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Flashback April 2009
A quick look at the books I reviewed in April 2009: Along For The Ride by Sarah Dessen. From my review: “Auden spends the summer after high school graduation at the beach with her father, stepmother, and new baby half-sister. She discovers things about her father, her family, and herself. . . . While there [...]
Review: Quintana of Charyn
Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta, Candlewick Press, 2013. Reviewed from the Australia edition (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (Australia), 2012), a gift from a friend. will be published April 2013. Background: This is the final of three books (and one short story) that make up the The Lumatere Chronicles. It began with Finnikin of [...]
Lizzie Skurnick Books
What makes a grown woman scream in delight, then have to redo her budget to double the numbers of books that can be bought? This, via Publishers Weekly: “Ig Publishing, which for more than a decade has maintained a list of fiction and nonfiction for adult readers and reissues for the academic market, is moving [...]
Review: Relish
Relish: My Life In The Kitchen by Lucy Knisley. First Second. 2013. Review copy from publisher. It’s About: Relish is a memoir/coming of age book about food and cooking, told in a graphic novel format. The Good: It’s a memoir. And coming of age book. About food. And cooking. In a graphic novel format. What else [...]
Review: Black Helicopters
Black Helicopters by Blythe Woolston. Candlewick Press. 2013. Reviewed from ARC from publisher. The Plot: “I’m Valkyrie White. I’m fifteen. Your government killed my family.” Valley has been bathed, so that she doesn’t smell of wood smoke and instead smells like other teen girls. Valley has been dressed, in jeans and a T-shirt and a hoodie, [...]
Flashback: April 2011
Flashing back to two short years ago: April 2011! The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson. From my review: “In Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes, Ginny Blackstone was left thirteen envelopes by her late aunt, resulting in a tour of Europe that pushed Ginny outside her comfort zone and gave her some insight and understanding into [...]
SLJ BoB: The Winner
And now, the final match. There can be only one. The contenders: The Fault in Our Stars vs No Crystal Stair vs Code Name Verity, Judged by Frank Cottrell Boyce. My prediction had been: “The Fault in our Stars v. The One and Only Ivan v. the Undead Winner (my prediction, Code Name Verity), Judge [...]
All Printz Secrets Revealed!
Sit back and get ready to learn all you ever wanted to know about what goes on in the secret rooms of Printz Commitee meetings! As I may have mentioned a zillion times, I was on the Printz Commitee in 2009 that selected Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta as the Printz Winner, along with four Honor books: The [...]
Peanut Gallery
Just a quick reminder that SLJ BoB has been highlighting posts and tweets and responses to the previous week’s matches. Check out this week’s The Peanut Gallery; and swing back to past ones.
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