tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27995215367782863682024-03-12T23:37:07.479-04:00Reading Undergroundrevolutionary books for teensPage Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05226709413706900417noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-59293761903526743742013-07-12T12:33:00.000-04:002013-07-12T12:33:18.589-04:00You Review: Sam Reviews Who Done It by Jon Scieszka<span style="font-family: Georgia;">You Review:</span> <br />
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<em>Who Done It,</em> Edited by Jon Scieszka <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Who Done It?</i> by Jon Scieszka
is a collection of fictional alibis for the murder of an editor written by a
number of authors. The alibis provide a picture of a horrible editor that in
some way abused all of his writers. The assorted alibis create an interesting
storyline that will elicit <strong>laughs throughout the entire book</strong>. Having stories by
so many authors, the reader is given an <strong>insight into the chaotic minds of
writers; a scary, but highly entertaining place</strong>. The only low points, in my
opinion, would be that the stories had become a bit repetitive by the end, and
the <strong>ending was slightly disappointing</strong>. I won’t give it away, though; you’ll
have to read it to find out<strong> “who done it?”<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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--Sam L.<br />
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<strong>What do others think? Praise for <i>Who Done It?</i> from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Who-Done-It-Jon-Scieszka/dp/1616951524" target="_blank">amazon.com</a>:</strong><br />
<strong><br /></strong>"How did you get my phone
number? Stop calling me or I'm getting the police involved."<br />
<b>—Maureen
Johnson, author of <i>The Name of the Star </i>and<i> The Last Little Blue
Envelope</i></b><br />
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“Wah-huh?”<br />
<b>—Gayle Forman, author of <i>If I Stay
</i>and<i> Where I Went</i></b><br />
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"Who are you? Why are you writing down
everything I'm saying? What book? What are you talking about?"<br />
<b>—Lemony
Snicket, author of <i>A Series of Unfortunate Events</i> and <i>Who Could That
Be at This Hour?</i></b><br />
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"Papery. And rectilinear.”<br />
<b>—Barry Lyga,
author of <i>I Hunt Killers</i></b><br />
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"Of all the books I've ever read,
this was definitely the most recent."<br />
<b>—Jennifer Smith, author of <i>The
Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight</i></b><br />
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"If you already
know who done it, this is not the book for you."<br />
<b>—Mo Willems, author of
<i>Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus</i></b><br />
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"Deliciously
cheesy."<br />
<b>—Jo Knowles, author of <i>See You At
Harry's</i></b><br />
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"Exceptionally rectangular."<br />
<b>—Kiersten White,
author of <i>Paranormalcy</i></b> <br />
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"My God. It's full of
words."<br />
<b>—Kieran Scott, author of the He's So/She's So
trilogy</b><br />
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"Not enough pictures."<br />
<b>—Ricardo Cortés, co-author of
<i>Go the F--k to Sleep</i></b><br />
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"Cures everything from sleeplessness to
insomnia."<br />
<b>—Natalie Standiford, author of <i>The Secret
Tree</i></b><br />
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"Wicked awesome."<br />
<b>—Lisa Brown, <i>How to
Be</i></b><br />
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"Who is Jon Scieszka?"<br />
<b>—Casey Scieszka, co-author of
<i>To Timbuktu</i></b>
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"I'll get back to you with a blurb as soon as I have some
time."<b><br />–Leslie Margolis, author of <i>Everybody Bugs
Out</i></b><br />
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"This book is full of slanders, falsehoods, and outrageous
defamations of character. In other words, it was perfect!"<br />
<b>—Adam Gidwitz,
author of <i>A Tale Dark and Grimm</i></b><br />
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"Without a doubt, one of the
top 10,000 books of the year."<br />
—<b>Robin Wasserman, author of <i>The Book of
Blood and Shadow</i></b><br />
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"Stays crunchy in milk."<br />
<b>—Gordon Korman,
author of <i>Swindle</i></b><br />
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"It makes an excellent step so I can reach
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<b>—Kate Brian, author of the<i> Private</i> series</b>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14341769509635184305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-53384356924438031472013-03-27T11:38:00.000-04:002013-03-27T11:38:01.786-04:00Duct Tape Yoga Mats, Rabble-Rousing Frontierswomen, Brains on Drugs, Tales of Treachery and Deceit: New Non-Fiction Has Arrived!Hello readers!<br />
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Brief biographies of infamous women, from Delilah and Cleopatra to Pearl Hart and Bonnie Parker, with commentary about each woman's "badness" from the authors in graphic form.</div>
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616.83 PATTERSO (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life became a hell of irrepressible tics and involuntary utterances, and Cory embarked on an excruciating journey from specialist to specialist to discover the cause of his disease. Soon it became unclear what tics were symptoms of his disease and what were side effects of the countless combinations of drugs. The only certainty is that it kept getting worse. This is the true story of Cory and his family's decades-long battle for survival in the face of extraordinary difficulties and a maddening medical establishment.</div>
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by Sandra K. Athans<br />
796.522 ATHANS (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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Who wouldn't want to stand on <span class="hotspot">top</span> of <span class="hotspot">the</span> world--at <span class="hotspot">the</span> summit of Mount Everest, Earth's tallest mountain? Thousands have made <span class="hotspot">the</span> climb. Not all who attempt it reach <span class="hotspot">the</span> summit. Some die trying. Pete Athans has stood on <span class="hotspot">top</span> of <span class="hotspot">the</span> world seven times. Nicknamed Mr. Everest, Pete has encountered danger and excitement along <span class="hotspot">the</span> way--<span class="hotspot">from</span> avalanches to deadly snowstorms. Take an up-close look at <span class="hotspot">the</span> mountain and follow Pete all <span class="hotspot">the</span> way <span class="hotspot">from</span> base camp to <span class="hotspot">the</span> summit.<br />
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by Brandon Marie Miller<br />
978 MILLER (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight
traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara
Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha
Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are
introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the
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by Marc Aronson<br />
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Aronson unmasks the man behind the Bureau--his tangled family history and personal relationships; his own need for secrecy, <span class="hotspot">deceit</span>, and control; and the broad trends in American society that shaped his world.<br />
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by Rebecca L. Johnson<br />
578.65 JOHNSON (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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back to live and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things
that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them
into senseless slaves. Meet nature's zombie makers--including a fly-enslaving
fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp--and their
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By Lee R. Berger & Marc Aronson<br />
569.9 BERGER (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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<span class="hotspot">The</span> story of how a boy, a dog, a scientist, and Google Earth found a nearly two-million-year-old fossil from a skeleton that just may rewrite <span class="hotspot">the</span> story of human evolution<br />
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by Mary Boone<br />
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The United States is experiencing a new British Invasion—One Direction, the
British boy band that has captured the hearts and attention of young Americans
in a way that can only be compared to the Beatles. With the recent U.S. launch
of their new album <i>Up All Night</i> and their current North American tour,
Niall, Zayn, Liam, Harry, and Louis have taken the United States by storm, and
this account details how five solo contestants on Britain's <i>X Factor</i> in
2010 came together as a band to finish third on the program. <br />
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<a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f538$002fSD_ILS:538847/email?qu=courage+has+no+color&d=ent://SD_ILS/538/SD_ILS:538847~ILS~0~0&te=ILS" target="_blank">Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers</a><br />
by Tanya Lee Stone<br />
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Examines the role of African Americans in the military through the lens of the untold story of the Triple Nickles, who became America's first black paratroopers and fought in a little-known World War II attack on the American West by the Japanese.<br />
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<a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f538$002fSD_ILS:538844/email?qu=their+skeletons+speak&d=ent://SD_ILS/538/SD_ILS:538844~ILS~0~0&te=ILS" target="_blank">Their Skeletons Speak: Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World</a><br />
by Sally M. Walker and Douglas W. Owsley<br />
569.9 WALKER (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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Discusses the processes used by scientists to discern the identity of the Kennewick Man and what this more than nine-thousand-year-old <span class="hotspot">skeleton</span> revealed about the arrival of humans in North America.</div>
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by Russell Freedman<br />
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by Austin Kleon<br />
153.35 KLEON (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the
message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity
is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age,
<i>Steal Like an Artist</i> is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and
illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with
their artistic side.<br /><br />When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students
in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished
someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its
author dug deeper into his own ideas to create <i>Steal Like an Artist</i>, the
book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And
filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace
influence, col- lect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path.
Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and
risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring
in your imagination.</div>
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by Laura Barcella<br />
001.9 BARCELLA (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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You’ve probably heard rumors that the end of the world was going to happen in the
year 2012. But people have been making predictions about how and when the world
is going to end for ages.<i> The End</i> is a fun, comprehensive, pop culture
read about the 50 top movies, books, songs, comics, artworks, and plays—from the
movie <i>Shaun of the Dead</i> to the pop song "It’s the End of the World as We
Know It"—that have been created about the apocalypse. <br />
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by Wilfred Santiago<br />
796.357 SANTIAGO (YA Non-Fiction Graphic Novel)<br />
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21 is an all-ages graphic biography of baseball
star Roberto Clemente. No other baseball player dominated the 1960s like Roberto Clemente, and
no other Latin American player achieved his numbers. 21 chronicles his early
days growing up in rural Puerto Rico, the highlights of his career (including
the 1960s World Series), the prejudice he faced, his private life and his
humanitarian mission. Santiago captures the grit of Clemente's rise from his
impoverished childhood, to the majesty of his performance on the field, to his
fundamental decency as a human being, in a drawing style that combines realistic
attention to detail and expressive cartooning.<br />
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by Jim Murphy<br />
974.765 MURPHY (YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in
upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of
epic proportions. News of the giant spreads like wildfire, and well over a
thousand people come to view him in the first five days alone!<br /><br />Everyone
has their own idea of his true origin: Is he an ancient member of the local
Onandaga Indian tribe? Is he a biblical giant like Goliath? Soon the interests
of world-renowned scientists and people from around the globe are piqued as
arguments flare over who he is, where he came from, and if he is real--or just a
hoax.<br /><br />In a riveting account of how the Cardiff Giant mystery snowballed
into one of America’s biggest money-making spectacles--and scams--Jim Murphy
masterfully explores the power of 19th-century media and the unexpected ripple
effect that a single corrupt mastermind can produce when given a
stage.<br />
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questions asked by girls in one half of the book; flip it over and questions
asked by boys are on the other side. Contains honest, informative, and
reassuring answers to questions pre-adolescents have about puberty, friends,
feelings, sex, pimples, babies, body hair, menstruation, bras, and much more.
