tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68826862128386976692024-03-05T07:45:03.853-08:00Young Adult Literature: A Review SourceLove reading? Love young adult lit? Love historical fiction? I will be reading a bunch of YA books for a class I'm taking at Drexel University and I'll be posting book reviews on this site. Welcome!Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-24660193882323645802011-11-26T16:24:00.000-08:002011-11-26T16:34:09.581-08:00A Northern Light<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQZFP4IUOTyfaGQ06GKmav0sf56DodsvLB7IJj-QOOyrp_spC_W9_iu7mFD2E3O9ZGic8brgn57InfCwBQRghMj8D0_CNmUrQ1pgV9oTC4hSfHfakKyrPxb6lWeZoasCfVpyTXSY6tnw/s1600/northernlight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTQZFP4IUOTyfaGQ06GKmav0sf56DodsvLB7IJj-QOOyrp_spC_W9_iu7mFD2E3O9ZGic8brgn57InfCwBQRghMj8D0_CNmUrQ1pgV9oTC4hSfHfakKyrPxb6lWeZoasCfVpyTXSY6tnw/s200/northernlight.jpg" width="132" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-style: normal; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Donnelly, Jennifer. <em>A northern light</em>.</span></em><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003. Print.</span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span></span><a href="http://www.librarything.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.librarything.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature <br />
2003 Carnegie Medal<br />
2004 <em>Young Adult Library Services Association's</em> top ten books for young adults <br />
2004 The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Honor Book</span></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: Mattie Gokey is a sixteen year old girl in 1906 with a dream of leaving her poor community and becoming a writer. In order to make her dream come true, she takes a job at a hotel where a young woman drowns under mysterious circumstances. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: <em>“It’s just past ten o’clock. The dawn came and the sun rose on a flawless summer morning. I am standing, frightened, but resolved on the train platform in Old Forge.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Is there a word for that? Feeling scared of what’s to come but eager for it, too? Terricipatation? Joybodenous? Feager? If there is, I mean to find it.”</em> (p. 376)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mattie Gokey has a word for everything – and when she can’t find a word to describe how she is feeling, she makes one up. Mattie loves words and longs to write. She has been accepted at Barnard College but wonders how she will leave her family – who need her – or find the money to attend school. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So she takes a job a local hotel to provide some extra money for her family and potentially save for college. However, a young woman drowns on the lake and Mattie is unexpectedly tangled in her death. Based on a true story, <em>A Northern Light</em> will delight fans of historical fiction and murder mysteries alike. A true treasure!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN: 0152167056</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Education – fiction, Farm life-New York (state) – fiction, Murder – fiction, New York (state)-history-20<sup>th</sup> century – fiction </span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-40564496438373854552011-11-14T07:54:00.000-08:002011-11-26T16:32:57.561-08:00Fever 1793<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDiPSX207beG4g5cZK6TFQT2kL_QBYrjrdnnq6Z2_61INSpG1Amr3My6g6GiNnuYNHv09pf3W7yBbyb61s7ux9hyphenhyphenw-yHi-ZKeV1T89YEg08kkrcCCaNkAda8aLnIzyE4fIXREGQQMMxw/s1600/fever.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNDiPSX207beG4g5cZK6TFQT2kL_QBYrjrdnnq6Z2_61INSpG1Amr3My6g6GiNnuYNHv09pf3W7yBbyb61s7ux9hyphenhyphenw-yHi-ZKeV1T89YEg08kkrcCCaNkAda8aLnIzyE4fIXREGQQMMxw/s200/fever.jpg" width="135" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anderson, Laurie Halse. <em>Fever 1793</em>.<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. Print.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span></span><a href="http://www.librarything.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.librarything.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, times, serif;"></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2003 Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Awards<br />
2004 Sunshine State Young Readers Grade 6-8 Nominee<br />
Children's Literature Choice List<br />
Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Annotation: Mattie Cook, a young resident of Philadelphia in 1793, struggles to survive during the Yellow Fever epidemic that ravaged the city. </span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: In 1793, a Yellow Fever epidemic swept across Philadelphia, killing thousands. Fourteen year old Mattie Cook, who lives above the coffeehouse her mother and grandfather own, is just one of the victims of this terrible plague. She travels with her grandfather in hopes to leave the city and the fever, but is instead struck by the virus and fights to stay alive…but that’s only the beginning of Mattie’s problems. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN: 0689838581</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Yellow fever-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia – Fiction, Epidemics – Fiction, Pennsylvania-History-1775-1865 – Fiction</span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-22172567068607236372011-11-04T08:02:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:18:22.611-07:00The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMFrjnGlADO5FUgf07qFiaoKRJb5Mal6j-SHG4z5ECCoS18hlKKQuG_Yy1RzjSbmOD3ZVv8hyWSBJEc2tsgU3M8ZCNVIYg3NHqTfpMH-FetNOjkdlEz-rfhq-W_-fY8FAjFU0PJ4NQyM/s1600/parttimeindian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMFrjnGlADO5FUgf07qFiaoKRJb5Mal6j-SHG4z5ECCoS18hlKKQuG_Yy1RzjSbmOD3ZVv8hyWSBJEc2tsgU3M8ZCNVIYg3NHqTfpMH-FetNOjkdlEz-rfhq-W_-fY8FAjFU0PJ4NQyM/s200/parttimeindian.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Alexie, Sherman. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian</span></em>.</span> New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007. Print. </span></span></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span></span><a href="http://www.librarything.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.librarything.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature<br />
