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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Congratulate Cassie & Josh



We are so excited for Cassie & Josh's upcoming wedding. To share in this excitement, we wanted to give her a card full of best wishes and congratulations from Mundie Moms.
We'll be giving Cassie everyone's best wishes along with a Mundie Moms gift when we see her September 13th & 14th.

Please join in the celebration and leave your short comment in the form below. We'll stop taking comments on September 10th, so that we have time to get everything together for Cassie.

We've also included this button on our sidebar so you can spread the word and link back to this post. We're looking forward to sharing with Cassie all of your best wishes and congratulations!


CWA Celebrations Day 29- Character Interview, Henry

With permission from Cassie, this week we're introducing you to the characters of Clockwork Angel. Each character description and artwork (by Val) posted, is quoted from and will be linked back to Cassie's Infernal Devices site.

Henry reminds me a lot of the absent minded professor. He's brilliant in his own way and has invented many Shadowhunter weapons. Some have worked, and some have failed. I think failure is what drives Henry to keep inventing. It's not hard to see why Charlotte worries about her husband.

Henry: Absent-minded and brilliant, Henry spends his waking hours in the crypt of the Institute, inventing fabulous machines and weapons out of cogs cams and gears. Unfortunately just as many of Henry's inventions don't work as the ones that do, and Henry is as likely to set himself on fire as he is to invent something new and amazing. When Tessa finds herself followed by a silent band of assasins who turn out to be automata—human beings made from clockwork parts—it is Henry who must decipher how they work in order to find the demonic mechanical genius at the heart of the most evil plan London's supernatural world has ever seen.

Book Review- Max Cassidy, Escape from Shadow Island

By Paul Adam
Published by Harper Collins Childrens Books
Released on March 1st, 2010
Source- The Publisher
4 Stars- I really liked it.

Max Cassidy can escape from anything.

Only fourteen years old, Max is the world's foremost escape artist. Chaines, handcuffed, lockined in a airtight water tank, there's nothing he can't get himself out of. He learned the art from his father- a man who just two years ago was murdered, and Max's mother went to jail for the crime.

Now a mysterious man has shown up backstage after one of Max's shows, telling Max that only is his mother innocent, but his father is still alive. He can provide only one clue: a slip of paper with eight digits written on it. It is this clue that will lead Max from his home in London to the exotic and deadly Central American country of Santo Domino and the impenetrable fortress on the sinister Isla de Sombra.

Max Cassidy can escape from anything-but given the chance to finally know the truth about what has torn his family apart, escape from Shadow Island is the last thing on his mind. (taken from the books cover).

Max Cassidy is a great murder, mystery read, as 14 yr old Max is out to prove that his Mum didn't kill his father, a world famous escape artist who was killed two years ago Santo Domingo. Now Max has followed in his father's shoes and can escape from most anything, even the unescapable Shadow Island.

In his quest to prove his Mum's innocence, Max travels from England to Santo Domingo to find answers. Max soon learns that finding his answers will be anything but easy, as those who know what happened to his father were either murdered or won't talk about it. Max isn't one to give up easily and as one event after another unfolds, Max realizes he's in a much more sinister game than he realized.

In a country where those with money and powerful ties control everything, even his Mum's fate, Max doesn't stand a chance. Max won't give up, even when he's in over his head. Knowing that his Mum is innocent and his father isn't dead, Max will stop at nothing to find out what happened.

This is a great read that I think both teens and tweens will enjoy. I'm looking forward to finding out what happens next, as Max Cassidy ends on a good cliff hanger. You can find more out about Max Cassidy and read an excerpt here http://tinyurl.com/23gqv7y

In My Mailbox

In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by The Story Siren and was inspired by Alea of Pop CultureJunkie! With this post, we share the books we've received this past week for review, borrowed from friends or the library, received as a gift and/or bought.
We've posted our what we've received for Mundie Kids (our Children's Book Review Site) here http://mundiekids.blogspot.com/


For Review:
* Kiss Me Deadly-13 Tales of Paranormal Love, Edited by Trisha Telep (shortstories written by Becca Fitzpatrick, Diana Petrfreund, Karen Mahoney, Maggie Stiefvater, Michelle Zink, Rachel Vincent, Sarah Rees Brennan and more), received from and published by Running Press Kids, Released on August 3rd, 2010
* Elixir by Hilary Duff, received from and published by Simon & Schuster, to be released on October 12th, 2010
* Crusade by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie, received from Simon & Schuster (published copy), published by Simon Pulse, to be released on September 7th, 2010
* Time Riders by Alex Scarrow, received from and published by Bloomsbury Teens, to be released on August 31st, 2010

Bought
:
* Whisper by Phoebe Kitanidis (Signed from book signing) I've also got some signed swag we'll be giving away later this week from the signing!!
* Heist Society by Ally Carter
* Devil's Kiss by Sarwart Chadda
* Sleepless by Cyn Balog

Thank you to Simon and Schuster, Bloomsbury Teens and Running Press Kids for this weeks wonderful reads. What goodies did you receive this week?

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