Down Down the Rabbit Hole
By Book Moon
By Book Moon
Us Alice types have a rough go of it from time to time. But that doesn't stop us from pulling levers, pushing big red buttons that are certainly not ours to push, and following creepy ghost girls down haunted hallways. My mother calls it meddling, I call it good, wholesome fun.
The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
Alexis Hall
$17.00 $15.81“It was true she never did her own laundry or tidied away her own teacups, and that she left me to scrub suspicious bloodstains out of the floor of the kitchen, had once vomited in my hat, on a separate occasion prevailed upon me to move her hand from her waist to her forehead because she lacked the energy to lift it herself, and, on this very evening, had thrown a chandelier at my head, but I remained convinced that she was, deep down, a good and honourable person.” ― Alexis Hall
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart and Carson Ellis
$9.99 $9.29“She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Ellen Raskin
$8.99 $8.36“Senseless, you say? Death is senseless yet makes way for the living. Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.” ― Ellen Raskin
When You Reach Me: (Newbery Medal Winner)
Rebecca Stead
$8.99 $8.36“Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.” ― Rebecca Stead
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
$26.00 $24.18“It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.” ― Matt Haig
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
$19.00 $17.67“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?” ― Haruki Murakami
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Kelly Barnhill
$9.95 $9.25“It was a fine thing indeed, Luna thought, being eleven. She loved the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry. Eleven was a number that was visually even, but functionally not - it looked one way and behaved in quite another. Just like most eleven-year-olds, or so she assumed.” ― Kelly Barnhil
The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau
$8.99 $8.36“The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one else knows, and that's always useful.” ― Jeanne DuPrau
Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard
$12.99 $12.08“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.” ― Victoria Aveyard
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson and Donna Diamond
$7.99 $7.43“He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.” ― Katherine Paterson
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
$8.99 $8.36“I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting - something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.” ― Natalie Babbitt
Qualify
Vera Nazarian
$26.95“I rise back up to the surface with a kind of solemn quiet peace that comes when you know it’s all over.” ― Vera Nazarian
A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket and Brett Helquist
$7.99 $7.43“In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.” ― Lemony Snicket
Darkfever: Fever Series Book 1
Karen Marie Moning
$8.99 $8.36“I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.” ― Karen Marie Moning
The House in the Cerulean Sea
Tj Klune
$28.99 $26.96“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?” ― T.J. Klune
The Magicians
Lev Grossman
$18.00 $16.74“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.” ― Lev Grossman
A Darker Shade of Magic
V. E. Schwab
$17.99 $16.73“Lila Bard lived by a simple rule: if a thing was worth having, it was worth taking.” ― V.E. Schwab
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
$14.99 $13.94“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” ― Ransom Riggs
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Reprint)
E. L. Konigsburg
$8.99 $8.36“Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away. That is, running away in the heat of anger with a knapsack on her pack. She didn't like discomfort; even picnics were untidy and inconvenient: all those insects and the sun melting the icing on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere.” ― E.L. Konigsburg
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
$8.99 $8.36“We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing.” ― Madeleine L'Engle
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis and Pauline Baynes
$8.99 $8.36“And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.” ― C.S. Lewis
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
$8.99 $8.36“You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.” ― Philip Pullman
Coraline
Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean
$9.99 $9.29“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman
Franchesca received her bachelor's degree in English Lit. from Boston University. It's two years later, and she's starting the first year of her MFA in Prose at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Try as she might, she can't seem to venture beyond The Old Colony State. She enjoys horror movies, steak (well-done like a heathen), tasteful erotica, and occasionally, EDM. She currently resides in Easthampton, MA suffering through remote classes.