<em>School Library Journal</em> Best Books of 2007<br />
2010 California Young Reader Medal</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: A semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age story of Junior, a poverty-stricken Spokane Indian who attends an all-white high school. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: <em>I realized that, sure, I was a Spokane Indian. I belonged to that tribe. But I also belonged to the tribe of American immigrants. And to the tribe of basketball players. And to the tribe of bookworms.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of cartoonists.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of chronic masturbators.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of teenage boys.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of small-town kids.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of Pacific Northwesterners.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of tortilla chips-and-salsa lovers.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of poverty.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of funeral-goers.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of beloved sons.</em></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And the tribe of boys who really missed their best friends.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>It was a huge realization. </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>And that’s when I knew that I was going to be okay.</em> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(p. 217)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Have you ever struggled to fit in, even around people you’ve known all your life? That’s Junior – he’s a reject among the people on his reservation, constantly bullied and tormented. But through the encouragement of a teacher, he attends a school off the reservation in an attempt to save himself. The story that follows is both uplifting and heart-wrenching, and you find yourself cheering for this teenage hero the entire way. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9780316013680<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Spokane Indian – Juvenile fiction, Indians of North America-Washington (state) – Fiction, Indian reservations – Fiction, Race relations – Fiction, Diaries – Fiction </span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-88674418050224725402011-11-04T06:19:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:19:12.374-07:00A Wrinkle in Time<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOmPC2xcKi_5CftKgujWhRUZNpQmtlZ3GeVN8J7WYzpdby1ncLULRkiwtUTXis7eF6wn0vddTTdvGx-gg_OaGiKyGH6pe5yuNxIk2qxco5z3uG_fh3ua2fzNsNkZWVbsu1yWbaWsnehUA/s1600/wrinkleintime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOmPC2xcKi_5CftKgujWhRUZNpQmtlZ3GeVN8J7WYzpdby1ncLULRkiwtUTXis7eF6wn0vddTTdvGx-gg_OaGiKyGH6pe5yuNxIk2qxco5z3uG_fh3ua2fzNsNkZWVbsu1yWbaWsnehUA/s200/wrinkleintime.jpg" width="129" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">L’Engle, Madeleine.<em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A wrinkle in time</span>.</span></em> New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1962. Print. </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span></span><a href="http://www.librarything.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.librarything.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1963 Newbery Medal</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: Meg Murry, her brother Charles, and their new friend, Calvin, embark on a fantastic journey to find the time-traveling Mr. Murry, who is trapped in another universe. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: It was a dark and stormy night, and Mrs. Whatsit has just blown in for a tuna fish salad sandwich. She is new to the neighborhood and the Murry’s – Meg, Charles and their mother – are trying to understand their queer visitor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As Mrs. Whatsit goes to leave, she turns to Mrs. Murry and speaks, <em>“There is such a thing as a tesseract”. </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mrs. Murry goes white. How could this stranger know about a tesseract?</span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Meg, Charles, and their friend Calvin, will soon learn that a tesseract is a wrinkle in time, a portal to different dimensions, which they will use to find Meg’s father who has been missing for years…who is caught in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Wrinkle in Time</i>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0440498058<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Space and time – Juvenile fiction, Time travel – Juvenile fiction</span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-23809437704689074072011-11-04T06:16:00.000-07:002011-11-19T05:55:01.258-08:00The Fetch<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxm3x1ijB2iEWwwojyqJbA2QYjwZZDxci7RIcs2x9bhVhw9-qIXsTop1Vfn-ZVywx28ckSwcqlqtp67k0U-w3KRwdqCPxgHVYXMKLSCCCw1sKxFeISehgYY-_B1iQv0Fg-ko4re600CDo/s1600/thefetch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxm3x1ijB2iEWwwojyqJbA2QYjwZZDxci7RIcs2x9bhVhw9-qIXsTop1Vfn-ZVywx28ckSwcqlqtp67k0U-w3KRwdqCPxgHVYXMKLSCCCw1sKxFeISehgYY-_B1iQv0Fg-ko4re600CDo/s200/thefetch.jpg" width="142" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whitcomb, Laura. <em>The fetch</em>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Print.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.goodreads.