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Friday, November 13, 2009
Book Lovers News! Lemony Snicket, Free Online!
I just received this totally private correspondence from Lemony Snicket... (and I'm only sharing it with YOU!)
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Dear Reader,
Something terrible has happened.
The entire text of THE BAD BEGINNING, the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events, has been made available online. For FREE. Open to anyone. Including horrible villains, innocent readers, and you.
PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS LINK TO FRIENDS, FAMILY, OR PEOPLE WITH COMPUTERS.
SHARING THE UNABRIDGED FREE VERSION OF THE BAD BEGINNING WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER READ IT IS COMPLETELY IRRESPONSIBLE. "Completely irresponsible" is a phrase which here means no one will be able to prove you did it.
Click here to access the FREE ONLINE EDITION.
The sudden appearance of the uncoded text online may be a horrible mistake. Hopefully, it will be corrected as soon as possible.
With all due respect,
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Extra Credit by Andrew Clements
 When a student is told that she will be held back for another year, things start to get serious. Abby Carson signs an agreement that she will get at least a "B" in every sixth grade class for the rest of the year and do an extra credit project. Abby really is a smart person, but her priority has always been doing her favorite thing - climbing. She would rather be outdoors than anyplace else. She is lucky her gymnasium at school has a climbing wall.
It is hard to find any mountains in her cornfields of Illinois. Her extra credit involves writing to a pen pal in a foreign country. She has three choices, but Afghanistan has the most mountains. She makes the decision based on the mountains of Afghanistan. She thinks that she is writing to a girl. The village elders insist that it is proper for a girl to correspond with another girl. Sadeed Bayat is in sixth grade and has the best English. Sadeed is asked to be the pen pal. However, they want it to appear as if his sister, Amira, is writing the letters.
Andrew Clements writes this book without the gory details of the war. He focuses on the lives of these two individuals in Illinois and Afghanistan. Their perspectives grow due to the pen pal experience. The cornfields are no longer boring for Abby. They appear to be "like a smile of God". The world opens up for both Sadeed and Abby. This is a modern realistic fiction for boys and girls of the ages nine to eleven.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Book Lovers News... A Crooked Kind of Perfect, Video Review
A new Book Talkers "Book of the Week" video has been posted to the Library's website and to the Library's channel on YouTube.
This review of Linda Urban's A Crooked Kind of Perfect, is Michelle's third review in the Book Talkers series. She recommends this book for third to sixth grade girls.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery
 This is the fifth book in the Enola Holmes Mystery series written by Nancy Springer. In The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline Enola is still on the run from her older brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft. This time there is a code to crack, a visit with the famous Florence Nightingale, and a landlady to save.
Enola returns one evening to find her landlady, Mrs. Tupper, had been kidnapped! All the rooms of the house, except Enola's, had been ransacked. The young girl who was employed by Mrs. Tupper to help with the housekeeping was tied to a chair. Enola has to act fast to find where her landlady is, to find clues to who took her and where.
As Enola searches the house for clues, she pieces together her landlady's life story. The clues lead to a past encounter Mrs. Tupper had, as a young bride, with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War.
This story is one of mystery and political intrigue. Once again Enola out manuevers her older brother, Sherlock, and gains the admiration and respect of one of England's leading historical personages, Florence Nightingale, as she retains her independence. Enola solves the mystery, decoding the cipher meant to bring those profiteering during the Crimean War to justice, while protecting the career, and family name, of a new member of the House of Lords. An interestingly developed mystery with a strong female character, The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline is a fast moving adventure sure to keep mystery lovers enthralled. Hopefully Nancy Springer will bring us more of these mysteries featuring this likeable character, Enola Holmes.
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Friday, October 02, 2009
The Dog Days of Charlotte Hayes by Marlane Kennedy
 What would you do with a Saint Bernard that is constantly drooling on you? What would you do for a Saint Bernard that is constantly chained up ( I mean 24/7)? Charlotte Hayes has to face reality. Her father and mother do not allow the dog in the house. She gets no help watering or feeding the dog from her drama-queen older sister. Certainly there is no help from her baby brother.
She has to formulate a plan for her dog, Beauregard, to be rescued by a suitable family. Her first plan does not work out too well. Another time, she tries to raise money to buy the dog from her father. She tries to apply for a job at a beauty shop, but she is only twelve years old. However, the hairdresser is in need of help checking in on her eighty-three year old aunt who has had a stroke. Charlotte is apprehensive about dealing with someone who has had a stroke. Charlotte accepts the responsibility and it is this aunt who helps Charlotte in more ways than just with her dog problem.
Charlotte never thinks of herself as a dog person. She stands out as the most caring person in this excellent book. This is a great book for girls ages nine to twelve with a growing sense of moral responsibility. Oh, by the way, my favorite word in this book is "passel". I am confident that you will find it. I don't know who will enjoy this book more, girls with pets or girls whose parents won't let them have pets.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Book Lovers News... The Wednesday Wars Video Review
A new Book Talkers "Book of the Week" video has been posted to the Library's website and to the Library's channel on YouTube.
This review of the Gary D. Schmidt's The Wednesday Wars, is Michelle's second review in the Book Talkers series. She recommends this book for fourth graders and up.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Family Reminders by Julie Danneberg
Mary McHugh, an only child, lives with her mother and father in a frontier town called Cripple Creek, Colorado. Many men in this community work as miners. She has a loving family and enjoys the simple life of being with her parents, friends and going to school.
While at school one day the sirens go off from the mines. Immediately Mary starts to worry about her father. Her teacher tries to keep the children busy until the school day is over. Still worried about her father, Mary runs home to find out if he is ok. Her mother tells her that her father was hurt and is in the hospital. He will be there for some time, but he will return home.
Mary's simple life is turned upside down. Her father does return home but has had to have one of his legs removed. He no longer sings or whistles in the house. He no longer wants to play the piano. He feels that he really can't do much of anything anymore.
Mary tries everything to bring a smile to her parents faces. Nothing works until she shows her father that the little wood carvings that he made for the family(Family Reminders) could be sold and bring income to the family. Her father finally feels useful and realizes that he could sing and play the piano again.
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