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I had some henna art done Friday at a fundraiser, and got several compliments in the office yesterday even though the design is starting to fade a bit.This morning I started following author Catherynne M. Valente on Twitter.I reviewed her wonderfully bizarre YA fantasy novel The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland...
The apps recommended below were developed within the last two years. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion.PRESCHOOLA Present for Milo by Mike Austin (Ruckus Mobile Media)Kitten Milo chases a mouse until they reach—surprise!—a birthday party. Clever interactive elements and crisp sound effects accentuate the...
The following books will receive starred reviews in the May/June issue of the Horn Book Magazine:Animal Masquerade; by Marianne Dubuc; trans. from the French by Yvette Ghione (Kids Can)Demolition; by Sally Sutton; illus. by Brian Lovelock (Candlewick)The Drowned Cities; by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)Dying to Know You; by Aidan Chambers...
Katie Bircher braved the midnight show to report on The Hunger Games.In order to get Richard to go I think I'm going to have in turn see Footnote, an Israeli father-and-son drama that doesn't exactly sound up my alley (anybody else who was bored by A Separation, raise your unwashed...
Excitement was rampant at a March 23rd midnight showing of The Hunger Games (Lionsgate Films), director Gary Ross’s highly anticipated adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s bestselling dystopian novel. Before 11:30pm the theater was already packed, and our mostly undergrad-aged audience was impatiently waiting to see Katniss, the Capitol, and the Games...
Beneath a Meth Moon: An Elegyby Jacqueline WoodsonHigh School Paulsen/Penguin 182 pp.2/12 978-0-399-25250-1 $16.99Woodson takes us on the dark journey of addiction, mimicking the slow, hazy spell of drug use with the lull of her poetic prose. Laurel’s happy childhood on the Gulf shore ends abruptly when Hurricane Katrina destroys...
Adding to the media (and merchandising) madness of the new Hunger Games movie, fans in New York, Boston, Washington DC, and Philadelphia can work out like Katniss and Peeta at the "Train Like a Tribute" class offered at participating Sports Clubs (NYSC, BSC, WSC, PSC). The classes, free and open to...
We've heard from a few people looking for books for younger readers who are interested in, but not quite ready for, The Hunger Games trilogy. Here are some sci-fi and dystopian fiction suggestions for the pre-teen set (ages 9–11), all recommended by the Magazine.In Jeanne DuPrau's The City of Ember,...
A non-hysterical newspaper article in the Boston Globe about whether parents should let their pre-teens see The Hunger Games or not. Katie is going to be reviewing the movie for us so look out for that. She's already posted some read-alikes.Has anyone seen Tomorrow, When the War Began? I don't...
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