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Enter to win this new multi-platform middle-grade series: VOYAGERS (Random House Children's Books, 2015). Get the full Voyagers experience! Giveaway begins October 26, 2015, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends November 25, 2015, at 11:59 P.M. PST.
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Hello! It's Trailer Tuesday here at RNSL (I totally just made that up). But I do have some trailers for you. 20th Century Fox just released the official film trailer for The Maze Runner movie last night. I have not read the book yet but the trailer looks pretty good. I like that the actors seem like relative unknowns and it looks like a harrowing story. I really need to read this one before the movie comes out.
While I was strolling through Trailer Land, I found a few new book trailers that looked interesting as well.
In the trailer for Monument 14: Savage Drift, things are looking pretty bleak. This is another book series that has been on my shelf for a while but hasn't been read. I like the tone and cinematic styling of this one.
Untamed City: Carnival of Souls by Melissa Marr is a very epic trailer. The music and content of the trailer make it seem like a gladiator movie. I wish the fighting was a little more badass but overall, not too shabby.
And last but not least we have a little featurette from the Divergent movie (coming out this week!) that showcases Four.
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WE ARE SEVEN STRANGERS
NO ONE CAN FIND US
SIX THINK THE CURE WILL WORK
ONLY I KNOW THE TRUTH
THIS PLACE WILL DESTROY US
When Will Besting approaches Fort Eden for the first time, he knows something isn’t right. With more terrifying secrets at every turn he discovers a hidden fear deep inside himself, a dark mystery a thousand years in the making, and the unexpected girl of his dreams. But can he save everyone from the dangers of Fort Eden before it’s too late?
Bestselling author Patrick Carman’s DARK EDEN is not only a psychological thrill ride of a book, but also an app– a 14 episode experience (the first of which is free) with maps, videos, audio diaries, and journal entries that tell the story. The book and the app truly go hand-in-hand, and if even that’s not enough for you… there’s more!
Take THE FEAR TEST, which will show you your darkest fears… and may (warning!) scare you a little in the process, check out the Facebook DARK EDEN fan site for updates. Join us in Dark Eden… where fear is the cure.
Dark Eden is available in bookstores now (what a great publication date– 11.1.11!).
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Add this book to your collection: Dark Eden
Have you read this book? Rate it:
Note: There is a rating embedded within this post, please visit this post to rate it.Reading level: Ages 12 and up
Publisher’s synopsis: If you had the chance to change one thing about yourself, what would you be willing to give up in exchange?
Fifteen-year-old Will Besting is sent by his doctor to Fort Eden, an institution meant to help patients suffering from crippling phobias. Once there, Will and six other teenagers take turns in mysterious fear chambers and confront their worst nightmares-with the help of the group facilitator Rainsford, an enigmatic guide. When the patients emerge from the chamber, they feel emboldened by the previous night’s experiences. But each person soon discovers strange, unexplained aches and pains…What is really happening to the seven teens trapped in this dark Eden?
Patrick Carman’s DARK EDEN is a provocative exploration of fear, betrayal, memory, and ultimately, immortality.
Experience the fear: http://enterdarkeden.com
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I found some great trailers to share with you this week. All three are ridiculously well done.
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Have you read it? Write your review here!
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Have you read it? Write your review here!
Dark Eden by Patrick Carman
Have you read it? Share your thoughts here!
I'm especially intrigued by Dark Eden. The iPhone App integration looks like pure Epic Win. Have any of you downloaded the App? Let us know what you think in the doobly-doo below.
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By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book Review
Published: September 21, 2011
It’s time to start prepping for the holiday season. First stop: Halloween. No tricks here—only treats!
When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween.
~Author Unknown
Our 2011 Halloween book list spotlights everything from growing pumpkins; overcoming fears (a great topic for youngsters that tend to get a little surprised when they no longer recognize their family and friends due to colorful costumes and scary masks); witches; skeletons; cats and bats; and plain-old, creepy stories that beg to be read on a dark night with a flashlight. From babies to beginning readers to middle graders to young adults, TCBR has you covered.
Board Books
Spooky Boo! A Halloween Adventure
by Lily Karr (Author), Kyle Poling (Illustrator)
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Board book: 12 pages
Publisher: Cartwheel Books; Brdbk edition (July 1, 2011)
Source: Publisher
Publisher’s synopsis: What’s Halloween without a haunted house? Come inside SPOOKY BOO! A HALLOWEEN ADVENTURE – it’s filled with tons of Halloween fun! With spooky lift-the-flaps, icky touch-and-feels, and outrageous mirrors throughout, this is one haunted house that trick-or-treaters will want to visit again and again!
Add this book to your collection: Spooky Boo! A Halloween Adventure
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by Renee Khatami
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Board book: 14 pages
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (July 26, 2011)
Source: Publisher
Publisher’s synopsis: Black is the new black in this darkly tantalizing touch-and-feel extravaganza for the senses! Now babies can enjoy this daring color in a novelty board book chock-full of gorgeous, full-color photographs. There are textures to touch, a flap surprise, and the scratch ‘n’ sniff scent of sweet licorice that you can almost taste!
