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The Last Thing I Remember, by Andrew Klavan

Klavan, Andrew (2009). The last thing I remember. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. 336 pages.
The first line of this novel–the first in a planned trilogy–is a grabber: “Suddenly I woke up strapped to a chair” (p. 3). As the opening sentence implies, eighteen-year-old Charlie West wakes strapped to a chair [...]

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Posted on 21st February 2010No Comments
The A-List: Hollywood Royalty: Sunset Boulevard, by Zoey Dean

Dean, Zoey (2009).  Sunset Boulevard (A-List:  Hollywood Royalty).  NY:  Poppy.  304 pages.
As you know, I’m a sucker for a series; therefore, I was super stoked when I finally found the second installment of the “A-List” spin-off series, “A-List:  Hollywood Royalty,” at the library.  Set in the Hollywood/Los Angeles/Beverly Hills of the “A-List” series, “Hollywood Royalty” [...]

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Posted on 26th October 20093 Comments
Take a Chance on Me (Gossip Girl, The Carlyles #3), by Cecily von Ziegesar

von Ziegesar, Cecily (2009).  Take a chance on me (Gossip Girl, The Carlyles #3).  NY:  Poppy.  256 pages.
So I’m a total sucker for the new “Gossip Girl” spin-off, “The Carlyles,” and almost get more pleasure in the mental comparison of “Carlyles” characters to “Gossip Girl” characters (there’s an equivalent “Carlyle” for every “GG” character) than [...]

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Posted on 27th September 2009No Comments
Skeleton Creek, by Patrick Carman

Carman, Patrick (2009).  Skeleton Creek.  NY:  Scholastic.  185 pages.
I was so psyched to see this at my library because I had seen Angela Kennedy (a student at Texas A and M University) talk about this book (and others) at the Children’s Literature Association conference in Charlotte this summer.  The novel, the first in an interactive [...]

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