<br /><br />Straightforward answers to REAL questions from preteens
are provided by an experienced nurse-and-physician team who have been giving
popular seminars to moms and daughters, and dads and sons, in Seattle and Palo
Alto for more than twenty years. Each of the questions in the book has been
asked--many of them frequently!--by kids during their seminars. </div>
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by Richela Fabian Morgan<br />
745.5 MORGAN(YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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Presents dozens of creative ideas and easy-to-follow instructions for using versatile duct <span class="hotspot">tape</span> to <span class="hotspot">make</span> everything from coin purses to neckties, from elegant artificial flowers and highly original Halloween costumes to a duct <span class="hotspot">tape</span> yoga mat!<br />
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Ed. by Kristin Anderson and Miranda Kenneally<br />
305.235 <span class="hotspot">DEAR </span>(YA Non-Fiction)<br />
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Tom Angleberger, Ellen Hopkins, Lauren Oliver, Sara Zarr, and many more write letters to their teen selves. The letters cover a wide range of topics, including physical abuse, body issues, bullying, friendship, love, and enough insecurities to fill an auditorium.<br />
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by Eric Greitens<br />
GREITENS (YA Biography)<br />
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In this adaptation of his best-selling book, <i>The Heart and the Fist</i>, Eric
speaks directly to teen readers, interweaving memoir and intimate second-person
narratives that ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of himself and
others. Readers will share in Eric’s evolution from average kid to
globe-traveling humanitarian to warrior, training and serving with the most
elite military outfit in the world: the Navy SEALs.<br />
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In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.<br />
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Sisters Alice and Charlie, who have a love-hate relationship, experience a new test to their bond when they relocate to the secretive town of Serenity Point, where they fight to belong and vie for the attentions of an alluring young man.<br />
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A teenaged pickpocket, haunted by the ghost of his brother killed by his father, is recruited for Mandel Academy, a school for criminals where only one student survives each semester.<br />
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Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.<br />
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A fifteen-year-old Australian girl gets her first job and first crush on her unattainable university-aged co-worker, as both search for meaning in their lives.<br />
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When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.<br />
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When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten, but also facts about themselves and their families that reveal they have much in common.<br />
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Samara is intrigued by her flirtatious co-worker, Caleb, but his secrets draw Samara into a world that places her loved ones in danger, forcing her to take a risk that will change her life forever.<br />
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Hudson Avery gave up a promising competitive ice skating career after her parents divorced. Now she spends her time baking cupcakes and helping out in her mother's upstate New York diner, but when she gets a chance at a scholarship and starts coaching the boys' hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all.<br />
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A gaming-obsessed boy is sent to camp to become a man--but ends up on a fantastical (and funny) journey that will change his life forever.<br />
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Having spent several years in and out of hospitals for a life-threatening illness, pragmatic sixteen-year-old Cam is relocated by her miracle-seeking mother to a town in Maine known for its mystical healing qualities.<br />
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Almost seventeen-year-old Alison, who has synesthesia, finds herself in a psychiatric facility accused of killing a classmate whose body cannot be found.</div>
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When beautiful high school student Lexi is involved <span class="hotspot">in</span> an automobile accident that leaves her disfigured, she must learn who she really is beyond a pretty face, <span class="hotspot">and</span> she must also learn to forgive.<br />
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Sent to do volunteer work at the Whitechapel Hospital in the east end of London in 1888, seventeen-year-old Abbie discovers the identity of Jack the <span class="hotspot">Ripper.</span></div>
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<span class="hotspot">Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Jane has attempted suicide more than once, but Jane knows the truth: her shadow is trying to kill her</span><br />
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<span class="hotspot">Matt and Billy have to contend with the vampires that prey on tourists in the resort town of Sandy Hollow, while Pete encounters vampires at his new school.</span><br />
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<span class="hotspot">Two girls: Best friends Hattie and Delores feel that life in their small New Hampshire town is a dead end. One horse: Old and about to be put down, Speed gets a reprieve when Hattie and Delores decide to save him. A road trip: Determined to set Speed free, Hattie and Delores drive him west in search of rangeland. But the road takes some unexpected turns as the girls get their own taste of freedom.</span></div>
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<span class="hotspot">Fourteen-year-old Grace must find a way to get her older sister out of a princess-filled virtual reality RPG (role playing game)--before it is too late.</span><br />
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<span class="hotspot">In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young <span class="hotspot">Sophia</span> Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.</span><br />
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<span class="hotspot">Scorned in her Flatlands village because of a deformed foot, Emmeline Thistle's life changes when she is taken in by Wanderlands dairy farmers and discovers her magical ability to make chocolate, which is more precious and rare than gold or jewels in the kingdom of Anglund.</span><br />
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14341769509635184305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-90028606930108534592013-03-12T10:02:00.002-04:002013-03-29T13:07:57.939-04:00Sarah's Picks: The Catastrophic History of You and Me<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi readers</span>! <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My name is Sarah, and I work in the Young Adult Department at the Charleston
County Public Library. Some of my favorite things are: the first day in spring
when it's warmer outside than inside, my dog, Chip, and (naturally)
a good book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was hooked after reading the title. Then to learn that <a href="http://www.jessrothenberg.com/" target="_blank">Jess Rothenberg</a> is a local! I was primed to love this book, and it did not disappoint. Here's the premise:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Before her sixteenth birthday, Brie's heart is LITERALLY broken in half after her boyfriend tells her he doesn't love her. She goes on a quest to make sense of what happened (with her guide, Lost Soul Patrick) and work through the <a href="http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/" target="_blank">five stages of grief</a> in order to move on from her life--and death--on earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I liked this book's inventive conceit; it explores the idea of what happens after you die without being too preachy or serious. </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There's also an excellent dog character (one of my metrics for determining what is a good book) with an excellent name (<a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/ham-loaf-i/" target="_blank">Hamloaf</a>). Another cool feature of the book is the integration of musical tidbits.</span>
I challenge you to try to identify which songs all of the titles come from (before looking in the back--no cheating)! </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To sum it up, this book is light and delicious as a <a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/meringue-cookies-forgotten-kisses-recipe/index.html" target="_blank">meringue cookie</a>. A perfect blend of romance, supernatural, mystery, humor, and adventure, it is a great one to take to the beach and remember <a href="http://www.onedirectionmusic.com/us/biography/entry/the_one_direction_story1/" target="_blank">your first love</a>--and first heartache.</span><br />
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In this edition of You Review, awesome YA reader Sam L. reviews<em> Carpe Diem</em> by Autumn Cornwell.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carpe Diem </i>centers on Vassar Spore, an overachieving 16-year-old girl who has her
life planned perfectly for the next 10 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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blackmailed by her eccentric, globe-traveling Grandma Gerd into allowing their
only daughter to travel through Southeast Asia for the summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through the crowded streets, questionable
food choices, and treks up impossible mountains, Vassar attempts to learn the
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reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carpe Diem, </i>it has<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>quickly become one of my favorite
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the novel is not only humorous, but also--for the most part--believable, while
the Southeast Asian setting provides the perfect backdrop for adventure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excellent writing paired with just enough
information about the languages and places Vassar visits make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carpe Diem</i> an exceptional read well
worth your time.<o:p></o:p>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14341769509635184305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-12238600640988228312012-12-11T11:58:00.000-05:002013-02-28T12:51:04.906-05:00YALLFest 2012Hello, readers!<br />
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I had the pleasure of being at <a href="http://yallfest.org/" target="_blank">YALLFest 2012,</a> and I'd like to share some photos (thanks to Darcy C. and Jen H. for their awesome camera skills) and highlights, as well as feature some new titles from YALLFest 2012 authors. As always, just click on the title of the book to be magically transported to our online catalog, where you can place a hold on a book and have it sent to your neighborhood CCPL branch.<br />
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<li>Whipped cream pies MUST be made just moments before shoving in someone's face, or else they become sugary slop</li>
<li>Pseudonymous Bosch's real name (BUT I'LL NEVER TELL!)</li>
<li>That Andrea Cremer loves animal collective nouns (e.g., an exaltation of larks)...and sexual innuendo</li>
<li>YA authors overwhelmingly like torturing their characters.</li>
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On the Friday before the big day, we rolled out the red carpet (figuratively and literally) for seven of the biggest names in YA lit here in the Teen Lounge. From left to right, pictured here are Psuedonymous Bosch, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl, Michelle Hodkin, Gitty Daneshvari, and Carrie Ryan. They were all just as amazing as their books would indicate!<br />
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The finale event, the YA Smackdown, was also loads of fun. During the Smackdown, the authors were grouped into teams loosely based on their writing genre of choice and competed in improv and storytelling games. It all culminated in several authors (and, somewhat inadvertently, me) getting whipped cream--well, more like melted cream--pies in the face.<br />
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I can't wait for next year, and I'm so excited to read some of the new titles out from the 2012 crew (many of whom will hopefully return for YF 2013!). So check out these shiny new YALLFest titles, and reserve the second weekend in November 2013 on your calendars for the next pie-wielding YALLFest installment.<br />
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<em>Black Heart</em> (Curse Workers #3) by Holly Black<br />
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Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, is torn between his decision to work for the federal government and his love for Lila, who has joined her father's criminal organization.<br />
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When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.</div>
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<em>Unspoken </em>by Sarah Rees Brennan<br />
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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.<br />
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Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes that uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.<br />
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A suicidal girl is stranded in the Arctic after a plane crash and must fight for survival with the help of the only other survivor.<br />
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Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo for the summer, but when she rescues an abused baby bonobo she becomes more involved in her mother's sanctuary--and when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the apes and somehow survive in the jungle.<br />
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November is not just the month where men have an excuse to grow horrid mustaches (claiming it's "<a href="http://us.movember.com/about/" target="_blank">Movember</a>" or "No-Shave November"). No, November is also National Novel Writing Month, or <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/" target="_blank">NaNoWriMo</a>. In honor of <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/" target="_blank">NaNoWriMo</a>, we'd like to publish a fabulous short story by a fabulously talented young writer. This story is the winner of CCPL's 2012 Short Story Writing Contest for Teens (earning a $25 Visa Gift Card!). Check it out, then check out <a href="http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/" target="_blank">NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program</a> and start writing your own novel!<br />
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of the Library. </em>I’d always had a fondness for detective novels, growing up
with the adventures of <em>Nancy Drew</em>,
but this one looked different. It looked special.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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centimeters when there was a quiet <em>click</em>,
and then a slight creaking sound as the bottom half of the bookcase swung
inward to reveal what appeared to be a dark little room.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shined it in the space which was not a little room at all but a tunnel. It had
a very low ceiling, so low than unless you were a very young child you should
have to hunch over to avoid bumping your head. And being the very curious girl
I was, with little hesitation I started going down the tunnel.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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air permeated by musky smells that comes from being seldom seen by sunlight.
