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Review: Sex and Violence
Sex and Violence by Carrie Mesrobian. Carolrhoda LAB. 2013. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. The Plot: Evan Carter is at yet another school. He’s been to six schools since he was 13, traveling frequently because of his father’s job. At his latest boarding school he’s doing what he usually does. Not really making friends, because [...]
National Book Award – Shortlist
The shortlist for the National Book Awards have been announced! The Young People’s Literature list: Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster) Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster) Tom McNeal, Far Far Away (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House). My review. Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone (G.P. Putnam’s [...]
Review: The Waking Dark
The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman. Knopf. 2013. Review copy from publisher. The Plot: One day, a small town: Oleander, Kansas. Like so many other small towns, where everyone thinks they know everyone. Where everyone has secrets. Some secrets they don’t even know about. A handful of people, with no connections to each other, go [...]
Flashback October 2009
A look back at what I reviewed in October 2009: The Haunting of Derek Stone: City of the Dead (The Haunting of Derek Stone, Book 1) by Tony Abbott. From my review: “It all started when Derek and his family were in a horrible train wreck; his father’s and brother’s bodies aren’t found. Weeks later, a miracle. [...]
Review: The Archived
The Archived by Victoria Schwab. Hyperion Books, Disney Press. 2013. Reviewed from ARC. The Plot: Mackenzie, sixteen, is a “Keeper” like her grandfather before her. She’s been taught by him how to hunt down Histories (the dead) that have escaped from the Archive (run by Librarians) before they enter the Outer, our world. Histories are [...]
Brogrammers
Welcome to School Library Journal print readers! Remember my blog post, Girls and Technology? Well, it’s highlighted in the October print issue of SLJ, on page 16, under “Brogrammer Culture.” I’m glad that this means that more ...
Review: The Ruining
The Ruining by Anna Collomore. Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group USA. 2013. Reviewed from ARC. The Plot: Annie wants only one thing: Escape. She wants to leave Detroit behind her, leave the poverty, her neglectful mother, leering stepfather, dead sister. She wants to start anew. She wants to be a new person. Annie seizes [...]
On Being Eight and Being Chris Brown
In a recent interview in the Guardian, the singer Chris Brown spoke about losing his virginity at 8. The full quote is “He lost his virginity when he was eight years old, to a local girl who was 14 or 15. Seriously? “Yeah, really. Uh-huh.” He grins and chuckles. “It’s different in the country.” Brown [...]
Flashback October 2011
And now, a look back to what I reviewed in October 2011. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King. From my review: “I enjoy Stephen King’s books; when I compare books I read to him, it’s a very big complement. If I had to pick only one author that would still be read a hundred years from [...]
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