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From 100 Scope Notes: pick a verb, pick a photo, make a YA cover! (The author-selection device is kind of creepy, as those appear to maybe be real people’s names. Skip that part.) Please enjoy the gallery, as well. I don’t have any decent photo-editing software on this MacBook (I … Continue reading
When Lucinda was small, her parents died in a terrible accident on their way to a royal ball. Now she lives a Cinderella existence in her grasping, abusive Aunt’s jewelry shop — until an urchin thief named Peter and the mysterious Amaranth Witch change Lucinda’s life forever. The broad strokes … Continue reading
To continue this genre discussion… a couple of weeks ago I attended the Horn Book at Simmons colloquium, where my favorite break-out session was Kelly Hager‘s discussion of When You Reach Me and genre. (Fairly general spoilers.) WYRM (hee) is notoriously, delightfully hard to categorize. Kelly proposed “slipstream” as a … Continue reading
This autobio-graphic novel chronicles the toothy trials of Raina’s adolescence, during which she basically had her entire mouth reconstructed. I loved it! She gets middle school girl relationships perfectly, the way a group of friends chooses one to pick on. They don’t even know they’re doing it, necessarily, but enough … Continue reading
Teachers’ unions in the MA towns of Raynham and Bridgewater are fighting against volunteers keeping their middle school libraries open after the librarians were laid off to hire more teachers. You can probably see both sides of this: on the one hand, the library needs to stay open so kids … Continue reading
More on the eternally interesting (to me, anyway) question of genre. A friend posted a review of the movie The Road on her Livejournal, and in comments her friend noted that the book, like the movie, gave no indication of what caused the apocalypse. (Note: I haven’t seen or read … Continue reading
It’s the end of 8th grade, and Annie and her BFFs-4-eva Genna and Zoe appear to be growing apart. They’ve always hung out in Annie’s grandma’s tea shop, the Steeping Leaf, where Annie works after school. Since they were little they’ve called themselves the Teashop Girls. But Genna and Zoe … Continue reading