After walking for a few minutes, the tunnel turned into a flight of stairs
leading downwards. Once I completed climbing down the twenty or so steps, my
torchlight flitted about what looked to be a fairly large underground room.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the best way to described it. Shelves lined one entire wall, filled to the brim
with books of every size and colour imaginable. One corner looked to be
something of a kitchen, complete with a hotplate, one very small sink, and even
a little makeshift cabinet for the scant few dishes. Another corner was clearly
supposed to be a bedroom, complete with curtains surrounding a bed and a
nightstand covered with books.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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some work tables and chairs, holding all manner of things. One was covered in a
collection of paints, paper, and artwork in varying stages of completion.
Another held what looked to be a bow and many arrows, as well as feathers and
crafting tools, and my eyes found a very battered target hanging on the far
wall. And yet another was layered with pages and pages of a mixture of
handwritten and typed paper. But amidst it all there were books everywhere.
Children’s books stacked near a couch. Large pictures books left open over
tables, chairs, and floor. And novels everywhere, some with rather unnatural
bookmarks sticking out, such as a wooden spoon or a tin of tuna fish, to name a
few.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Someone clearly lived here, and by the looks
of it they had been here for quite some time, such was the amount of
accumulated things; what a kind person would call knick-knacks while a not as
kind person would refer to as junk.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about to pull out an interesting title when I heard someone scream.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em>~2~<o:p></o:p></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“AHHH! WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN
MY ROOM?”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I turned around to see a girl standing in a
doorway on the other side of the room that I had previously not seen, looking
rather ferocious. The first thing I noticed was how pale she was, and not in an
elegant way either, but in a way that suggested she rarely saw sunlight. She
was tall and skinny with long tangled bright orangey-red hair, a colour I
didn’t even know could actually be found on a person.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Oh...er, I’m terribly sorry, only I found
the tunnel in the bookcase. In non-fiction. And I, well, I came here and was just
having a look around. Really I’m so sorry to nose about your home.” I answered.
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Used the bookshelf door, did you? Thanks
for that then, I forgot what was the right book so I haven’t used it in ages.
So what brings you to my humble abode, outsider?” the girl said.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Well, I was looking for a book for school
you see. And happened to pull <em>The Secret
of the Library </em>and so here I am. Do you really live down here?”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Of course I do! I’m Katherine, the
unofficial library hermit, nice to meet you!”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Katherine, in her very worn looking blue
jumper and slightly tattered green skirt, had a presence that instantly
commanded a room, and she spoke with such enthusiasm that her every sentence
ended with a exclamation mark.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Very nice to meet you,” I replied, “My name
is Melody.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Hi there! Tell me, Melody, do you like
reading?” she asked me, all hostility gone and replaced with a warm kindness
and just a sliver of mischief.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Why yes, I love reading,” I said. “And how
old are you, may I ask?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Brilliant! Let me show you this really
great book I read last night. It was so exciting, come on! Oi, do you fancy a
cup of hot chocolate?” She ran over to the hotplate and put the kettle on, then
went over to the nightstand and selected a book from the precariously teetering
pile and hopped her way back over to me.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The next few hours were ones I will never
forget as long as I live. We just started chatting and it ended up going on for
ages, with our conversation touching almost everything, from a discussion on the
characters of <em>The Great Gatsby</em> to a
rather lively debate on the various merits and faults of sunflowers. I told
Katherine all about my family and my childhood, but she always managed to turn
the conversation back to me before I could ask about her. Back then I was too
enthralled with my new friendship to give it much of a bother, and thought that
she was merely very interested in me. In retrospect, I wish I had tried harder
to learn about the mysterious past of Katherine, but I never got a chance and
she never told me.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">After quite a few hours we parted, as I had
to get home for dinner, with the promise of another visit the following
Saturday. On my walk home, I told myself that next week I would get answers,
especially to how this girl came to live alone in a forgotten secret basement
of my local library.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em> ~3~<o:p></o:p></em></div>
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part of spring, about every week I would go and visit Katherine for a few
hours. We never did exactly the same thing. Sometimes we painted or shot arrows
or old played games from Katherine’s rather impressive collection of them, but
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the library basement, or her “lair,” as she preferred to call it, for two
years, and over those years had managed to rig up electricity from the library
for her lamps and hotplate, as well as water for the sink. She also “borrowed”
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but Katherine was always slightly vague and whenever I did press her about her
life or why she came to live there she only replied, “Oh, that’s dull as
bricks! Let’s talk about something fun!” and change the subject. I soon learned
to avoid bringing it up altogether, knowing I would only make things tense for
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unorthodox way of living, those few months were some of the happiest times of
my life. I had a friend who I got on so well with, who I shared so many common
interests with, and who was such a joy to be around. I never considered it
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May, when I mentioned how tiring it was having to fill out so many university
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“University? Mels, why in the world do you
need to go there. You could learn everything you need to here at the library
with me!”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I was worried I would upset her, as she was
easily upset by my talking about anything further in our futures than next
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Well yes, Katherine, I have to go to
university so I can get a degree and get a job. That’s just what you do.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“You can just come live in the library with
me. We’d have tonnes of fun!” she said with her trademark enthusiasm.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I remember actually considering just leaving
everything, my family,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my education, the
one or two sort-of friends I had. Just forgetting it all to live in Katherine’s
world, where every day was a new chance for some kind of shenanigans, where
freedom was vast, but it wasn’t unlimited.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Except I was excited for university. I
wanted to finally take classes that were interesting, to maybe find some decent
friends, go to parties, to do normal university activities.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“No, I can’t, Katherine,” I replied, and
cracked the bubble we had been living in together the last few months, “I want
to go to university and have a proper life. I’m going to get married and have
kids and live in a house with a garden and I won’t stay down here rotting away
with you in your dungeon of a home. I will go outside and see the world and I
will not stay hidden away because I’m scared of everything I can’t control and
keep hidden with me.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“WHAT?” she said, her face becoming a mass
of fury I had never seen before. I had insulted her home and her way of life,
the two things most precious to her. “You want to go live in the world where
people are cruel and heartless? Don’t tell me that isn’t true, because I know
it is. I didn’t always live here, you know, and I love the way I live because
it’s safe and nobody will ever hurt me again. <em>Nobody</em>!” She was almost crying, and now I felt extremely guilty for
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“Katherine. Please. I’m sorry. I like the
way you live but I want to do more than just read and shoot arrows. I’ll still
visit you, even if I live far away, when I come home for holidays,” I replied,
trying to piece together our old closeness. Trying to keep things the way they
were. “Everything will be fine, you’ll see! Should we make some hot chocolate?”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all anger dead and gone, leaving behind only sadness. “I think it’s time for
you to go. It’s getting late. Your mum might worry.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“But are you still mad at me? Are we still
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she replied, with only a hint of her usual cheer.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with her, the tension not gone as much as it had a band-aid put on that would
inevitably fall off. But I didn’t want to be home late, and I thought we could
just sort it out properly next week. And so with an, “Okay, I’ll see you next
week, Katherine!” I left. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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back and saw her standing there, something she had never done before. Usually
the second I started walking away she was up and moving a thousand kilometres
an hour, off to start a new project. But this time she was still, her massive
mess of red curls still, with a sad smile on her face.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Katherine’s room was dark. I had never seen it without all the lights on
before, even that first time I saw it everything was bright and alive.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on all her various lamps. Nothing was different. The tables were still covered
with all manner of projects, her bed unmade as usual, and the books everywhere.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Then I saw the note. On the couch where we
had spent many hours talking together lay a small piece of folded paper with
“Mels” written in Katherine’s sloppy writing on the front. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of tearstains dotting the page, covered in words that became less and less
legible until they finally and messily ended with her lonely initial. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your advice and gone to try and find myself a proper life. I won’t be coming
back to the library. It was such a privilege and joy to be your friend these
last few months and I’ll always fondly remember all the laughs we had. Have a
fantastic life!<o:p></o:p></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I read it over a few times, trying to
process that she was actually gone. It was my fault, I thought. My words had
pushed her to leave her home and leave me without her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Katherine’s energy was so great that it
couldn’t help but manifest in even a simple goodbye note, she was always so
full of spirit and excitement, ready for the next adventure. Only the orphaned
“I’m sorry” confused me. What was she apologising for, moving out? I couldn’t
contain my happiness for her; she had finally left her self-imposed
imprisonment and was going out into the world to live her life.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And so with a hopeful spring in my step that
maybe someday I would see Katherine, now tan and healthy but still just the
same, I turned off all the lights and left the basement for the last time, a
place that would become only a memory.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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habit of scanning the newspaper my father got every morning for something,
anything, that may have even hinted at Katherine. Maybe a story about a young
girl who found her long lost family and was happily living with them in a
nearby town, or better yet a teenager who had taken the movie business by storm
with her fiery hair and personality to match. I missed her, of course, but
contented myself imaging all kinds of fantasies in which Katherine finally
found herself a proper life.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Unfortunately my newspaper perusing was all
for naught. I read plenty of articles about who was most likely to win the
upcoming elections. There was one very sad article about a girl who had jumped
off the bridge just the week before, and a rather colourful article on catfish
farming, but nothing that could be about Katherine.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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never know what my dear friend Katherine went on to become, but I comforted
myself knowing that whatever she did, she would do it brilliantly.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">And so I went on to attend university, which
wasn’t as fun as I had built it up to be. Followed by a number of jobs I hated
until I finally found one I hated slightly less than the others. I had a number
of relationships, but none of them ever amounted to anything. Many times over
the years, I wished for the easy playfulness of the library basement with
Katherine.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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afternoons with her. She taught me to always look deeper when reading books, to
imagine characters as people and really think about things like author intent
and metaphors.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">She taught me that the library is more than
just a building full of books and more than a place of knowledge; it is a home.
