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November 26, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Take 5: YA Lit for Rose Tyler fans (Doctor Who), a guest post by Amy Diegelman

“The first nineteen years of my life, nothing happened.Nothing at all.”   Image property of Megan Lara at Megan Lara Tumblr Rose Tyler.Companion, friend, comforter, badass. Resourceful, empathetic, brave, determined. I could go on for days and days about all Rose Tyler’s amazing qualities (and trust me, I’ll get back to that in a second) but […]

September 17, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

“And maybe she’d been right to do it.  Maybe it was Cinder’s duty as a cyborg to sacrifice herself so all the normal humans could be cured.  Maybe it did make sense to use the ones who had already been tampered with.  But Cinder knew she would never forgive Adri for it.  The woman was […]

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