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Mystical, Brave, Horrific (Just Like Growing Up)

Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu

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For some reason, kids often get the best stories. Kids’ books can often tell hard truths in imaginative ways. They’re so true. Maybe the difference between kids’ and adults’ books is that as an adult, you can recognize the truth looking back better because you’re past that stage. Adult books are more ambigious because we’re all just winging. Or, maybe kids’ books continue ringing true because some things are always true. Hmm. Either way, a Juvenile Fiction book that gets you thinking about these Big Things is probably a pretty good book. Indeed, in Eventown Haydu gently provides a real gem of […]

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9/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

Being the Man of the House

Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith

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Looking at Keeping the Night Watch I figured it was going to be like Nikki Grimes or Nikki Giovanni. However, what it is like is a mix of both Grimes, Giovanni and Jason Reynolds, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Jacqueline Woods and what I think Kwame Alexander sounds like. I was unfamiliar with Hope Anita Smith before getting this gem in my shiny green package (see Go Sports Ball! review). However, unlike the others, this was not a new book but from 2008 (paper 2014). I am hoping this means there is a new edition coming out. Of course, it could just […]

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4/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:130 |

A Classic Ray Bradbury Story

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradury

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There are books that you feel you know through one medium or another (television, movies, radio, etc.) which you then read and find that it is completely different than what you expected. This was the case for me with the brilliant novel Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. I had been familiar with the story through the 1983 film, which scared the bezeesus out of me when I was a kid. The original novel, however, is so much better. The story focuses on two young boys on the cusp of manhood: Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade. Will and […]

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3/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave

Tomorrow I'll Be Brave by Jessica Hische

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Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave by Jessica Hische is an interesting take on being brave, adventures and trying new things. The narrator has done many things today and tomorrow they will try to do them all over again. They will keep trying if they did not make it today or even if they did not make it tomorrow. They know that is okay. Tomorrow I’ll be all the things I tried to be today: Adventurous, Strong, Smart, Curious, Creative, Confident, & Brave. And if I wasn’t one of them, I know that it’s OK.   The text is to encourage everyone […]

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5/8/2018 's CBR10 Review No:119 |

If I ever meet her, I will embarrass Ursula K. Le Guin with my fangirl weeping.

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Tombs of Atuan is the story of Tenar.  According to the Priestesses of the Tombs, Tenar was the reborn spirit of the First Priestess.  Tenar is taken from her family at five years old and sent to the Tombs, where no man, not even the Godking himself, can enter, to train to serve the Nameless Ones, to live the life she has lived hundreds of times previously.  After a year her name is taken from her and she is only ever to be Ahra, the Eaten One, from now on. It is a cold and lonely life, full of […]

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9/10/2015 's CBR7 Review No:11 |

All the Yes: The Worst Years of Your Life.

The Worst Years of Your Life by Mark Jude Poirier

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The back of this book tells you this collection of short stories is “delightful and terrifying” which immediately drew me in, because I can’t think of two better words that together, conjure up adolescence.  In his introduction, the editor Poirier states the stories stem “from nostalgia for the intense and sometimes confusing emotions that we all experienced at this time in our lives.” The cover of the book has a drawing of a frog, belly side up, ready for dissection.  This gave me an overwhelming recall of my freshman year of high school.  On one hand, I was proud comfortable […]

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5/25/2015 's CBR7 Review No:6 |


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