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: Calder is a fetch, or a death escort, who falls in love with Alexandra, wife of Czar Nicholas, last emperor of Russia, which sets off a series of events that could potentially destroy both heaven and earth. </span></span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: Are you someone who enjoys a good mystery? Have you ever wondered why investigators were unable to locate the bodies of Alexis and Anastasia, the children of Czar Nicholas who were executed along with the rest of the last reigning royal family? Then <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>The Fetch</em></span> is the book you’ve been looking for!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Set in the time of the Russian Revolution, The Fetch tells the story of Calder, a ghost who escorts souls to Heaven after a person has chosen death. Upon the death bed of a young boy, he is immediately drawn to the child’s mother, whom is calls Glory. Although the boy wishes to die, Calder refuses to take him. That child is Alexi, who battles hemophilia, and Glory is his mother, Alexandra, wife to the last emperor of Russia. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Calder wants to remain by Glory’s side so he decides to enter the body of Rasputin, after the man is killed. Only Anastasia, the Czar’s youngest daughter, is able to see that Rasputin is not quite the same as he was before. And because of Calder’s actions, Alexi and Anastasia are unable to die during the execution that ultimately kills the remaining Romanov family members. As a result, a rift occurs between Heaven and Earth and Calder, accompanied by Alexi and Anastasia, must set things right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9780618891313<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Future life – Fiction, Death – Fiction, Anastasia, Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1901-1918 – Fiction, Aleksei Nikoaevich, Czarevitch, son of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1904-1918 – Fiction, Rasputin, Grigori Efimovich, ca. 1870-1916 – Fiction, Russia (Federation) – History – Revolution – 1917-1921 – Fiction </span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-47347445390796906942011-11-01T15:49:00.000-07:002011-12-03T07:43:22.160-08:00The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3JAnmGeFtOQhKD-_4ZqNiyZGBJdtR028tVxoJFco7ggkll854ka2LTfDYG0fJkngICc1Ik3gwNmXQHsEMJ5t2JxyYHOqqBaIWP5T6aG4_ErXG9fLtcTNFfd2LcSSE5azMVWRuWm7lSjk/s1600/homerfigg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3JAnmGeFtOQhKD-_4ZqNiyZGBJdtR028tVxoJFco7ggkll854ka2LTfDYG0fJkngICc1Ik3gwNmXQHsEMJ5t2JxyYHOqqBaIWP5T6aG4_ErXG9fLtcTNFfd2LcSSE5azMVWRuWm7lSjk/s200/homerfigg.jpg" width="137" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Philbrick, Rodman. <em>The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg.</em> New York: Scholastic, 2009. Print. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2010 Newbery Honor Book</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2010 ALA Notable Children's Book<br />
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Annotation: The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg follows a young boy during Civil War America looking for his older brother, who was sold into the Union Army. <br />
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Book talk: <em>“They come by the cartload. Moaning soldiers stacked in flatbed wagons or carts drawn by horse or by hand. Mostly the wounded scream only when the cart hits a bump. Some have already stopped screaming and are put aside as the carts are unloaded, their faces covered with a scrap of cloth.<br />
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The rest are carried into the barn on litters, awaiting treatment. Dozens and dozens of men, some of them crying out for their mothers, wives, or their sweethearts. The dozens soon become hundred, stacked inside the barn and out, under the shade of the eaves.<br />
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“The battle of Gettysburg has begun,” the newspaperman confides.”</em> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(p. 172)</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Homer Figg is trying desperately to rescue his older brother Harold, who is just seventeen and sold illegally into the Union Army by their mean uncle, Squinton Leach. Along the way, Homer has a rip-roaring adventure not unlike Twain’s <em>Huckleberry Finn</em>. </span><br />
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Subject Headings: Adventure and adventures – Juvenile fiction, Orphans – Juvenile fiction, Brothers – Juvenile fiction, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 – Juvenile fiction</span></div>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-81326172632348775212011-10-30T11:21:00.000-07:002011-11-20T06:31:49.761-08:00Rapunzel’s Revenge<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFY2kFT1IMr4Igl6EmO_hwrCWRS913ftNw6M9nWfN3YS8ORCMqKjXNOGs7joZY7Fu2GKJ-_INwdNaoe8S61P7sySXZJN_kzIkg6rFUqmNenjameg-vljHj8k772xgBFfKDVVYi8qQCI1g/s1600/rapunzels+revenge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFY2kFT1IMr4Igl6EmO_hwrCWRS913ftNw6M9nWfN3YS8ORCMqKjXNOGs7joZY7Fu2GKJ-_INwdNaoe8S61P7sySXZJN_kzIkg6rFUqmNenjameg-vljHj8k772xgBFfKDVVYi8qQCI1g/s200/rapunzels+revenge.jpg" width="138" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hale, Shannon & Hale, Dean. Illustrated by Nathan Hale. <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Rapunzel’s Revenge</span>.</em></span> New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. Print. </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Young Hoosier Book Award Nominee</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: Newbury Honor-winning author Shannon Hale, along with her husband, Dean, and illustrator Nathan Hale, has created her first graphic novel for the re-telling of classic fairytale Rapunzel. Though some elements of the story remain true to the original, Hale has thrown in some of her own twists and turns for good measure and pure reader delight. