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December 17, 2008
If emotionally charged stories portraying love, selfishness, betrayal, female foeticide, or even immortality of the soul have ever moved you to know what lies ahead, or the shape of things to come, here is a book that will tease your most fertile imagination. You could say it is a thematic ..
December 08, 2008
I didn't think that book #2, The Sacrificial Wood, could be better than the first book, Call of the Tree, but it is!The story of Stephanie and Vaughn continues in The Sacrificial Wood. As Stephanie struggles under the emotional exploitation of her father, her only salvation is her new stepmother ..
December 08, 2008
Stephanie and Vaughn find themselves living in a futuristic country that has been stripped of all freedoms, as we know them, their thoughts, actions and every aspect of their society controlled by those who govern. Their lives, and the lives of those around them are void of meaning and purpose. The .
December 05, 2008
Marjane Satrapi's engrossing, poignant, and sometimes hilarious “graphic memoir" Persepolis (2003) is further proof that the graphic novel itself has come a long way since the days of Superman, Batman, Hellboy, and those other superheroes we idolize in our popular culture. However, I believe ..
October 17, 2008
Most all young boys and men love sports and they really do not like to spend all day reading, as they would rather be out being boys, doing what young people do, playing sports. Still, we as parents realize that we must get them to sit and read if they are to grow up and become successful in the ..
October 13, 2008
What would you do if your mother or father suddenly committed suicide? In today's world a teenager has to deal with looks, friends, school and family. How could you manage with a felo-de-se?"Crossing 13" is an authentic account of a thirteen-year-old survivor of a father's suicide. Carrie Stark ..
October 02, 2008
Peer pressure. Substance abuse. Broken family dynamics. Failed sexual and romantic relationships. Automobile accidents. Not knowing what to do with the rest of your life after high school. All of these are the perfect ingredients for suicide's prominent role in realistic young adult ..
September 26, 2008
So, often young people are so caught up in emotion that they fail to recognize the long-term picture, of course, this allows them to get caught up in the moment and really live their lives to the full extreme. The pain and sorrow, joy and laughter, love and lust are all wrapped up in a huge ball ..
August 20, 2008
Bright Sky Press (2008) ISBN 9781933979144To me, “Window Boy" was a sad, but strangely uplifting, novel in hectic times. Sam Davis is a twelve-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. His father has abandoned him; his mother is too absorbed with her new boyfriend to notice Sam most of the time. In ..
May 30, 2008
I actually liked the pace and visual elements in this book . There was a movie made from the screenplay by director John Schultz. I have not seen it but it is available on DVD.The book is written in a style that young boys and girls will find easy to read. My 12 year old son enjoyed it but found it .
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