Add this book to your collection: Little Black Book
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FRIDAY, JUNE 24
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Veronica Roth (DIVERGENT)
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
9:00 am-9:30am
Thanhha Lai (INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN)
Carolyn Mackler (TANGLED)
9:30 am – 10:30 am
Alex Flinn (CLOAKED)
Jack Gantos (GUYS READ: FUNNY BUSINESS)
10:30 am – 11:00 am
Kelly Milner Halls (SAVING THE BAGHDAD ZOO)
Bobbie Pyron (A DOG’S WAY HOME)
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Kadir Nelson (HEART AND SOUL posters)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Katherine Hannigan (TRUE…(SORT OF))
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Patrick Carman (DARK EDEN galleys)
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm
Katherine Hannigan (BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Dan Gutman (THE GENIUS FILES: MISSION UNSTOPPABLE)
SUNDAY, JUNE 26
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Bob Shea (I’M A SHARK)
9:30 am – 10:30 am
Christopher Myers (WE ARE AMERICA)
10:30 am – 11:30 am
Rita Williams-Garcia (Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Winner for ONE CRAZY SUMMER)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Kevin Henkes (JUNONIA; LITTLE WHITE RABBIT)
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Claudia Gray (FATEFUL)
Maureen Johnson (THE LAST LITTLE BLUE ENVELOPE)
1:30 pm &
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This time, Amy and Dan are in Russia searching for clues—a country that is rich in history.
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I'm going to assume that it will be spring (wouldn't it have to be?) by the time the Philadelphia Book Festival rolls around on April 17th and 18th, so I'm thinking iris colors. I'm also inviting you to come meet me and two fantastic YA writers—Elizabeth Eulberg (The Lonely Hearts Club) and Patrick Carman (Skeleton Creek and Trackers)—on the Sunday, April 18th YA panel. Elizabeth, Patrick, and I will be on an outdoor stage that afternoon, 2 PM. Sun, I'm thinking. A sprinkling of clouds. No rain.
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When I asked author Patrick Carman if he'd like to do an interview, he said sure, but due to being crazy-busy, would a phone interview work? I said yes (of course!) and had a great time chatting with Patrick about his innovative video-book series, the first of which includes Skeleton Creek and The Ghost in the Machine; his contribution to the interactive 39 Clues series; and more. You can find him online at www.patrickcarman.com.
I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I enjoyed talking with Mr. Carman!
Did you invent the idea of a video-book or had you heard of the concept elsewhere?
I don't know about inventing.... I'd never heard about it being done before. We started working on it about three years ago and, for my purposes, I came up with the idea of mixing the books and the videos together. So, I don't know if I was the first person or not, but for Skeleton Creek which we started on three years ago (and came out seven months ago) I think it was the first time that a project that told the story in those two formats had been done. Who knows, if you were to really dig around, maybe there's something else out there, I don't know.
Was your publisher on board with the idea right away, or were they skeptical about the whole video-book idea?
My editor is David Levithan at Scholastic, [and] when I came up with the idea I was sure there was no way he was going to want to do it. So I went in assuming it wasn't going to happen. I sent it to him, and he said, "Well, we're working on something else that this would be perfect to go along side of, but I can't tell you what the something else is." But Scholastic took it off the market the day after I showed it to them - it never got shown around besides that. Really surprised me. So it went in a day, and then it was later on, a couple of months later, that I found out--because it was all very secretive at that time--about The 39 Clues. He said, this is why we wanted Skeleton Creek, because we wanted something for a little bit older of kids, we wanted to do something else in what we call "21st century literacy" - in that vein, besides 39 Clues. The funny thing is, there was an email that went out to a very small group of people about 39 Clues when it was getting closer, and he didn't ask me if I wanted to do one, but as soon as I understood what it was, 20 seconds after I read it, I sent him an email and said, you have to let me do one of these. [laughs] I wasn't actually chosen to do a 39 Clues book, I sort of begged. I ended up being able to do one.
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15-year-old Ryan and his best friend Sarah have discovered something very odd about their small Oregon town of Skeleton Creek. An abandoned mining dredge in the woods appears to be haunted by the ghost of a man who was sucked into the gears decades ago. No one in the town will talk about it, though – and the subject of a strange and very secret society called The Crossbones is absolutely buried, even though Ryan’s dad may be a member.
After a midnight accident up at the dredge damages his leg so badly that he is virtually bedridden for weeks, Ryan stays in his room and fills his diary with paranoid musings about his town’s sinister secrets. Sarah, meanwhile, keeps filming her clandestine visits to the dredge and posting them on her website for Ryan’s eyes only. They’ve been forbidden to contact each other, but luckily no one has taken away their computers.
