Illusions of Grandeur [Ice Age]

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Illusions of Grandeur [Ice Age]Set: Ice Age Type: Enchantment Rarity: Rare Cost: {3}{U} Cumulative upkeep {2} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.) When Illusions of Grandeur enters the battlefield, you gain 20 life. When Illusions of Grandeur leaves the battlefield, you lose 20 life.

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Time travel books are fun. You have to wrap your head around how they work out in the end. This time travel book sort of sneaks up on you, in that other things are going on while Ridge, the time traveler, is checking out 1999. For those who were alive in 1999, we all worried about Y2K, when all the computers would stop working. Scientists worked hard to make sure that it wouldn’t, and at the time, only one bank had trouble after the new year began. Other than that, we were all fine, and life went on. Micheal, is obsessed with Y2K, and when he learns that Ridge is from the future, it is all he wants to know about, and Ridge can’t tell him, as the event is too close. He can tell him how he got his name, and a little about how life is like in the future, but that is about it. But Ridge is the first time traveler, and he has no idea if anything he says will change things, so he has to be very careful. He has no idea what he will find when she returns home, and so worries about everything he says. I really enjoyed this book. I marked several passages that spoke to me. And even the title is such a good thing to bring up and explain, in that it means living in the present time. Not worrying about the future or the past.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024

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B. Borup

New York, US

★★★★★ 4

Fantasy

Format: Hardcover

Not my favorite genre however the book is written really well and my students who love fantasy loved this book

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Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2025

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Afoma

Draper, US

★★★★★ 5

Brilliant

Format: Hardcover

The First State of Being is a brilliant, highly readable middle grade book from the QUEEN of character-driven middle grade literature. This expansive sci-fi feels at once introspective and cinematic, leaping off the page like something made for a movie. This book will help young people and all readers reflect on our past and future as a human community, especially in terms of health advances, animal extinction, and the potential for technological development. It also highlights the love and fight in a mother and the need to view life through a positive lens by focusing most on the present, not our past or future.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025

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Terry Jennings

Bozeman, US

★★★★★ 5

Which Came First?

Format: Hardcover

Of course this won the Newberry award. From the first word, it reminded me of Donna Barba Higuera's The Last Cuentista. A plot so different and imaginative that you wonder how anyone could have thought of it and then carried it out. It's a story of a young boy who is trying to take care of the single mother who seems unable to take care of the family, through no fault of her own. It's a sci-fi fantasy. And it's a story of taking care of each other. At the totally satisfying end I found myself wondering about the chicken and the egg. Thinking I may have to read this one again to see if I can figure it out.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2025

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Marquette Co. Wisconsin

Lake Worth, US

★★★★★ 5

Perfect Choice

Format: Hardcover

Excellent YA / SCI-FI novel. Pretty well captures the spirit of a 12-year-old boy.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2025