But for me and Katherine it was refuge for two lost souls who needed each
other.</span><span lang="en-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14341769509635184305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-27646599986980116622012-09-11T14:05:00.000-04:002013-02-25T13:24:31.190-05:00Sarah's Picks: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AA673FsXsOE/UE5tCmk1jfI/AAAAAAAAA2w/A2beQfC3upQ/s1600/Sarah+Kellner+tiny2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AA673FsXsOE/UE5tCmk1jfI/AAAAAAAAA2w/A2beQfC3upQ/s1600/Sarah+Kellner+tiny2.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi there! <span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">My
name is Sarah, and I work in the Young Adult department at the Charleston County
Public Library. Some of my favorite things are: the first day in spring when
it's warmer outside than inside, my dogs, Chip and Izzy, and (naturally) a
good book.</span></span></span><br />
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The book for this round of my picks was pretty easy to, well, pick. Starting today, September 11, teens around the lowcountry are encouraged to try their hand (click<a href="http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?id=134119&action=detail&catID=5367&parentID=5368" target="_blank"> here</a>!) at identifying the places we left copies of Jonathan Safran Foer's <em><a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f359$002fSD_ILS:359467/email?qu=extremely+loud+and+incredibly+close&d=ent://SD_ILS/359/SD_ILS:359467~ILS~5~6&te=ILS" target="_blank">Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close</a></em>. See a sneak peek here:<br />
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Also, I happen to love the book. And have a teensy-tiny (literary) crush on the author.<br />
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In the novel, a young Oskar Schell goes on a mission to find a lock. The lock must match the key that belonged to his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks. Interspersed with newspaper articles, photographs, business cards, and plenty of other tidbits, Oskar's quest will captivate you, break your heart, make you cry, make you laugh. Foer brings his unique writing style to another (also read <em>Everything is Illuminated</em>!) unique narrator. <br />
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First sentence: "What about a teakettle?" <br />
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Okay, so you can take this information and run with it--run all the way to any of our branches to check out the book, to our <a href="http://charlestoncounty.lib.overdrive.com/CE3154F1-F14D-4010-B8D0-3792154D17B5/10/967/en/ContentDetails.htm?ID=B940E5CA-F4EC-45CD-837D-F1136040C512" target="_blank">catalog of downloadable books</a> to read an e-copy, to <a href="http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?id=134119&action=detail&catID=5367&parentID=5368" target="_blank">our scavenger hunt website</a>, and/or to meet Mr. Foer (you can bet I'll be there!) on Tuesday, October 23rd at College of Charleston's TD Arena at 5pm.<br />
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Happy reading,<br />
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SarahSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14341769509635184305noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-37195226076335134592012-08-16T15:56:00.001-04:002013-02-26T12:49:08.448-05:00Palmer's Picks: Gimmie Some Manga! Review of Dororo by Osamu Tezuka<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLweCDGoXWp71r5-iGnKetDxFiUH35chdS53wiiBQEZFnbgWjhwx1RYMNduIwjtEc0PpVm3qYmwzei8_TEgRKh71CHkSvvIoIuX0u0HYjCzbeJmkkPdtflmpfoQJz5co8KhHlD54kTL7OR/s1600/pglasses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLweCDGoXWp71r5-iGnKetDxFiUH35chdS53wiiBQEZFnbgWjhwx1RYMNduIwjtEc0PpVm3qYmwzei8_TEgRKh71CHkSvvIoIuX0u0HYjCzbeJmkkPdtflmpfoQJz5co8KhHlD54kTL7OR/s1600/pglasses.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hi guys! My name's Palmer, and I work in the </span><a href="http://facebook.com/teenunderground"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Young Adult Services department</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> of the </span><a href="http://ccpl.org/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Charleston County Public Library</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. I love graphic novels, root beer floats and thunderstorms (and flip glasses). I also love finding truly awesome books and sharing them with you avid readers! Remember to click on any title to put it on</span><br />
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Is is cheesy for me to describe Dororo as a super-sweet story of adventure, friendship, and family that mixes in some amazing Japanese supernatural lore? What if by super sweet, I mean super awesome, super action-packed, and super funny (although Dororo does have a few tender moments)? The hero of Dororo is a young <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronin">ronin</a> (a masterless warrior) named Hyakkimaru who was born with some serious issues. Our story opens with Hyakkimaru's father, quite the power-hungry guy, offering up fourty-eight parts of his yet unborn son to fourty-eight demons in exchange for control of the region. As a result, Hyakkimaru is born without things like eyes, ears, arms, legs, a nose, and a voice. Fourty-eight missing parts in all makes Hyakkimaru quite unlike your typical infant and unlikely to survive, so his grieving mother sends him downriver in a basket to his fate. Lucky for Hyakkimaru, a kindly doctor discovers him in the river and raises the child as his own, discovering that despite his fourty-eight disadvantages, Hyakkimaru has developed senses beyond the abilities of a normal human and can function quite well without his missing parts. As Hyakkimaru grows into a boy, the doctor begins to construct prosthetics to help the lad appear a little less unusual to the outside world. The prosthetics make Hyakkimaru's life easier for a while, but the growing boy seems to be attracting some unwanted supernatural attention...<br />
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The belief in demons, ghosts, ghouls, ogres, and goblins is a very old and rich part of Japanese tradition, particularly in rural areas, like where the events of Dororo take place. I recently visited the <a href="http://www.morikami.org/">Morikami Japanese Museum and Gardens</a> in Delray Beach, FL, which happened to be featuring an exhibition on supernatural elements in Japanese art. Some of the beautiful illustrations from centuries-old scrolls and pottery look just like Tezuka's depictions of the many diabolical spirits that Hyakkmaru encounters on his adventures. <br />
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And what adventures they are! Hyakkimaru discovers that he regains a part of his body with each demon he destroys and soon finds himself able to see, speak, and do all the things that normal human boys can do. Accompanying him on his adventures is our title character Dororo, meaning "little monster", a young but skilled thief with a lot of spunk and a soft spot for good food, shiny swords, and anything cute. <br />
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To my mind, Dororo is a true work of art. Author Osamu Tezuka's style is unmistakable and so inviting to read. For those who aren't already familiar with his work, Osamu Tezuka is also known as the father of manga. In fact, it was Tezuka who originated the large-eyed look we so often associate with manga today, having drawn on influences such as Disney's Bambi and American comic book characters like Betty Boop. Anyone who reads Dororo or any of Tezuka's works can see the similaries in his drawing style and the "Disney" and old comic-book styles we American readers are so familiar with. Despite being over 30 years old, Dororo holds the distinction of being a 2009 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisner_Award">Eisner Award</a> winner and its new Omnibus edition, containing all volumes of Dororo in one delightfully thick package, features a wonderfully modern cover for this timeless manga. <br />
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If you're at all a fan of manga, or just regular ol' comics, do yourself a favor and check out Dororo. Not only will you get a little culture from this golden piece of manga history, you'll have a darn fine time reading it as well. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-35902851144577377702012-08-07T16:42:00.001-04:002012-08-09T11:33:12.649-04:00August Author of the Month: John GreenHiya, readers! This month we're kicking off a new series of posts and displays at the Main Library: Author of the Month. YA regular and devoted nerdfighter Chloe W. got first pick, so August's author is the extra-fantabulous John Green. Check out what Chloe has to say about Monsieur Green below. All of the books will be on display in the teen space at the Main Library for the month of August, so come on by to check them out!<br />
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Also, if you've got a favorite author you'd like to see featured, shoot us an <a href="mailto:teenunderground@ccpl.org">email</a>, comment on this post, or give us a call at (843) 805-6903.<br />
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There is a difference between merely liking an author’s book a great deal and calling
him or her your favorite author. When someone is your favorite author, you don’t only
like his books, but you like him as person, you’re interested in his life,
and you really care about him (or her). That is why John Green is my favorite.<br />
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I first found out about who John Green was last year when I started watching
the vlogbrothers videos. John and his brother Hank have a hugely successful
YouTube channel where they have been making vlogs since 2007. Watching the
videos and seeing how awesome they are caused me to go get his books from the
library as fast as I could.<br />
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The style of John Green’s writing is very realistic according to a teenager’s
perspective--so incredibly smart and thoughtful yet humorous and filled with
adolescent shenanigans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It’s difficult to choose which of his books I like best. From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Looking for Alaska</i>--the story of Miles,
the boy obsessed with people’s last words who goes to boarding school where he
meets Alaska (which manages to be both filled with pranks and heartbreak)--to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An Abundance of Katherines (</i>the
story of Colin the child prodigy who has dated 19 girls named Katherine), John
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Fault in Our Stars</span></i><span style="font-family: "Aparajita","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> is my personal favorite of his books.
This book means a great deal to me not just because I love the story of Hazel
and Augustus so much, but also because the experience of seeing an idea become an
actual book is a beautiful thing. I was there with all the other nerdfighters (a
community dedicated to “decreasing world suck” that was started by the Green
brothers) watching when the title was announced, when the cover was released,
when the vast amount of pre-orders was so great that the publisher agreed to
move the release date up three months. I understood the little things in the novel
you can only get when you know a lot about an author, such as the goat soap
references, because any well-versed nerdfighter knows that John and Hank’s
parents make goat soap. And I was lucky enough to attend the Tour de
Nerdfighting, where I met John and Hank and got my book signed and inscribed.
