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Sunday, August 14, 2011

REVIEW: Divergent (If The Giver Bought the Hogwarts Houses a Drink, Nine Months Later This Is the Book a Stork Would Deliver to YA Readers' Doorsteps)

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Roth, V.  (2011).   Divergent.   New York:  Katherine Tegen Books. 487 pages. Appetizer:   In the future and in the remains of Chicago,...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

REVIEW: Starcrossed

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Angelini, J.  (2011).   Starcrossed .  New York:  HarperTeen. 487 pages.  (Those be a lot of pages!  And I read every single one...like a ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

REVIEW: Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World

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Vordak/Scott Seegert.  (2010).   How to Grow Up and Rule the World .  New York:  Egmont. 196 pages. Appetizer:   Evil Vordak the Incomp...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

REVIEW: Beauty Queens by @libbabray (Somehow, even more awesome than Going Bovine! It seemed impossible, right?)

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Hi all! Sorry for the lack of posting over the last few weeks.  I am teaching my first graduate class on multicultural children's lite...
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Friday, June 17, 2011

REVIEW: Sirenz (These girls didn't tempt me...there are more enticing sirens out there)

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Bennardo, C., & Zaman, N.  (2011).   Sirenz .  Woodbury, MN:  Flux. 275 pages. Appetizer:   Seventeen-year-old roommates Shar and M...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

REVIEW: Reaching for Sun

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Zimmer, T.V.  (2007).   Reaching for Sun .  New York:  Bloomsbury. 181 pages. Appetizer:   Josie Wyatt is in the seventh grade.  She li...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

Interesting Twitter Trend #YAsaves

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Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal posted an article  that accuses YA literature of being too violent, dark, etc. Whether you agree with ...
Saturday, June 4, 2011

REVIEW: Genesis (Moving "Forward Toward the Past")

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Beckett, B.  (2006).   Genesis .  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 150 pages. A few weeks ago one of my reader friends came into my o...
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

REVIEW: The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book Two)

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Riordan, R.  (2011).  The Throne of Fire.  New York:  Disney-Hyperion Books. 446 pages. Appetizer:   It's been several months since...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

REVIEW: Dork Diaries (Book One)

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Russell, R.R.  (2009).   Dork Diaries:  Tales from a not-so-fabulous life .  New York:  Aladdin. 282 pages. Appetizer:   Nikki has just...
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Saturday, May 28, 2011

REVIEW: The Emerald Atlas (Book One of The Books of Beginning Series)

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Stephens, J.  (2011).   The Emerald Atlas .  New York:  Alfred A. Knopf. 417 pages. Appetizer:   When Kate was four-years-old, her moth...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

REVIEW: Abandon (Book One of The Abandon Trilogy)

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Cabot, M.  2011.  Abandon.  New York:  Point. 304 pages. On the outset,   The Goddess Test   and   Abandon   have a lot in common.  Rel...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

REVIEW: The Goddess Test

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Carter, A.  (2011).   The Goddess Test .  Don Mills, Ontario:  Harlequin Teen. 293 pages. Appetizer:   Kate Winters's mother is dyin...
Friday, April 29, 2011

REVIEW: Moon Over Manifest

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Vanderpool, C.  (2010).   Moon Over Manifest .  New York:  Delacorte Press. 342 pages. I finally got around to reading the current Newbe...