tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87696909378952185472024-03-05T16:51:52.867-06:00Moore Teens Unite!!!The Young Adult Blog of <a href="http://www.texascity-library.org">Moore Memorial Public Library</a> in Texas City, TexasVivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.comBlogger573125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-15626495987668736212014-03-31T09:08:00.004-05:002014-03-31T09:08:56.155-05:00Ha Ha Ha-larious Teen Reads!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Want to read something ha ha ha-larious? We have a new bibliography of YA comedy gems that are guaranteed to split sides and bust guts, or your money back! Okay, it is FREE to check out books, so the money back thing might not be THAT enticing but these books truly are cream of the crop of comedy! Click <a href="http://www.texascity-library.org/ya/booklist.php" target="_blank">here</a> to see our full list of book lists for teens and check out some of my TOP of the Top comedy picks below:<b><i> </i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Bad Machinery: The Case of the
Team Spirit</i>by John Allison YP FIC ALLISON</b> Six kids navigate the
treacherous waters of school and adolescence while whole-heartedly diving into
the whirlpool of mysteries that swirls around the peculiar English town of
Tackleford.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Guy Langman, Crime Scene
Procrastinator </i>by Josh Berk<i> </i>YP
FIC BERK </b>Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school
Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be
connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Beauty Queens </i>by Libba Bray
YP FIC BRAY<span> </span></b>When a plane crash
strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle
to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other
diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued
in time for the competition.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Mangaman </i>by Barry Lyga and
Colleen Doran YP FIC LYGA </b>Ryoko Kiyama, a character from a Japanese comic
book, or manga, falls through a rip into the real world--the western world--and
tries to survive as the ultimate outsider at a typical American high school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Crap Kingdom</i> by D. C. Pierson
YP FIC PIERSON </b>Tenth-grader Tom Parking's dream of being swept away to a
fantasy land where he becomes a hero nearly comes true when he finds himself
the Chosen One of a nameless world, the most annoying, least "cool"
place in the universe.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Dodger</i> by Terry Pratchet YP
FIC PRATCHET </b>In an alternative version of Victorian London, a
seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly
rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and
unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeny Todd</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i> <span style="line-height: 115%;">Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age
Story</span></i></b><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> by Adam
Rex YP FIC REX </span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">After
being bitten by a vampire, not only is Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now
he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable
vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>There is no Dog </i>by Meg Rosoff
YP FIC ROSOFF </b>When the beautiful Lucy prays to fall in love, God, an
irresponsible youth named Bob, chooses to answer her prayer personally, to the
dismay of this assistant, Mr. B who must try to clean up the resulting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Winger</i> by Andrew Smith YP FIC
SMITH </b>Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding
school, Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers,
falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing
wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Bandette: Presto </i>by Paul Tobin
and Colleen Coover YP FIC TOBIN </b>The world's greatest thief is a costumed
teen burglar in swinging Paris by the nome d'arte of Bandette! Gleefully plying
her skills on either side of the law, Bandette is a thorn in the sides of both
police inspector Belgique and the criminal underworld.</span></span></div>
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Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-50837335383240973872014-03-18T17:46:00.000-05:002014-03-18T17:46:14.613-05:00Dogs of War by Sheila Keenan & Nathan Fox YP FIC KEENAN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Boots, Loki, Sheba. Three dogs in three wars that wagged their take in the face of death. Boots braves the dangers and rats of trench warfare of WW I, Loki pulls a sled in a forgotten front of WW II, and Sheba sniffs out snipers and booby traps in the jungles of Vietnam. A harrowing but hopeful look at the ravages of war and the humanity and canine-ity that comes from unlikely heroes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a gorgeously illustrated and very well measured look at war. It has all the rousing adventure and excitement that is common of classic war movies and stories, but looks at the all-too-high human cost of war. It never turns The Enemy into an evil monolithic force, and invites the reader to both feel the fear of being fired upon and the sadness of having to fire back to survive. Best of all is it has dogs! Great, beautiful, heroic dogs that absolutely leap off the page and into your heart! I felt as much (if not more) tension worrying what would happen to the dogs as I did for the human characters. the book does occasionally stray very close to cliche, but the unique and detailed artwork keeps it from every feeling cheesy or stagnant. Fox uses a slew of clever artistic devices to bring the reader into the action: tight, cramped panels to press the claustrophobia of trench warfare, the use of bright color against expanses of white and light blues to play off the feeling of being all too visible against an invisible enemy, dreams and reality fading into each other for a vet that is still in the jungle even when he make sit home, and more. The only gripe I have is that it perpetuates the long discredited myth of Vietnam veterans being spat upon when returning home. This is a commonly told myth, so it doesn't distract too much from the overall story. If you are a fan of comics, then you have a great beautiful book to read, and if you like war stories at all this could be a great way to break into graphic novels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can find <i>Dogs of War</i> in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780545128889" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-46444009404547760932014-02-26T10:20:00.000-06:002014-02-26T10:20:36.732-06:00Bandette Volume One: Presto! by Paul Tobin art by Colleen Coover YP FIC TOBIN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bandette is the world's greatest thief! She steals from the dastardly and gives to well, herself, but also to claims adjusters and museums (if the pay is right). And she does so with panache, style, flair, elan, dash, verve, zest, spirit, brio, éclat, vivacity, and gusto! She outwits the long suffering Police Inspector Belgique, matches wits with the other world's greatest thief (the title is currently contested), Monsieur, and draws the ire of the Arch Criminal Absinthe. Can Bandette and her crew of urchin helpers defy the world's deadliest criminal empire? Presto!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This book is flat-out fun. It is (sadly) so very rare to say that about any comics these days. Every one thinks that being moody, violent, and depressing is super mature and deep. This results in a LOT of overly and unnecessarily violent books that all feel sophomoric instead of smart. I mean, even Superman is brooding and dark these days! SUPERMAN! So this retro-cool throwback to heist movies and books of the 60s is a glorious breath of fresh air. Bandette, the carefree thief, who can outsmart everyone and have fun doing it is an antidote to the antihero! The art is as vibrant, colorful, and fun as Bandette herself. It has a simple, painted look of old French posters, that evoke the spirit of energy and motion perfectly. the characters aren't incredibly deep, nor do they need to be. They are fun archetypes that move the clever and absurd plot forward. Also, it is very nice to see a female lead that isn't a pin-up girl wearing as little skin tight clothing as possible.