All these things are a part of my love for <em>The Fault in Our Stars</em>, or TFiOS, as
it’s commonly called.<br />
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But it isn’t only John Green’s books I like. John Green is someone I look up
to. I’m interested in his opinions and what he has to say. I love watching his
vlogbrothers videos as well as his video series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Miracle of Swindon Town</i>, which can be seen in the YouTube
channel HankGames, where John plays FIFA 11 as Swindon Town F.C. and discusses
a different topic or shares a story in each match. His videos on the YouTube
channel crashcourse, where John teaches World History, are informative but still
manage to be funny and so distinctly John-esque that they’re always a joy to
watch.<br />
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Whether I’m reading his books or watching him play video games, John Green is
someone I find interesting, someone I can really look up to, and someone I
would call not just an author but a friend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>by <a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f526$002fSD_ILS:526726/email?qu=salem+brownstone&d=ent://SD_ILS/526/SD_ILS:526726~ILS~0~0&te=ILS" target="_blank">John Harris Dunning</a> and <a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f526$002fSD_ILS:526726/email?qu=salem+brownstone&d=ent://SD_ILS/526/SD_ILS:526726~ILS~0~0&te=ILS" target="_blank">Nikhil Singh</a></strong><br />
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This creepy tale appeals with equal parts of strangeness and loveliness. Its serpentine illustrations and odd storyline together make for a book that reads and looks like a noir detective film set in haunted circus. There is definetly a touch of genius, as well as a touch of insanity in this slim book... for truly remarkable artwork that will lurk in your brain for weeks after, give Salem Brownstone a try!<br />
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This simply drawn story is a must-read for the back-to-school crowd. Entering high school for the first time is one of life's most harrowing adventures, and Freshman's charming vignettes (following a sometime drama geek and rock star named Annie) captures the victories, the losses, and all the drama in between. From losing and gaining friends and crushes to navigating the stormy waters of high school sports, dances, and film clubs, this little gem of a GN is a quick read that captures everything that makes high school... well, high school!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As another story breaks about a mass shooting, this time in a Denver movie theater, it's so hard to grasp around
why someone would shoot and kill random, innocent people. These latest shooting
victims were just watching a Batman movie. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thankfully, good fiction can offer
insights into the real world. For instance, events like the movie theater
shooting affect many, many people, even people like us who weren't
involved. But imagine that you were. One teen book tells the story of a school
shooting from a unique perspective: a girl who helped to make the list of
victims. Check it out:</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At the end of their junior
year, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend pulls a gun at school, leaving six students and a teacher dead and
many others wounded. Valerie gets shot in the leg trying to stop him just
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Until then, Valerie had no
idea that the "hate list" she and Nick created would be used to
target victims in a vengeful shooting spree. For her, the list of tormentors
was a way to ease the pain of being bullied and an outlet against the constant
fighting between her parents. Although the police investigation reveals that
Valerie had nothing to do with the shootings, many people, including her
parents, have a hard time believing that she is not at fault too. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Val is forced to confront her guilt as she returns to school to complete her
senior year. Haunted by the memory of the boyfriend she still loves and
navigating rocky relationships with her family, former friends, and the girl
whose life she saved, Val must come to grips with the tragedy--and her role in
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What are your fellow teens reading this summer? Dystopias, romance, you name it. Here are recommendations straight from our </span><a href="http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?name=Site&catID=11906&parentID=5396"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">summer reading contest</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> entries! (<strong><span style="color: black;">Click on any title</span></strong> to put the book on hold at your favorite </span><a href="http://ccpl.org/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CCPL</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> branch. Or, <a href="http://charlestoncounty.lib.overdrive.com/FB611692-059F-4CA0-B07B-08D96243F214/10/967/en/Default.htm"><span style="color: #073763;"><strong>click here</strong></span></a> to search our eBooks.)</span> </span><br />
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where people are locked in by a metal fence surrounding the city. On kids'
16th birthdays, they must choose a faction. When you choose a faction, you must
remain in that faction or you will become faction-less, homeless, and destitute.
The factions are: <span style="color: black;">Candor (the honest), Abnegation
(the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">(Sequel: <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780062024046{020}">Insurgent</a>)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>What's it about?</strong></span> It is a retelling of Cinderella with a big twist: The girl,
Cinder, is a great mechanic and also a cyborg. She lives in China, and when it
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<strong>What's it about?</strong> Two teenagers are coping with cancer in their lives when
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>By <a href="http://www.rachelcohn.com/">Rachel Cohn</a> and <a href="http://www.davidlevithan.com/">David Levithan</a></strong><br />
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<strong>What's it about?</strong> Carly's back from camp in Tennessee, and nothing's changed
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fully sprouted, and now all the boys are going crazy over her. But Carly is
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<strong>What's it about?</strong> At 15, Cole faces prison for putting a kid’s face in the
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and stays on a remote island in Alaska. Now he can return homes and has to
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<strong>Rate it!</strong> Excellent (8th grader)<br />
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<strong>What's it about?</strong> Kyra lives in a polygamist community and soon realizes
that there is a better life out there. She reads books against the rules and
falls in love with a boy close to her age, rather than marrying her 60-year-old uncle. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong>By <a href="http://jayasher.blogspot.com/">Jay Asher</a></strong></span><br />
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The facepalm that graces the cover of <a href="http://www.peter-cameron.com/works.htm">Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You</a> speaks more precisely of the plight of our hero, a socially and intellectually frustrated high school senior named James Sveck, than any other illustration I can imagine. James's life seems to encompass everything a facepalm stands for—frustration, humiliation or, to borrow a definition from Urban Dictionary, "The only logical answer to a stupid question or statement."<br />
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James, as a highly intelligent but slightly socially awkward teen, finds himself at odds with the world at every turn. He can't identify with other teens his age, his self-described "shark" businessman father, his thrice-divorced mother, or his snobby sister. A botched attempt to establish a connection with the one person he can identify with (other than his grandmother) lands him in hot water, with his sanity and sexuality being questioned by both his family and the new therapist they've enlisted to help wheedle out of James exactly why he <em>doesn't</em> want to go to college. <br />
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James is an odd kind of anti-hero, and that's what I like about him.<br />
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Peering out of James's shell, <a href="http://www.peter-cameron.com/works.htm">Peter Cameron</a> possesses a wonderful double-sided ability to observe the absurdity in everyday life with subtle humor and to pinpoint small moments of beauty with remarkable gravity. This is also a great New York City book—despite James's desire to own a home in the Midwest, he relishes the city's spaces and describes them to us so that we feel his solitude, and his comfort in that solitude. <br />
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Should you pick up <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780739372531{020}">Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You</a>, you will discover a funny and bittersweet tale of identity and awkwardness. And you too, like James, will understand how profound a facepalm can be.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-33756979065269509752012-07-13T11:18:00.000-04:002013-02-25T14:11:35.223-05:00Jen's Picks: Dead To You<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg027hcQUHjtmiKBJGm8hrEIqiuZxEjYDTMspsd1w6Cbde8XdTcJdag5QNIHLGUbZ2cWhBCIeGTAxVNp_ODKIupuWs7EJekxsJU4p4tBOPS5BG5ygQYiK8ey5pXdHappXZIsIeY3ZcSJBo/s1600/Jennifer+super+tiny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" dea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg027hcQUHjtmiKBJGm8hrEIqiuZxEjYDTMspsd1w6Cbde8XdTcJdag5QNIHLGUbZ2cWhBCIeGTAxVNp_ODKIupuWs7EJekxsJU4p4tBOPS5BG5ygQYiK8ey5pXdHappXZIsIeY3ZcSJBo/s1600/Jennifer+super+tiny.jpg" /></a>Greetings! I'm Jennifer Hawes, and I work with young adult books at the <a href="http://ccpl.org/">Charleston County Public Library</a>. Welcome to my random thoughts about books for teens. If a book grabs you, click on any title to reserve a copy, or search <a href="http://charlestoncounty.lib.overdrive.com/4F8E827B-8372-429E-B773-E11E6F080B35/10/967/en/Default.htm">CCPL's ebooks</a>. Happy reading!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">By <a href="http://lisamcmann.com/">Lisa McMann</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ethan was abducted from
his front yard when he was just seven years old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> W</span>hen
we meet him in <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781442403888{020}">Dead To You</a>, he's 16 and awkwardly awaiting a reunion with his family at a
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">During that long gap of years, Ethan grew up with a woman
he figures must have been responsible for his abduction. Maybe she'd just wanted a child—although she was hardly the model mom. She
sold her body, abandoned him for periods of time, and eventually dumped him for
good at a group home. Miserable, he ran away and became homeless. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">That’s when
he started looking at missing children reports and found news of the
abduction. At last, he's about to meet his</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> real family, one who will love him unconditionally.
Sounds awesome, right?</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And way too simple. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I read this book in one day, thanks to
author <a href="http://lisamcmann.com/">Lisa McMann’s</a> fast pacing and steady buildup of tension. McMann (who
wrote <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781416994817{020}">Cryer's Cross</a> and the <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781416953579{020}">Wake</a> series) artfully captures a
family reunion's true complexities. After all, the passing of so much time has left Ethan's parents and younger brother, Blake, virtual strangers to him. He essentially grew up apart from the rest of his family—even as they lived on together. He’s
also plagued with mixed feelings about the woman who raised him and who really
represents “mom” in his mind. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Worse, Ethan remembers nothing about his life before the abduction, a normal effect
of trauma.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But Blake, who witnessed the abduction, remembers it all too well. He harbors a fury at Ethan. Why did Ethan get into the car with two strange men? Blake rages
about the kidnapping and about living in the shadow of his parents’ ensuing years of anguish. And he grows more angry at Ethan for not remembering the few, precious years
they shared as little boys. His anger builds until he decides that Ethan is an
impostor, which hardly fosters the warm fuzzies between them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bright spots ease the tension, namely Ethan’s
relationship with his newfound mother, which warms as she protects him from the turmoil,
as a mother should, and as the woman who raised him did not. Ethan also grows truly fond of his little sister,
whom he at first refers to as the "replacement child" (as in the child his parents
had to replace him). </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">McMann skillfully dispels the
unrealistic notion that just because people share DNA, their relationships will
be hunky dory. Families are complex and messy, and there’s nothing like nine
years of anxiety and resentment to inflame stressors like those Ethan’s
family faces. </span><br />
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this one sucker punches. See if you can spot it coming.<o:p></o:p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-25191882147449088682012-06-29T10:33:00.000-04:002012-08-13T18:46:59.018-04:00Summer Short Story Writing Contest!<span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">CCPL’s<em> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TeenUnderground">TEEN Underground</a></em>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">WHAT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"> Your fabulous writing. Send
us your very best short story. It should be a complete story written in 1,000 to
8,000 words. Here’s the rub: Your story must involve a library. Any library.
