Book Review: The Messenger

Book Review: The Messenger
Lowry, Lois. The Messenger. Houghton. 2004.
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Like Lowry’s hugely popular Newbery winner, The Giver (1993), this story dramatizes ideas of utopia gone wrong and focuses on a young person who must save his world. Teenage Matty lives with his caregiver in the Village, a place of refuge, where those fleeing poverty and [...]

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Book Review: Gathering Blue

Book Review: Gathering Blue
Lowry, Lois. Gathering Blue. Houghton. 2000.
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In what might be described as a companion to The Giver (1993), Lowry once again brings readers to an alternative civilization and introduces a young person who will be entrusted to pass on its history. This time, though, she will have the opportunity to plot its [...]

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Book Review: Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan

Book Review: Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan
Steinberger, Aimee Major. Japan Ai: A Tall Girl’s Adventures in Japan. Go! Comi. 2008.
Aimee Major, an artist and Japan-o-phile chronicles her adventures when she visited Japan with two friends.  In this graphic travel diary she brings the reader to some of the awesome famous landmarks in [...]

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Book Review: Gay America: The Struggle for Equality

Book Review: Gay America: The Struggle for Equality
Alsenas, Linas. Gay America: The Struggle for Equality. Amulet Books. 2008.
A history of GLBT Americans and the history of the Equal Rights movement in America.  Broken up into easily manageable time periods and rich in photographs and text excerpts from contemporary publications of the times.
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Book Review: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Book Review: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson
Rennison, Louise. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants: Even Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson. HarperCollins. 2003
Our Good Pal, Georgia is back again in this, her fourth, confessional adventures.  She still chases the Sex God and strives to impress with her maturosity.  Georgia doesn’t dissapoint in this [...]

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Book Review: Inkheart

Book Review: Inkheart
Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart. Scholastic/Chicken House. 2003.
Meggie has been surrounded by books her entire life.  Her father is a book binder by trade.  When a mysterious man named Dustfinger appears in the middle of the night and calls her father by a strange name, Silvertounge, Meggie’s life is thrown into chaos as things from [...]

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Book Review: Song of the Sparrow

Book Review: Song of the Sparrow
Sandell, Lisa Ann. Song of the Sparrow. Scholastic. 2007.
Elaine is sixteen years old and has been living in the war camp with her brothers and father ever since she was very young.  King Arthur depends on her to help heal his wounded men and Elaine cannot imagine a different life [...]

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