FINISHED:

Conford, Ellen. (1976). The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School Handbook of Rules and Regulations. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

[Hilarious - I mean, laugh out loud - stuff from someone that I will need to read more from. There were times where I really thought that I was reading a David Sedaris short story... Vignettes about a girl in high school and the crazy stuff that happens to her. In one story she's recruited to sell contraband school supplies, in another she's trying her hand at writing for the school literary journal - edited by a couple of radicals who only want material that questions "the Man", and in another she's pretty sure that her Home Ec teacher is uncomfortable talking about sex because she isn't getting any herself. Really pleased with this one - great, timeless humor from a novel that came out in 1978 (there are more than a couple references to the main character's distrust of computers...) and one that I would recommend and read again.]

STARTED:
Balliett, Blue. (2008). The Calder game. New York: Scholastic.

[It's not even on the shelves in stores yet!! I saw a review copy come in to the library and put a desperate post-it on it saying that I wanted to read it. The only bad thing is that it is an uncorrected proof - thus, it's not the final layout and the Brett Hellquist illustrations are sketches of what the finals will look like...]

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