Anita McDivitt Barrios Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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I'm a former newspaper reporter/editor & middle school teacher. I'm a mother of two & I write fiction - MG, YA, adult. I love to read and review MG. She/Her

Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra
Stuart Gibbs
#mglit Fabric of Words Holiday Pick 32: Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra, by Stuart Gibbs. Again Gibbs hits one out of the ballpark – pyramids?— with this tween spy tale that positions Cleopatra as a genius amid the Romans. https://t.co/4m0YSRm9rz https://t.co/v67tVYJWIF
Hardcover, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spy School at Sea
Stuart Gibbs
#mglit recommendation: Spy School at Sea, by Stuart Gibbs. Ben and Erica are on another mission to apprehend Murray, this time from his evil scheme to blow up the Panama Canal using a cruise ship with a nuclear engine. https://amb.mystrikingly.com/blog/spy-school-with-environmental-message https://t.co/s46f28N6c7
Paperback, 2022
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Amari and the Great Game
B. B. Alston
#mglit Fabric of Words Holiday Pick 34: Amari and the Great Game, by B.B. Alston. Amari Peter's back from defeating her arch nemesis, natural born magician and fellow budding teen, Dylan Van Helsing, the boy she unmasked in the first book. https://t.co/cEK2VchIJW https://t.co/hOXda2QWfh
Paperback, 2023
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spell Sweeper
Lee Edward Fodi
#mglit Fabric of Words Holiday Pick 14: Spell Sweeper, by Lee Edward Fodi. Oh my gosh, this is the second book by Lee Edward Fodi that he's hit out of the ballpark into the stratosphere! This was an amazing read. I gobbled up this story. https://t.co/GOfPmJlosq https://t.co/aY590AYfTU
Hardcover, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Diana and the Journey to the Unknown
Aisha Saeed
#mglit Fabbric of Words Holiday Pick 30: Diana and the Journey to the Unknown, by Aisha Saeed. This is the last book in the trilogy, I think (?), and we loved it! https://t.co/SMYxMMBvBU https://t.co/Tb38HU2EIS
Hardcover, 2022
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Midnight Orchestra
Jessica Khoury
#mglit Fabric of Words Holiday Pick 33: The Midnight Orchestra, by Jessica Khoury. Magical composer-in-training Amelia Jones gets kicked out of her dorm room and loses her BF when the "real" Amelia shows up at school. https://t.co/BrhG8C3lyT https://t.co/TL4k6Kz8RM
Paperback, 2023
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
Susan Hood
#mglit Fabric of Words Holiday Picks 18, 19 & 20: Giant Pumpkin Suite, by Melanie Heuiser Hill; Music for Tigers, by Michelle Kadarusman; and Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis, by Susan Hood with Greg Dawson. https://t.co/bUcC609cLM https://t.co/8f7rGtEQHG
Paperback, 2023
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Connect the Dots
Keith Calabrese
#mglit Fabric of Words Holiday Pick 21: Connect the Dots, by Keith Calabrese. This was a gem! As the story progressed I realized what a super-sophisticated, incredibly well-plotted MG tale of intrigue, subterfuge, double-crosses and more this is! https://t.co/xVWWcc3hsC https://t.co/yuXmgc4RM9
Paperback, 2022
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City Spies
James Ponti
#mglit Fabric of Words Holiday Pick 11: City Spies 3: Forbidden City, James Ponti. The gang of city-re-named tween spies – Paris, Sydney, Rio, Kat (Katmandu) - run a chess tournament con to get a NKorean super-mind to defect before Umbra kidnaps him. https://t.co/vZIcrXQvfX https://t.co/6VtEaj2giO
Paperback, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Daughter of the Deep
Rick Riordan
#mglit Fabric of Words Holiday Pick 22: Daughter of the Deep, by Rick Riordan. This is Riordan's "what if Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island were real accounts?" After 150 years, how far could we take the tech from there? https://t.co/jeQhaqaC09 https://t.co/PVAmIbK2J8
Paperback, 2023
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book