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BookTalk “Anyone who’s had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It’s all about Before and After.” (6, ePub ed.) So begins this tale of After. Laurel Meisner and her once-friend-turned-bad-boy neighbor David ditch their respective families plans to grab ice cream after a seder dinner. David claimed calculus homework with a friend. [...] 
August 11th, 2011 | Tags: coming of age, Death, family, grief, high school, jennifer castle, realistic fiction, relationships, the beginning of after, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment  BookTalk Do you remember the stories of your childhood? Tales of magic and creatures who lived among us? When do we stop believing in them? When do we lose the faith? What happened if little red riding hood and the wolf showed up in your backyard? Better yet, what if Queen Mary did appear after [...]
July 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Fantasy, Miss Peregrines home for Peculiar Children, paranormal, Ransom Riggs, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Do you remember the stories of your childhood? Tales of magic and creatures who lived among us? When do we stop believing in them? When do we lose the faith? What happened if little red riding hood and the wolf showed up in your backyard? Better yet, what if Queen Mary did appear after [...]
July 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Fantasy, Miss Peregrines home for Peculiar Children, paranormal, Ransom Riggs, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 2 comments I am on Vacation…So it’s Beach Week here on the blog. Granted I live less than a mile from the ocean in Southern Florida, so really every week is beach week for me, but there is just something special about being on vacation at a beach. Even if you’re a year round beach bum a [...]
June 27th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Death, friendship, horror, Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, mystery, paranormal, Sarah Mlynowski, scary stories, Series, Short Stories, short stories from hell, Suspense, Vacations From Hell | Category: Short Stories, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for Kate. Anna gives her health for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At birth Anna gave stem cells at 13 Anna is expected to give a kidney. As this final surgical effort to save Kate [...]
June 15th, 2011 | Tags: book talk, booktalk, cancer, chick lit, Death, family, Jodi Picoult, medical ethics, My Sister's Keeper, problem novel, relationships | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks | Leave a comment BookTalk Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for Kate. Anna gives her health for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At birth Anna gave stem cells at 13 Anna is expected to give a kidney. As this final surgical effort to save Kate [...]
June 15th, 2011 | Tags: book talk, booktalk, cancer, chick lit, Death, family, Jodi Picoult, medical ethics, My Sister's Keeper, problem novel, relationships | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks | Leave a comment BookTalk “As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash [...]
June 13th, 2011 | Tags: Angels, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, family, Going Bovine, Libba Bray, Printz Award, relationships, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk Clay Jensen comes home from school and finds a package waiting for him…He’s excited…Nothing like an unexpected package – with no return addresss – to make your day. What Clay finds inside is a shoebox full of cassette tapes. What he hears when he inserts the first tape is the voice of Hannah [...]
June 4th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Death, Jay Asher, Review, Suicide, Thirteen Reasons Why, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment Review I’m in the minority. You should probably read Please Ignore Vera Dietz…Everyone else thinks you should…But I didn’t love it. I’m not going to booktalk it. I am disappointed. I could possibly be the only person on the internet brave enough to say so. Please Ignore Vera Dietz is a Printz Award Honor book. I had [...]
May 23rd, 2011 | Tags: A. S. King, Book Review, Death, family, Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Printz Award, problem novel, realistic fiction, YA Fiction | Category: Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment Booktalk “I see Dad first…as I walk toward him, the pavement grows slick and there are gray chunks of what looks like cauliflower. I know what I’m seeing right away but it somehow does not immediately connect back to my father. What springs into my mind are those news reports about tornadoes or fires, how [...]
May 18th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Coma, Death, family, Gayle Forman, If I Stay, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
               
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