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a great read for fans of fun, happiness, and comics that are actually comic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can find Bandette (but you'll never catch her!) in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781616552794" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-44081840007246990102014-02-25T18:19:00.000-06:002014-02-25T18:19:03.198-06:00Audacious by Gabrielle Prendergast YP FIC PRENDERG<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raphaelle (call her Ella. Do it.) is starting a new school with a new name and a new attitude. No more rivalries, no more 'pranks', no more glowing in the dark, and certainly no remembering the horrible night. She'll fit in, get through it, and start her 'real' life after high school. But when her muse calls, she has to answer and her art gets labeled a crime. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love a good verse novel and this is a very strong addition to the form. It has snark to spare, confronts Serious Issues with a deft hand, a crackling pace, and a memorable narrator. Of course, verse novels live or die by the narrator. A good narrator makes the poetic language feel natural and confessional. A bad narrator painfully reminds you of your own terrible teenage poetry that should most definitely be burned with fire. Ella's dark as midnight on a moonless night humor made me want to be her partner-in-crime BFF from page one. She can be cutting and is already very removed and aloof when the novel starts, but her interest in The Starbucks boy later to be known as Sam, humanizes her and adds some much appreciated warmth in the early pages. Sam's issue with his Muslim faith conflicting with his growing interest in Ella are handled well without ever seeming to mock or bash the idea o religion itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The book is wonderfully interesting to read even before the plot gets into serious motion, which is always a sign of a good novel. However, the story sometimes does seem to have a lot going on all at once. There's a love forbidden by Religion, art vs. censorship, Mom's eating disorder, general high schoolery, and Ella's painful past all thrown in the mix. Overall, I think the novel balances them pretty well and, of course, often life does hit you with everything at once, but there are places where it feels like more could have been done with less. If you like verse novels like those by Ellen Hopkins or Carol Lynch Williams, you should greatly enjoy <i>Audacious.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You find <i>Audacious</i> in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781459805309" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-20345485562840326012014-02-21T01:17:00.002-06:002014-02-21T01:22:01.020-06:00Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKNUsoiCMQtr9zVCRAcpjq76kdDI8smeOOTXG9AsqAJjS-x6ZawXTqpAEoV02YEcTu40Eicu1p0oM74nonvT5jK3yc8d-aT2uHkCgfofzL0pn912I2uabNRKTA1f1uPiBsctz0hwZKgbg3/s1600/Etiquette+&+Espionage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKNUsoiCMQtr9zVCRAcpjq76kdDI8smeOOTXG9AsqAJjS-x6ZawXTqpAEoV02YEcTu40Eicu1p0oM74nonvT5jK3yc8d-aT2uHkCgfofzL0pn912I2uabNRKTA1f1uPiBsctz0hwZKgbg3/s320/Etiquette+&+Espionage.jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger </span>(Book 1 in the Finishing School Series)<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><br />
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Sophronia Temminnick (age 14) is incorrigible, or at least her mother and most of her family think so. She likes to climb things, such as people, trees, and dumb waiters. She is also very forward in her ways (doing things that are "not done" by "proper young ladies") So when her mother learns about Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality, she decides to send Sophronia there. Unfortunately for her mother (and very fortunately for Sophronia), this is not exactly the kind of finishing school that her mother thinks it is. An attack on the group on the way to school is the first clue. The mention of a "prototype" carried by the woman who came to get her is the second. The werewolf that gets them on board the giant derrigible, which is the school, is the third. What Sophronia does not expect is to fit in so well to her new school so well, or to make some good friends along the way. Will her new skills, new friends, and incorrigible nature help get her through her first year in finishing school, get her hands on the "prototype," and foil the schemes of resident mean-girl Monique?</span><br />
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Having read Gail Carriger's Soulless, I had high expectations for Etiquette & Espionage, and I was not disappointed. Sophronia is a lot younger than Alexia, but still has the same independent and capable nature. Carriger always impresses me with her witty dialogue, and she can write a simple phrase that just has me rolling with laughter. This a very fun read, and I highly recommend it. </span><br />
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Written in the same world as her Parasol Protectorate series (set 25 years earlier), Gail Carriger takes a YA look into Victorian England and Steampunk, along with series like The Steampunk Chronicles Series by Kady Cross (The Girl in the Steel Corset, The Girl in the Clockwork Collar, The Girl With the Iron Touch), The Infernal Devices Series by Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess), The Leviathan Series by Scott Westerfeld (Leviathan, Behemoth, and Goliath), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volumes 1 and 2 (the graphic novels) by Alan Moore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second book in the series, Curtsies & Conspiracies was recently released and can be found in the New YP book section.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are interested in more Steampunk, check out the Steampunk display next to the catalog computers.</span>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010160117927519094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-58569070308989639012014-02-18T19:44:00.000-06:002014-02-18T19:44:27.968-06:00Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick YP FIC SEDGWICK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A reporter in 2073 investigates a remote island said to have discovered the secret to immortality, an archeologist in 2011 tries to dig the island's secrets from the ground, a downed pilot in WW II trying to go home, further back a painter, further back a ghost, further still a vampire, and last or first a Viking king. Throughout it all a love that lives and dies again and again. Seven stories that all make on tale of <i>Midwinter Blood</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can see very easily why this won the prestigious Printz Award. It is dark, lyrical, haunting, and stays with you every time you put the book down. It is a sad, beautiful, and frightening look at lives interconnected by love, loss, and violence. This isn't a ghastly and gory look-out-it's-right-behind-you!!! kind of book, it's a much creepier slow building tension. The feeling of inevitable and inescapable doom. The very first chapters introduce you to a strange, seemingly perfect island. Since, we've all seen the movies and read the books about perfect small towns, that alone puts the reader on edge. Sedgwick ratchets up the tension quickly but vaguely. You know something is very wrong, but not what. This will be a recurring theme! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sedgwick jumps each story further back in time repeating images, phrases, and similar characters. This can be maddening at first, because you get so little to go on to solve the ever weirder mystery. Even when you finish the book entirely you may feel like you have more questions than answers. I'd like to go on record as calling that a good thing. It's so refreshing to read a book that respects teen readers enough to let them come up with their own answers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What's so great about this book, is that it's deep and simple. Sedgwick relies on as few words as necessary making it a stark and spare style that fits his story and themes perfectly. It also makes it so much easier to be swept quickly again and again on the currents of time. This is a rare and unique novel that should be read by anyone that loves a good story, especially a dark and haunting one</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can find <i>Midwinter Blood</i> in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781596438002" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-41565931266833791332014-02-08T10:16:00.001-06:002014-02-08T10:16:36.385-06:00YALSA's announces their Printz award for 2014!!!<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association <span class="st">if you're not into that whole brevity thing) awards one and only one book with it's most coveted honor (and pretty much the biggest deal ibn YA fiction PERIOD), the Printz Award. Named in honor of </span>Michael L. Printz, a long time member of YALSA who has passed away, the Printz is given to the book that exemplifies the best of what young adult literature can do. This year's winner is...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island
inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires,
ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant. Stories of the future, the past, fate, and tragedy wrap in and out of each other in an ever widening tapestry. A strange, beautiful, and intricate novel of quiet power that will stay with you far after the last page. You can find <i>Midwinter Blood</i> in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781596438002" target="_blank">here</a>. Watch out for my review coming soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The also excellent, very prestigious, and just-an-honor-to-be-nominated honor books are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>2014 Honor Books<br /><br /><i>Eleanor & Park</i> by Rainbow Rowell YP FIC ROWELL </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two
star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never
lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. Find it in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781250012579" target="_blank">here</a>. Read my positively gushing review <a href="http://mmpl-teentalk.blogspot.com/2013/04/eleanor-park-by-rainbow-rowell-yp-fic.html" target="_blank">here</a>. <b><br /><br /><i><br />Kingdom of Little Wounds</i> by Susann Cokal YP FIC COKAL </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The wedding festivities of Scandinavian Princess Sophia are thrown into
turmoil by an illness plaguing the royal family and a courtier's plot
that places a seamstress and a royal nursemaid at the center of an epic
power struggle.
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Find it in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780763666941" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><br /><i>Maggot Moon</i> by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Julian Crouch J FIC GARDNER </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Following a stray football to the other side of a wall where there is a
secret, Standish Treadwell discovers astonishing truths about a moon
landing that the overseeing Motherland, a ruthless regime, is determined
to hide.
</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Find it in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780763665531" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><i>Navigating Early </i>by Clare Vanderpool YP FIC VANDERPOOL</b>Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian
Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary
encounters</span>. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Find it in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780385742092" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><b><br /></b></span><br />
<b><br /></b>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-85520916567765064502014-01-24T15:54:00.003-06:002014-02-03T16:59:58.290-06:00Bad Machinery: The Case of the Team Spirit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR82ELQmNUVSvEzFXNNDqB7bGRqb4X9ajD1gsNbh6caIer9g_xao51KFN0LVumMjxqrngEiUWrT6SpuiA4JM8d34EE0BdxgCQBJqdkAfkPcgKB_IBLVoNLapxacb2TnWbRQ2gJPrwXq14/s1600/bad+machinery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR82ELQmNUVSvEzFXNNDqB7bGRqb4X9ajD1gsNbh6caIer9g_xao51KFN0LVumMjxqrngEiUWrT6SpuiA4JM8d34EE0BdxgCQBJqdkAfkPcgKB_IBLVoNLapxacb2TnWbRQ2gJPrwXq14/s400/bad+machinery.jpg" /></a></div>
British artist and writer John Allison started his web comic career earlier than most — back in 1998. Though his stories and characters have changed, he sets his serialized comics in the fictional English town of Tackleford. He currently has been working on a comic series called <a href="http://www.scarygoround.com/">Bad Machinery</a>, which follows six mystery-solving Tackleford teens, all students at Griswalds Grammar School.<br /><br />
If patiently reading a comic strip panel by panel on an electronic screen isn't for you, fear not; last year Allison released the first print installment of Bad Machinery, called <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/X/0/0/5?searchdata1= 9781620100844"><em>The Case of the Team Spirit</em></a> (YP FIC ALLISON). (Volume 2, <em>The Case of the Good Boy</em>, is due out later this spring.) My colleague Luke, our young adult librarian, reviewed <em>Team Spirit</em> back in <a href="http://mmpl-teentalk.blogspot.com/2013/07/bad-machinery-case-of-team-spirit-by.html">July of last year</a> and I have to say I really agree with his take on the overseas import.<br /><br />
It's hard enough that classmates Shauna, Charlotte, Mildred, Jack, Linton and Sunny are having to navigate both a new school year and a new school. Before they know it, they're all embroiled in the same extracurricular mess. The girls resolve to help an old woman whose house is threatened because it sits on the site of a planned football (as in English football, i.e., <em>soccer</em>) stadium. The boys, on the other hand, are investigating why the local football team seems to be truly cursed with bad luck.<br /><br />
This is a fun, fast read that rocks along with humor that's both silly and snarky. The wonderfully drawn illustrations (and accompanying sound effects) tell half the story; they crackle with energy. Though the style is Allison's own, the comic has a manga-like feel to it because of its mix of heartfelt drama and sly wit. But the teens' sarcastic (and entirely believable) repartee is definitely the star of the show.<br /><br />
Allison does a great job of conveying the relationships between his main characters, the way they both support and snipe at each other. In addition, he populates Tackleford with a colorful cast beyond the story's six young protagonists, and gives each character a distinct personality, even the minor ones like the local bully and the resident middleman ("Johnny Swaps").<br /><br />
Teens and adults alike will enjoy the adventures of these young sleuths. They'll have you chuckling aloud and rooting for them as they attempt to right wrongs and and, oh yeah, suss out the supernatural while mollifying their teachers and family. We can all relate, can't we?Vivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-28880415952234540722014-01-21T18:15:00.001-06:002014-01-21T18:15:35.909-06:00Luke's Top Ten books of 2013 are:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Adam Strand kills himself, but just keeps coming back. If he can't figure out how to die, maybe he can figure out how to live.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Two outcasts find love, but don't know how to hold onto it in this sad and beautiful love story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Read my review <a href="http://mmpl-teentalk.blogspot.com/2013/04/eleanor-park-by-rainbow-rowell-yp-fic.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Cursed Pirate Girl</i> by Jeremy A. Bastian YP FIC BASTIAN</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A beautifully illustrated comic about a pirate girl with a curse and a great adventure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Read my review <a href="http://mmpl-teentalk.blogspot.com/2013/04/cursed-pirate-girl-by-jeremy-bastian-yp.