Saturday, May 29, 2010

STARTED:
Silverman, Sarah. (2010). The bedwetter: Stories of courage, redemption, and pee. New York: HarperCollins.

[I put Eating Animals aside for the moment - figured this non-fiction title would read a bit faster...]

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010


FINISHED:
Clements, Andrew. (2010). Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School: We the children. New York: Atheneum.

[.]

STARTED:
Foer, Jonathan Safran. (2009). Eating animals. New York: Little, Brown and Co.

[Comes highly recommended.]

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010


FINISHED:
Hunter, Erin. (2010). Seekers: The last wilderness. New York: HarperCollins.

[.]

STARTED:
Clements, Andrew. (2010). Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School: We the children. New York: Atheneum.

[I like my Clements...]

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Thursday, May 20, 2010


FINISHED:
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. (2010). this world we live in. New York: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin.

[.]

STARTED:
Hunter, Erin. (2010). Seekers: The last wilderness. New York: HarperCollins.

[For some reason, she's got me hooked on this series of hers...]

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Monday, May 17, 2010


FINISHED:
Mull, Brandon. (2008). Fablehaven: Grip of the shadow plague. New York: Aladdin/Simon & Schuster.

[.]

STARTED:
Pfeffer, Susan Beth. (2010). this world we live in. New York: Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin.

[.]

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Thursday, May 6, 2010


FINISHED:
Horvath, Polly. (2010). Northward to the moon. New York: Schwartz & Wade.

[.]

STARTED:
Mull, Brandon. (2008). Fablehaven: Grip of the shadow plague. New York: Aladdin/Simon & Schuster.

[.]

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Sunday, May 2, 2010


FINISHED:
Griffin, Adele. (2010). Picture the dead. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Fire.

[My review for ACL:

When both her twin brother, Toby, and her fiance, William, are killed in the Civil War, orphan Jennie Lovell, now living with her snobby, brutish aunt and uncle feels utterly alone. After having her picture taken by a “spirit photographer”, Jennie sees in the developed photos unexplainable objects which, in turn, end up being clues that William seems to be sending from the grave. Griffin has crafted a gothic ghost story of love and loss in which the first person narration sounds true and of the day as well as coming across as perfectly suited to the genre. Brown’s “period” ink-rendered photos and scrapbook curios appear between each chapter lending a visual to the narrative, although photos taken to mimic the period would’ve gone further in making the tale more “realistic” and eerie. Included are short explanations of the society of the day in which the novel takes place, the Civil War, Confederate prisoner-of-war camps, Spiritualism and spiritual photography. Mannered and moody in perfect amounts, this one should appeal to fans of other Spiritualist novels such as Ian Lawrence’s Séance (Yearling, 2009) and Laura Amy Schlitz’s A Drowned Maiden’s Hair (Candlewick, 2006). (Reviewed from ARC.)]

STARTED:
Horvath, Polly. (2010). Northward to the moon. New York: Schwartz & Wade.

[Really enjoyed the first book...]

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