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Jacob Portman feels that his life has never had much of a meaning to it. His parents–his mother a rich woman who likes to show off her spoils of home décor, and his father an amateur ornithologist and a wannabe nature writer–he’s not real close to. His only friend, a chain-smoking punk-rock dresser, is the […]
h What are you willing to do to save the ones you love? As a reader, as a human being, it is hard to think of someone coming up with a concept more horrific then sending teens into an arena to fight to their death (think The Hunger Games), and yet Lissa Price has managed […]
Back cover blurb: Control the Pearls, Control the World First lines: My fingers grip the ledge, searching for cracks. The rest of me dangles into empty sky like some demented human windsock. Small mysterious orbs called “pearls” fall from space; these are a devastated Earth’s only hope. These pearls supply the energy that the world […]
Back cover blurb: “A funny, profane, heartbreaking debut novel” – you, hopefully, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jesse Andrews When I picked up this book my first thought, honestly, was – ouch, it must stink to be a guy writing about a girl dying of cancer in the year 2012 if your name […]
Reading the Zombie Apocalypse
Book Reviews, Booklists, Collection Development, Reader's Advisory, Zombies
|Zombies are invading again. They’re everywhere. On the streets. In your house. On the TV…and in your bookshelf. These brain-munchers have made an amazing comeback as they moan and shuffle their way to the top of young adult novel enthusiasts’ lists. Now it seems that you don’t have to be even interested in zombies before […]
At some point in our life most of us have had a parent hold our hand as they helped us learn to use a knife by guiding it through an apple or a freshly baked loaf of bread. That’s not how it happened with Jazz. There was no freshly baked loaf of bread. But there […]
The first thing you need to know about Embrace is this: I returned from ALA Midwinter in Dallas with a little over 50 ARCs to preview, read and review for you. The Mr. went through all of the ARCs and this was the first one he picked to read. I found that immensely interesting because it […]
Jenny Torres Sanchez at ALA Midwinter in Dallas Ser en dip i ty – [noun] the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. Occasionally, the universe comes together in a moment of total serendipity. At ALA Midwinter I stumbled upon a booth that was setting up to have an […]
In a world taken by storm by vicious, flesh-eating, decaying zombies, only a few places of civilization dot the earth. Rules and common decencies of the world before are next to nonexistent. It’s a do or die world for most. Benny Imura has just turned fifteen. Living in the dilapidated town of Mountainside , fifteen […]
Back cover blurb: Brie’s life ends at sixteen. Her boyfriend tells her he doesn’t love her, and the news breaks her heart – literally. First line: There’s always that one guy that gets a hold on you. “Gorgeous, funny and heartbreaking.” – Lauren Oliver cover blurb Teen Librarian Heather Booth posted on the TLT Facebook […]
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