New class, New books

Well it's that time again.  A new semester.  This summer I'll be taking Literature for Young Adults.  So expect to see more blogs about more books, no picture books this time though!  lets find out just how many stories about teenagers I can stand!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic! (The Good, The Bad, And The Barbie)

Stone, T. (2015) The Good, The Bad, and The Barbie .   New York, NY: Penguin Group This nonfiction book tells the story of Barbie and her impact on the world.   The book begins with Barbie’s creator Ruth Handler.   Her parents emigrated from Poland and she was their tenth child, one of the only to be born in America.    At six months she went to live with her 20 year old sister because of a medical condition of her mother’s.   There she stayed and was raised.   She was always a strong, willful person who made it her mission to do what others told her was impossible.   She later moved to Los Angeles with her newly wed husband, Elliot Handler. The first started a company called Elzac which made jewelry and furniture.   That fell through when Elliot and his partner Zach Zemby had a disagreement with how to run the company.   After that they started a toy company called Mattel with friend Matt Matson.   They became very succe...
Read more

Slaying Latin Dragons (the Dragon Slayer review)

Image
Another Bluebonnet! Just ten more to go! Hernandez, J. (2017) The Dragon Slayer: Folktales From Latin America . New York, NY: Toon Graphics The Dragon Slayer is the retelling of three folktales from Latin America.  Specifically, the stories are: The Dragon Slayer, Martina Martinez and Perez the Mouse, and Tup And The Ants.  Each of these traditional stories is told in a comic format.  The art is well done, finding a balance between cartoony and realistic; which is just right for these sort of stories.  It's interesting to see the morals in the story and get a sense of the time when these stories were created.  Even though they are old stories, they are still relatable.  My 8 year old daughter very much enjoyed this book and so did I.
Read more

Some things you can't Ignore (Please Ignore Vera Dietz)

King, A. (2010) Please Ignore Vera Diets . New York, NY: Random House Spoilers!   Vera’s best friend just died.   Except that he’s not her best friend anymore.   She loved him. She hated him.   It’s all pretty complicated.   They say his dead body was just thrown onto his lawn.   They say that he started the fire that killed all those animals.   They say a lot of things, but Vera knows not everything they say is true. Charlie Kahn and Vera were neighbors.   They’ve been best friends since they were children.   Charlie had a sort of rebellious air about him that Vera adored.   He always did his own thing, even if it was weird.   She knew that his father was abusive to his mother, but they kind of just ignored it.   Instead they would hang out in the woods between their houses or go up to the pagoda.   When they were twelve Vera helped Charlie build a tree house in the woods.   They kept improving it, and...
Read more