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NEWSLETTER
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Teenreads.com
January
12, 2001
Dear
Reader,
How y'all
doing this week? Me? I'm exhausted, thanks for asking. Frankly,
I'm not so sure this whole getting up in the morning before
noon for work thing is really for me. I'm pretty sure that
this morning I told my alarm clock I'd cook it dinner if it
just let me sleep ten more minutes. Little tip from your newsletter
guru: The surest sign that you've lost your grip on reality
is when find yourself making pacts with inanimate objects
--- like promising
your pen you'll buy it a pony if it helps you write an A paper.
Trust me on this...I have a date with a handsome, young alarm
clock tonight.
I bet you guys are probably screaming "Go to bed earlier,
you dim-wit!" at your monitors right now. The problem, however,
is that I need to read before I lay me down to sleep, and
often times I get so into a book that I wind up reading until
the wee hours of the morning. As devout bookworms, I'm sure
some of you know exactly what I'm babbling on about. I'm especially
tired this week because Teenreads.com posted reviews of some
really engrossing
books so, of course, I had to read them all. Ah well, sleep
deprivation is a small price to pay for a good story.
But before we get to the reviews...
AND
THE AWARD GOES TO...
This
year marked the debut of the Michael L. Pritz Award, a literary
honor given to young adult authors. The award is named for
--- yep, you guessed it! --- Michael L. Pritz, a former
school librarian and dedicated member of the Young Adult Library
Services Association (YALSA) who passed away in 1996. Dying
to know who took home this year's award, and for what book?
Not gonna tell you! Go
check it out for yourself!
NEW THIS WEEK...
BLUE AVENGER CRACKS THE
CODE by Norma Howe
The
Blue Avenger (aka David Schumacher) and his friends journey
to Venice, Italy in hopes of answering the highly controversial
question surrounding the authenticity of Shakespeare's works.
Could the real Bard have been Edward DeVere, the relatively
unknown 17th century Earl of Oxford?
Read our review, and
an interview with
the author of the book at:
THE BEET FIELDS: MEMORIES
OF A SIXTEENTH SUMMER by Gary Paulsen
Driven from home by the sexual advances of his drunken mother,
a sixteen year-old boy, who remains unnamed throughout the
story, runs away from home in the dark of night. He takes
a job thinning beets alongside a group of Mexican immigrants
in the fields of North Dakota. From back-breaking labor, to
new and unlikely friendships, to the wonders of women and
sex, his sixteenth summer can only be described as utterly
life-altering.
Read our review, an
excerpt from the book,
and a biography of
the author.
BATTLE DRESS by Amy Efaw
Appropriately referred to as "Beast," the first six weeks
of training at West Point Academy are grueling, and being
only one of two girls in the whole platoon makes things that
much harder. Between the intense physical demands and endless
verbal abuse from her superiors, Andi is not so sure she can
make it through. After all, her family always said she was
a born loser. Can she prove them wrong?
Read
our review, an excerpt
from the book, and a biography
of the author.
INSATIABLE: The Compelling
Story of Four Teens, Food and It's Power by Eve Eliot
Four teens are embroiled in an endless struggle against the
most basic of human needs...food. Samantha and Jessica starve
themselves; Hannah binges and purges; Phoebe compulsively
overeats. Losing this battle can be fatal...will these four
teens find the strength to win?
FEARLESS #13: Bad by Francine
Pascal
As hard as it is to believe, the thirteenth installment of
the series finds Gaia, the girl who has tragedy follow her
like a shadow, happy and in love! After overcoming countless
misunderstandings and heaps of bad luck, Gaia and Sam are
finally a couple. And while there's no doubt that just around
the corner a host of evil awaits, for a few moments Gaia becomes
an average teenage girl, butterflies in stomach and all.
STILL
GOING STRONG...
LEARNING
TO SWIM by Ann Turner
In a series of free verse poems, Ann Turner recalls how she
spent one fateful summer from her childhood contending with
the sexual advances of a neighborhood boy.
Read our introduction,
the review, and an
excerpt from the book.
LENA by Jacqueline Woodson
On the run from their sexually abusive father, thirteen year-old
Lena and eight year-old Dion set out in search of their mother's
family.
Read our review, an
excerpt from the book,
and a biography of
the author.
HAWK: OCCUPATION: SKATEBOARDER
by Tony Hawk
From broken bones to bad haircuts, childhood to marriage,
Mr. "Michael Jordan of skateboarding" Hawk has finally written
his autobiography.
Read our review, an
excerpt from the book,
and a biography of
the author.
EIGHT SECONDS by Jean
Ferris
When John discovers his friend and roommate is gay, he finds
himself torn between being friends with Kit and protecting
his image in front of others.
TOTAL ASTROLOGY: What
the Stars Say About Life and Love (Seventeen) by Georgia Routsis
Savas
Find out what the cosmos has to say about life and love.
RECENTLY
REVIEWED...
NIGHT FLYING by Rita Murphy
COUNTERFEIT SON by Elaine
Marie Alphin
THE TRANSFORMATION by
Mette Newth
CLOSE TO A KILLER by Marsha
Quale
ANGEL: SHAKEDOWN by Don
DeBrandt
Hope you all have a great week! Till we meet again...
--- Sarah Brennan for Teenreads.com
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