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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.

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...

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...

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...