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Review: The fairytale Rapunzel is well-known, and although this version starts off as you would expect – a young girl, with very long hair, held captive in a tall tree tower by an evil, fake mother named Gothel – this story quickly becomes Hale’s own. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The tale takes place in a time similar to the Wild West. Rapunzel uses her long braid as a lasso, befriends Jack, a boy with a penchant for stealing, and who carries a magic bean and a goose that lays a golden egg…hmmmm, and eventually fights her way home to free her real mother and the entire kingdom from the evil Gothel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Shannon Hale is a master storyteller and she does not disappoint in Rapunzel’s Revenge. Nathan Hale’s illustrations are beautiful. Even those readers who are not fans of graphic novels will be moved by this fun, hilarious, and heart-warming tale of happily ever after. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Revenge – Comic books, strips, etc., Outlaws – Comic books, strips, etc., Graphic novels</span></span></span></span></div></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-84856680663929582522011-10-30T11:10:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:21:41.536-07:00Rooftop<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59XBJdQZkwNndE956CVtTH47BSFBjZf1v_6G0IYSxz2YgsV_FbJODdbGWcBndJuHRtjOZWkrv7-29QhICOpm-3OHTQC7Ykf3dNxfcQ2by63WaVqtK9R3ryMMJsETtTT9vJ2Lunraf8TY/s1600/rooftop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59XBJdQZkwNndE956CVtTH47BSFBjZf1v_6G0IYSxz2YgsV_FbJODdbGWcBndJuHRtjOZWkrv7-29QhICOpm-3OHTQC7Ykf3dNxfcQ2by63WaVqtK9R3ryMMJsETtTT9vJ2Lunraf8TY/s200/rooftop.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Volponi, Paul. <em>Rooftop</em>. New York: Viking, 2006. Print.</span> </span></span><br />
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Annotation: Though they haven’t seen each other in a while, Clay and his cousin Addison are reunited at Daytop, a treatment program in New York City that both boys attend. One night, the African American boys are involved in an incident that leaves Addison dead and Clay questioning family, racism, and justice.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>“The cops stood me up fast, with my hands still cuffed behind me, and everything started spinning. There was somebody standing on either side of me, holding me straight.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>They took me past Addison. He was covered up with a white sheet.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>At the doorway, I looked straight down the stairs and thought they were shoving me headfirst off a cliff. So I turned my feet into solid blocks. I looked back at Addison and cried out, “Flesh and blood! Flesh and blood!””</em></span> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(p. 76-77)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Clay and Addison are cousins, but more like brothers. When Addison is shot and killed by a white police officer, Clay is caught between wanting to do what is right and wanting justice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0670060690<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Death – Juvenile fiction, Race relations – Juvenile fiction, African Americans – Juvenile fiction, Drug abuse – Juvenile fiction, Rehabilitation – Juvenile fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-14521484477915761962011-10-30T10:26:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:22:04.917-07:00How to Be Popular<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8XgAacvJmSyB3aAvQCcgZjuLQttPqbwluN1RpjbTDHjjJmTIo6pPYy5pfDg1zJldZzV9LKDpGOu6h8mEuWQL5ElATE6AmCTB4AdOHKDShMnYysA87_ccAT2krMfvNr4O3uDsi9j48B64/s1600/howtobepopular.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8XgAacvJmSyB3aAvQCcgZjuLQttPqbwluN1RpjbTDHjjJmTIo6pPYy5pfDg1zJldZzV9LKDpGOu6h8mEuWQL5ElATE6AmCTB4AdOHKDShMnYysA87_ccAT2krMfvNr4O3uDsi9j48B64/s200/howtobepopular.jpg" width="132" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cabot, Meg. <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">How to be popular</span>.</em></span> New York: Harper-tempest, 2006. Print.</span> </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.goodreads.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: Staph Landry is tired of being the town punching bag. She recently found a book that she believes will cure all her troubles, the aptly named <em>How to Be Popular</em>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: Have you ever wanted to be popular? Steph Landry wants to be popular, ever since the sixth grade when she accidentally spilled a Big Gulp on Lauren Moffet, the most popular girl in school.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Now, five years later, Steph is prepared to make a change, using the book she found in her soon-to-be-grandmother’s attic as her guide: <em>How to Be Popular</em>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But popularity comes with a price – is Steph willing to pay it?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9780060880132<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Popularity – fiction, High school – fiction, School – fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-35739415300982988192011-10-30T09:50:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:22:28.796-07:00I Had Seen Castles<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Fxa_C04qkf9NSJVoxo02ylW2rW4cX0vIAvaF9VPT4bHF9azA3PzBU3Mq7aphxz3ftxZOZHc-SDEo-fipCBWwNKxTFtRkCsZvBuSG3DXGBhriK-R4g8OgWqQhu63RxzgX9EVVU2q4Kkc/s1600/seencastles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Fxa_C04qkf9NSJVoxo02ylW2rW4cX0vIAvaF9VPT4bHF9azA3PzBU3Mq7aphxz3ftxZOZHc-SDEo-fipCBWwNKxTFtRkCsZvBuSG3DXGBhriK-R4g8OgWqQhu63RxzgX9EVVU2q4Kkc/s200/seencastles.jpg" width="128" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rylant, Cynthia. <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>I had seen castles</em></span>.</span> New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. Print. </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: John Dante is seventeen years old in 1942 and enlists into the army, despite the response of his family and girlfriend, Ginny.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: John Dante starts off as an idealistic and optimistic teenager, only to be replaced by an anxious and depressed adult after spending several years fighting in Europe during World War II. </span></span><br />
