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Browsing Posts published in August, 2010

Bibliography: Werlin, Nancy. (September 2010).  Extraordinary.  New York: Dial. ISBN: 9780803733725 Plot Summary:  Ordinary Phoebe meets extraordinary Mallory in seventh grade, and they become better than best friends, inseparable.  Years later when Phoebe meets Mallory’s brother, Ryland, she falls for him hard only slowly coming to realize that neither Mallory or Ryland are exactly what [...]

Bibliography: Lee, Y.S. (2010). The Agency Book 2: The Body at the Tower. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: Plot Summary:  On her second case for the Agency, Mary Quinn finds herself in the seamy side of Victorian London, pretending to be a boy while she spies on the construction site of the clock tower of [...]

Bibliography: Griffin, Adele. (August 2010). The Julian Game.  New York: Putnam Juvenile ISBN: 978-0399254604 Plot Summary:  Scholarship student at an elite girls school, Raye jumps at the chance to help queen bee Ella get back at her ex-boyfriend Julian by pretending to be someone she’s not in hopes of sabotaging and embarrassing him.  She didn’t [...]

Bibliography: Gill, David Macinnis. (August 2010). Black Hole Sun. New York: Greenwillow Books. ISBN: 978-0061673047 Plot Summary:  Durango is the chief of a small band of mercenaries who live by their own code of behavior on dystopian Mars.  Joining Durango to defend a community of miners from the cannabalistic Draeu are second in command Vienne, [...]

My First Crush: The School Librarian Joining us on the blog today is Adam Jay Epstein, co-author with Andrew Jacobson of the upcoming middle grade novel, The Familiars. In The Familiars, Aldwyn the orphan cat decides to play along when a young wizard in training named Jack picks him for a magic familiar when he [...]