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Boy Nobody</i> by Allen Zadoff YP FIC ZADOFF</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is nobody. A teen shadow assassin that goes from job to job killing whatever target he is assigned. But the new target has him questioning his orders, something that could get him killed.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Wise Young Fool</i> by Sean Beaudoin YP FIC BEAUDOIN</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The court ordered diary of an aspiring punker and his (mis)adventures that lead him in juvie and looking at what went wrong.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>The Waking Dark</i> by Robin Wasserman YP FIC WASSERMAN</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the Killing Night, where five murders killed with no motive, the sleepy town of Oleander just wants to forget. But something has changed in the people, an evil has awakened, and it will destroy the whole town if it is isn't stopped. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Winger </i>by Andrew Smith YP FIC SMITH</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ryan Dean is younger than all the other students at Pine Mountain Boarding School and both too smart and too dumb for his own good. He'll need all the help he can get of this sad, hilarious, ridiculous, and profound coming-of-(almost)age novel.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pen's world (heck the whole world) turned upside down after the Earth Shaker. Now her, a rag tag group of froends, and a dog eared copy of The Odyssey are all that stand between an army of giants, their psychotic leader, and the total destruction of the (rest) of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Read my review <a href="http://mmpl-teentalk.blogspot.com/2014/01/love-in-time-of-global-warming-by.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-69819772303120364672014-01-17T13:16:00.000-06:002014-01-17T13:16:56.114-06:00Unwritten by Mike Carey art by Peter Gross SF CAREY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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T<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ommy Taylor is a worldwide phenomenon. The boy wizard that has repeatedly bested the evil Count Ambrosio is beloved by people of all ages across the globe, and even has a almost religious following among his most fanatical fans. Tom Taylor is just the son of the author and coasting on his celebrity as the 'inspiration' for Tommy. Then a woman tells him he has it all backwards. He IS Tommy and fiction is far realer than any of us know. Happy to write her off as a raving lunatic, Tom changes his tune when he becomes targeted by a secret society dedicated to controlling all human history and destiny by controlling the stories we tell. This starts an amazing adventure beyond truth, fiction, fantasy, or reality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This series just keeps getting better and better! It starts as a mystery/thriller and the story keeps twisting and turning and adding all sorts of amazing new layers. The slower start really lets you get to know Tom and watch him grow and falter. It helps build the relationships between Tom and his two companions to something of real substance. What makes the series so great is that Tom isn't just a reluctant hero, he's not necessarily even a hero at all. He has been written to be a hero by his controlling, reality-altering father for ;the greater good', but he balks at heroism at every turn. The book's villains are definitely capital E evil, and raise the stakes remarkably well. However, Carey isn't afraid to upend everything and start anew with Volume 7. The book feels epic in scope and grandeur, without ever feeling forced or corny. It has a lot to stay about the power and source of stories and builds a fascinating and ever growing world of fiction that lies underneath our own. You will find yourself finishing one volume and jumping to the next immediately. You will also find yourself rereading several pages over and over, or even whole issues to relive a big moment. This book has serious complexity and depth and challenges the very notions of what is fiction and what is real. It does it all with a mix of action, adventure, romance, humor, and philosophy that is hard to match in comics today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">SIDENOTE: We have volumes 1-7 and a sort of prequel called Tommy Taylor and the Ship that Sank Twice. I'd wait to read it until you've finished Volume 6. That was when it was published and it fits really well there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pen has a story to tell. Stories have power and hers may just save the world. At least what's rest of it. The Earth Shaker ripped the world apart and the sea reclaimed the land. all Pen wanted was to find her family, a home, but she'll have to make a journey first. An odyssey. She'll make a new family, face down giants, and fight the man that destroyed the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the best posy-apocalyptic reimagining of the <i>Odyssey</i> I've ever read! Sure, it's the ONLY one I've ever read, but that's just another point in it's favor. Francesca Lia Block always writes beautiful stories with amazing descriptive prose that can pull you into any world or person she imagines, so it is no surprise she can make something as odd as a post-apocalypse <i>Odyssey</i> come to life. Like the <i>Odyssey</i> before it this book is really about the power of stories and storytellers. It also goes deeper into what gives the stories power. Things like hope, faith, loyalty, love, hate, death, and more. It is also about how we make our own family's but are also tied forever by the family that made us. If this all sounds pretty philosophical and heady, well, yes it is. It's also beautiful and magical and filled with an unashamed wonder of words and magic. It's a love letter to the power of belief and fantasy. It's also a look at what happens when the good things in life are betrayed and twisted. This won't be a story for everyone. It tosses and turns and gets twisted inside and out before it all comes back together. For me that was a frustrating, but ultimately rewarding experience. I realized I was taken on a journey, too. Like Pen it was not the one I wanted, but it was the right journey. If you want a very strange trip, I can't recommend this book enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can find <i>Love in the Time of Global Warming</i> in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780805096279" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-28591788479468993102013-12-26T17:45:00.001-06:002013-12-26T17:45:27.991-06:00Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang YP FIC YANG<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Boxers- Little Bao was happy with his simple life in his small village, but when foreign missionaries smash the harvest idol it leads to a path of destruction for his family. A strange man come to town that teaches the ways of kung fu, he becomes his disciple and later the student of the man's master. He learns the skills to drawn in spirits and gods to become invincible warriors. They realize they must drive out the foreign influence that is killing their nation and kill any, including women and children, that stand in their way. </span><br />
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it be and will it call for her to suffer the same fate as Joan? The Boxers are slaying Christians wherever they find them and she has put herself right in their path. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a brilliant look at cost of war, violence, and oppression. It makes no excuses for the atrocities on either side, while populating the book with all too human characters. Little Bao is driven by heartbreak, desperation, patriotism, and hope. Unfortunately, he is driven to commit atrocities against innocent people. Vibiana is driven to find some sort of destiny after being born cursed. Her early attempts to be a devil are one of my favorite parts of the whole story, as are the young Little Bao's love of Chinese opera. It was very hard to follow Little Bao down a path of darkness and watch
him continually betray his own principles. It was hard to watch Vibiana
blindly head straight to her own destruction, but in crossing paths they
