As a change of pace, we thought we’d feature a book that is the exact opposite of the ‘Read Beyond Reality’ titles we reviewed last week. The nonfiction book No Choirboy by Susan Kuklin is a look at the cold, hard reality of prison, and the lives of inmates on death row. No Choirboy is a relatively [...]
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Our final featured Read Beyond Reality books are a pair of sci-fi books by Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life as We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone. When an meteor hits the moon and knocks it closer to Earth, the world goes crazy. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and extreme weather ravage the land while death, disease, [...]
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Today’s featured books are the Gemma Doyle Triology by Libba Bray. The first book in this series is A Great and Terrible Beauty. “Gemma, 16, has had an unconventional upbringing in India, until the day she foresees her mother’s death in a black, swirling vision that turns out to be true. Sent back to [...]
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Today’s Read Beyond Reality choice is a graphic novel from Holly Black (the author of Tithe, Ironside, Valiant, and the Spiderwick Chronicles) called The Good Neighbors Book One: Kin. “Sixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are [...]
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Today’s Teen Read Week selection is The Nine Pound Hammer, the first book in a new fantasy series. “It’s so refreshing to read a fantasy book, by a brand new author, that is actually different! If you love fantasy, but you’re getting bored reading the same story with different names, try this one out. Set (for [...]
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Today’s featured Read Beyond Reality novel is the sci-fi thriller Gone by Michael Grant. A world without parents might sound like fun, but when every single person over the age of 14 disappears in the blink of an eye, it’s no laughing matter. Trapped inside an impenetrable barrier with no way to contact the outside world [...]
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Teen Read Week is here again. It’s the time of the year when your friendly neighborhood librarians encourage you to read what you enjoy, not only what your teachers make you read. It’s all about reading for fun! This year’s theme is Read Beyond Reality, so each day this week, we’ll be featuring a great fantasy, [...]
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House of Night Book 6 is coming. Are you ready to be Tempted? If you can’t wait for the book, read the first chapter here at the House of Night Series Website. Reserve your copy of Tempted by clicking here.
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Tell us about your favorite Halloween books in comments.
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So I gave up trying to keep up with every new teen series that comes out a while back. I mean, practically every book that comes out nowadays is part of a series, whether it needs to be or not. Often this is detrimental to the series as a whole. A good book is [...]
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