by Dawn | Feb 7, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
“Powers keep on lyin’ While your people keep on dyin'” — Stevie Wonder, “Higher Ground” . “‘My mother died four years ago.’ “‘Sorry to hear that.’ “‘It’s OK, she didn’t...
by Dawn | Feb 7, 2012 | Mystery
I reread Monster for a grad. class I’m taking this summer. It won the very first Printz Award in 2000, along with a Coretta Scott King Author Honor and was a 1999 National Book Award finalist. Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon deals with his anxiety over his arrest,...
by Dawn | Feb 7, 2012 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Seventeen-year-old Efrain Rodriguez has a shot at being valedictorian of his Bronx high school come June and a shot at getting into Harvard if he can only get his SAT score up from 1650 to 2200. What he doesn’t have is money. He’s got mad rage at his...
by Dawn | Feb 3, 2012 | Non-Fiction
“And with the radio blasting Goes cruising just as fast as she can now And she’ll have fun, fun, fun ‘Till her daddy takes the T-Bird away” — Brian Wilson & Mike Love, “Fun Fun Fun” “Asphalt also helped the dead...
by Dawn | Feb 3, 2012 | Chick Lit
Heart-breakingly tragic, yet heroic, beautifully romantic, but weepy, The Catastrophic History of You & Me will make readers think about the afterlife with fresh insight and respect the fragile nature of human life. Brie is only sixteen when her heart...
