Edited to add: The winner of the giveaway is Andrea C. Andrea, please e-mail susan at readspace dot net so I can send you your prize! Bibliography: Nayeri, Daniel. (2011). Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 9780763655266 Plot Summary: Four novellas representing four different genres. Toy Farm is a western [...]
Bibliography: Scarrow, Alex. (2010). Time Riders. New York: Walker Books. ISBN: 978-0-8027-2172-3 Plot Summary: They should all be dead. But when a mysterious man offered them a chance to live, they took it. Maddy escaped a plane crash, Liam the sinking of the Titanic, and Sal a horrible fire. From different times, they come together [...]
Bibliography: Soup, Cuthbert. (2010). Another Whole Nother Story. New York: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books. ISBN: 978-1599904368 Plot Summary: At the end of A Whole Nother Story, Ethan Cheeseman and his three children escaped the various n’er do wells by hopping in their time machine and heading to the past to end the family curse and [...]
Bibliography: Cusick, John. (2010). Girl Parts. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN: 978-0763649302 Plot Summary: Afraid your teen has become disassociated from life due to technology? Get him his very own smoking hot robot companion programmed to reward appropriate behaviors. When David Sun witnesses a suicide live online and did nothing to intervene, his parents do [...]
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, [...]
