Molly has blue hair and an antisocial attitude. When she’s assigned to work on an assignment with perky blonde Cassie, she refuses and does the assignment on her own.
This starts a downward spiral that ends in a food fight in the cafeteria. Letting the punishment fit the crime, the principal assigns Cassie and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘books’
June 4, 2008
Book post – Hot Lunch by Alex Bradley
May 22, 2008
Book Post – The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Frankie is used to being overprotected by her family, even though she hates it. When she discovers that her boyfriend is a member of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds, a legendary secret society in her boarding school that doesn’t admit women, she sees a way to take control of her own life. [...]
May 19, 2008
Book post – Born for Adventure by Kathleen Karr
Tom Ormsby loves stories about adventures real and fictional, but his own life is boring and predictable until one day he happens to be in the right place at the right time and wangles his way into one of Henry Morton Stanley’s expeditions to the Congo, but he gets much more than he bargains for [...]
May 16, 2008
Book post – The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan
Subtitled “Tales of New Tomorrows” this is an anthology featuring 16 of the best modern SF writers, including Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix and Scott Westerfeld. Scientific vampires, alien invasions, virtual reality and the other elements of these stories may have been done before but the authors give all of them a new [...]
May 14, 2008
Book post – The Mad Professor by Mark Frauenfelder
Make robot food and saucer slime, among other concoctions no mad scientist should be without. The author has assembled 24 recipes for traditional and unusual chemistry experiments for your edification and enjoyment.
Try this book if you like making messes, goops and slimes, but please remember to clean up afterwards. I don’t want your parents [...]
May 13, 2008
Book post – Don’t Care High by Gordon Korman
At Don Carey High School, not caring is a way of life, until Paul Abrams arrives. As he finds himself succumbing to the inertia that pervades the school, his best friend, Sheldon, comes up with a plan. They’re going to put up the worst dressed, least interested student for student body president, just to [...]
May 10, 2008
Book post – Raven’s Gate by Anthony Horowitz
The author of Stormbreaker turns his hand to supernatural horror, with the first of a series about five teenagers who just might save the world. Matt has always known he had unusual powers but when events conspire to bring him to a foster home in Yorkshire, he’s unprepared for the dangers he will face.
For [...]
May 9, 2008
Book post – Strange Relations by Sonia Levitin
Who could pass up an opportunity to spend the summer in Hawaii? Not Marne, who is very much looking forward to sun, sand and boys. But the summer doesn’t quite turn out as she expects. Aunt Chaya and her husband are Hasidic Jews, and Marne finds herself immersed in a whole new world. [...]
May 8, 2008
Book post – Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
I’m cheating here in a way, because our copy of this book hasn’t arrived yet, but if you go here you can download a copy and read it now.
Marcus is seventeen years old and already knows some tricks for getting around the intrusive security that pervades his life. One day, while playing a game with [...]
January 8, 2008
As the Presidential Election starts to gain momentum…
I thought I’d do a list of books with political themes.
In no particular order:
Extreme American Makeover and sequels by Mitali Perkins. The adopted daughter of a Presidential candidate has to find a balance between who she is and who the media want her to be.
The President’s Daughter and sequels by Ellen Emerson White. [...]