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<div style="margin: 5pt 0.75in 5pt 40.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>“We soldiers had been right all along. The enemy is always interchangeable. Only the boys in the field remain the same, no matter the war. Boys will do the fighting because they are young and still possessed of the best faith. Only the young can be persuaded to die for each other. Only the young can be persuaded this is the only way.”</em> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(p. 90)</span></span></div><div style="margin: 5pt 0.75in 5pt 40.5pt;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In less than one hundred pages Rylant is able to persuasively convey antiwar sentiments without sermonizing. This simple story is all the argument needed to see that war does not end simply because the battles are over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0152380035<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: World War, 1939-1945 – Juvenile fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-1853860962365860862011-10-25T10:54:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:22:52.042-07:00The Giver<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLupaFCenae-8b9Xv3tI6IevFATxRzmLDVBsm70pI-PwFSIKhu-f2xlPJyQWsAEAlTln9k2k4aTIjHqZCqElmQPvbxwyJkyYcSmgsxcmxtmK7D_qPJpYYi97KB_5FQfeu9YRJNXR7HvN4/s1600/thegiver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLupaFCenae-8b9Xv3tI6IevFATxRzmLDVBsm70pI-PwFSIKhu-f2xlPJyQWsAEAlTln9k2k4aTIjHqZCqElmQPvbxwyJkyYcSmgsxcmxtmK7D_qPJpYYi97KB_5FQfeu9YRJNXR7HvN4/s200/thegiver.jpg" width="130" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lowry, Lois. <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>The giver.</em></span></span> Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Print. </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.goodreads.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1994 Newbery Medal</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1996 William Allen White Award</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">American Library Association listings for "Best Book for Young Adults"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ALA Notable Children's Book</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: It is the Ceremony of Twelve and Jonas has received his lifetime assignment; he is the receiver of memories, a position shared by only one other in his community, and he quickly learns the horrible truth about the society in which he lives.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: Have you ever wanted to live in a perfect world, one where there is no sickness, no war, no lying, no poverty, just peace and harmony? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Are you sure this is a world in which you want to live?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is where Jonas lives, and Jonas has just learned a terrible secret, one that shatters his understanding of everything he has ever known. He is the new keeper of memories and is only just beginning to recognize the terrible price that he and everyone else in the community has paid in order to live in this perfect world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0395645662<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Science fiction, dystopia</span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-84555940118225990502011-10-16T13:26:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:23:37.106-07:00The God Box<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnINp5lIJ1TWa6OLTAAeJQKkdPQmQ9LxOUyJbU488y5IGvFau4Fd-A1ItoDyOJVAj79-_qxJaEAcasKc9dOrx_XHzUGnN7d9F8DOtSKOdeC3NAtykgk31df2Zaistl7SgCq2uNBSeOzI/s1600/godbox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnINp5lIJ1TWa6OLTAAeJQKkdPQmQ9LxOUyJbU488y5IGvFau4Fd-A1ItoDyOJVAj79-_qxJaEAcasKc9dOrx_XHzUGnN7d9F8DOtSKOdeC3NAtykgk31df2Zaistl7SgCq2uNBSeOzI/s200/godbox.jpg" width="132" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sanchez, Alex. <em>The God box</em>. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Print.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span><a href="http://www.librarything.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.librarything.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: Paul is a highly religious teen whose beliefs are challenged when Manuel moves to town, an openly gay student who is also devoutly Christian. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk:</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Paul is a good son, a good student, a good boyfriend, and a good Christian. But recently, he has asked for God’s guidance in helping to understand and overcome the feelings he has towards other boys.</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Paul’s life is further complicated when Manuel, who declares on his first day of school his homosexuality, moves to town. Although Paul tries to stay away from Manuel, the two boys eventually become good friends and Paul’s eyes open to the possibility that God’s love is absolute in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The God Box.