find a way for the death to actually have some meaning, if only for one
person. This story of childhood to adulthood makes the death and murder that comes later all the more tragic. Yang has taken a very tricky historical period and looked at it on a human level. He populates the book with various characters of Chinese culture and Christian culture, never questioning their 'reality'. This makes the book a work of not just warring people, nations, and ideas, but of the power and dangers of stories themselves. The book offers no clear heroes and few clear villains, it also offers no easy answers. It does ask very good questions. I think it will lead most readers to seek out more information on the Boxer rebellion and Chinese history, which is always a great thing. Even if it doesn't, it stands by itself as a powerful example of what comics can do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can find Boxer in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781596439245" target="_blank">here</a> and Saints in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781596436893" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-15730801371628980532013-12-23T13:27:00.003-06:002013-12-23T13:27:29.235-06:00RASL by Jeff Smith SF SMITH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rasl is a thief. He can break into almost anywhere, steal priceless works of art, and disappear without a trace. It's easy. He just has to jump between parallel worlds! He used to be Robert Johnson, the military physicist that found the lost journals of Nikola Tesla and used them to develop the technology to jump between worlds, but after horrible betrayal and irrevocable loss he is a thief on the run with little left to live for. Then he finds that he isn't the only one jumping between worlds. The government has found him and will do anything and kill anyone to get Tesla's secret diaries. If Rasl can't stop them then they'll rip a whole big enough to destroy all parallel worlds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the best work Jeff Smith has done since his masterpiece <i>Bone</i>. It uses the unique language of visual storytelling to be much more than just an amazing noir science-fiction adventure. It is a dark and sad look at fate, love, loss, and the drive to know what makes the very universe run. Smith doesn't do very much to make Rasl very likeable. He's fairly down and almost all the way out when we meet him, and its only revenge that drives him through a lot of the story. Its through revealing his past piece by piece and having Rasl face it piece by piece that he becomes the story's hero. It also helps that eh gives us a truly repellant and malevolent villain to root against in the lizard faced Agent Crow. Crow is gleefully willing to murder again and again, because he sees parallel worlds as a sick perversion of reality that he has to exterminate. it makes for a more driven and interesting foil than a simple 'company man'. I called it noir science fiction, because it is clearly inspired by two-fisted hardboiled crime fiction and a good dose of classic sci-fi. It is not the first to mix the two by a long shot, but it is definitely the best graphic novel to do so. My only gripe is that the idea of Tesla as the genius that discovered secret science powers and lost them to history becoming a pretty tired cliche. Fortunately, the use if Tesla is very thoughtful and has deep thematic resonance to the story in <i>RASL</i>. This is not just a must read for older serious comic fans, but a must obsess over. it has all the propulsive drive that Bone had that makes you rush through your first reading, and like Bone it has so much texture and detail to make it worth revisiting again and again. Now that Smith has the best all ages fantasy comic epic ever and the best dark and gritty science fiction comic, there's no telling what is next. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can find <i>RASL</i>in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781888963373" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-32139859848013353902013-12-11T16:06:00.001-06:002013-12-11T16:06:25.979-06:00More Than This by Patrick Ness YP FIC NESS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Here is the boy, drowning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In these last moments, it's not the water that's finally done for him; it's the cold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is too late for him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He will die.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And he will die alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He wakes up. He's covered in weird bandages. Well, partially covered. He's in a strange, desolate, dried up town that seems totally empty and totally dead. Then he finds something that cannot be. His childhood home. The one in England. The one an ocean away from where he died. The one he left years ago after the tragedy that no one in his family will talk about. The tragedy that is all. his. fault. It is a dusty dead, burnt out world. A world in which he doesn't dream, so much as relive his past life in painful, frustrating detail. Since he can't really be alive and he can't really be in England. He realizes that he must be in his own personal, private Hell. But even in Hell, there has to be more than this! Doesn't there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a tough book to review, because so much of what I love about it would reveal plot twists that should go unspoiled! I can say that Ness has hit it out of the park once again with his deft use of realistic reaction and emotion in fantastic and seemingly impossible situations. The boy, Seth is a scared and scarred teen trying to survive and looking for a reason to survive. His doubts and frustration in the dead world he wakes up in and in his reliving his past are so well conveyed they feel universal. I found myself rooting for Seth whether he was gripped by loneliness and despair or searching anywhere for a glimmer of hope. Ness is able to wring drama and action aplenty with Seth just wandering around his new wasteland home, before he ever begins to reveal any of the books mysteries. For the price of one book (free because we are a library) you get a weird sci-fi (maybe) apocalytpic adventure, a devastating and harrowing look at living (and dying) with grief, a TOTAL brain twisting look at the very nature of reality itself, a beautiful and painful contemporary romance (as told in flashback), and several other wonderful surprises I won't spoil!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Young Adult fiction definitely has a lot of books where the main character has a painful past that is revealed bit by bit every few chapters until the final cathartic reveal. What makes <i>More Than This</i> stand apart is that the structure isn't just used to string the plot out, it becomes a part of the plot and the deeper themes of the book itself. Also, unlike some books that use this device, you never want to yell "HURRY UP ALREADY!!!", because BOTH worlds Seth is living in are fascinating in their own way. I highly recommend this to anyone taht wants to read something truly unique. It is going SUPER high on my Best Of list this year, and I think it will top yours too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <b><i>All the Truth That's in Me</i> by Julie Berry YP FIC BERRY</b></span><br />
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disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago,
only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by
those who were once her friends and family. Unable to speak, Judith
lives like a ghost in her own home. But when Roswell Station is
attacked, long-buried secrets come to light, and Judith is forced to
choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice, even if it
means changing her world, and the lives around her, forever.</span></span><br />
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called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle
in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. One
morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by
corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her
exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a
mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret.
