Book Blab @ Stevenson H. S.

Why are teens wild about Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ saga? School Library Journal 8/1/08
“The wait is over. The final volume in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, goes on sale at 12 a.m. tonight, and many stores across the country are planning midnight parties with a vampire theme. Maybe it’s a fascination with the supernatural, its [...]

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Post by Lisa Dettling
I hope your summer has been restful and full of great reads. In between playing chauffeur for my two children, going to New York to see my last Yankee game at Yankee Stadium, and driving to northern Minnesota, I have actually read quite a bit. Surprisingly, my favorite book this summer happened [...]

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WINTER GAMES by John Lacombe
 
Reviewer: Ms. Carly Wells
 
It was a typical day for 24-year-old Tim Sutton, running his comic book shop in a small New Hampshire town. Until a mysterious package arrived.
The package, a comic tampered with and filled with secret codes, tells Tim that he must go on a cross-country (and cross-Pacific!) journey [...]

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Review by Mrs. Dettling
An Abe Lincoln Award nominee for 2008.
Lisa See’s novel set in nineteenth-century China, is a beautiful and heartbreaking story of love and friendship. Lily and Snow Flower live in a remote area of the Hunan Province. At the age of seven, the [...]

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The Year My Sister Got Lucky by Aimee Friedman
Review by Mrs. Dettling
The Wilder sisters are born-and-bred New York City girls who suddenly move to Fir Lake, a rural upstate New York town. Katie and Michaela have known nothing but the concrete jungle of Manhattan with its millions of inhabitants, and ballet lessons at a [...]

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Austenland by Shannon Hale
Review by Mrs. Dettling
Two words pop into my mind when I think about Austenland…Fantasy Island. I know, I am dating myself.
How into Jane Austen are you? Is Colin Firth’s portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the BBC adaption of Pride and Prejudice your idea of the perfect man? Maybe not, but [...]

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Before I Die by Jenny Downham
Review by Mrs. Dettling
I have been a librarian for more than 15 years. During this time I have been asked to find all kinds of books. Two of the weirdest topics I have ever searched for are how to build a coffin, and how to garden with human manure. [...]

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Jimmy Stewart: A Biography by Marc Eliot
Review by Mr. Bradford
Everyone who knows me knows that I am a “movie-holic” I love movies – of all eras. As a result, I was excited to pick up “Jimmy Stewart: A Biography” by Marc Eliot. Stewart is often regarded as one of the greatest [...]

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2007 Young Adult National Book Award Winner
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Review by Mrs. Dettling
From the very first moment I began reading The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, I had one thought floating around in my head, this is such a great book for guys! A [...]

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Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Review by Mrs. Dettling
Loving Frank is a fictional account of the infamous affair of Frank Lloyd Wright and the wife of a client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The novel is set during the period of 1903, when the Cheney’s first commission Wright to build them a home in Oak Park, and [...]

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