Watch out for Little Brother

Good gracious me… This has been an awesome year for teen books!  And I don’ know that there are many more awesome books than Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother.  It’s the story of Marcus, a teenager not unlike yourself, who lives in San Francisco.  Marcus knows his technology backwards and forwards, and he uses it to [...]

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac – read or else!

Ack! I just finished reading this awesome book, and I wanted to let you all know how much I enjoyed it. It’s Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin. This was the sort of book where I would read paragraphs and then want to run to my email (can you do [...]

Ranting is good for the soul!

Two posts in one day… it’s like Christmas!  Okay, not really.  Librarians love to talk to each other and teen librarians love to talk about their teens… so through the librarian grapevine, I heard about this video rant about the book Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause vs. the movie.  I thought you might [...]

Click

“‘Do you think it’s possible,’ I said carefully, ‘for one person to… to live a whole lot of different lives in the one life?’ There, that wasn’t quite telling it, wasn’t quite not telling.”
 - Afela, Click
George “Gee” Keane isn’t the sort of person you could sum up in a few words. Sure, you could try. [...]

The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh

Reading almost killed Jack Perdu.  His nose was stuck in a book when the car hit him – but Jack escaped with barely a scratch on him.  Only now, he’s started seeing things… people who talk about flying and looking for the dead, people who fall out of windows and disappear.  Jack’s father sends him to [...]