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I am Apache by Tanya Landman
Gamila's Review —
Authority: 107
I am Apache by Tanya Landman Siri is horrified when the Mexicans slaughter her little brother while the warriors of her Apache tribe are away. They were supposed to be trading with one another during a time of peace but the Mexicans attacked unexpectedly, and she swears to get her vengeance. Such an oath leads her ...1 day ago -
Black Angels (MG, YA)
Becky's Book Reviews —
Authority: 499
Brown, Linda Beatrice. 2009. Black Angels. Penguin. 260 pages. Luke took the key out of the sideboard drawer in the dining room, took a rifle and put the key back very carefully. Luke is a slave contemplating running away. He hopes to join up with the Union army. He isnt quite sure where or how. But hes ready to ...3 days ago -
The unravelling
Christine Bongers —
Authority: 104
I’m at a loose end. Pull it and I’ll start to unravel. The revisions are done, the publishing Gods temporarily appeased after taking my second-born. Henry Hoey Hobson has left home, whisked away on secret publisher’s business to an unknown location, a brutal boot camp where a merciless editor will whip his ...6 days ago -
Review: Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog —
Authority: 132
232. Montmorency by Eleanor Updale Publication : Orchard (April 1, 2004), Hardback, 240pp / ISBN 0439580358 Genre : Historical Fiction, Children’s/MG Rating : Read : November 18, 2009 Source : Library Review I was caught without a book one afternoon this week and so I quickly grabbed this book ...1 week ago -
Brushing Moms Hair (YA)
Becky's Book Reviews —
Authority: 499
Cheng, Andrea. 2009. Brushing Moms Hair. Wordsong. 60 pages. Anns mom has breast cancer, and this has changed everything. Just fourteen, Ann is worrying about so much, such heavy stuff, she wishes that life could be, would be okay again. Brushing Moms Hair is a verse novel told from a young teens perspective on how ...1 week ago -
Ontario Writers’ Conference Newsletter Sign-up…
A Wandering Mind —
Authority: 107
Sign-up now for the Ontario Writers’ Conference Newsletter. Get the latest news. Get the updates as they arrive.Click on the link below, fill in your email address and click on the ‘Join Now!’ button.ONTARIO NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP First newsletter will be going out shortly. Find out what a BLUE PENCIL SESSION ...1 week ago -
Robert J. Sawyer to Speak & Teach at 2010 Conference
A Wandering Mind —
Authority: 107
Science Fiction phenom, Robert J. Sawyer will be the keynote speaker and one of the workshop instructors for the 2010 Ontario Writers’ Conference. Conference to take place on May 1st, 2010 at Deer Creek Golf & Banquet Facility in Ajax, Ontario…minutes from Toronto. For Mr. Sawyer’s bio information, please ...1 week ago -
2010 Ontario Writers’ Conference
A Wandering Mind —
Authority: 107
Registrations are now being accepted for the 2010 Ontario Writers’ Conference.What began in 2008 as the dream of a handful of organizers from the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region became a full-fledged writers’ organization in 2009.The Ontario Writers’ Conference has blossomed from its inaugural event into a ...1 week ago -
"So Mom got the postcard today."
