Happy post-Thanksgiving Friday, everyone! Let’s wrap up November with a few book reviews in fifteen words or fewer.

1. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Awesomely crafted, compelling characters and epic world-building. My new favorite fantasy series.

2. Homesick by Jean Fritz
School read aloud. I mix this up with The Inn of the Sixth Happiness movie.

3. Out of Time by Caroline B. Cooney
Sometimes you have to rescue to your time-travel boyfriend from a Victorian asylum.

4. The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
The book we passed around fourth grade.

5. Molly’s Surprise: A Christmas Story (American Girls: Molly #3) by Valerie Tripp
Molly and Jill bring Christmas to their family. My favorite of the Mollys.