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Flashback: January 2008
A flashback to what I was reading in January 2008: . . . . Yep, while there are a bunch of blog posts, very little actual reviews. This was the start of reading for Printz, and I was taking it seriously, and had introduced some guest bloggers to help ...
Review: Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2013. Personal copy. Morris shortlist. The Plot: James Whitcomb, sixteen, has nicknames for his parents: the Brute and the Banshee. That may be all you need to know about his home life. But here’s some more: his parents threw his older sister out [...]
Review: The Nazi Hunters
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb. Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2013. Library copy. YALSA Nonfiction Award Shortlist. It’s About: In 1960, a group of Israeli spies and operatives captured the Nazi fugitive, Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann had been in [...]
Flashback: January 2009
A flashback to what I was reading in January 2009: The 2009 Printz Award and Honor Books! Because I was on the committee, and reading and rereading a ton of books, and then the committee met at Midwinter and the rest is history. The books: Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta, the 2009 Printz Award winner; and the four [...]
Review: The President Has Been Shot
The President Has Been Shot! The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson. Scholastic. 2013. YALSA Nonfiction Award Shortlist. It’s About: The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Good: The past November — the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK — I watched a lot of specials and documentaries about [...]
Review: Belle Epoque
Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross. Delacorte Press, Random House. 2013. Review copy from publisher. Morris shortlist. The Plot: Paris, France. 1888/1889. Maud Pichon, 16, had big dreams when she ran away from her small village in Brittany and an arranged marriage. Her dreams have changed to one thing: survival. The money she took from her father [...]
Review: Charm and Strange
Charm & Strange by Stephanie Kuehn. St. Martin’s Griffin. 2013. Library copy. Morris Shortlist. The Plot: Win, 16, is at a New England boarding school, physically distanced from his family in Virginia, emotionally distanced from his classmates. Flashbacks show him as an angry child, Drew, sometimes violent. Win has secrets. Secrets about who he was; [...]
Flashback: January 2011
A look back at what I reviewed in January 2011: The Latte Rebellion by Sarah Jamila Stevenson. From my review: “The Latte Rebellion doesn’t start as a rebellion. Yes, Asha and her friend Carey got annoyed at a classmate’s casual comments about Asha being a “towel head” and being “Miss Barely Asian.” In a caffeine induced bout [...]
E Wein Special Ops
I posted about E Wein Special Ops at Chachic’s Book Nook during the last week of December, but, since that tends to be a busy time off line and not so busy on line, I’m sharing it again today. As Chachic explains in the opening post for this week, “EWein Special Ops is a blog [...]
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