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9781416908999<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Homosexuality – Fiction, High schools – Fiction, Schools – Fiction, Friendship – Fiction, Christian life – Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-82300177374753943152011-10-15T10:54:00.000-07:002011-11-19T05:55:59.105-08:00The Wednesday Wars<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3M_gJydoMp3o1fQnrt4s2qykVPu0-fZBUXcfn1udHrvQ2DsCf8Ev-qVvyF26bZqSqod3n1-KZtPUplvFw0oxGCIeTgjFwsv0uP4XeA1XYVBbTTfkXcpCokmx_zCi7Z9DIEeYfSbJ0x4k/s1600/wednesdaywars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3M_gJydoMp3o1fQnrt4s2qykVPu0-fZBUXcfn1udHrvQ2DsCf8Ev-qVvyF26bZqSqod3n1-KZtPUplvFw0oxGCIeTgjFwsv0uP4XeA1XYVBbTTfkXcpCokmx_zCi7Z9DIEeYfSbJ0x4k/s200/wednesdaywars.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Schmidt, Gary D. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Wednesday wars</i>. New York: Clarion Books, 2007. Print.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(Image courtesy of </span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">http://www.goodreads.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2008 Newbery Honor Book</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2008 ALA Notable Children's Book</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2008 ALA Best Book for Young Adults</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2007 Booklist Editors Choice</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2007 Book Sense Award Finalist</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: It’s 1967 America and Holling Hoodhood is having a really hard time in seventh grade – family, Shakespeare, cream puffs, and Mrs. Baker – and he’s not sure if he’ll survive. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: In 1967 America is engaged in the Vietnam War, and Holling Hoodhood is conducting his own battle with seventh grade. Because Holling is neither Catholic nor Jewish, he must spend his Wednesday afternoons studying with Mrs. Baker, his English teacher, rather than attending church or synagogue. Even worse, he and Mrs. Baker are studying Shakespeare. And worst yet, Mrs. Baker hates his guts. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But Wednesday afternoons are not Holling’s only problem. He is also dealing with a hippie older sister, cream puffs, yellow tights, and Doug Swieteck’s older brother, just to name a few. However, there are also moments of sheer delight in Holling’s world, like baseball with Joe Pepitone and Horace Clarke, and figuring out that Meryl Lee is actually kind of nice. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9780618724833<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Coming of age – Fiction, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays – Fiction, Junior high schools – Fiction, Family life – Long Island (N.Y.) – Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-54784462779467751582011-10-15T08:28:00.000-07:002011-11-19T05:56:34.962-08:00The Book Thief<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9tlcx0tXl-aBgKHcGAo4ZlIJ-ob6mxTO4GXTWRMH2q4ZNN7yHAc9iVtHpIiXjKe7yHODs5rswovOAWX0ShEfc5KMQQ9QK4ka2DyXniNLRjoL_RG6Z-z6qNaN9AU2yLJWZeWqKTfM4CKA/s1600/thebookthief.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9tlcx0tXl-aBgKHcGAo4ZlIJ-ob6mxTO4GXTWRMH2q4ZNN7yHAc9iVtHpIiXjKe7yHODs5rswovOAWX0ShEfc5KMQQ9QK4ka2DyXniNLRjoL_RG6Z-z6qNaN9AU2yLJWZeWqKTfM4CKA/s200/thebookthief.jpg" width="128" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Zusak, Markus. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The book thief</i>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print.</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2006 School Library Journal Best Book of the Year</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2006 Publishers Weekly Best Children Book of the Year</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2006 Booklist Children Editors' Choice</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2007 ALA Best Books for Young Adults</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2007 The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Honor Book</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: Narrated by Death, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book Thief</i> is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young girl living in a foster home during World War II era Munich, Germany. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Book Thief</i> by Markus Zusak is a brilliantly crafted and gorgeously written piece of historical fiction. Narrated by Death (who does not carry a scythe by the way, but is otherwise tickled by the oft used description), it is a story about a young girl growing up with foster parents on a poor street outside Munich during Nazi Germany. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Death calls Liesel the book thief because when he came to claim Liesel’s younger brother he noticed her stealing a book, a grave digger’s manual. Although Liesel begins her story unable to read, her foster father uses the manual to teach her. Throughout the story Liesel steals (collects?) other books and begins to craft her own, an act which will ultimately save her life. Liesel also collects friends – Rudy, the boy with lemon-colored hair, and Max, the Jewish man who hides in the basement – and learns about friendship, love and humanity in a time when hate-filled propaganda is everywhere.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This is a story that reminds us that war and death are best friends, people are not always as they seem, and simple acts of kindness sometimes change the world. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0375831002<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Germany – History – 1933-1945 – Juvenile fiction, Books and reading – Fiction, Storytelling – Fiction, Death – Fiction, Jews – Germany – History – 1933-1945 – Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 – Jews – Rescue – Fiction </span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-78490416204390762122011-10-12T17:48:00.000-07:002011-11-19T05:57:36.800-08:00Ninth Ward<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8tOwDs7z4kpvpwr9EresT5bPalGZLUGYdfVH1tRonlP5HGs8Hhfc-XJNzGUpnQshyW0n9LIKY1PiX2GB0WkOT4mTDYdH8it3nSQhZ3fSkWzi-C4UDtVMd_bfpZI4PUoENjnbKzLZd_M/s1600/ninthward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs8tOwDs7z4kpvpwr9EresT5bPalGZLUGYdfVH1tRonlP5HGs8Hhfc-XJNzGUpnQshyW0n9LIKY1PiX2GB0WkOT4mTDYdH8it3nSQhZ3fSkWzi-C4UDtVMd_bfpZI4PUoENjnbKzLZd_M/s200/ninthward.