Science Fiction
From the Stacks to the Shelf: How This Reader Became a Librarian and an Author, a guest post and giveaway by TRACKED author Jenny Martin
Like Star Wars? Speed Racer? The Fast and the Furious? What if I told you there was an awesome new science fiction title coming set in the future and featuring a female racer . . . Pretty awesome, right? Jenny Martin is a school librarian who is about to have her first book, TRACKED, published. […]
November is Science Fiction Month
November is Sci Fi Month. Here is a look at all of our Science Fiction (in any way imaginable) related book lists. Also, be sure to join us the week of November 17 – 22 for Doctor Who Week. We’ll have a variety of guest posts – several a day – where we talk about […]
Take 5: Science Fiction That Actually Takes Place in (Gasp) Space (a list with apparently 10 titles on it in honor of The Hitchhiker’s “Trilogy”)
When I was reading These Broken Stars, I was a little giddy because here was a science fiction title that actually took place in space. There has been a lot of science fiction published lately, but a lot of it tends to be more Earthbound involving new tech (think the awesome BZRK series by Michael […]
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Take 5: Sci Crossover Authors for YA Looking for More
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January 2013 Releases
Here’s a look at what new releases I am reading in January 2013 Finding Zasha by Randi BarrowHitler’s troops are marching across Russia and 12-year-old Ivan has joined a secret group fighting against the Nazis. When he meets Zasha and Thor, he knows that he must save them and stop them from becoming weapons of […]
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Book Review: What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang
“Addie and I were born into the same body, our souls’ ghostly fingers entwined before we gasped our very first breath.” – Kat Zhang, What’s Left of Me In pregnancy there is a phenomenon known as vanishing twin syndrome; sometimes a pregnancy starts out with twins and one of the other twins simply seems to […]
Take 5: Weird Science
I recently received a special grant from my Friends of the Library grant to update our YA collection. They tacked on an additional $500.00 with the challenge that they wanted me to add more math and science related books in the collection. So the challenge was this: Can you find some YA titles that talk […]
Book Review: Origin by Jessica Khoury
The jungle hides a girl who cannot die (front cover blurb) The Fountain of Youth. The Holy Grail. It seems like we are always on the quest for immortality. But what if scientists had found the answer in a simple flower found deep in the rainforest? In Origin by Jessica Khoury, they have – but […]
Book Review: Gravity by Melissa West
“President Cartier is the smallest of the five, so petite she looks almost like a child in an adult’s chair. Her brown hair curls in perfect waves, just like Lawrence’s. Her olive skin shows her age, creasing in fine lines across her face, the heaviest lines around her eyes. To her right sits Alaster Krane, the European president, known for […]
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