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Comment on “My Brother’s Voice” by Holocaust Survivor to speak « Colony Library Lady

Holocaust Survivor to speak « Colony Library Lady — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:09:59 +0000

[...] Nasser speak at Colony High. He is the author of the book My Brother’s Voice, which I reviewed here. He gave a great presentation and students gave him a standing [...]

Comment on “Matched” (on Ms. W’s summer reading list) by “Crossed” « Colony Library Lady

“Crossed” « Colony Library Lady — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:01:46 +0000

[...] we readers enter a world far from the Society of the first book in this series (Matched, reviewed here). The center of this trilogy takes us through the Carvings and the Outer Provinces, full both with [...]

Comment on All the Pretty Horses by Tough Teen Topics: An Occasional Series Post 1–Violence « Colony Library Lady

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:33:34 +0000

[...] reviewed All the Pretty Horses here. If you are working on literary analysis or asking yourself the bigger questions, the novel makes [...]

Comment on The Road by Tough Teen Topics: An Occasional Series Post 1–Violence « Colony Library Lady

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:33:32 +0000

[...] More recently, McCarthy published The Road, and while it’s about a post-apocalypticUnited States, surprisingly, I found more hope in it than in the two books above. I reviewed it earlier and you can read the review here. [...]

Comment on Bluford series: Five new titles are here! by joe

joe — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:44:04 +0000

Head to Townsend Press’ Facebook page to discuss the book when you’re done reading it too!

Comment on “Tattoos on the Heart” by Ms. Waddle

Ms. Waddle — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:49:57 +0000

Great news! Father Greg Boyle, author of Tattoos on the Heart, received the PEN USA Award for the 2011 best creative nonfiction for book, Tattoos on the Heart.

Comment on “Want to Go Private?” by Ms. Waddle

Ms. Waddle — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:29:11 +0000

I absolutely agree, Holly. These ideas are very mature, but so important to read about before making the mistake of experiencing them in real life. In addition, there are people who just have predatory natures–not just online–and this novel does a good job of showing how they fool innocent, well-meaning people. It gives teens a good idea of what to beware of in all walks of life.

Comment on “Want to Go Private?” by Holly Kurtz

Holly Kurtz — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:28:25 +0000

This is a great book and hard to put down once you start reading. It sounds like it could be just a “lesson” book about cybersafety, and it is that but so much more. It explores Abby’s personality, school environment and home environment. How could she be groomed by an online predator who finally convinces her to meet him in person? Why couldn’t she say no?

Abby, her family, and her friends are fully drawn characters (not so much the predator). We especially see the impact on her sister Lily, her mom, her dad (who can’t understand how this happened to his straight-A daughter), her friends at school. We are caught up in Part 2 when all these people are interviewed by the police and FBI as they search for Abby, and in Part 3 when everyone starts to recover in their own way — but no one will fully recover.

Be warned that there are explicit scenes of online sexual encounters and flashbacks to the time Abby spent with Luke in a rundown motel. Overall, the book powerfully describes what can go wrong when someone online agrees to “go private.”

– Holly Kurtz
Colony High Branch, city librarian

Comment on California Young Readers Medal Nominees 2011-12 by Amanda W.

Amanda W. — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:26:43 +0000

I read both beastly and graceling and enjoyed them botth i reccomend them highly. graceling has a “partner novel” it can get you lost but i still enjoyed it.

Comment on “Speak” (on Ms. W’s summer reading list) by Amanda W.

Amanda W. — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:18:13 +0000

This was a great book. I like this book because it deals with real life problems. I reccomend it to anyone who has ever been bullied, or has ever felt alone in a time of crisis.