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I’ve been trying to figure out how to write this post for a couple of days now. Thankfully, my friend Deborah mostly did it for me for Kirkus, beautifully. I have been a Diana Wynne Jones fan as long as I can remember, since the hilarious Lives of Christopher Chant … Continue reading
In February I wrote about Bitch Magazine’s 100 YA Books for the Feminist Reader. A week and a half ago, Arianna of Wandering Librarians and I went to a response discussion at Simmons College (our library school alma mater), entitled “What Is a Feminist Reader?” Here’s her far more prompt … Continue reading
Cap Anderson (short for Capricorn) was raised by his grandmother Rain at Garland, a formerly active commune now occupied by exactly two people. Rain is Cap’s entire world. So when she breaks her leg and has to recuperate in a rehab facility for a few weeks, Cap is stunned to … Continue reading
The moment when Helen Keller, splashing water over her hand, connects Annie Sullivan spelling W-A-T-E-R with the concept of “water” is part of our national mythology. This is Annie’s story up to that point — her arrival at the Kellers’, her attempts to tame Helen from a wild brat into … Continue reading
In our near future, a virus wipes out the ability of adult women to carry children to term. Teen pregnancies become revered, trendy, and lucrative. Melody’s adoptive parents have groomed her to be the perfect Surogette who will “bump” for the highest bidders, with whatever genetically perfect stud the wealthy … Continue reading
Tu Books, the imprint of Lee & Low devoted to multicultural MG & YA genre fiction that I’ve been all excited about revealed the covers for their first 3 books! That’s right — three, not the two I blogged about in Sept. I wasn’t especially excited about the first two, … Continue reading
Ever since the Cybils ended, I kept thinking I’d go back and review all the books I read for the Science Fiction & Fantasy panel. But it’s been like a month now, and I’m clearly not going to do that. (Note to self: next year, review as I go, even … Continue reading
Sherlock Holmes, contentedly retired to Sussex to keep bees (which Giddygeek and JanetCarter assure me is canon), meets his intellectual match in Mary Russell, the wealthy orphaned teenager up the road. They fight crime! One of you lovely people (sorry, I forget who) recommended this for our 8th grade summer … Continue reading
The sequel to Incarceron. No point in reading this review if you haven’t read the first book and are planning to, so SPOILERS AHEAD for both books! I wanted to love this. I really did. And there were many things I did love — it’s tense and thrilling in many … Continue reading
The foxes of Foxboro are starving this winter. Real meat is a luxury, and rabbit hasn’t been seen in longer than anyone can remember. Impoverished hunter Harry’s wealthy, morally bankrupt brother Isaac, the leader of Foxboro, has heard a rumor of rabbits living in a fortress a couple of days’ … Continue reading
