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Posted on February 21, 2012 by melliott

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH is coming! And so is Amy Simon...


She's History: the Most Dangerous Women in America is a one-woman show about women...

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Posted on February 19, 2012 by melliott

Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, by Bil Wright, is the winner of the American Library Association’s 2012 Stonewall Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. The Stonewall Book Awards are given annually to English-language works of exceptional merit for children or teens relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience.

 

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Posted on February 19, 2012 by melliott

There were 18 of us at February's High School Book Club to discuss Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver, a Groundhog Day-like story of a girl who relives the same day...

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Posted on February 14, 2012 by melliott

This was a really fun read! also fast--I read it in about an hour and a half, mostly because I couldn't stop.



"Say 'female foreign exchange student' to any group of high school guys and you'll get the exact same look...all of us picturing some chic Mediterranean lioness with half-lidded eyes, fully upholstered lips, curves like a European sports car, and...

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Posted on February 08, 2012 by melliott

There were 18 of us at High School Book Club Tuesday night to discuss Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver, a Groundhog Day-like story of a girl who relives the same day seven times, until she gets it right. Several people identified with various characters, even the mean ones, because of their secrets and back stories; some of us had a problem with the protagonist, Sam, though we...

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Posted on January 31, 2012 by melliott

January's Middle School Book Club at Central was a lively discussion of post-apocalyptic gloom. Is that an oxymoron of a phrase, or what? We read The Dead and the Gone, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, and all agreed it was a major downer! Some members found many story elements implausible, and the naivete of some characters equally hard to believe; but all were made to...

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Posted on January 12, 2012 by melliott

Fifteen were in attendance at January’s Middle School Book Club, Buena Vista chapter. And…WE FORGOT TO RATE THE BOOK! If you want to, please send me your rating for Thirteen Reasons Why. We had a lively discussion about whether Hannah was too negative, how the events piling up one after another might have affected her, what various people could...

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Posted on January 11, 2012 by melliott

Midnighters, by Scott Westerfeld received a rating of 6.


This month’s book is Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver. If you missed the meeting, be sure to pick it up.


 If you missed the meeting without notifying us, please email me first before picking up the book.


 The book we chose for March is The Left...

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Posted on January 06, 2012 by melliott

I guess it's not really new...but there are definitely some new takes on the theme of pregnancy, both realistic and fantastical. The trend towards dystopic novels--books set in the near or far future, usually a bleak one with problems for the human race--has spawned a bunch of books with pregnancy (or lack of) as either a main or subsidiary theme.

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Posted on January 03, 2012 by melliott

What? You mean there are no fairies, no ghosts, no vampires, no angels, no werewolves...no otherworldly beings of ANY KIND? No end-of-the-world scenarios, no mysterious super-powered heroes, no trips into outer space? Yes, that's right, occasionally a young adult author DOES write unadorned fiction about real people going about their real lives in the present day! One of the...

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