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Bates, Judy Fong Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
tediously repetative repetitive and drama-indulgent.
Bennett, Alan The Uncommon Reader
The Queen's newfound passion for reading upsets the order of things at the palace. A light and pleasing tale.
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Donoghue, Emma Landing
of the intersection of two places and two people, women, lovingly and precisely drawn, and their intersection. drawn.
Evanovich, Janet One for the Money: the first Stephanie Plum mystery
Linda got it for me at Lahey.
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Bates, Judy Fong Midnight at the Dragon Cafe
Extremely irritating interpersonal dynamics and family ghosts. The view into this specific immigrant experience was interesting, but the particulars of the characters were tediously repetative and drama-indulgent.
Bennett, Alan The Uncommon Reader
The Queen's newfound passion for reading upsets the order of things at the palace. A light and pleasing tale.
Donoghue, Emma Landing
A love story of two places and two people, lovingly and precisely drawn, and their intersection.
Evanovich, Janet One for the Money: the first Stephanie Plum mystery
Linda got it for me at Lahey.
Spencer, Irene Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife
I think I saw this on a New Books list. After about 50 pages I just skimmed the rest. I found it neither especially thoughtful nor juicy.
Willis, Connie To Say Nothing of the Dog
Still a wonderful time-travel, Victorian, futuristic, mysterious, sensibly romantic,]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:21:49 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Nonfiction+Storytime+Favorites email.hidden@example.com (deborah) deborah edited Nonfiction Storytime Favorites An Egg is Quiet – Dianna Aston & Sylvia Long
Animal Babies in Ponds & Rivers – Carron Brown
Animals in Fall - Martha E. H. Rustad
Are You A Spider? Judy Allen & Tudor Humphries
Beast Feast – Douglas Florian
]]> Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:26:21 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Books+I+Read+2008 email.hidden@example.com (dg) dg edited Books I Read 2008 Westerfield, Scott Extras The 4th book in the Uglies "trilogy." Aya lives in a city who decided, after the mind-rain ended the Prettytime, to practice a reputation economy: your social rank and buying power is determined in small part by how many credits you amass through useful community work and in large part by your face rank, ie. your fame as compared to everyone else in the city. Every citizen has her own "feed," or channel to post ("kick") stories to the city. The more people monitor your feed, and the more times your name is uttered by others, the higher your face rank. Aya, 15, is determined to kick an amazing story and break into the coveted Top 1000 Faces. Then she stumbles across the Sly Girls, a secret clique of adrenalin junkies, and with them she uncovers a secret that could lead to serious fame - or to world ruin. (Read 5/08)
Zarr, Sara Sweethearts
"After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed hersel]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:29:00 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Books+I+Read+2008 email.hidden@example.com (dg) dg edited Books I Read 2008 Supreme, amazing wordless immersion in the immigrant experience. Quoting Jill S. on Powell's web site: "Shaun Tan, one of my favorite children's book illustrators, draws upon hundreds of years worth of immigrant stories to tell this single but universal tale: one of alienation, magic, and bravely bearing the wonderful and frightening strangeness of a new country. A rare and beautiful work."
Westerfield, Scott Extras The 4th book in the Uglies "trilogy." Aya lives in a city who decided, after the mind-rain ended the Prettytime, to practice a reputation economy: your social rank and buying power is determined in small part by how many credits you amass through useful community work and in large part by your face rank, ie. your fame as compared to everyone else in the city. Every citizen has her own "feed," or channel to post ("kick") stories to the city. The more people monitor your feed, and the more times your name is uttered by others, the higher your face rank. Aya]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:27:01 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Books+I+Read+2008 email.hidden@example.com (dg) dg edited Books I Read 2008 Kostick, Conor Epic
"On New Earth, a world [whose real-time economy is] based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families." A good idea but only an okay read - limp character development and descriptive prose. Reads like a first novel.
Lockhart, Mlynowski, Myracle How to Be Bad
Three teens, written in three voices, go on a road trip featuring alligators, cute guys, a pirate hotel, tears, screaming, confessions, the usual.
McCaughrean, Geraldine The White Darkness
A chilling (ha ha, in the Antarctic, get it?) mood piece by the intense and crazy McCaughrean. Sym's Uncle Victor, obsessed with the Antarctic and not a little domineering and cuckoo, shanghais her off for the vacation of her dreams at the South Pole. But all is not as it seems - Victor [spoiler alert!] has a plan to search for Symme's Hole, a legendary door]]> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:59:41 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Books+I+Read+2008 email.hidden@example.com (Deborah) Deborah edited Books I Read 2008 GN Lemire, Jeff Tales from the Farm: Essex County Vol. 1
Laconic graphic novel in which Lester, 10, lives with his uncle (since his mother recently died of cancer) on an isolated farm in SW Ontario. The two remain isolated by their separate griefs, & Lester befriends the hulking ex-hockey-star gas station attendant, Jimmy, with whom he escapes to a fantasy world of comics & alien attacks. Sad. 2008 Alex Award winner. http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/alexawards/alex08.cfm
Lewycka, Marina A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Maupin, Armistead Tales of the City
Polly, Matthew American Shaolin: flying kicks, Buddhist monks, the legend of Iron Crotch: an odyssey in the new China (2007)
2008 Alex Award winner.
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I think I saw this on a New Books list. After about 50 pages I just skimmed the rest. I found it neither especially thoughtful nor juicy.
