MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2013
This week at TLT: It’s Egmont USA week her on TLT, and we are all about the book reviews! Here are links to this week’s titles: Vordak, Time Travel Trouble Contaminated Quarantine 2: The Saints BZRK Reloaded Saving Thanehaven What I Came to Tell You A Summer of Sundays We’ve also had some fabulous guest […]
Book Review – A Summer of Sundays by Lindsay Eland
A Summer of Sundays, Egmont USA, Lindsay Eland, Middle Grade Fiction
|Sunday Fowler is the middlest of middle children from Middlesburg, Middletonia, Middletown. At 11 (almost 12!) she is too young for her two older sisters, and too old for her three younger brothers. Everyone in her family either dismisses her, forgets her, or takes her for granted. In fact, in the first couple of chapters, […]
For some reason when I picture summer evenings, I often think of porch lights—that little glow in the evening dusk and on into the thick night. Porch lights are a little smile on a house, a twinkle that blinks a warm welcome to neighbors or passersby. My parents have talked about these. How […]
When I first got the idea of writing a story about teenage private investigator Berry Fields, I knew right away that Berry had lost her mother at eight years old, and that this loss would inform every aspect of her character. Berry’s loss made her grow up fast, contributing to her strong and independent personality, […]
Grover has been dealing with the recent death of his mother in the only way he can, by retreating from the world into the bamboo forest located in the vacant lot next to his home. There, he creates beautiful weavings using brightly colored fallen leaves and the bamboo amongst which he has built himself a […]
Book Review: Saving Thanehaven by Catherine Jinks
Book Reviews, Catherine Jinks, Egmont USA, Saving Thanehaven
|Just last week someone was asking me about books that took place with video games or the Internet and I wish I had read this book before they had asked that question because I would have said: Saving Thanehaven by Catherine Jinks. Catherine Jinks in the author of Evil Genius, which I adore, and The […]
At the end of BZRK, our the entire BZRK cell was left in ruins after a battle at the nano level with the evil Armstrong Twins, conjoined brothers who see emotion and free will as the downfall of mankind. Their goal is to use nanotechnology to rewire human brains and will stop at nothing to […]
“They keep them in cages. The unclaimed. Long rows of narrow, filthy cages lined up along dark corridors lit by bare, hanging bulbs. It’s a harsh, burning smell that hurts the inside of my nose, but it’s better than the reek that wafts up from underneath the odor of cleanser. That smell’s something raw and […]
Book Review: Quarantine 2: The Saints by Lex Thomas (reviewed by Chris Dahl)
Book Reviews, Egmont USA, Lex Thomas, Quarantine, The Saints
|“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,” is a line from The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again. If we are inexplicably trying to find the right lyric from a Who song to describe the new Quarantine book, it’s either that or “It’s only teenage wasteland,” from Baba O’Riley. I kept recalling both of […]
As a kid, I loved scary movies and books. Monsters under the bed or in the closet. A ventriloquist’s dummy that just might come to life. (I still have him. He sits on my bookshelf in my office and watches over me as I write.) Werewolves, vampires, things that go bump in the night. Now […]
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