Today, we’re taking a peek at Countdown by Ben Mikaelson. First sentence: Bitter wind from Crazy Peak tugged at the sagebrush as fourteen-year old Elliot Schroeder coarxed his big buckskin horse back toward the ranch. and a little peek further under: “I’m fourteen years old,” Elliot replied. “I’m the first Junior Astrounaut in space. How… Read More UnderCoverMonday
Today, we’re taking a peek at Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun . First sentence: I’d been at the shelter for two weeks and there was nothing to do but go to counseling or lie on my cot and count the rows of empty cots nailed to the floor or watch TV in the rec… Read More UnderCoverMonday
Not just any Monday, but the fourth Monday in May. Memorial Day. Afrobella has a great tribute to African Americans who served in the war. It can be so easy to forget the fights within the fight that people of color faced during every war beginning with the French and Indian. People of color were… Read More UnderCoverMonday
Mr. Pip author: Lloyd Jones opening line: “Eveyone called him Pop Eye.” Thank goodness, I read Great Expectations a few months before reading Mr. Pip. I found this wonderful, wonderful book at a Relay Store in Taiwan. The story is set somewhere in the Pacific and is most appropriate for Asian Pacific Heritage Month. The… Read More UnderCover Monday
One of the benefits of rolling the media clerk’s position into mine is that I get to work with the new books when they come in. Typically, when processing them, I’m able to fight the urge to sit and read for a 5, 10 or 20 minutes. (No, librarians don’t sit and read all day!)… Read More UnderCoverMonday
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