Monthly Archives: January 2013
Book Review: Bride of New France
Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers Laure Beauséjour was taken from her beggar parents by the Paris authorities when she was just seven years old and placed in the Salpêtrière, a catch all institute for poor, sick, mentally ill, … Continue reading
Book Review: My Heartbeat by Garret Freymann-Weyr
Ellen is a fourteen year-old who doesn’t need many friends. She has all the company she needs in her older brother Link and his best friend James, with whom she is “totally madly in love”. But as they enter their … Continue reading
Book review: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Trisha McFarland gets lost in the woods while on a six-mile hike in the Appalachians with her recently divorced mother and her angry older brother. And that, folks, sums up the plot of this tightly crafted, superb novel for young … Continue reading
Book Review: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
I read Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein right before the Christmas break so bear with me- my memory is worst than Lance Armstrong’s credibility (couldn’t help myself. Sorry.) I think I am going to be lazy and just copy the description … Continue reading
Book Review: Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley During the last month of Cullen Witter’s junior year, his junkie cousin overdoses. That is the most normal thing that happens to Cullen during the summer before his senior year. The Lazarus … Continue reading
Weighing in on the Sick Lit Debate
The other day I was listening to CBC (as is my wont). The current was airing a segment on a new genre of YA lit dubbed “sick-lit.” I listened with great interest; a new YA lit genre I have not … Continue reading
Book Review: There is No Dog
What if God was a teenage boy? That is the question Meg Rosoff asks in her thought-experiment-in-novel-format, There is No Dog. God, a lanky, self-centered teen named Bob, got the job as Earth’s Allmighty because his mom won it in … Continue reading
Book Review: Folly by Marthe Jocelyn
Ahhh, here’s a book set in the 19th century. No Jack the Ripper wannabe ghosts in this here book. When Mary’s mother dies, Mary assumes all the responsibilities of keeping their poor, rural household together and caring for her younger … Continue reading
Book Review: The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
When I picked this book up, I thought I was indulging in my particular affection for a yarn set in the nitty gritty Victorian London. Jack the Ripper, Boarding Schools, a young, vulnerable heroine that is stronger than she looks. … Continue reading
