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Tag Archives: Children-YA
Marvin Redpost
I was going to do a big Sachar post, but realized it would get…erm, unwieldly. Going to seperate Marvin and the Wayside kids up! Marvin Redpost When straining the ol’ cranium for books I was reading in the nineties, an … Continue reading
California Diaries, round one
Warning: big post. Comments, videos, quotes. Years ago when the world was new and dinosaurs walked upon the face of the Earth, I saw a novel with an interesting cover and took a look. It proved to be a fictional … Continue reading
Little House in the Big Woods
I have a persistent fantasy of living in a little off-grid cabin on the edge of the woods, a fantasy I suspect owes entirely to reading this as a child. It’s a memoir-in-novel form of the author, Laura Ingalls Wilder, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Frontier, American West, Blast from the Past, Children-YA
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Blast from the Past II: The Quack Attack is Back!
Last year I closed out July with a special week of themed reading called “Blast from the Past”, in which I visited 1990s kidlit — or, in the case of the Henry & Beezus books, books I happened to read … Continue reading
Double play: science-y baseball and Tokyo teenage touristing
Diary of a Tokyo Teen is a graphic memoir of a Japanese-American teenager’s visit to her relatives in Japan, after an absence of five years. They live in an area not far from Tokyo, and the memoir covers her visiting … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science
Tagged baseball, Children-YA, Japan, Physics, science, sports and outdoors, travel
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Warcross
Emika Chen is a young woman, desperately in debt because a past criminal record makes it impossible for her to obtain the kinds of work that she’s developed skills for. What’s she’s good at coding and hacking, and these days … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged adventure, Children-YA, digital world, science fiction, thriller
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Night Witches
The German army has invaded deep into Mother Russia, and Stalingrad itself is a battlefield. Young Valentina desperately wants to use her flying skills to defend her city, joining her sister Tatiana in the skies, but her mother forbids her. … Continue reading
Posted in historical fiction, Reviews
Tagged aviation, Children-YA, historical fiction, Russia, women, WW2
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“In that direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives a Hatter: and in that direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.”“But I don’t want to go among mad … Continue reading
Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom
© 2020 Louis Sachar 176 pages I was a weekly visitor to my childhood library, always bringing home a fresh pile of books — but some books I checked out over and over again. Sideways Stories from Wayside High and … Continue reading
IRL
© 2014 Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang 192 pages I happened to see Cory Doctorow’s name on the cover of this graphic novel, and had to take a look. The plot is heavily based on a short story of Doctorow’s, … Continue reading
