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What makes a writer?

Just Write: Here’s How! by Walter Dean Myers

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#cbr11bingo #birthday  Myers birthday was August 12, 1937.  Just Write: Here’s How! is a non-fiction practical guide with easy tips, accessible language and perfect examples for the teen who wants to learn how to write. In fact, this book maps out these tips so well, adults could benefit from them. Just Write could easily be adapted for classroom use or used by the individual writer.  However, I read the ARC from 2012 and wondering if any updates have been done between then and his death or since his death. Walter Dean Myers was one of my favorite authors as a teen, […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:274 |

When Mothers Do Curses

As Old As Time by Liz Braswell

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Wow. This was a great re-telling of “Beauty and the Beast”. I loved the whole idea behind this book with the great enchantress from the stories being Belle’s mother. And reading about magical people who were afraid since they were being persecuted by those who were “normal”. The development of Belle and the Beast was great and I actually bought that Belle fell in love with him in this one. They were a great duo. Braswell changes things up a bit with the introduction of the magical people (les charmantes) so you find out that people from the Disney movie […]

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7/15/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:165 |

CBR11Bingo: Youths!

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

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Maureen Johnson has contributed short stories to YA collections that I’ve read before, but The Vanishing Stair and its predecessor, Truly Devious, are the first stand-alone YA novels (Youths!) that I’ve read by her. The Vanishing Stair, in my opinion, really improves on the first book — mostly because it focuses solely on my favorite character, Stevie. However, you really need to read the first one before you read the sequel so go run and do that before you read my review. I’ll wait. “He looked a bit more confused by Stevie and David, but nodded politely. “I’m a watch ad,” David […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:88 |

Intriguing YA Read Concept that Didn’t Quite Stick the Landing

Mercury by Hope Larson

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CBR11 Bingo: Illustrated Picked up on a whim, this graphic novel features all black-and-white illustrations, which are simple but expressive, but the story itself was a bit fleeting to me. Split between the past and present, Mercury follows the journey of a teenage girl in Nova Scotia named Tara. She is currently living with her aunt, uncle, and cousin in her home town, after her mother is working in another province. After Tara and her mother’s house burned down a few years ago, she has been homeschooled, and now is the time that she finally returns and is wondering how […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:26 |

Youths

Confessions of an average boy by Mark Hill

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Pretty sure I bought this due to enjoying Hill’s work on Cracked but I’m hard pressed to remember which articles inspired adding this to the “I’ll buy you when I have money” Amazon black hole, in part because it stayed there a LONG time.  And at first I was really wondering what the heck I was thinking.  Not to be that guy, but it’s self published and that alone made me skeptical. The actual story doesn’t invite too much promise either. Our protagonist is kind of a jerk. He is shallow and falls into a relationship with a girl out […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:47 |

U is for Unique

The GayBCs by M. L. Webb

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The GayBCs will for certain turn heads. It will get people talking. Maybe even very loudly. M. L. Webb’s alphabet book is not your father’s ABC book. How do I write a review for this book? Very carefully. This book will be a hot button book, no question about it. Sometimes it feels like it is talking directly only to the GLBT+ community. Sometimes there is a feeling of it is talking to everyone. This book will either bring out the A in you (A is for Ally), or bring out the, “I do not want my child reading THAT!” […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:270 |

Fairies, A Forest, and A Knight

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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Well there was just too much happening in this standalone. I loved the idea of a world where fairies stand alongside humans and magic is real. It was also interesting to hear how our history and music stayed the same so you get some funny pop-culture comments here and there. That said, Hazel and Ben were exhausting. Both of them obsessed with being in love and I just wanted to say good grief none of this is going to matter when you are older. I feel like an old curmudgeon. I liked the idea of Hazel being a knight, but […]

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7/12/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:163 |

“I can’t help but sense that desperation is right around the bend.”

Dry by Shusterman, Neal

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cbr11bingo – Listicle! (Dry is featured on this list of 2018 must-read teen fiction) Drought isn’t a new phenomenon to Alyssa or anyone else in California, but the ante is upped when one day the taps run dry.  Quickly termed the “tap-out” by local news, it doesn’t take long for stores to run out of bottled water and for people to start freaking out.  In this environmental disaster book, Neal Shusterman and his son Jarrod explore the possibilities of how chaos could unfold in California if the water crisis explodes.  The book is told in alternating voices, mostly following Alyssa […]

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