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Reading level:  MG, YA Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Mirrorstone (June 8, 2010) Book summary: Flanders Lane is tired of being protected by her Uncle Anatole. After years of studying magic in the back of his bookshop, she's ready for an adventure of her own. Then one day, strange things start happening. A burglar breaks into the butcher's shop, stealing nothing, but leaving the floors sparkling clean. Soon the seamstress's apprentice vanishes on her way home, leaving behind only a shoe still laced at the top. And then worst of all, Uncle Anatole disappears. That night, a young vampire hunter named Pascoe knocks urgently on the bookshop door. Pascoe insists there is a vampire lurking in nearby Blakely Hall. Flanders looks deep into Pascoe's gorgeous eyes and finds herself agreeing to help him. As Flanders tracks the vampire, her feelings for Pascoe grow until she stumbles upon a secret that turns everything she thought she knew about Pascoe--and herself--upside do

Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Aladdin; Original edition (June 8, 2010) Book summary: Nice and Mean by Jessica Leader is a hilarious story about two girls one nice, one mean facing off in their middle school video elective. My Review:  Marina didn't know Sachi existed. Sachi tried to pretend Marina didn't exist. Marina was sassy and rude. Sachi was nice but childish. The only thing the two of them had in common, was their school's video elective. Two different personalities, two different ideas. One video. One of my favorite things about  Nice and Mean  was how it included Sachi's video nightmares, so you got to really find out about what she was thinking about at the moment or thinking would happen. I felt as if I really got to know her - as if she was a real person, not a character! I also enjoyed reading Marina's little black book entry's, and the lists she wrote about the people,places, and things surrounding her, and w