crush her, Mary fueled her grief, pain, and passion into a book that the world has still not forgotten 200 years later.

Dark, intense, and beautiful, this free-verse novel with over 300 pages of gorgeous black-and-white watercolor illustrations is a unique and unforgettable depiction of one of the greatest authors of all time.


This is a heartbreaking, hauntingly well written story that will stay with you long after you read it. I've always been fascinated by Mary Shelley's story, but never have I felt so much emotion towards her, and all that she not only endured, but the treatment of her (which was common and the norm during her time period). I wasn't excepting this dark, intense read to emotional grip me like it did. Between Lita's writing, and the illustrations, the emotions, and the mood are captured well within this book's pages.

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