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“Because all the words I could think of—bullying, teasing, flirting—seemed too simple, too small, to hold all the hurt I was feeling.”

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

February 24, 2020 by cosbrarian 3 Comments

Mila used to love wearing her green fuzzy sweater. That is, until a group of boys at school started calling it lucky.  It began at recess one day, when the boys joined into a group hug between her friends uninvited. Since then, they’ve narrowed their focus in on her. One day, a boy brushes her shoulder and she’s pretty sure it was intentional.  Another, someone wants to touch her fuzzy sweater for luck in the basketball game. One day, a boy asks her for a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Barbara Dee, children's book, children's lit, Harassment, karate, metoo movement, middle school

cosbrarian's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Barbara Dee, children's book, children's lit, Harassment, karate, metoo movement, middle school ·
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cover of the book The Line Tender by Kate Allen

“But if you could tell science like a story, I’d pay attention.”

The Line Tender by Kate Allen

February 12, 2020 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Lucy’s mother was a marine biologist who was particularly interested in sharks. People told her mother that this enthusiasm would get her killed, but it was a brain aneurysm that ended up taking her life. Lucy was seven when that happened, and while she still finds herself occasionally swept up in bouts of grief, she and her father are getting by. Friends and neighbors help a lot. Fred from across the street is her best friend, though now at 13 years old, she is beginning […]

Filed Under: Children's Tagged With: A death in the family, All the feels, Children's, children's book, children's lit, first love, friendship, grief, healing, kate allen, marine biology, Massachusetts, middle grade, middle school, sharks

cosbrarian's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Children's · Tags: A death in the family, All the feels, Children's, children's book, children's lit, first love, friendship, grief, healing, kate allen, marine biology, Massachusetts, middle grade, middle school, sharks ·
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Cover of the book I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

Stories from the 1% (no not THAT one)

I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

February 11, 2020 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Recently I was lucky to present at our state comic con on Teen Girls in Space, and one of the focuses of my panel contributions was diversity in pop culture. I got to really dig into the still terrible statistics of representation in literature and media, and while it was nice to see the numbers getting better, all in all it is a “long way to go” situation – unsurprising to any Pajiban and Cannonballer, I am sure. Of the many major bummers, one super-major […]

Filed Under: Children's Tagged With: American Indian, children's book, children's lit, christine day, contemporary fiction, duwamish nation, middle grade, Multigenerational, Native Americans, suquamish nation

cosbrarian's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Children's · Tags: American Indian, children's book, children's lit, christine day, contemporary fiction, duwamish nation, middle grade, Multigenerational, Native Americans, suquamish nation ·
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book cover for the Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

And a road trip to finish the Bingo Board!

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

October 21, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

CBR11Bingo – Travel! Coyote Sunrise and her father Rodeo live an unconventional lifestyle. Tried and true hippies, they drive round the country as the wind takes them on a repurposed school bus which acts as both home and transport. Sometimes they drive toward their favorite sandwich shop in the Bayou, or maybe they’re assisting a fellow traveler they found stranded. It’s been this way for five years – because five years ago, Coyote’s mother and sisters were killed in a car accident. And leaving home […]

Filed Under: Children's Tagged With: cbr11bingo, Children's Books, children's lit, Dan Gemeinhart, grief, middle grade, middle school, Realistic fiction, road trip, tween books, tweens

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:68 · Genres: Children's · Tags: cbr11bingo, Children's Books, children's lit, Dan Gemeinhart, grief, middle grade, middle school, Realistic fiction, road trip, tween books, tweens ·
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I don’t enjoy being a hater, but I wish this book had remained a secret

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

October 13, 2019 by KimMiE" 9 Comments

CBR11bingo: Listicle (Goodread’s Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once) The introductory blurb to The Secret Garden on Amazon reads, “Opening the door into the innermost places of the heart, The Secret Garden is a timeless classic that has left generations of readers with warm, lifelong memories of its magical charms.” I must be a much more cold-hearted bastard than anyone ever suspected and am likely to be doomed to the same circle of Hell as people who didn’t cry at the opening sequence of Up, because […]

Filed Under: Children's, Fiction Tagged With: cbr11bingo, children's lit, classics, frances hodgson burnett, KimMiE"

KimMiE"'s CBR11 Review No:46 · Genres: Children's, Fiction · Tags: cbr11bingo, children's lit, classics, frances hodgson burnett, KimMiE" ·
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