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and the duty of all Englishman to help keep down the "vicious" Welshmen,
and Gwenhwyfar, a Welsh girl who must wait hand and foot on her new
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Ask the Passengers: A Novel</i> by A.S. King YP FIC KING</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Astrid Jones desperately wants to
confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of
interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid
spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly
overhead. She doesn't know the passengers inside, but they're the only
people who won't judge her when she asks them her most personal
questions . . . like what it means that she's falling in love with a
girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Reality Boy</i> by A.S. King YP FIC KING </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span id="enriched-content">Gerald Faust started feeling angry even
before his mother invited a reality TV crew into his five-year-old life.
Twelve years later, he's still haunted by his rage-filled youth--which
the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle. No one cares
that Gerald has tried to learn to control himself; they're all just
waiting for him to snap. And he's starting to feel dangerously close to
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>Openly Straight </b></i><b>by Bill Konigsberg YP FIC KONIGSBE</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a
new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep
school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The<span id="enriched-content"> story of Tim Macbeth, a
seventeen-year-old albino and a recent transfer to the prestigious
Irving School, where the motto is "Enter here to be and find a friend." A
friend is the last thing Tim expects or wants. Yet, despite his efforts to blend
into the background, he finds himself falling for the quintessential
"It" girl, Vanessa Sheller, girlfriend of Irving's most popular boy. To
Tim's surprise, Vanessa is into him, too, but she can kiss her social
status goodbye if anyone ever finds out. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Eleanor & Park</i> by Rainbow Rowell YP FIC ROWELL</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span id="enriched-content">Set over the course of one school year in
1986;this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to
know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough
to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love—and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <b><i>Winger</i> by Andrew Smith YP FIC SMITH</b></span><br />
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at a boarding school for rich kids. He's living in Opportunity Hall,
the dorm for troublemakers, and rooming with the biggest bully on the
rugby team. And he's madly in love with his best friend Annie, who
thinks of him as a little boy. Against the odds, Ryan Dean manages
to survive life's complications and even find some happiness along the
way. But when the unthinkable happens, he has to figure out how to hold
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Are You Experienced</i> by Jordan Sonnenblick YP FIC SONNENBL</b></span><br />
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Michael's death, Rich Barber, an overprotected
15-year-old, travels back in time to Woodstock. There,
he meets Michael for the first time-and gets to know his strict father
as an enthusiastic teen. Rich also runs into rock star legends ,
inadvertently ingests psychedelic mushrooms with his father, and
learns about the pressures Michael is under, including trying to
protect his brother from their terrible parents. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Unfortunately, everyone in Dust City is, which means Henry Whelp is one marked canid. His dad is doing hard time for the double murder of Little Red Riding Hood and her Granny, and everyone assumes murder is just in his blood. When there's a murder at the St. Remus for Wayward Youth, Henry is the first and only suspect. He hightails it away to the dark alleys of Dust City, a place where fairy dust is real and addictive. He'll have to find the real killer, find out the truth about what happened to Little Red, and solve the mystery of the missing fairies before he gets the axe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fresh off our <b>Fractured Fairy Tales</b> display, <i>Dust City</i> is a supremely clever mix of magic, gritty hard boiled mystery, and fairy tale. Henry like most the inhabitants of dust city is an evolved animal. Wolves, foxes, ravens, and all the animals of Dust City have evolved to walk upright, have hands,and talk, but they're still second class citizens to hominids. everyone in Dust City uses synthesized fairy dust called Dust that can heal wounds and alter minds. So this is a story about drug addicted animals and murder! If you've ever read the Non-Disneyfied version of fairy tales, you'd know they're filled with plenty of grisly murder, so a hardboiled fairy tale is actually a perfect fit. A big part of the fun is finding the cleverly re-imagined characters from famous fairy tales. Weston does a great job of laying down a thick level of atmosphere. He brings the wholly improbable to life and grounds it in a grimy and corrupt city. Like the teller of tales of old, this book has dark morals, a wicked sense of humor, and is a way to use the fantastic to look at everyday life. It did take me a couple of chapters to get the hang of how the world worked, but I ended up being glad that Weston revealed things a bit of a time. It made the story feel more 'real' somehow to not spell out how the animals and magic worked as one big info-dump in the first few pages. <i>Dust City</i> feels like a real place filled with fascinating, dangerous, and offbeat characters. Anyone that enjoys fairy tales or new twists on fairy tales will find a lot to love in Dust City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With an absolute squeaker of 47 to 46 this was proof that your vote really does count. We also had a write in vote of Miley Cyrus, so that could be the spoiler of the election. Maybe now people will finally lay off Ralph Nader! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, he said it in Frank Miller's the <i>Dark Knight Returns</i> anyways. (YP FIC MILLER)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">" I don't know what I believe anymore. Everything used to be so clear. Truth. Justice. The American Way. But now? Now, I'm not sure about anything<i>." </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Okay, he said that in J. Michael Straczynski's <i>Superman:Grounded </i>(YP FIC STRACZY).In my defense, these guys are very hard to get locked down for an interview.</span><br />
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Ahoy, mateys! Get ready to sail the seven seas with the plucky Jacky Faber! He has all the characteristics you'd want in a ship's boy serving in His Majesty's Royal Navy in 1797. Jacky's brave, resourceful and plays a mean pennywhistle.<br /><br />
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How did this come to be? Find out in L.A. Meyer's <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/57/5?searchdata1=mary%20jacky%20faber&srchfield1=TI^TITLE^SERIES^Title%20Processing^title&searchoper1=AND&thesaurus1=SERIES&search_entries1=TI&search_type1=TITLE&special_proc1=Title%20Processing&library=ALL&match_on=KEYWORD&shadow=NO&sort_by=relevance&user_id=WEBSERVER"><em>Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy</a></em> (YP FIC MEYER and YP AD FIC MEYER). When she is left abruptly without a family, Mary seeks out alternate means of survival. In doing so, she discovers that taking on the guise of a boy simplifies the already harrowing demands of an orphan left to the mercies of the street.<br />
<blockquote><em>It's easier bein' a boy, 'cause when someone needs somethin' done like holdin' a horse, they'll always pick a boy 'cause they think the dumbest boy will be better at it than the brightest girl, which is stupid, but there they are.</em></blockquote>