Anywhere. In any manner, large or small. But your story must include the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">library</i> at least twice. </span></div>
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a little camaraderie for this adventure? Join the Underground Writers club on
Wednesdays from 2 to 4 p.m. at the <a href="http://ccpl.org/">Main Library</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";">Email questions and/or your short story to </span><a href="mailto:teenunderground@ccpl.org"><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">teenunderground@ccpl.org</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Century Schoolbook","serif";">, or drop off a copy of your story
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong><span style="color: black;">By <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Furlong">Monica Furlong</a></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you’re like me, you’ve spent a good amount of time sitting in class or studying for tests, bored out of your mind and desperately wishing that school was a whole lot more like Hogwarts.“I’d be acing this class if it was Defense Against the Dark Arts,” you might’ve thought while trying not to drift off to sleep. "Writing a paper on ways to ward off werewolves is way more interesting than studying stupid plant cells! And why can’t I be learning how to make love potions instead of memorizing the dumb ol’ <a href="http://www.ptable.com/">periodic table</a>?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The idea of a magical education is something that has filled me
with longing ever since I began reading the <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0590353403{020}">Harry Potter</a> series. Something I hadn’t imagined, however, was the kind of magical
education the late <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Furlong">Monica Furlong</a> brings to life in <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">Wise Child</a>--something I like to
call "magical homeschooling."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Instead of attending a magical academy housed in a
sprawling castle and modeled largely after the English private boarding school
system, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">Wise Child</a>, the heroine of Furlong’s book of the same name, is taken in
by her village’s resident healer and (suspected) witch when her father fails to
return from a long voyage on the high seas. Living with Juniper means a whole
new world of education and responsibility for <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">Wise Child</a> (the local nickname
for youngsters who are a little too clever for their own good).</span></div>
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classes that fill the days of the students at Hogwarts. Juniper’s particular
brand of magic is something a touch more realistic--that is, she emphasizes
the study of herbs and their properties, the value of learning to speak and
write in English and Latin, and familiarizing oneself with the movement of the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While not quite as flashy as learning </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the finer points of the
Unforgivable Curses, the connection with nature and practical knowledge that
Juniper seeks to instill in <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">Wise Child</a> is refreshing. It’s a feeling that
anyone, magical or not, can appreciate if they’ve ever begun to care for a
garden or felt the satisfaction of finishing a great book or a difficult task.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Juniper’s world is certainly magical, but that magic is something subtler and
more earthy than the wand-waving we’ve come to associate with magical ability.
Juniper doesn’t refer to herself as a witch, but rather as a <i>doran.</i> Derived
from the Gaelic word <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorus">dorus</a>, </i>meaning entrance or way, a <i>doran </i>is
someone who can see the pattern and energy in all things. As <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">Wise Child’s</a>
experiences while living with Juniper become increasingly supernatural, we learn
that she has potential to become a doran herself, should she choose to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">WiseChild’s</a> world is rooted somewhere between historical fiction and fantasy. The
Scottish or Irish village that provides the setting for much of the action has
one foot in Christianity and one foot in the old beliefs of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid">Celtic druids</a>. Standing stones and faeries hold as much sway over the minds of the villagers
as do the local priest’s sermons during Sunday mass. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finding the balance
between these two, and learning that she can believe in both, is part of <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">WiseChild’s</a> twofold struggle during the course of the book. The other is learning
where her heart lies--with Juniper’s lessons of hard work, caring, and knowledge,
or with her biological mother, a mysterious and fantastically beautiful woman
called Maeve the Fair (a sorceress in her own right) who reappears in <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">Wise Child's</a> life bearing promises of a life of luxury should <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0394825985{020}">Wise Child</a> leave Juniper and join her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every year, the town of <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780375861956{020}">Windblowne</a> has a festival of kites. Oliver <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">really</i> wants to fly a kite with success, but his parents are not helpful. So, when he finds out that his great-uncle Gilbert was once a champion kite flier, Oliver gets his hopes up that he will now be able to fly a kite without being laughed at. But Oliver’s hopes are dashed when Gilbert refuses to help. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Oliver returns to try to talk Gilbert in to teaching him the secrets of kite flying, Oliver sees a spectacle—his great-uncle fending off tons of unpiloted kites with nothing but two of his handmade fighting kites. Oliver steps out to help his great-uncle and is surprised to find himself face to face with his doppelganger. At that moment, there is a flash of light—and the kites, Gilbert and the doppelganger vanish. </span><br />
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Shocked and frightened, Oliver runs home only to find a strange red kite in his room. The red kite has a mind of its own and gets Oliver to follow it outside where it carries Oliver on the wind to a different world. In this other world, Oliver finds his lookalike and his evil lookalike great-uncle. The evil great-uncle has banished the good Gilbert and plans to control the paths between worlds for his own gainss. Oliver must travel the worlds searching for Gilbert—and a way to stop the evil uncle. <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f494$002fSD_ILS:494957/email?qu=anna+and+the+french+kiss&d=ent://SD_ILS/494/SD_ILS:494957~ILS~0~2&te=ILS" target="_blank">Anna and the French Kiss</a></span></strong><br />
<strong>By <a href="http://stephanieperkins.com/">Stephanie Perkins</a></strong><br />
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Adjusting to life in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Light">City of Light</a> has its share of problems, but Anna soon settles in and gains some great friends, including the handsome—and regrettably taken—Etienne St. Clair. As their friendship takes a turn to something more, Anna must face the problems that come with addressing jealous friends, discovering who she is, and falling in love. <br />
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While on the surface this book may seem like simply another light and uninteresting teenage romance, I really enjoyed <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780525423270{020}">Anna and the French Kiss</a> because it's a smart, funny, and interesting novel with a cast of characters and a location you just can’t help but fall in love with.<br />
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If you like books like <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=031615556X{020}">Maximum Ride</a> that have science, history, and adventure, then you may want to try <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781595143426{020}">Virals</a>. The main character is Tory Brennan, niece of the famous forensic anthropologist from the TV show <a href="http://kathyreichs.com/">Bones</a>.<br />
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Tory is bummed about having to move in with her marine biologist father on Morris Island here in South Carolina. As the story settles in, she gets to know the children of her dad's colleagues, who turn out to be sci-philes just like her. The group become tight knit. They each have their own spot: the endlessly hungry Hiram as the joker, Shelton as the computer whiz, Ben as the Native American nature expert, and Tory as the self-appointed leader.<br />
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Their favorite past time is exploring the waterways and backwoods of the barrier islands. On one of these excursions, they find a secret lab and sneak in to find a half wolf-dog that is being subjected to experiments. The kids rescue the pup (now christened Coop after the Cooper River) and set him loose with his pack of wild wolf-dogs living on Loggerhead Island. Little does the group know that Coop was infected with a virus that doesn't affect dogs—but does affect humans.<br />
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The virus heightens the senses of the four kids. The team overhears a conversation and gets wrapped up in a murder case that involves the secret lab. With their newfound powers, they work to solve the case. They also keep their powers secret—and learn to live with them—and hope they don't go <em>viral</em>!<br />
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Sequel: <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781595143945{020}">Seizure</a><br />
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Romance, ghosts, and gore...what more could a YA reader ask for? Meet Anna, the murderous main (ghost) character in <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780765328656{020}">Anna Dressed in Blood</a>. Author <a href="http://kendareblake.com/">Kendare Blake</a> creates a terrifyingly cruel, yet strangely intriguing, dead girl<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">—</span>a victim whose revenge on the living will leave you forever fearful attics. Luckily, there's Cas, a ghost-hunting teen who just might save us all from Anna's fury...unless he falls in love with her first. <br />
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Watch for the sequel, Girl of Nightmares, due out Aug. 7. Meanwhile, meet <a href="http://kendareblake.com/">Kendare Blake</a>:<br />
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<strong>We are dying to know how you came up with the idea of Anna, this blood-soaked and grotesquely murderous yet sympathetic character?</strong> <br />
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Anna came entirely from her name. <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780765328656{020}">Anna Dressed in Blood.</a> And I thought, who's that? Oh. She's a dead girl. And she kills people. Well, that's not good. Someone will have to kill her.<br />
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Cas came along as the guy who could kill Anna. It all grew out of an urge to write something gory and creepy. I'd been writing literary for awhile, and I think I missed the blood.<br />
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<strong>How many times have you watched <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0767896165{020}">Ghostbusters</a>? </strong><br />
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No number is too high! I'll watch that movie the rest of my life. And always find a new favorite line. Right now it's: "Dogs and cats, living together...mass anarchy!" <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195/">Bill Murray</a> was and is a genius.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1390871468"></a><strong><a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780765328656{020}">Anna Dressed in Blood</a> has tons of blood and gore. Do you enjoy scaring teenagers?</strong> <br />
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I enjoy scaring everyone! I once gave my brother a creepy white mask and told him to put it on after his girlfriend (a friend of mine) went to sleep so she'd wake up and see that next to her. Ah, the memories.<br />
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<strong>Are you a horror fan? Do ghosts or other creatures of the night keep you up at night?</strong><br />
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I am a horror fan. Of course. I love <a href="http://www.stephenking.com/the_author.html">Stephen King</a>, and his son <a href="http://joehillfiction.com/">Joe Hill</a>. Perhaps I love Joe a little more. Not much will keep me up at night. Even if I'm creeped out, the creep factor is overcome by the fact that I love sleeping. I think I find zombies scarier than any other classic monster. Not the shambling, slow ones with their limbs falling off, but the fast, growly ones. They don't fight fair. I could cut one's head off, but if its blood got in my eye or in my mouth, I'm dead. Not fair! Last man standing should be the winner!<br />
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<strong>Do you ever get scared while writing your own scenes?</strong> <br />
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Just a few times. One time had to do with a certain attic. The other with a certain place in nature. But I can't give that one away.<br />
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<strong>On a deeper level, this novel is about a young girl who was horribly abused. What message do you hope readers walk away with? </strong><br />
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I'm going to level with you. I didn't write <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780765328656{020}">Anna</a> as any sort of issue book. The story went as the story went. I didn't even really think about Anna's death as anything other than horrible and disgusting until someone said that the book featured a scene of extreme child abuse. And I went, oh yeah, it does. But if there's any message that I hope people walk away with, it's something about friendship and resilience. Anna's a very strong girl. Both in fists and in mind. I think the mind is more important.<br />