Zuckerman, Andrew Creature
Amazing, candid portrait-style photographs of all sorts of animals. Large coffee-table sized gorgeous book.
]]> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:39:33 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Preschool+Storytime+Favorites email.hidden@example.com (dg) dg edited Preschool Storytime Favorites Little Fern’s First Winter (Jane Simmons) –winter, snow, rabbits, play
Little Green (Baker)
Little Hoot (Rosenthal) - Suzanne Harold recommends
Little Humpty (Wild)
Little Loon and Papa (Buzzeo)
]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:49:15 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Books+I+Read+2008 email.hidden@example.com (dg) dg edited Books I Read 2008 Brannen Uncle Bobby's Wedding
Bobby is guinea pig Chloe's favorite uncle. She doesn't want him to get married - until she becomes friends with his intended, Jamie, and decides that two uncles will be even better - especially if she gets to be flower girl.
Horowitz, Dave Twenty-six Princesses
Princess Dot. A lady she's not. Princess Elle. Starting to yell. Princess Lori. Not in this story. Princess Mandy. Ate too much candy... The pictures add twists to the text and the whole thing is very fun. All together they make "A royal pain in the alphabet!"
Rex, Adam Pssst!
"The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who goes to visit."
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Brannen Uncle Bobby's Wedding
Bobby is guinea pig Chloe's favorite uncle. She doesn't want him to get married - until she becomes friends with his intended, Jamie, and decides that two uncles will be even better - especially if she gets to be flower girl.
Rex, Adam Pssst!
"The animals at the zoo have some unusual requests for a little girl who goes to visit."
]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:48:33 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Books+I+Read+2008 email.hidden@example.com (dg) dg edited Books I Read 2008 Convincingly intelligent, wry, lost voice. 18-year-old James has not found his place in the world. He has no idea how to relate to his peers (as a footnote, he's probably gay) and has decided that rather than begin his freshman year at Brown he should probably move from NY to a nice old home in Indiana somewhere. In conversation he gets the best of his parents, sister and therapist, but still can't save himself. Wistful and hilarious, with spot-on analyses of human conundrums. (Notes: p. 80 - safety, security; 84 - I cd. tell NF - great detail; 97-9 - thoughts aren't same as speech; 107 - adolescent alienation; 111 - top pgph; 119 - wants time to move backwards; 175-6 - thoughts ruined by air; 178 - thinking vs. emotions; 192 - 1st direct self-assessment; 198 - randomness & abandoning people; 200 - the net of myself. BBYA Top Ten 2008: http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/bestbooksya/08bbya.cfm
Clarke, Judith One Whole and Perfect Day
Fletcher, Christine Ten Cents a Dance
Chicago, 19]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:13:29 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/Books+I+Read+2008 email.hidden@example.com (dg) dg edited Books I Read 2008 McCaughrean, Geraldine The White Darkness
A chilling (ha ha, in the Antarctic, get it?) mood piece by the intense and crazy McCaughrean. Sym's Uncle Victor, obsessed with the Antarctic and not a little domineering and cuckoo, shanghais her off for the vacation of her dreams at the South Pole. But all is not as it seems - Victor [spoiler alert!] has a plan to search for Symme's Hole, a legendary doorway into the Earth's supposed internal spheres. Starts of a bit slowly for my tastes - Sym's first person narrative comes off as pathetic - but picks up speed and gets Compelling and Creepy and Chillingly Crazy! McC. is a master with a talent for oddball tales and voices.
Marr, Melissa Wicked Lovely
"17-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance."
Moriarty, Jaclyn The Spell Book of Listen Taylor]]> Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:59:33 +0000 mod http://debrarianreads.pbwiki.com/SideBar email.hidden@example.com (debrarian) debrarian edited SideBar Recent Favorites
Territory by Emma Bull
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley
Dear Miss Perfect bySandra Dutton
White Owl, Barn Owl byDavies & Foreman
Dimity Dumptyby Bob Graham
Dreamhunter& Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox
The Legend of Hong Kil Dong, the Robin Hood of Korea by Anne O'Brien
The World's Greatest Elephant by Ralph Helfer
Barefoot Book of Blessings ed. Sabrina Dearborn
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Flora Segunda by Ysabeau Wilce
The Blind Sideby Michael Lewis
Fly By Night by Frances HardingeBooks I Read 2008
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Orange Pear Apple Bearby Emily Gravett
Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy MacLennan
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Fox Tale Soup (Bonning)
Frog (Susan Cooper)
George and the Dragon (Chris Wormell, 2002)
Get Out of Bed! (Munsch)
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Smith, Lane. John, Paul, George & Ben
Stockton, Frank & Sendak. The Griffin and the Minor Canon.
Wiesner, David. Flotsam
Winter, Jeanette. Mama: A True Story
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A fascinating re-imagination of the poem's story, in the form of a young basketball player defeating another on a playground court.
Nivola, Claire Planting the Trees of Kenya: the story of Wangari Maathai
Ryan, Pam Munoz Esperanza Rising
Listened to the recording read by the excellent Trini Alvarado.
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Bertie Was a Watchdog (Walton)
Big Bad Bunny (Billingsley & Karas)
Big Bad Bunny (Durant)
Bob (Tracey Pearson)
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