Archive for July 31, 2009
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
This is book two for me out of the three YA novels nominated for a California Young Reader Medal this year. As I mentioned before, I’m trying to get a jump start on reading some of the nominees before the students start scrambling for the books. I actually enjoyed this one more than St. Iggy, [...]
July 31, 2009
Tags: California Young Reader Medal, coming of age, drugs, parent/teen relationships, realistic, teen sex Posted in: fiction, Young Adult 
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The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
I’m really of two minds about this book. It took me about a hundred pages to really get into it. The only thing that saved this book from being thrown onto the “trade” area of my bookshelf after the first fifty pages was my trait of being tenaciously persevering when it comes to books; I [...]
July 31, 2009
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The Plague by Joanne Dahme
I am starting to feel a bit repetitive lately, but this is yet another book that had a superb concept, but poor execution. The story is set in Medieval Europe where Nell, a commoner, serves as Princess Joan of England’s double. When the princess dies en route to her wedding to the Spanish heir, the [...]
July 31, 2009
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