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<strong>What have you been hearing from Anna's readers?</strong><br />
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That they love the gore! And that they love Anna, which of course makes me so happy. I also hear that Cas is cocky, to which I say, "What? Cas? Never!" Ha. But of course, that cockiness hides the fact that he doesn't know how to relate to living people. He's a definite loner. Isolated. <br />
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<strong>You were adopted from South Korea. What was that like? Is there any of you in Cas as he moves yet again to a new house in a new town?</strong><br />
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Actually, I was adopted at seven months. So I have no idea what South Korea is like. But my dad was a long-haul trucker, and I used to go with him on summer vacations sometimes, so I have a strong sense of how it feels to move through places without staying long. And how it feels to go to somewhere new.<br />
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<strong>Did any of your other experiences as teenagers, or people you knew at the time, make it into your book?</strong><br />
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Thomas has my best friend's car. Pretty sure most of the rest is fiction. <br />
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Well, truthfully I've never been that girly. So moving into the boy brain wasn't that big a stretch. And Cas had such a strong voice. It sounds hokey, but really he just talked through my fingers, and I didn't think too much about it. <br />
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<strong>The cover is incredibly beautiful, yet haunting. Did you have anything to do with its creation?</strong><br />
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It's great, isn't it? I had nothing to do with it. The artist is from Europe, and works exclusively in greyscale and red. All I asked was that Anna's face not be shown, because I wanted readers to picture her for themselves. The rest was in the hands of the publisher, as it usually is! All writers live in a state of anticipation and fear when their covers are about to come out!<br />
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<strong>What can you tell us about the sequel, Girl of Nightmares, which will be released Aug. 7?</strong><br />
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There's gore, and questions will be answered. Expect some travel, and expect Anna to be the driving force. Keep your eyes peeled for a certain cat's cameo :)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hey readers! My name is Sarah, and I work in the Young Adult department at the Charleston County Public Library. Some of my favorite things are: the first day in spring when it's warmer outside than inside, my dogs, Wallace and Izzy, and (naturally) a good book.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This month, I thought I’d do a quick-and-dirty series of reviews. Inspired in part by the book <u><a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780062019653%7B020%7D" target="_blank">There is No Long Distance Now: Very Short Stories</a></u> by poet <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/naomi-shihab-nye" target="_blank">Naomi Shihab Nye</a> (on my reading list), <a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41" target="_blank">National Poetry Month</a>, and the popularity of <a href="http://ccplteenunderground.blogspot.com/2012/04/novels-in-verse-drugs-sex-death-and.html" target="_blank">novels in verse</a>, I am going to limit myself to the 17 syllables of haiku…Oh, and don't forget to click on any of the titles to reserve a copy of the book through our online catalog!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">NOVELS IN VERSE</span></h2>
It's <a href="http://www.poets.org/npm">National Poetry Month</a>! Time to study <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-term/Sonnet">sonnets </a>written by men in white wigs, right? Not necessarily. Edgy teen books written in verse is a hot area of publishing today, one that drags <a href="http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/86-stanza.htm">stanzas </a>and <a href="http://people.usd.edu/~mrogge/RDTN/210poetryterms.html">meter</a> into the realms of drugs, sex, war, murder, pregnancy, and suicide. You won't be bored! (Click on the titles to place holds, or go to our <a href="http://ebooks./">eBooks.</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/"></a>) <span id="goog_438364105"></span><span id="goog_438364106"></span><br />
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By <a href="http://ccplteenunderground.blogspot.com/2011/10/author-interview-ellen-hopkins.html">Ellen Hopkins</a> <br />
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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love. Other novels by <a href="http://ccplteenunderground.blogspot.com/2011/10/author-interview-ellen-hopkins.html">Ellen Hopkins</a>, queen of edgy books in verse, include <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781416983248{020}">Perfect</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781416940913{020}">Glass</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781416950097{020}">Fallout,</a> <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781416950059{020}">Identical</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781416903567{020}">Impulse</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=1416903542{020}">Burned</a>, and <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781416995135{020}">Crank</a>.<br />
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In alternating chapters, this story shifts among the lives of three struggling 15-year-old girls being raised by single mothers in small New York cities. Ultimately, their stories converge as they cope with the hands they've been dealt. One of this year's<a href="http://ccplteenunderground.blogspot.com/2012/03/sc-young-adult-book-award-nominees.html"> South Carolina Young Adult Book Award</a> nominees.<br />
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Since the days of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur">King Arthur</a>, there have been poems and paintings created in her name. The year is 490 A.D., and 16-year-old Elaine has a temperament to match her fiery red hair. But when the cruel and beautiful Gwynivere arrives, Elaine is confronted with jealousy and rivalry. <br />
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After a classmate commits suicide, Kana Goldberg—half Japanese, half Jewish-American—wonders who is responsible. After all, she and her cliquey friends said some thoughtless things to the girl. Then, Kana's parents pack her off to her mother's ancestral home in Japan for the summer where her mixed heritage makes it hard to fit in.<br />
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When high school junior Tessa Reynolds falls into a coma after getting hit in the head during gym class, she experiences heaven as the mall where her parents work. She revisits key events from her life, causing her to reevaluate herself and how she wants to live.<br />
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By <a href="http://www.sonyasones.com/">Sonya Sones</a><br />
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Ruby leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. Other Sonya Sones books: <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0689841140{020}">What My Mother Doesn't Know</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780689876028{020}">What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0060283874{020}">Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy</a>.<br />
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By <a href="http://patriciamccormick.com/">Patricia McCormick</a><br />
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Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal">Nepal </a>thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex-slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.<br />
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By <a href="http://www.virginiaeuwerwolff.com/">Virginia Ewer Wolff</a><br />
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At 17, Jolly can't really spell. She doesn't have much of a job either. She does have two little kids from two absent fathers. So she posts a notice on the school bulletin board: BABYSITTER NEEDED BAD. No one replies except Verna LaVaughn, who's only 14. How much help can she be? <br />
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By <a href="http://www.nikkigrimes.com/">Nikki Grimes</a><br />
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A pregnant teen finds support and forgiveness from God through a book of poetry presented from the Virgin Mary's perspective. Other Nikki Grimes books: <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9781599902845{020}">Planet Middle School</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0803725698{020}">Bronx Masquerade</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0803722249{020}">Jazmin’s Notebook</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0786818883{020}">Dark Sons</a>.<br />
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By <a href="http://www.lindaoatmanhigh.com/">Linda Oatman High</a><br />
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At 16, Sahara's life and future depend on the color of a little stick. She waits three long minutes, praying that she isn't pregnant. Instead, the stick turns pink, and Sahara's life changes in a heartbeat. <br />
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By <a href="http://www.allanwolf.com/">Allan Wolf</a><br />
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This book recreates the <a href="http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/titanic.htm">1912 sinking of the Titanic</a> as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, <a href="http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/edward-john-smith.html">Captain E.J. Smith</a>, and others (including the iceberg itself).<br />
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By <a href="http://www.kimberlymarcus.com/">Kimberly Marcus</a><br />
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Liz, a gifted photographer, no longer sees things clearly after her best friend accuses Liz's older brother of rape. As the aftershocks rip through Liz's world, everything she thought she knew about photography, family, friendship, and herself shifts out of focus.<br />
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By <a href="http://www.stevenherrick.com.au/">Steven Herrick</a><br />
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In a rural Australian coal-mining town shortly after <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii">World War II</a>, Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.<br />
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This fictionalized account of the <a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm">Salem witch trials</a> is told from the perspective of three young women living in Salem in 1692: Mercy Lewis, Margaret Walcott, and Ann Putnam, Jr.<br />
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By <a href="http://jenniferroy.com/">Jennifer Roy</a><br />
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In 1940, <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=sylvia-perlmutter-sobel&pid=145973288">Syvia Perlmutter</a> was just 4 when her mother, father and older sister, Dora, were among the first of more than 250,000 Jews forced into Poland's <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/lodz.html">Lodz Ghetto</a>. When <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soviets_liberating_lodz.jpg">Russians liberated Lodz in 1945</a>, Syvia was one of just 12 children to survive.<br />
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By <a href="http://www.walterdeanmyers.net/">Walter Dean Myers</a><br />
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Damien is a high achiever accepted to Brown University. Junice has just lost her mother to prison and is trying to keep her younger sister and her grandmother together as a family. As they fall in love, Damien and Junice question who they are and who they will become. <br />
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By <a href="http://www.helenfrost.net/">Helen Frost</a><br />
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Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.<br />
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By <a href="http://patlowerycollins.com/">Pat Lowery Collins</a><br />
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A teenage girl living on a tropical island runs away to escape her tribe's customs of arranged marriages and female genital mutilation.<br />
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P.S: If you love poetry, head to the <a href="http://ccpl.org/">Main library</a> on April 22 at 3 p.m. to meet <a href="http://ccplteenunderground.blogspot.com/2012/04/author-interview-jenny-hubbard.html">Jenny Hubbard</a>, author of <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780385740555{020}">Paper Covers Rock</a>, a fantastic book about a boy who writes poetry after the death of a good friend. Jenny will discuss writing poetry for novels and even give us a sneak peak at part of her next book! Call (843) 805-6845 or email <a href="mailto:jhawes@ccpl.org">jhawes@ccpl.org</a> to register for this free event.Page Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05226709413706900417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-47827374536108137542012-04-02T12:27:00.003-04:002013-03-12T12:36:07.837-04:00Author Interview: Jenny Hubbard of PAPER COVERS ROCK<div style="text-align: left;">
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<a href="http://papercoversrock.co/?page_id=2">JENNY HUBBARD</a></h2>
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We loved meeting <a href="http://papercoversrock.co/?page_id=2">Jenny Hubbard</a> when she visited the Main library—almost as we enjoyed<a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f505$002fSD_ILS:505741/email?qu=paper+covers+rock&d=ent://SD_ILS/505/SD_ILS:505741~ILS~0~1&te=ILS" target="_blank"> Paper Covers Rock</a>, her beautiful debut novel that has won numberous national awards and an endorsement from mega-author <a href="http://patconroy.com/">Pat Conroy</a>. Luckily, she answer a few questions for those who didn't get to meet her:<br />
