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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
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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
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Tagged Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein, Historical fiction, WWII fiction
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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
