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BookTalk Nailer is part of a ‘light crew’ based in abandoned ship yards of the Gulf Coast. He spends his days stripping old oil tankers of their precious copper crawling around in spaces almost too tight to breathe praying to make a lucky strike by finding the rare oil deposit. To Nailer finding even a [...] 
September 13th, 2011 | Tags: boy book, Dystopian, hurricane katrina, paolo bacigalupi, Series, ship breaker | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment  BookTalk “so long as we know we’re trapped, we still have a chance to escape.” (67, Galley ed.) Neva is hosting a ‘Dark Party’. She’s planned the details with her best friend for weeks. They’ve snuck her father out of the house. Being he head of rewriting the Protectosphere’s history makes him a figure most [...]
August 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, Dark Parties, Dystopian, Sara Grant, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk When was the last time you left your house without your phone? I’ll turn around halfway to work if I don’t have mine. I feel so disconnected if I don’t have it. This chilling novel imagines a society dominated by the “Feed” a next-generation Internet/television/smartphone hybrid that is hardwired directly into the brain. [...]
June 8th, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Dystopian, Feed, M. T. Anderson, National Book Award, YA Fiction, YA for Boys | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment Booktalk “You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. [...]
May 31st, 2011 | Tags: Book Review, book talk, booktalk, Delirium, Dystopian, Lauren Oliver, Paranormal Romance, Series, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment Review No review for this one. I read it long ago and just wanted to share the BookTalk I use when promoting the series to students. If you haven’t already…read it…it’s amazing and addictive BookTalk Imagine “Survivor” but instead of voting people off, you must kill your competitors to win… North America is [...]
May 26th, 2011 | Tags: addictive, book talk, booktalk, Dystopian, Series, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, YA Lit | Leave a comment Warning: This book is slow to start. Warning: This book is confusing for at least the first 30 pages. Warning: This book will become so addictive you’ll shut out the world to finish it… Seriously, Think Hunger Games addicting… Like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner is a dystopian fantasy teen trilogy. I’d recommend it to the same [...]
April 13th, 2011 | Tags: addictive, Dystopian, Fantasy, YA for Boys | Category: Uncategorized, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
               
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