Mary ends up on the docks, where the Navy ship the H.M.S. Dolphin is assembling its crew. She relies on her inherent charm to earn her passage on board as a ship's boy. Soon enough, though, she learns that passing as a boy — let along a ship's boy — is only the first of many challenges she'll face in such tight quarters. She doesn't know the first thing about ships, and not all her shipmates are friendly. There'll be secret handshakes to learn, pirates to battle and adolescent love to navigate.<br /><br />
<em>Bloody Jack</em> is a rollicking beginning to the adventure series, which thus far encompasses 10 books:<br />
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<li><em>Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary 'Jacky' Faber, Ship's Boy</em></li>
<li><em>Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady</em></li>
<li><em>Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber</em></li>
<li><em>In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber</em></li>
<li><em>Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, And Lily of the West</em></li>
<li><em>My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War</em></li>
<li><em>Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy</em></li>
<li><em>The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, On Her Way to Botany Bay</em></li>
<li><em>The Mark of the Golden Dragon: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Jewel of the East, Vexation of the West, and Pearl of the South China Sea</em></li>
<li><em>Viva Jaquelina: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away</em></li>
<li><em>Boston Jacky: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Taking Care of Business</em></li>
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Perhaps what I like most about <em>Bloody Jack</em> is how it puts a girl at the front and center of the action. Jacky comes across as a young woman realistically relying on her wits to get her through tough, scary situations. She's funny and fearless, a combination that manages to both get her into trouble and out of it. No fainting flower, is our Jacky.<br /><br />
The audiobook, narrated by Katherine Kellgren, is dynamite. Kellgren voices Jacky's rough, streetwise elocution perfectly, with its outrageous grammar and colorful patois. She portrays Jacky with jaunty confidence while not neglecting honest depictions of the fear and distress Jacky feels in battle or at the thought of discovery. The narration is a wonderful way to experience the story.Vivihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07456759327379185517noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-18017053683514288582013-11-06T11:09:00.001-06:002013-11-13T09:18:26.833-06:00Batman VS Superman: Batman: Year One by Frank Miller art by David Mazzuchelli YP FIC MILLER<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In celebration of our
Batman VS Superman election, I'll be reviewing MY favorite Superman and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One night changed Bruce Wayne's life forever. A random act of violence took away his parents and gave him something new: a mission. Now, after year of training his body and mind he is ready to com home. He is ready to take back Gotham. A city of crime, sin, and corruption at the highest levels. Can one man save a city? No, but maybe a bat can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This one book, even more than Miller's also excellent the <i>Dark Knight Returns,</i> changed the course of Batman forever. It is as if Miller completely rewrote his DNA and brought Batman in all his dark glory into the real world. This is a young and inexperienced Bruce Wayne, that barely survives his first disastrous outings. It allows the reader to see the Batman form over time and have a real understanding and investment in what makes Bruce into Batman. In starting Batman over from scratch, Miler gets to the core of what makes Batman so fascinating: an obsessive drive to make sure that no one else has to watch their loved ones die by crime and a fanatical devotion to a code of honor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Miller also greatly enlarges the importance of characters that were underutilized at the time, like Catwoman and Jim Gordon. Placing a young and principled Jim Gordon on the incredibly corrupt Gotham police force made Gordon into a whole new character as vital to the Batman story as any character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mazzuchelli's art is perfect for the book. He has Batman as a menacing figure using shadows and his cape to look larger than life, but gives Bruce the realistic body of a superb athlete. This isn't the highly muscled Batman that is seen in most comics and this makes the Batman even more impressive, because he seems so much more human. The reality makes the idea of a man taking on crime single handed all the more impressive.</span><br />
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Batman's war with the mob that owns the city as compelling as any
Two-Face or Joker story ever written. If you are a fan of the
Christopher Nolan Batman films, then you owe a debt of thanks to <i>Year One</i>. This is a perfect book for both those that are already batty for Batman or total Bat-beginners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Superman is dying. A fiendish plot by the archest of fiends, Lex Luthor has overdosed Superman on solar radiation. Superman has to decide how to best spend his last days while also uncovering Lex's final plan to Take over the World! Will Superman be able to save the day one last time? Or will the Last Son of Krypton fizzle out too soon?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is my all time favorite Superman story by miles and miles. It is a two volume masterwork that pays homage to over 70 years of Superman comics. Morrison is a huge fan of the entire run of Superman, including the often wacky and bizarre storylines of the 1940s and 50s that saw Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen getting weird powers as well as all sorts of other zaniness. Morrison melds these wacky plots with a serious and at times sad and uplifting story of a dying Superman. By taking silliness seriously he is able to look at Superman as a man and a myth at the same time. There is an overabundance of big ideas that Morrison explores and the plot careens between one odd adventure to the next leaving the reader reeling. There is a mix of science fiction, comedy, two-fisted combat, horror, philosophy, and loads of other influences. Fortunately, the books many plots all end up making sense together and pay off incredibly well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The art by Frank Quitely is quite breathtaking in places. It has a fine level of detail, but remains unrealistic enough to have the garish costumes of superheroes not look silly. The beautiful art and daring design work make reading and rereading a consummate pleasure even when the plot threatens to go (way) over the reader's head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gifted with the unusual ability to embroider the very fabric of life,
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person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This upcoming Tuesday is a Not-So-Super-Tuesday. Without any large national or state level elections many people are desperate for the fun of voting with nothing to really vote on! Not to mention our poor suffering teenagers that don't even get to Rock the Voting! Well fret not voters! We have something of SUPREME consequence that requires your vote! Batman VS Superman! Who is better? Who is cooler? Who do you personally prefer? Which would when in a fight or a game of tic-tac-toe? Answer all these any any other possible permutations when you vote for the cape of your choice! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Simply turn in a bat-ballot or super-ballot between now and November 15th to make your voice heard. While you're there pick up one of many bat books or super books to help you make up your mind!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The winner will reign as THE favorite Superhero of Moore Memorial Public Library for whatever superhero terms limits are (We aren't really sure. We are on pretty shaky constitutional grounds here.). </span><br />
