The December list is up! 4 more great reads you should not miss! We have 19 titles to read and discuss so far! Please check out the complete list here.
Don't forget to click the links and add your thoughts!
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Monday, December 17, 2012
December Reads - Adult Mock Newbery
The December list is up! 4 more great reads you should not miss! We have 19 titles to read and discuss so far! Please check out the complete list here.
Don't forget to click the links and add your thoughts!
Son by Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Houghton Mifflin
393p.
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
What Came From The Stars by Gary Schmidt
Gary Schmidt
Clarion Books
294p.
In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
November Reads - Adult Mock Newbery
Are you all caught up and well read for our January discussion? Don't forget to stop by the SJCPL Mock Newbery page and grab a note taking form! Fill out one for each book before the meeting to help you remember all the little details!
Here are four new books to add to your TBR piles!
Moonbird by Philip Hoose
The Unfortunate Son by Constance Leeds
Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Michaeux Nelson
Click each title to add your comments! Don't forget to check out the other books we will discuss for our Adult Mock Newbery!
Here are four new books to add to your TBR piles!
Click each title to add your comments! Don't forget to check out the other books we will discuss for our Adult Mock Newbery!
No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Nelson
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Carolrhoda Press
188 pg.
In this work of historical fiction, Nelson tells the story of a man with a passion for knowledge and of a bookstore whose influence has become legendary.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Great Unexpected, The by Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech
Joanna Cotler Books
226p.
"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears, asking all kinds of questions. Curious surprises are revealed--three locked trunks, a pair of rooks, a crooked bridge, and that boy. Soon Naomi and Lizzie find themselves zooming toward a future neither could ever have imagined. Meanwhile, on a grand estate across the ocean, an old lady whose heart has been deceived concocts a plan. . . "--Publisher.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Starry River of the Sky River by Grace Lin
Grace Lin
Little, Brown
288p.
Companion: Where The Mountain Meets the Moon
An innkeeper's chore boy discovers that a visitor's stories hold the key to returning the moon to the Starry River of the Sky.
Unfortunate Son, The by Constance Leeds
Constance Leeds
Viking Children's Books
302p.
Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.
Brixen Witch, The by Stacy DeKeyser
Stacy DeKeyser
Margaret K. McElderry
196p.
Twelve-year-old Rudi stumbles upon a witch's lair while out hunting, takes a gold coin he finds there but loses it again, then must deal with the witch's servant who promises to end the town's rat infestation only if he receives that gold coin, in a story reminiscent of The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
September Reads - Adult Mock Newbery
Here are 4 new books to add to your reading pile. Please click the title to add your comments to each book page.
Chickadee by Louise Erdrich
Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
Are there any titles you've read that you think we all should read?
Leave those titles in the comments!
For previous reads - Adult Mock Newbery
Keeping The Castle by Patrice Kindl
Patrice Kindl
Viking Press
261 pgs.
In order to support her family and maintain their ancient castle in Lesser Hoo, seventeen-year-old Althea bears the burden of finding a wealthy suitor who can remedy their financial problems.
Chickadee by Louise Erdich
Louise Erdich
Harper Collins Children's Books
196 pgs.In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
Sequel to The Porcupine Year
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Laura Amy Schlitz
Candlewick Press
384 pgs.
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.
Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead
Wendy Lamb Books
180 pgs.
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
July Reads - Adult Mock Newbery
Hopefully you've been doing a lot of reading already! For the month of July we have 4 titles. Click on the links to leave your comments!
Temple Grandin by Sy Montgomery
Wonder by RJ Palacio
Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker
Crow by Barbara Wright
Are there any titles you've read that you think we all should read?
Leave those titles in the comments here!
For previous reads - Adult Mock Newbery
Temple Grandin by Sy Montgomery
Sy Montgomery
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
148 p.
An authorized portrait about Grandin's life with autism and her groundbreaking work as a scientist and designer of cruelty-free livestock facilities describes how she overcame key disabilities through education and the support of her mother.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
Master of Deceit by Marc Aronson
Candlewick Press
230p.
Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman
Candlewick Press
308pg.
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After
thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the
strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow
involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a
time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted
by ghostlike figures.
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Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
Scholastic Press
289p.
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