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The Mysterious Benedict Society (A Book Review)

30 Aug 201830 Aug 2018

If, as a kid, you saw this peculiar ad in a newspaper, what would you do? Would you be one of the many curious children who enroll to take part…

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Horse Thief (A Book Review)

A few months ago we posted a listicle about our most re-readable books. I wish I would have put Horse Thief on the list. Written by Robert Newton Peck in…

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The Littlest Bigfoot

The Littlest Bigfoot is a fantasy novel written by Jennifer Weiner and it is told from three different perspectives. First, you have Alice, an overweight, clumsy twelve-year-old who doesn't fit…

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Giddy Goat’s Favorite Re-reads

Giddy Goat's love to read! For National Reading Awareness month we decided to compile a list of our favorite re-reads. We limited ourselves to no more than five! Sometimes we…

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Ravished (book review)

2 Mar 201818 Mar 2018

March is a very literary month! It's on the tail end of Freedom to Read week, and the whole month is reading awareness month, so why not start the month…

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Literature Lads We Love to Love – Listicle

20 Feb 201820 Feb 2018

When I posed the question which book character would you date and why, there was a collective groan from the Goats and much musing over who they'd pick! We all…

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The Worst Witch

30 Jan 201830 Jan 2018

There’s something magical about cracking open a book and being taken away to another world, another time, another place. One of my favorite things to do with my little sister…

Favorite Ladies of Literature

12 Jan 201812 Jan 2018

Greetings, fellow Goats! I come to you today having just freshly finished Maggie Stiefvater's All the Crooked Saints, which was both an excellent story and an excellent example of how to…