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rhodes, Jewell Parker. <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ninth Ward</span>.</em></span> New York: Little Brown and Company, 2010. Print.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Coretta Scott King Honor Book</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: A fictional account of a young girl from the Ninth Ward, the hardest hit district in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Ninth Ward</em></span> is the story of Lanesha, a 12-year old girl who lives in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans with the woman who delivered her, Mama Ya-Ya, after her mother died during her birth. Lanesha is special, she is able to see and speak to spirits (including her mother, who continues to labor in the upstairs bedroom). Lanesha is clever and strong, despite being mostly friendless because she is so very different from the other children in her neighborhood. But Lanesha is loved, even though her “up town” family cares little for her existence. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mama Ya-Ya is gifted too; both wise in the ways of the world and able see the future. And Mama Ya-Ya sees a great storm coming, and something else, something she can’t quite figure out. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9780316043076<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 – Juvenile fiction, Spirits – Fiction, Coming of Age – Fiction, Survival – Fiction, African Americans – Fiction, New Orleans (La.) – Fiction <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-82601515242079893802011-10-09T18:57:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:25:45.959-07:00Speak<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmAtAcn8kF7Z1r2asiiPhOM5i6UMRdbj93KihkB3PEmcAfvuWtYknq4ICkM52GphQo_QmgxIia6wiNsWPbeELfstDm1tCdEI4ixan5bYI1upKIMi191SW-pcvw7d0RKvon1J8WF-6Vr-g/s1600/speak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmAtAcn8kF7Z1r2asiiPhOM5i6UMRdbj93KihkB3PEmcAfvuWtYknq4ICkM52GphQo_QmgxIia6wiNsWPbeELfstDm1tCdEI4ixan5bYI1upKIMi191SW-pcvw7d0RKvon1J8WF-6Vr-g/s200/speak.jpg" width="132" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anderson, Laurie Halse. <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Speak</span>.</em></span> New York: Scholastic, 1999. Print. </span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">2000 The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Honor Book</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">1999 National Book Award finalist</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Edgar Allan Poe Award Finalist</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Golden Kite Award </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ALA Quick Pick</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>Publishers Weekly</em></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Best Book of the Year</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>Booklist</em></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Top Ten First Novel of 1999</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>BCCB</em></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Blue Ribbon Book</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>Horn Book</em></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Fanfare Title</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: Anderson’s highly awarded first Young Adult novel tells the story of Melinda, a young girl who refuses to speak after a traumatic event.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Book talk: Being a freshman in high school is tough for most teenagers, but for Melinda it is especially difficult. She is a social pariah, shunned by friends that she has known since childhood after calling the police during a party over the summer. Teachers don’t like her much either. Her parents spend most of their time fighting rather than paying attention to their daughter. But Melinda has a secret, a secret so devastating that she chooses to remain silent rather than talk about the night that shattered her world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This book is a force, sometimes humorous, mostly devastating. The reader practically wants to shout at the unsympathetic people that surround Melinda because unlike her peers, teachers, and parents, we know what happened to her. However, we get the pleasure of seeing Miranda triumph, emerge slowly from her self-imposed exile, fight back, and eventually <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>Speak</em></span>.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0439456177<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: High School – Fiction, Schools – Fiction, Emotional Problems – Fiction, Rape – Fiction</span></span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-38660975524061599522011-10-09T16:09:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:26:10.229-07:00Twilight<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXqNIK8lfZwR7UMgOw0gnMQcn3mcz91i1QW6liTLIVuy8Ga_GFDHN0NfpmUAjDHr-9wJfOdYA6umqcNgRAPOX3g2tdens-S1PTG6GAtzohXryH09srpWGfvzJFYm7DlcRIEjckg1V8aU/s1600/twilight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 246px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 182px;"><img border="0" height="200" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXqNIK8lfZwR7UMgOw0gnMQcn3mcz91i1QW6liTLIVuy8Ga_GFDHN0NfpmUAjDHr-9wJfOdYA6umqcNgRAPOX3g2tdens-S1PTG6GAtzohXryH09srpWGfvzJFYm7DlcRIEjckg1V8aU/s200/twilight.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meyer, Stephenie. <span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Twilight</span>.</em></span> New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Print.