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In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. Can two sisters save us all? In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of. ![]() ![]() She lives in Palm Beach, Florida with her two young sons. Lori Haskins Houran is a former childrens book editor and the author of more than twenty books for kids, both fiction and nonfiction, ranging from picture books to easy readers to chapter books. She is an experienced 2-D and 3-D production artist and has worked for Nickelodeon and Disney Interactive. Review Quotes 2018 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, Pre-K-Grade 3 About The Author Sydney Hanson started drawing at an early age. Whether youre awkward as a baby ostrich, prickly as a tiny hedgehog, or drool like a puppy pug, someone loves you no matter what! This new story from the team that created Next To You features an irresistible array of adorably stinky, grouchy, burpy, and warty animals to drive the point home. ![]() Book Synopsis Love isnt just for the cute, the sweet, and the cuddly. This new story from the creators of Next to You features an irresistible array of adorably stinky, grouchy, burpy, and warty animals to drive the point home. Lori Haskins is a former editor of childrens books and the author of some of our most successful Step into Reading titles, including Ducks in. ![]() About the Book Love isnt just for the cute, the sweet, and the cuddly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The panorama of these afflictions exposes a range of memorable characters. The development of new life in her womb becomes a crucial theme throughout the novel, an affirmation of vitality in stark contrast to the mother’s dreadful slumber.Īs the disease spreads beyond campus, panic rises. Soon after the first student is stricken, several of her classmates also fall prey to the plague, including a young woman whose social awkwardness takes on fatal significance, and another who has just had sex for the first time and is now pregnant. Walker takes on the horror genre with The Dreamers, the tale of an inexplicable sleeping sickness that consumes an entire college town, beginning with a freshman dorm. Karen Thompson Walker epitomized this elevating trend in her first genre-bending debut novel, The Age of Miracles (2012). For genre geeks such as myself, one of the most exciting developments in 21st-century fiction is the embrace of sci-fi, fantasy and horror by so-called “literary” authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. ![]() This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things like finding your identity, creating relationships and the struggles we go through to maintain those relationships. I also gained a lot of inspiration from Korean dramas with contain tropes that overlap a lot with YA. But take a predator like that and put them in a time period where no one travels by foot across mountains anymore, how would they evolve to survive? I imagined that they would go where the most prey are and use the crowded city of Seoul to hide in plain sight. ![]() But, of course, the stories were about foxes who lived in secluded mountain homes and preyed on travelers that no one would miss (or they'd just assume they died while climbing the mountain as people could do back in the day). Because I grew up hearing some Korean myths, the story of the gumiho was familiar to me. I have always loved the idea of exploring morally gray areas when an immortal creature must kill to survive, but so often it was the boy character and set in a Western world. The Book Bratz: Where did your inspiration for WICKED FOX come from? Now she must navigate a new unlikely friendship-turned-romance and figure out if immortality is worth killing for. Kat: Set in Modern-Day Seoul, Miyoung is a gumiho-a 9-tailed fox that must kill to survive-she lives by keeping under the radar until the day she saves a human boy from a dokkaebi (Korean goblin) and exposes her secret. ![]() The Book Bratz: Where did your idea for WICKED FOX come from? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Allusions to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the portrayal of a whole community's healing process, and the sharp insights into Caitlyn's behavior enhance this fine addition to the recent group of books with narrators with autism and Asbergers. "A strong and complex character study."- The Horn Book And in her search for it, Caitlin discovers that the world may not be so black and white after all. Then she comes across the word closure-and she realizes this is what she needs. Caitlin wants everything to go back to the way things were, but she doesn't know how to do that. ![]() But Devon was killed in a school shooting, and Caitlin's dad is so distraught that he is just not helpful. Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help. Already withdrawn and painfully shy, Caitlin is pushed to the very edge of insanity by the loss of her beloved brother. The world according to her is black and white anything in between is confusing. Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine: 9780142417751 : Books THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER and ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF OUR TIME FOR YOUNG READERS Caitlin has Aspergers. Caitlin is a 10-year-old pre-adolescent with Asperger's Syndrome her mother has died years before her brother Devon is killed in a random shooting at his school, along with a teacher and another student. Description THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER and ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF OUR TIME FOR YOUNG READERSĬaitlin has Asperger's. ![]() ![]() Jenny Odell is an Oakland-based artist, writer, and educator. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress.įar from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Odell sees our attention as the most precious-and overdrawn-resource we have. ![]() So argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. ![]() But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. ![]() ![]() But it’s the fact that Ben’s story is so complex and emotional and that the writing is SO GOOD that really makes this book one that you need. This fact alone makes this book noteworthy. There are not a ton of nonbinary teens yet in YA books. I’ll wait.ĭid you do it? I really hope you did, because this is an Important Book. ![]() Request it from your library, buy it from your local bookstore, order it FOR your library, email your media specialist to make sure they know about it, just go. ![]() As Ben and Nathan’s friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.Īt turns heartbreaking and joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration of life, friendship, and love, and a shining example of hope in the face of adversity. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents’ rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.īut Ben’s attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. ![]() When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they’re thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. It’s just three words: I am nonbinary. But that’s all it takes to change everything. ![]() ![]() ![]() You should be alright if you haven’t started the series, but I can’t escape hinting at certain events.Īfter the wild and emotional close to Kelsier’s insanely ambitious job from book one, book two offers a whole new set of problems for the crew to overcome. And I loved it!Īnother note before I start - I tried my best to make this is a spoiler-free review. All the big twists surprised me, and I eagerly ran through 763 pages once more to see how the varying conflicts panned out. ![]() So my return to Mistborn book two felt like reading it for the first time. A snapshot, if you will, of what I thought. This entire website serves as my journal in that regard - to better absorb the books I read with a bit of reflection. It’s just a bad tendency of mine to forget as I consume endless streams of novels, comics, movies, podcasts, etc. I don’t mean to take away from the awesome story and character work Sanderson put in. ![]() All I remember was the premise of a city-wide siege. But before I dive into my review, I have a confession to make: I first read this book almost a decade ago and I barely recall anything prior to my reread. The third book in my Cosmere binge is The Well of Ascension - part two of the acclaimed Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, published in 2007 (the UK cover I own was released in 2010). ![]() |