Last Thursday (4/14) was one of my favorite days in the world of YA literature: YALSA’s Teens’ Top Ten nominees were released! Every year teen groups around the country nominate their favorite titles from the previous year. The finalists are released during National Library Week in April, giving teens plenty of time to start reading the…
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Nathan Carr, IT Supervisor, reviews an audio book for your holiday travels. Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back, So You Want to be a Jedi? By Adam Gidwitz; Read by Marc Thompson This is The Empire Strikes Back as I have never encountered it before. This book is written in 2nd person narrative with…
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Witches be Crazy, the debut novel from Logan Hunder is a weird marriage of fairytale and contemporary storytelling. It reads a bit like a Monty Python skit, humorous parody. The novel opens with a kingdom in peril; King Ik is dying. A blacksmith named Dungar Loloth, after hearing of witchcraft dealings goes to Jenair to…
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages…this book will stretch your imagination. Circus Mirandus is a middle grades novel but is a delight for all readers young and old. Similar to the books of Roald Dahl, this novel is a fun read. Micah is a young boy living with his ailing grandfather,…
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Lost & Found by Brooke Davis This debut novel comes to us from Australia. Brooke Davis brings to life three very alive, very different characters. The story follows the unlikely relationships of an old man Karl the touch typist, Agatha Pantha a widow, and Millie Bird an abandoned seven year old girl as they experience…
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Favorite Quote: I guess that’s the point of it all. No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. What’s It About? Clay comes home from school one day to find a box addressed to him on his doorstep. Inside he discovers seven…
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–Daniel
January 2015 The first writer I’m going to introduce in this series , Phil Klay, was a debut author in 2014 releasing Redeployment, a book of short stories, in March. Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007…
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