![]() ![]() Normally, that would be something that I would put a book back on the shelf for, but I guess it was just what I needed right now. But when Olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to Maddie, tiny holes start to appear in the protective. I am looking forward to reading Nicola Yoon's other book The Sun Is Also a Star as it sounds just as interesting and light as this one does. It wasn't a substantial book, but it definitely gave me those butterflies that a good YA romance does. Though this was an incredibly easy read, it has reignited my passion for reading. ![]() Olly is a complex character and a great romantic interest. I disliked Maddy's mum from the start, but I loved pretty much everyone else. ![]() The whole running off to Hawaii thing was a bit much for me. Maddy says she isn't reckless: gets a credit card, buys 2 lots of flights, a hotel room and I assume a whole bunch of other practical stuff like food and taxi fare, as well as clothes and nearly $300 worth of clothes on her mother's credit card. Maddy is a great bookish character and I feel like YA books need more bookish girls I felt like the development of Olly and Maddy's relationship was normal, and relatable considering their almost unrelatable situation. It had a lot of positives but also a bunch of negatives. I finished this in a matter of hours, though I spread my reading out over a day and a bit.įilled with illustrations and diagrams and IM logs, this was a good read that I absolutely powered through. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Woodson, who collaborated with Lewis on The Other Side and Coming On Home Soon, again brings an unsparing lyricism to a difficult topic. Then one day, Maya is gone, and Chloe realizes that her "chance of a kindness" is "more and more forever gone." Combining realism with shimmering impressionistic washes of color, Lewis turns readers into witnesses as kindness hangs in the balance in the cafeteria, the classroom, and on the sun-bleached playground asphalt readers see how the most mundane settings can become tense testing grounds for character. Even when Maya valiantly-and heartbreakingly-tries to fit in and entice the girls to play with her, she is rejected. When a new and clearly impoverished girl named Maya shows up at school ("Her coat was open and the clothes beneath it looked old and ragged"), Chloe and her friends brush off any attempt to befriend her. ![]() By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th ![]() ![]() ![]() Kirby experiments with found structures-a Yelp review, a WikiHow article-which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today.Ĭassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. Her characters might be naïve, even reckless, but they aren’t about to be victims: They’re strong, and brave, and nearly always capable of rescuing themselves.” ![]() “Kirby takes joy in subverting the reader’s expectations at every turn. “Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction…A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Demon Copperhead” dramatizes life on the lower end of the extreme divide between rich and poor. “I couldn’t be happier (about the Pulitzer) for this reason.ĭiaz, also interviewed by phone, sees his book and Kingsolver's novel approaching a similar subject, class, from different perspectives. “I wrote this book for my people because we are so invisible to the rest of the world and so persistently misrepresented,” Kingsolver said. Kingsolver is a longtime resident of Appalachia who currently lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia, and set “Demon Copperhead” close by. Speaking by phone Monday, the author said she regards the Pulitzer as an affirmation not just of her novel, but of a misunderstood and overlooked part of the country. The 68-year-old Kingsolver has long woven social issues into her novels, which also include “The Bean Trees” and the Winfrey choice “The Poisonwood Bible,” and helped establish the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Kingsolver’s novel, the story of a young boy’s struggles and persistence as he grows up in southern Appalachia, was chosen by Oprah Winfrey last fall for her book club and named by The Washington Post as a top release of 2022. “Trust” won the Kirkus Prize for fiction, was on the long list for the Booker Prize and was named by The New York Times and The Washington Post as one of the year’s best books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The small coastal town that is home for the City Spies.Ī brilliant hacker and the newest member of the team.Īlso known as Clemmie, she is Mother's wife. This mission is hot! The City Spies are a go! And soon, they’re caught up in an exciting adventure filled with rogue missions and double agents! But as they investigate a spy who died at Muir Woods, they discover that they are also being investigated. Meanwhile, there’s been some new intel regarding a potential mole within the organization, offering the spies a lead that takes them to San Francisco, California. ![]() But things don’t go exactly as planned, and while Sydney does find herself in the spotlight, it’s not in the way she was hoping. Sydney is excited to learn that she’ll be going undercover on the marine research vessel the Sylvia Earle. She’s also a field ops specialist for the City Spies. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can’t.įourteen-year-old Sydney is a surfer and a rebel from Bondi Beach, Australia. Operating out of a base in Scotland, this secret team of young agents working for the British Secret Intelligence Service’s MI6 division have honed their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. ![]() After thwarting a notorious villain at an eco-summit in Paris, the City Spies are gearing up for their next mission. ![]() ![]() There is an overwhelming amount of detail about the factional rifts and theological disputes among denominations and among leaders from Billy Graham to Rick Warren. This book is old-fashioned, top-down history written about the white Protestant church leaders. Clearly the African-American churches supplied the leadership, members and, most importantly, the meeting houses for the movement that destroyed legal segregation, the most important social issue of the 1960s.Ī second criticism, which is more serious, concerns Fitzgerald’s framework. But didn’t these churches include the 186,000 African-American troops who fought for the Union in the Civil War? A century later, Fitzgerald thinks the Southern white evangelical churches played a limited role in the civil rights movement. The author also questions whether pre-Civil War free African-American churches had wide influence in the abolitionist movement. ![]() First, Fitzgerald makes a major mistake in her explanation of why she did not include African-American churches although “some denominations identify as evangelical, because of their history, their religious traditions are not the same as those of white evangelicals.” Oh, really! Show me an African-American church that is non-evangelical with a service that is primarily liturgical. ![]() ![]() ![]() This epic fantasy series includes: The Gifts of Pandora The Valor of Perseus The Inferno of Prometheus The Madness of Herakles The Threads of Theseus The Face of Hekate PRAISE FOR THE WORLD OF ESCHATON CYCLE EPIC FANTASY SERIES: “He takes mythology and lore, stories and peoples and gods you might have heard of and twists them, and makes them uniquely his. And even if they succeed, Pandora must still contend with the burden of the Box … A dark fantasy, gritty retelling of Greek mythology by mythic fantasy author Matt Larkin. ![]() But will he use his abilities to aid her? Before Perseus will consider following Pandora on her quest, he has a mission of his own, leaving Pandora no choice but to accompany him on a journey that will pit them against gods and mythical monsters. Within the demigod sleeps speed and power no mortal could match. ![]() In her desperation to save Prometheus, Pandora has recruited Perseus, the son of her greatest enemy. ![]() ![]() ![]() VanderMeer has been called "one of the most remarkable practitioners of the literary fantastic in America today," with The New Yorker naming him the "King of Weird Fiction". He has also edited with his wife Ann VanderMeer such influential and award-winning anthologies as The New Weird, The Weird, and The Big Book of Science Fiction. Among VanderMeer's other novels are Shriek: An Afterword and Borne. The trilogy's first novel, Annihilation, won the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards, and was adapted into a Hollywood film by director Alex Garland. Initially associated with the New Weird literary genre, VanderMeer crossed over into mainstream success with his bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. Jeff VanderMeer (born J) is an American author, editor, and literary critic. 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