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Sunday, May 21st, 2006
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| Author: | Ayn Rand |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 12 and up |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1946 |
At one point, I actually believed that Ayn Rand had overreacted and that most people respect and understand that they need intelligent, capable people around them.
Read The Fountainhead; Atlas Shrugged is identical except that it's much longer.
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
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| Author: | Jonathan Stroud |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 12 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2003 |
CAUTION:This wonderful trilogy features characters with whom the reader will fall in love, and significant violence that has predictable consequences. Please, before recommending this first volume to a sensitive young reader, either read the whole trilogy or read our reviews of book two and, especially, book 3.
Sardonic musings of a demon summoned by an academically under-challenged 12 year old apprentice wizard. |
Together, they save Civilization as they know it. First in a trilogy.
Luckily, unlike Inkheart and Eragon, this book's sequels are already in print.
-- Emily Berk |
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Posted in Conceptual: age 12 and up, Dealing with bullies, Death is a central theme, Dickensian, Dragons and/or mythological beasts, Fiction, Gifted, Reading level: age 12 and up, Science Fiction | Comments Closed
Thursday, May 18th, 2006
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| Author: | Beverly Cleary |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1983 |
A boy who aspires to become a writer learns about being a writer by writing to one.
My ten year old daughter felt somewhat cheated by the author's technique of presenting all the letters to Mr. Henshaw and none of the letters from him.
I, on the other hand, think Cleary moves the plot along quite nicely in this way. When, in the middle of the book, the correspondence shifts to being in a diary rather than an exchange of letters, my daughter responded much more positively.
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Anyway, we both got into the story of Leigh Botts, son of a newly-divorced trucker and a catering assistant.
Wishing all those reluctant or aspiring writers out there their own Mr. Henshaw!
-- Emily Berk |
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Posted in Conceptual: 8 and up, Dealing with bullies, Fiction, Reading level: age 8 and up | Comments Closed
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2003 |
Huckleberry Finn in the 1960s and with all girls and the Goddess. I would have liked to have felt more Joy but my friends tell me that the 14 year old narrator is still in shock from all that she's learned. Anyway, the bees and the Sisters June, May, & August make this book well worth reading.
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Saturday, May 13th, 2006
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Posted in Conceptual: 8 and up, Dealing with bullies, Dragons and/or mythological beasts, Fairy tales, Female protagonist, Fiction, Gifted, Reading level: age 8 and up, Science Fiction | Comments Closed
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Cornelia Funke |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 12 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2005 |
No doubt most authors of fiction hope to evoke worlds using words alone. But what if it were possible for certain readers to actually cause people and objects to transition between fictional worlds and our world, just by reading aloud?
This is book two of what is promised to be a trilogy.
If anything, my 11 yr. old and I liked this book even more than its predecessor, InkHeart. And, as an added bonus, InkSpell provides a touching and believable portrayal of a pair of pre-adolescents who are just about certain they are in love.
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In fact, we are coming to believe that anything Cornelia Funke writes might be enjoyable reading.
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Saturday, May 13th, 2006
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| Author: | Cornelia Funke |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 8 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 8 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2004 |
Lovely, gentle story about a community of fantastical creatures and a few humans who adventure together to discover a place in which to build a new life together.
One of the many delights:
The brownie named Sorrel lives to eat mushrooms. But when she doesn't like someone and calls him or her names, Sorrel uses the names of poisonous mushrooms as epithets. SO CUTE!!!
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We have come to believe that anything Cornelia Funke writes might be enjoyable reading. But Dragon Rider might just be our favorite of Funke's books. It has no where near the stress level of others, particularly the Ink... books. But you should read them all. (Well, maybe it should be your kid who is seen getting them out of the library.)
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Posted in Conceptual: 8 and up, Dealing with bullies, Dragons and/or mythological beasts, Fairy tales, Female protagonist, Fiction, Gifted, Reading level: age 8 and up | Comments Closed
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
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| Author: | Tracy Kidder |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 12 and up |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Year of publication: | 1981 |
Kidder is a great non-fiction writer. This is a true story about how a company manipulated its most talented employees into creating a great computer, without regard to what the work environment would do to them or their families. |
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Posted in Biography, Computers in society, Conceptual: age 12 and up, Culture, Dealing with bullies, Gifted, History, Reading level: age 12 and up, Science | Comments Closed
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
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| Author: | Lauren Belfer |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Sophisticated readers |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Sophisticated readers |
| Genre: | fiction, historical |
| Year of publication: | 1999 |
Kind of a Handmaid's Tale (without the explicit sex) that takes place in Buffalo, NY at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Posted in Conceptual: highly sophisticated, Culture, Dealing with bullies, Dickensian, Female protagonist, Fiction, History, Reading level: Sophisticated reader | Comments Closed
