Rockstar Book Tours is hosting a two-week long blog tour for the newly published second book in the Charlie & Frog series.
Title: CHARLIE & FROG THE BONEY HAND
Author: Karen Kane
Pub. Date: June 4, 2019
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Pages: 272
SUMMARY: All Charlie Tickler
wants is for his parents to listen.
All Francine (a.k.a
Frog) Castle wants is to be the world's greatest detective.
So begins the
friendship of Charlie and Frog, who soon become a crime-solving duo, restoring
order to Castle-on-the-Hudson.
Charlie, the new kid
at the Castle School for the Deaf continues to find unexpected mysteries in the
sleepy town of Castle-on-the-Hudson with Frog, his new friend, and crime-solving
partner. Just when Charlie thinks everything has settled down, a piece of the
school's famous history goes missing, and it's up to the Charlie and Frog to
solve the case, before it's too late.
REVIEW: Before I started reading this book, I found out there was a book 1 called Charlie and Frog. You can read these books out of order like I did because this book recaps the main characters, the school, and the relationships. It also represents the Deaf community. I haven't read that many books with this representation and love that this is a middle grade.
We start reading about how Charlie's parents are still clueless on the parenting front and being totally absent in Charlie's life. They are reading almost every book possible on the topic of parenting but then leave him once again to go to Texas to give "so much love and attention" to some animals.
We are also told the story of some bad pirates and a good pirate named Boney Jack. He was a good pirate because he returned all the "booty" that the bad pirates stole and they were not up for that. They mutinied against and sent him to his death by walking the plank on the Hudson River.
I can't wait to re-read this with my kids around Halloween. This was such a fun little detective book and I loved that the end pages have the American Sign Language Alphabet.
Karen Kane’s path to
Charlie & Frog led her from a small village near Rochester, NY, to the
bustle of Washington, DC. The people she met along the way inspired her writing
with their warmth and humor, especially those in the Deaf community. Karen
graduated from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf and received her
MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
When she’s not writing, Karen spends her days as a sign language interpreter at
Gallaudet University or lost in the stacks of her local library. Charlie &
Frog is her first novel.
Giveaway Details:
3 lucky winners will receive finished
copies of CHARLIE & FROG THE BONEY HAND, US Only.
Giveaway Link:
Tour Schedule:
Week
One:
6/3/2019- BookHounds YA- Excerpt
6/4/2019- Two Chicks on Books- Excerpt
6/5/2019- Twirling Book Princess- Excerpt
6/6/2019- Little Red Reads- Excerpt
6/7/2019- The Suburban
Lifestyle- Review
Week
Two:
6/10/2019- BookishRealmReviews- Review
6/11/2019- Lifestyle of Me- Review
6/12/2019- Nerdophiles- Review
6/13/2019- Two points of interest- Review
6/14/2019- Owl Always Be Reading- Review
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