We Be Reading —
Authority: 128
After seeing great reviews of Rebecca Steads youth novel When You Reach Me on Lena s site and others and noticing it on many TBR lists, I was really interested in reading this book. It is the story of a twelve-year old girl, Miranda, in New York City, trying to navigate the ups and downs of the sixth grade but ...1 week ago -
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fifty Books Project 2009 —
Authority: 131
I wish I were popular and beautiful and wealthy and talented. - My mind possessed the wisdoms of the ages, and there were no words adequate to describe them. --- Go Ask Alice purports to be the honest-to-goodness real diary of a poor girl who starts off as a sterling, if somewhat shy, student and is gradually ...1 week ago -
Author Highlight: Sherman Alexie
One Literature Nut... —
Authority: 122
This is one of those posts that Ive stewed about for over a month, mulling over the details and information I wanted to share. You see, last month I had the wonderful opportunity to go hear Sherman Alexie, famed author, speak at Kings English Bookstore in Salt Lake City. Even Alexie made a comment/joke about ...1 week ago -
Nanoday #14 (part one) — notes for the novel I’m writing “Heart of Clouds”
Valentine Bonnaire —
Authority: 130
Okay so, it occurs to me that the way we grew up as teens in the 70’s was very different than today. For one thing, people had less electronic stuff to distract them. People really did a lot of things by hand and so that pep talk from Lynda Barry really resonated with me. Kids surfed and rode skateboards and ...2 weeks ago -
Antsy Does Time by Neal Shüsterman
Worthwhile Books —
Authority: 110
This isn’t the kind of book I normally read, and especially not the kind of book I review here. Written in 2008, it has not achieved “classic” status. Nor does its teen-age “voice” meet my criteria for gorgeous prose. Nevertheless, it is well-written and very funny. The chapter titles (One of ...2 weeks ago -
Wanting Mor (MG, YA)
Becky's Book Reviews —
Authority: 499
Khan, Rukhsana. 2009. Wanting Mor. Groundwood Books. 190 pages. I thought she was sleeping. Jameela is a young Afghan girl with a world of sorrow. After losing her mother (the Mor in the title), her father decides to sell what he can, pack what he can, and head back to Kabul. He is her only family, and so while ...2 weeks ago -
Al Capone Shines My Shoes (MG, YA)
Becky's Book Reviews —
Authority: 499
Choldenko, Gennifer. 2009. Al Capone Shines My Shoes. Penguin. 275 pages. Nothing is the way its supposed to be when you live on an island with a billion birds, a ton of bird crap, a few dozen rifles, machine guns, and automatics, and 278 of Americas worst criminals--"the cream of the criminal crop" as one of our ...2 weeks ago -
An Ethereal Romance
A Life In Books —
Authority: 112
I first read about Laura Whitcomb’s novel A Certain Slant of Light , not to be confused with A Certain Slant of Light by Cynthia Thayer, in a book where the writer did indeed get them mixed up, but ended up reading both. I thought I read about the mix-up in Sara Nelson’s So Many Books, So Little Time , or Nick ...3 weeks ago -
Positively (MG)
Becky's Book Reviews —
Authority: 499
Sheinmel, Courtney. 2009. Positively. Simon & Schuster. 216 pages. When my mother died I imagined God was thinking, "One down, and one to go." Our heroine, Emerson Price has known she was HIV positive since she was four. (Shes now 13.) But when her mother dies, Emmys world begins to collapse. (Her mother had ...3 weeks ago -
Review: Prada and Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard
One Literature Nut... —
Authority: 122
Thanks for humoring me in my last post. I couldnt help but find it funny. Were over our midweek hump, and Im eager and excited for the next two days to come and go. At school were reading Oedipus the King in my junior classes, and were finishing up "The Knights Tale" and Beowulf in my AP classes. Theyve both ...3 weeks ago -
The Indigo King
Becky's Book Reviews —
Authority: 499
Owen, James A. The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica: The Indigo King. Simon & Schuster. 375 pages. Hurrying along one of the tree-lined paths at Magdalen College in Oxford, John glanced up at the cloud-clotted sky and decided that he rather liked the English weather. Constant clouds made for soft light; ...3 weeks ago -
Review: Physik (Septimus Heap #3) by Angie Sage
Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog —
Authority: 132
Physik (Septimus Heap #3) by Angie Sage Publication: Katherine Tegen Books (March 11, 2008), Paperback, 576pp / ISBN 0060577398 Genre: Fantasy, Childrens’/YA Rating: Find @ Amazon or IndieBound Read: October 2009 Challenges: Countdown 2010 (2007 #3) Source: Bought It’s been a while since I read the ...3 weeks ago
