Zora and Me

Carrie lives in Eatonville, Florida, along with her two best friends are Zora and Teddy. Not only does Zora possess a wild and uncontrolled imagination, she also tells fabulous (and true!) stories better than anyone else in town. So when Zora says that shy and reclusive Mr Pendir is really half gator, half man, Carrie [...]

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11 in 11

Books due out later this year that I am looking forward to: The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place II: The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood, 2/22 One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde, 3/8 Fury of the Phoenix by Cindy Pon, 3/29 The Devil’s Garden by Edward Docx, 4/1 in the UK, no [...]

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Bambi

My friend Jazi gave me a very nerdy and totally awesome Twelfth Night present. She gave me a copy of Bmabi. In the original German. I think at one point I knew that the Disney film had been based on a book, and I might even had known that the book had originally been published [...]

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Bink and Gollie

Bink and Gollie are the best of friends despite–or perhaps because of–their very different approaches to life, the universe, and pretty much everything. They remind me a lot of Piggie and Gerald, not to mention Frog and Toad. “Don’t You Need a New Pair of Socks?” “It’s a sock bonanza!” said Bink. “Indeed it is,” [...]

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Award Season

ALA has announced the 2011 Youth Media Awards. Congrats to all the medalists!

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Linkies!

Here’s some interesting bookish links: Kirkus 2010 Best Books for Children and Teens I have sadly read only a very few of these books. But should I ever run out of things to read, this will be a good place to start. A Screenwriter’s Hogwarts Decade I had no idea that the same person had [...]

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Mamba Point

Linus and his family are moving from Ohio to Liberia, thanks to his dad’s new job with the US embassy. Rather than freaking out about the move (as he secretly sort of wants to), Linus decides that this is the perfect opportunity to reinvent himself: from now on, he’ll be Cool New Linus. As soon [...]

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Die Unendliche Geschichte

So this was one of the featured cakes on Cake Wrecks this past Sunday: Bonus trivia: Did you know The Neverending Story was originally written in German? It wasn’t translated into English until 1983, and the movie was then released in ’84. As a kid I didn’t realize there even was a book – I [...]

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Greg Heffley is a pretty typical middle school-aged boy. His parents embarrass him, his younger brother Manny is annoying, his older brother Rodrick picks on him, and he’s afraid that his nerdy best friend Rowley is going to negatively affect his (non-existent) popularity. And of course, Greg always has a cunning plan to fix things…except [...]

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Mudville

It rains nonstop every day in Moundville. In fact, it’s rained nonstop every day since that unfinished baseball game between Moundville and neighboring town Sinister Bend 22 years ago. And then, one day, inexplicably, the rain stops. 12-year-old Roy is a baseball fanatic. He’s just wrapping up another successful summer at baseball camp, when he [...]

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