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Blog: readergirlz (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: readergirlz (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Holly Black stopped by to add her input on our discussion of Compassion and White Cat, so we thought we'd highlight that for anyone who missed it! Holly says:
"It is so interesting to hear people talk about my characters like they're people you know -- it's one of the things that I think writers like best, because most of the time we're alone with these characters for long stretches of time. They become real to us and we have strong feelings about them - but we're the only people who do - so when we meet readers who want to talk about them, it makes us feel less crazy.
"The thing I have been continuously surprised by is the compassion that readers have for Barron. He's a troubled and troubling guy, but many feel sorry for him in a way that I don't!"
Blog: readergirlz (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This week's focus is on Holly Black's White Cat and it's an excellent representation of this month's theme: Compassion. Cassel is a character with great compassion in the midst of a cold, calculating, con-artist family.
For discussion: If you've read White Cat, how do you think Cassel developed his own deep compassion in this harsh setting?
Blog: readergirlz (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Ever since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. Could she still be alive? To find that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.
With White Cat, Holly Black has created a gripping tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love -- or death -- and your dreams might be more real than your memories.
Blog: Young Adult (& Kid's) Books Central (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Giveaway News, Holly Black, White Cat, Contest Winners, Shade, Saundra Mitchell, Shadowed Summer, Rachel Renee Russell, Jeri Smith-Ready, June 2010 Winners, Dork Diaries 2, Add a tag
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Blog: Kate's Book Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Let's see...where to start with this one...
Well, first of all, there is the fact that Holly Black's name looks so cool on the cover of a book called WHITE CAT. But focusing on that too long is doing the inside of the book a disservice. Because it's fantastic - one that teachers will want to hand kids looking for a compelling, fast-paced read.
Set in a world where a touch can be powerful and deadly, WHITE CAT is a magical thriller, loaded with curses, organized crime families, and con artists with dangerous talents. I loved this book, especially the ending (It's perfect - that's all I'm saying), and I'm excited to share it with my middle school kids. WHITE CAT is the first in a series called CURSE WORKERS, and it's one of those titles that both boys and girls are going to love. I am already kind of tapping my fingers on my desk, wishing the next one would show up. Highly recommended.
(Reviewed from an ARC & available from Margaret McElderry today!)
Blog: Kate's Book Blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I've been deep in the depths of revision for the past few weeks -- polishing up a picture book and a middle grade mystery. They are both done (*pause for cheering & confetti here*) and on submission now, and I have big plans for a post-revision reading binge. But before I do that, I want to talk about a handful of books I've read lately that you might like, too. Ready?
Amy Ignatow's THE POPULARITY PAPERS: RESEARCH FOR THE SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT AND GENERAL BETTERMENT OF LYDIA GOLDBLATT AND JULIE GRAHAM CHANG is the book to hand to your girls who are fans of the Wimpy Kid series. It's that same diary/graphic novel blend that keeps even reluctant readers turning pages and laughing like crazy. Interestingly enough, the main characters in this are in fifth grade, but it's going over really well with some of my 7th grade girls, even though they're a bit older. (Due out from Amulet April 1st)
I can't keep Lisa Schroeder's CHASING BROOKLYN on my classroom library shelf - it's one of those books that gets handed from kid to kid in the cafeteria and never makes it all the way back to my classroom, and that's just fine. I understand why the kids love it, too. Set at the same high school as Lisa's I HEART YOU, YOU HAUNT ME, her latest YA novel-in-verse is about love and loss, remembering and moving forward. It left me in tears, but they were good ones - the kind you cry when you've just read an amazing book that's full of sorrow and beauty and hope all at once. It's a a beautiful, beautiful book. (Available now from Simon & Schuster)
Fans of Jerry Spinelli's MILKWEED and Lois Lowry's NUMBER THE STARS will love ONCE by Morris Gleitzman. One of my 7th grade students absolutely devours historical fiction set during the Holocaust, and she was waiting for this ARC, standing at my desk, tapping her foot as I turned the last page.
The main character, Felix, begins the story as a unique (and heartbreaking) unreliable narrator. He's a Jewish boy, hidden in a Catholic orphanage, and utterly unaware of the danger he's facing. When he sets out to find his parents, he sees evidence of the Nazis destruction but misinterprets much of it, placing himself squarely in harm's way. Ultimately, though, he's faced with too much reality to go on believing the stories he's told himself, and from there, the book chronicles his loss of innocence and his coming of age in the worst of times. It's beautifully written and though like many books set during the Holocaust, it's tough to read at times, it's certainly not without hope. Highly recommended, it comes out from Henry Holt March 30th.
Blog: Beth Kephart Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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On this day she stood knee-high in snow.
She's like the pure white cat who still at times stops by.
I wonder, often, what all this whiteness means.
Blog: Sugar Frosted Goodness (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: studio lolo (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Michelle Lana (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Blog: Designing Fairy (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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We watched Happy Feet the other day as a family. I found myself balling at the end. Balling! I was having that IT moment. When something touches your core--the reason why you are here. I call it an EMOTIONAL SIGNPOST. The end of Happy Feet is a bit heavy-handed, but I recognized the message as one I am completely aligned with. The message was environmental and about protecting the animals' habitats so we don't lose them, and I thought, YES! That's what I write and draw about! That's my common thread in my work--all of it. A world without the trees and the flowers and the grasshoppers and the horses and the dogs would be UNBEARABLE. It wouldn't be a world. I guess that's why I hate the MATRIX movies--they depict a world that will exist with none of that, except in our imaginations.
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Congrats to all the winners! I was wondering, are the monthly giveaways open to Canadians?
Thanks so much, and congrats to the other winners!