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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

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This adventure story feels more on the Y end than the A end of YA, but with some thrills and dangers that might be scary for littler readers. The three children of General Matsika – brave Tendai, the oldest at 13, assertive sister Rita, and four-year-old Kuda – are not allowed to leave the family compound. They have everything they could ever need, including fancy futuristic school lessons and a live-in Praise Singer who acts as tutor and babysitter. Their father has spent his career […]

Odds and Ends

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Pleasantville by Attica Locke; 4 out of 5 Stars This is the follow-up novel to Black Water Rising and like that one we follow the law career of Jay Porter of Houston, now 15 years older, recently widowed, and still holding down only a few clients. A mayoral election is in full swing, the historically Black neighborhood of Pleasantville has been hit by a chemical plant first shutting down jobs and then polluting the city, a wave of recent murders, and divisive politics set on […]

I checked the date of this book like four times as I was reading….

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…because years ago I read Never Let Me Go like the day it came out. In addition, there’s even a line about “Never Let Me Go” in this novel. But this one came out first. Not that it matters because they are much different novels from one another. In this book, Matteo is born a clone for a drug lord in a future narcostate that has been built between the US and Mexico. Matt’s life has been destined to be an organ farm for the kingpin, […]



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