<br />Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-45760671656242359632013-10-29T20:01:00.001-05:002013-10-29T20:01:09.370-05:00SHOCKTOBER Undercurrent by Paul Blackwell YP FIC BLACKWELL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Callum Harris has no idea how or why he went down Crystal Falls. All he remembers is the sensation of being puled down, down, down into total blackness. When he wakes up he can't see, move, or talk, which is a big problem while his best friend tries to kill him. Aster, he finally is able to communicate he notices everyone is treating him different, hostilely. He tries to blow it off, but there are other changes. The town has shut up building which used to be stores only Callum remembers. Everyone is treating him like he's a completely different person. His home, his family, even his own dog are all different, all wrong. either everything in town has changed or he's losing his mind. Either way he needs to figure out which fast, because it isn't just his former best friend that wants him dead and reality itself seems to be pulling him under.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This book is so creeeeeepy! It's like a really awesome episode of the <i>Twilight Zone. </i>It will keep you spinning and wondering which way is up. It starts with a very tense and harrowing description of slowly coming out of a coma and not being able to communicate. These opening chapters totally hooked me. Blackwell perfectly conveys the panic and powerlessness of the situation and will have you feeling as trapped as poor Callum. Then the next chapters have him awake, but deeply paranoid as to why people suspect him in the disappearance of someone he never met and who is trying to kill him. It really draws out the eeriness of hospitals late at night. After that you feel like you can finally get a breather, but you're hit left and right with impossible changes to Callum's reality. He's constantly bouncing from situations that are both familiar and horribly foreign while trying to act 'normal' to people that see him as an almost totally different Cal. It will keep you totally off balance and as unsure as Callum if he's losing his mind or reality itself has shifted. Either way it makes for a unsettling experience. I especially liked how Callum reacts to the changes. He behaves totally realistically and is in a near panic that he has to do his best to hide. This is a lot more interesting than if he accepted his situation straight away or immediately went to theorizing and trying to 'fix' his problem. <i>Undercurrent </i>is the rare example of a great idea for a unique plot paired with great execution. If you want your mind bended, definitely check it out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Truth or Dare? It's just a stupid game, right? Not for Tenley, Caitlin, or Sydney it isn't. Sure it started as a game, but when they start receiving messages that if they want their most painful 'truths' hidden they'll have to complete more and more dangerous dares, they realize it's deadly serious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a very twisty and exciting thriller from a debut author. The novel starts off fairly quickly with the basic set up, but takes its time revealing the dark secrets of our three protagonists. Splitting between their viewpoints is a good way to keep the reader more in the loop than the heroines and build tension. Green really populates her novel with plenty of characters that are more than just set dressing. It makes the book more than just a Pretty Little Liars knock off, and something special of its own. It has a great 'just one more chapter' quality that kept me flying through its close to 400 pages! I think there are enough reversals and false clues to keep most readers guessing, but even if you DO figure out the culprit...YOU DON'T! The book ends with a twist cliffhanger that means you'll have to wait for a sequel to unlock more secrets...if you dare! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can find Truth or Dare in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209780316220361" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8769690937895218547.post-65263439015774207852013-10-15T20:29:00.000-05:002013-10-15T20:29:07.512-05:00SHOCKTOBER You Know What You Have to Do by Bonnie Shimko YP FIC SHIMKO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mary-Magdalene (Maggie to her friends) Feigenbaum seems like your average 15 year old. Sure she has a weird name and her step-dad is the local mortician. Sure her mom dresses like a trashy teenager from the 80s (coincidentally when she had Maggie) and acts more like her sister, but relatively normal. Except for the voice. The one that tells her she has to kill and how to get away with it. The one that's already had her kill once and wants her to kill again. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />This is an engrossing thriller that will garb ahold of you and keep you reading as fast as you can to the very end. It's a sick sort of thrill to be in the mind of a teenage serial killer. Since we get the entire story from her perspective, we share in her fear of getting caught instead of rooting for it. It's also really creepy that she spends so much time worrying about her relatively mundane boy problems and issues with her once-dorky friend joining the Cool Kids Table. The focus of this, distracts from the fact that we're being told the story from a cold blooded killer until the voice comes back and brings us back to sobering reality. Maggie's drive for murder is just one aspect of her life. It's
normality to her is genuinely unnerving and way more unsettling then if
she was more conflicted outwardly. Maggie is also genuinely funny, with a dry sense of humor she shares with the reader and hides form the rest of the world. This makes her both weirdly likable and made me feel complicit, like I was keeping her secrets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the book has some notable flaws that keep it from being as good as it could have been. Most the characters seem sort of thinly fleshed out, without much deep personality. However, we are getting the viewpoint of a cold blooded murderer, so that could be partially why we don't get to know them very well. Also, there's some occasional clunky dialogue and the book sometimes feels sanitized for your protection. This is clearly a deliberate choice to make the book less graphic and bleak, but it will seem unrealistic to some readers. however, it really worked for me. Maggie is a bit shy and her best friend is woefully naive, so that fit their characters relatively well. Also, keeping a lot of cursing and gory details made the book more medium dark than out and out bleak. It reminded em of Lois Duncan, R L Stine, and Christopher Pike. Always creepy and dark but usually not very explicit, but I think Shimko has the potential to out-write them all. However, I think many readers will dislike the ending. Without spoiling anything the book ends pretty abruptly and some people you expect to get the bloody justice they deserve don't. Personally, I found the ending sort of ambiguous. It definitely did end a bit too quickly and neatly for my tastes, but Maggie isn't the most reliable of narrators, so I'm not convinced as she is that her troubles are really over. Instead of feeling cheated by an anticlimax, I found it clever. It made me realize that I was looking for more violence! I was getting as bad as Maggie! I will admit that not getting more real answers about Maggie's condition was galling, but the faults are never enough to keep the book from being seriously gripping. I highly recommend it to thriller fans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can find <i>You Know What You Have to Do</i> in our catalog <a href="http://107.0.242.35:81/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=%209781477816424" target="_blank">here</a>.</span>Librarian Lukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16053586446109715367noreply@blogger.com0