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><em>School Library Journal</em> Best Books of 2005</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: A young girl moves to Forks, Washington to live with her estranged father and becomes attracted to a young boy who is not at all what he seems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Book talk: Bella Swan is your typical teenage girl, average looks, average smarts, just all around average…but her life changes irrevocably when she moves to Forks, Washington and meets the impossibly beautiful Edward Cullen, a hundred year old vampire. The two immediately form a deep connection; however their love is tested by Edward’s supernatural world.</span></span><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Although this type of scenario has been done before, Meyer adds a few twists that make this story all her own, such as vampires transferring dangerous venom to their victims when bitten and sparkling (instead of bursting into flames) in sunlight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Subject Headings: Vampires – Fiction, High School – Fiction, Washington (state) – Fiction </span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-30652726542515766872011-10-05T18:18:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:26:32.829-07:00I Am Scout<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8fKaY8VoMarzL-TnoACkCs4nFD5Ft9lvLS0iweiLCUMm8XmiG0eNoD52-PHa_rYL4Lu_0JiTSFxI4qDqBslXH4m3Oz0uq3I_5oZ7U3490Z6QvDy9sL-pRerP4_2XZcUcxTzgOxokCQL4/s1600/iamscout.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8fKaY8VoMarzL-TnoACkCs4nFD5Ft9lvLS0iweiLCUMm8XmiG0eNoD52-PHa_rYL4Lu_0JiTSFxI4qDqBslXH4m3Oz0uq3I_5oZ7U3490Z6QvDy9sL-pRerP4_2XZcUcxTzgOxokCQL4/s200/iamscout.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Shields, Charles J. <em><span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I am Scout: The biography of Harper Lee.</span></em> New York: Henry Holt, 2008. Print.</span><br />
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Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year<br />
Arizona Grand Canyon Young Readers Master List</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">ISBN-13:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>9780805083347<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Subject Headings: Lee, Harper -- Juvenile literature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography. Young adult literature.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6882686212838697669.post-24644046863671133362011-10-01T06:58:00.000-07:002011-11-04T08:26:56.320-07:00Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt1NIyC50a_bBmkbWAZ0QiyIP6wYvmYdu3eYrARGSrhRTgTTAi8Iw_y4jOgRxo68OL6vn9apeCmbo_7qcvBemgISTTgyv3HDJlFrmBBh17gs3ySf5ThmqwFYIK2qfMnVIXvAZIwhaKSqM/s1600/lizziebright.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt1NIyC50a_bBmkbWAZ0QiyIP6wYvmYdu3eYrARGSrhRTgTTAi8Iw_y4jOgRxo68OL6vn9apeCmbo_7qcvBemgISTTgyv3HDJlFrmBBh17gs3ySf5ThmqwFYIK2qfMnVIXvAZIwhaKSqM/s1600/lizziebright.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Schmidt, Gary D. <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.</em></span> New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Print.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Annotation: A fictional account of a true event; Schmidt creates a coming-of-age story filled with friendship, heart break, and hope.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Review: In 1912, Turner Buckminster is the son of minister who has recently moved to a small coastal town in Maine. Although he got along well enough in his native Boston, Phippsburg may well have been Mars for how much he stands apart from his community, and Turner longs to “light out for the Territories”. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is not until he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin that Turner begins to enjoy his new home. There is one hitch: Lizzie Bright is an African-American girl, poor, and living on an island that the town leaders want for themselves. When the people of Phippsburg fear that its local economy will no longer sustain them, they force the African-American community off Malaga Island, wanting to build a resort atop their homes and graves. When Turner tries to stand up to the racism and injustice, he suffers the loss of both Lizzie and his father.</span></span><br />
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Annotation: A fictional account of a troubled teenage girl written in the 1970's as a testament against drug use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Review: Although the book, structured like a journal, starts off innocuously enough with the musings of a typical teenage girl - trouble with boys, parents, and body image - the story quickly derails. Upon moving to a new town, the diarist goes to a party and unknowingly ingests LSD. Because she finds so much pleasure in this experience, the diarist plunges into a life of drugs. <br />
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The book details the main character running away from home, to facing peer pressure from the dealers at school when she tries to live drug free, and to being put into an insane asylum. By the end of the book however, the diarist attempts to take control of her life. The most poignant part is the last page, where the reader is informed that three weeks after the last entry the protagonist died, perhaps due to an overdose. <br />
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Go Ask Alice, though written over thirty years ago, remains popular to this day for its raw and terrifying account of how drugs can ruin a young life.<br />
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ISBN-10: 0689817851<br />
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Subject Headings: Young adult literature, drug -- abuse fiction, diaries -- fiction</span>Heatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14740574651388378151noreply@blogger.com0