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<b><a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f505$002fSD_ILS:505741/email?qu=paper+covers+rock&d=ent://SD_ILS/505/SD_ILS:505741~ILS~0~1&te=ILS" target="_blank">Paper Covers Rock</a> is your first novel. How did you come up with the idea for it?</b><br />
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If you want to get technical about it, it’s my third novel. The first two are in a drawer in a folder marked, “Burn in the event of my death.” But, yes, it is my first published novel. The germ of <a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f505$002fSD_ILS:505741/email?qu=paper+covers+rock&d=ent://SD_ILS/505/SD_ILS:505741~ILS~0~1&te=ILS" target="_blank">Paper Covers Rock</a> began with a terrible true story I heard while I was teaching at a boys’ boarding school, one that had nothing to do with boys or schools. That terrible true story is no longer a part of the novel. Funny how that happens. I taught at the boys’ school for 10 years, and when I started there, I was the only single female teacher. I taught poetry, and I read the sometimes great and terrifying work of my students day in and day out. Although my story is not at all Miss Dovecott’s, I can relate to and empathize with her plight.<br />
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<b>Did you intend for it to reflect the classic A <a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f222$002fSD_ILS:222230/email?qu=a+seperate+peace&d=ent://SD_ILS/222/SD_ILS:222230~ILS~4~26&te=ILS" target="_blank">Separate Peace</a>?</b><br />
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It was unintentional, but at some point, I realized it was going to be compared to the <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0743253973%7B020%7D">John Knowles novel</a> (if I was lucky—and I was). My narrator Alex and Knowles’s narrator, Gene, are both guilt-stricken, which drives them and enables them to tell the stories that they tell. I used to teach <a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f222$002fSD_ILS:222230/email?qu=a+seperate+peace&d=ent://SD_ILS/222/SD_ILS:222230~ILS~4~26&te=ILS" target="_blank">A Separate Peace</a> and absolutely loved it—a flawless novel with layers to be explored and surprised by.<br />
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<b>How do you create and flesh out your characters?</b><br />
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This is the fun part—the characters. I wrote many pages in their voices that never made it into the final draft. In fact, I wrote the novel several times over in different points of view: in Miss Dovecott’s, in Alex’s at the age of 27, in a third-person omniscient narrator. No doubt this helped in the eventual fleshing out, as I grew to know them all intimately, having spent six years off and on with them.<br />
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<b>Alex Stromm is a deep and artistic, yet conflicted young man. Is he based on a former student/students of yours? Is he anything like you as a teen?</b><br />
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Alex is the teen I wished I were: deep, thoughtful, talented, smart. He is based on no one student of mine but an amalgam of students I’ve taught over my 17 years in the classroom.<br />
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<b>You were an English teacher. Do you resemble Miss Dovecott in any way?</b><br />
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Only in that we teach the same way: Her lesson on <a href="http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/">Emily Dickinson</a> was my lesson on <a href="http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/">Emily Dickinson</a>. She’s much cooler, much smarter, than I am.<br />
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<b>Alex writes poetry to release his feelings about his friend's death and to communicate with Miss Dovecott. What made you decide to include poetry in this novel?</b><br />
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I know of no better form for navigating complicated feelings than poetry. When I write a poem, I learn something I didn’t know before. That’s what I wanted for Alex, who is wiser by the end of the novel thanks to his burgeoning awareness of the power—and subtlety—of language.<br />
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Ever since I could hold a pencil.<br />
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I was a “dorm parent” at the boarding school where I taught. For five years, I could hear conversations through my apartment door, even though it was shut tight. This was in the days before cell phones, and the hall phone was five feet from my front door. It wasn’t strange to me at all to write from a 16-year-old boy’s perspective because I had heard 16-year-old boys talk to their girlfriends, their parents, their grandparents. They had a different way of speaking to each particular audience, which was fascinating to me.<br />
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<b>The ending doesn't tie up everything into a happy-ever-after knot. Why not?</b><br />
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Alex is still a work in progress. There has been progress, to be sure, but while the ending is subtly hopeful, the reader isn’t sure where/how Alex is going to end up because HE isn’t sure. And he’s the narrator, so the reader gets only his perspective. That’s why the conversation with Mr. Parkes is there, near the end of the book—to give the reader a little bit more perspective on Alex’s situation, which is still too close for him to do a whole lot of happy-ever-after reflecting.<br />
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<b>This is a thoughtful, literary book. Is that why it appeals both to teens and adults?</b><br />
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I think that’s part of it. I also think that it’s one that isn’t driven by its plot. It’s driven by its characters. The characters who are teens are real, that is to say, flawed, and so that’s appealing to teens under pressure to be good, better, best. They are witness to a boy, Alex, making a devastating mistake and coming to terms with it. I hope it’s a bit of an education for teens, or at least a cautionary tale. For adults, the writing seems to be the drawing card. They appreciate the craft of it, the structural design, the attention to diction, and the resonance of the imagery. The male adults who read the book fall a little in love with Miss Dovecott. “I wish I’d had an English teacher like that,” they say. <br />
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<b><a href="http://www.patconroy.com/">Pat Conroy</a> endorsed<a href="http://catalog.ccpl.org/client/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f505$002fSD_ILS:505741/email?qu=paper+covers+rock&d=ent://SD_ILS/505/SD_ILS:505741~ILS~0~1&te=ILS" target="_blank"> Paper Covers Rock</a>. What was it like to read his comments?</b><br />
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Funny and surreal. I used to teach his work in class. Pat is a generous, very funny man, and he said some other things about the book that didn’t make it onto the cover. When I met him in a bookstore in Asheville—it was a fluke of timing, how he happened to come upon my novel to begin with—he told me he wanted to do me the favor of blurbing my book because no one did him that favor when he was starting out. <br />
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<b>What was it like to be named a finalist for the <a href="http://www.ala.org/yalsa/morris">William C. Morris YA Debut Award</a>?</b><br />
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To be honest, I didn’t know that award existed until I was named a finalist. But now that I know what it is, and for whom it is named, I’m humbled. I imagine book awards are much like acting awards—there are plenty of books that are equally or more deserving but that, for one reason or another, don’t get the attention. So much of it feels like luck to me. I’ve been lucky.<br />
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<b>Besides writing novels, you work in theater. Tell us about that:</b><br />
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Well, I’ve acted in community theatre ever since I was 13. My first role was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music_%28film%29">Brigitta von Trapp</a> in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/">The Sound of Music</a>. And my “coaching duty” at the boarding school was directing a play once a year. Now I manage a theatre in my hometown of Salisbury, N.C., and my favorite part of the job is reading scripts and imagining actors I know playing particular roles. In other words, I most enjoy the process of envisioning the possibilities. It’s the same, too, when I’ve been cast in a role: the sea of choices laid out before me by the playwright. Then the director will do some navigating, and then the set designer. Six weeks later, there’s a world that’s been created from words on a page. <br />
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Page Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05226709413706900417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799521536778286368.post-68916600430642854552012-04-01T14:34:00.000-04:002013-03-04T14:47:27.893-05:00Jen's Picks: The Fault in Our Stars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Greetings! I'm Jennifer Hawes, and I work with young adult books at the <a href="http://ccpl.org/">Charleston County Public Library</a>. Welcome to my random thoughts about books for teens. If a book grabs you, click on the title to reserve a copy, or search <a href="http://charlestoncounty.lib.overdrive.com/4F8E827B-8372-429E-B773-E11E6F080B35/10/967/en/Default.htm">CCPL's ebooks</a>. Happy reading!<br />
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This week, I fell in love. <br />
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I fell in love with a guy named Augustus Waters. I also became quite fond of his girlfriend, Hazel Lancaster. But mostly I fell into awe of <a href="http://johngreenbooks.com/">John Green</a>, author of my new favorite teen book of all time, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780525478812{020}">The Fault in Our Stars</a>. Anyone who uses words like “cancertastic” and who actually made me <em>want</em> to read a book about teens facing death by cancer surely warrants so much admiration. <br />
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Honestly, I’m not big on reading depressing books just for fun. But I am a sucker for smart sarcasm, and the book (<a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780525478812{020}">TFiOS</a> as fans call it) opens with Hazel at a cancer support group held in a church basement that she’s dubbed the Literal Heart of Jesus. Every week, the group leader reminds them that he's alive despite losing both testicles to cancer, which leaves Hazel musing, "AND YOU TOO MIGHT BE SO LUCKY!"<br />
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<em>His eyes were the problem. He had some fantastically improbable eye cancer. One eye had been cut out when he was a kid, and now he wore the kind of thick glasses that made his eyes (both the real one and the glass one) preternaturally huge, like his whole head was basically just this fake eye and this real eye staring at you. </em><br />
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That Hazel attends the support group for Isaac's sake made me love her right away. That she sees her life, ill-fated by thyroid cancer spread to her lungs, through lenses of vast intelligence and wit made me love her even more. <a href="http://johngreenbooks.com/">John Green</a> gives Hazel a voice that any teen or adult who values humor and insight will construe as genius, such as when Hazel enumerates the side effects of dying.<br />
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<em>The Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.</em><br />
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<em>The Support Group, of course, was depressing as hell. </em><br />
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So why isn’t the book?<br />
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Yes, I shed tears. You might be a rock if you don’t. Yet, somehow <a href="http://johngreenbooks.com/the-fault-in-our-stars/">John Green</a> keeps<a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780525478812{020}"> The Fault in Our Stars</a> from dwelling in that dark, suffocating place that’s home to many books about sickness and death.<br />
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Maybe it’s because I wanted to spend time with his characters too much to close the book on their stories, too much to leave as they face the cruel challenges that cancer poses in their young lives. Hazel and Augustus feel so real, their conversations so hilarious, their personalities so full of quirks and faults that surely they are people I’ve met along the path of my real life. Or at least I wish I had. <br />
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Hazel meets Augustus, a friend of Isaac’s, at the support group. From there, we get to share those wonderfully awkward firsts that come with their first love, made no less wonderful and awkward by Augustus’s lack of one leg and Hazel’s inability to breathe for long without nasal cannulas delivering oxygen to her struggling lungs. <br />
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Or, maybe I kept reading because Hazel and Augustus question the world and our assumptions in so many cool ways that they made me think hard about what it means to truly live. And to die.<br />
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PS: Check out <a href="http://johngreenbooks.com/">John Green’s</a> other great books, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0525475060{020}">Looking For Alaska</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780525478188{020}">Paper Towns</a>, <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=0525476881{020}">An Abundance of Katherines</a>, and <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780525421580{020}">Will Grayson, Will Grayson</a>, which he co-wrote with David Levithan. Then, dig into his<a href="http://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers"> vlogbrothers</a> online persona and join his <a href="http://ccplteenunderground.blogspot.com/2012/02/nerdfighters-unite.html">Nerdfighters</a>.<br />
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If you have read <a href="http://192.152.249.240/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=9780525478812{020}">TFiOS</a> or any of J<a href="http://johngreenbooks.com/">ohn Green's books</a>, leave us a comment!Page Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05226709413706900417noreply@blogger.com2