The book takes the form of Ryan’s diary entries, of course, and by themselves they are ominous, if not absolutely chilling. Even though Ryan is certain his parents are spying on him and may be involved in whatever weirdness is permeating Skeleton Creek, it’s hard to imagine that his parents are up to no good. Maybe it’s because Ryan himself doesn’t quite believe it. Anyway, I read the book all the way through while snug in my bed and didn’t once consider leaving the closet light on all night.
Throughout Ryan’s diary, he mentions the videos Sarah has posted online, commenting on them in an enigmatic enough manner that we’re not really sure what happens in them. The idea is to watch each video as we come to them in the story, but I hate logging on while in bed, so I watched them all the next morning.
Oh boy!
These shaky, handheld videos owe much to The Blair Witch Project, complete with creepy sound effects and not quite enough light. You may be rolling your eyes, but the BWP scared the socks off me 10 years ago and these Skeleton Creek videos were eerie enough to speed up my heart rate. Some of them are just Sarah sitting in front of her webcam going on and on about how weird everything is, and these are wonderfully authentic in their rather boring dorkiness. And then there are her night-time trips to the dredge, with crunching leaves and heavy breathing and the rubbing of old wood and metal and sudden shadowy glimpses of scary stuff. Yikes!
This is a terrific book to share with middle school students. It is slim and covered with skulls, always a plus, and if you go to the website and show them the very first video, they’ll be hooked, I guarantee it. Shudder-inducing, to be sure, and it might even inspire them to make some scary book-and-videos of their own. Check out Scholastic's website for plenty of cool extras, and Patrick Carman's website is worth a peek as well.
Grades 6 - 9
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Just read The House of Power, the first book in the Atherton series by Patrick Carman. Carman is also known for his children’s series the Land of Elyon. I’ve never thought of myself as a fantasy or science fiction fan, but when I guess when you have great writing, it doesn’t matter the genre. I loved Atherton and I can’t wait for the second book in the series: Rivers of Fire.
The story in a nutshell is about a land called Atherton which is three tiered. The highest tier: the Highlands, the middle tier: the Tabletop, and the lowest tier: the Flatlands. The majority of Atherton’s residents live on the Tabletop where they raise livestock and farm fig trees. The Tabletop supplies the Highlands with food and other necessities. The Highlands are inhabited by an elite ruling group who control the world’s water supply. The residents of the Highlands do not mingle with those of the Tabletop. The Flatlands are unknown to either community. Atherton is the creation of a mad scientist, Dr. Harding, who is conducting an experiment with Atherton’s inhabitants. An adventurous orphan of the Tabletop named Edgar uncovers Dr. Harding’s experiment through an adventure of his own and makes a couple of new friends in the process. What is this mysterious experiment? And who is this Dr. Harding? To unlock the secrets, read Atherton: The House of Power and visit the series website: www.athertonseries.com.
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Oh, my double mocha was divine! The real whipped cream was so rich and stiff that it stayed afloat on the dark espresso sea as serenely as a sugar cloud.
The table was piled with books! We found each other by them, in fact. Who else would be carrying Hugo Cabret or Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! into a restaurant and waving them about?
The conversation was scintillating! Tales of book ordering frenzies after the ALA awards so wild they would win a bond trader's admiration. Stories of manuscripts being finished, started, revised, sold, dreamed about. Newbery and Caldecott winners passed from hand to hand. Confessions about what we had read and what we hadn't. Who loved what (and who didn't) and why. Cheeky ARCs for 2008 hobnobbing with seasoned 2007 titles.
Yes, folks, the DC Kidlit Brunch was everything I could've hoped for. If you live near the DC area, please come out next time. Email Caroline Hickey to be added to the A-List. (Hey, around here, we're all A-List.)
The Brunch Crew, after being instructed
to hold a book we had NOT yet read
From left to right:
Susan (Wizards Wireless) holding The Wednesday Wars.
Louise Simone holding Henry's Freedom Box, written by Ellen Levine and illustrated by Kadir Nelson. I would buy this book for the cover image alone. Stunning.
Caroline Hickey (Author of Cassie was Here and member of those fab Longstockings) holding The Wall by Peter Sis
Gina Montefusco (PBS) holding Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
MotherReader and Tami Lewis Brown (of the soon-to-be-released Soar, Elinor!) both holding Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
Anamaria Anderson (Books Together) holding Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains by Laurel Snyder of Kid*Lit(erary)
Sara Lewis Holmes (me!) holding an ARC of A la Carte* by Tanita Davis (Finding Wonderland)
*But since I had PRE-ORDERED this book already, I let someone else take the ARC home. I could hardly stand it, but I did it. (After peeking at a few of the recipes.)
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We ate French crepes. We signed each other's books. We talked about writing, and moving, and critique groups and author visits and bookstores. And we hatched a plan to start a DC/VA/MD Kid-Lit group. Yes, Caroline Hickey (author of Cassie was Here) and I had a very productive lunch yesterday. Here's her post, "D.C. Lobbies for Own Kidlit Drinks Nite," with info on how to contact her if you want to join in the Capital City fun.
And just in case you're wondering what the D.C. area has to offer in the way of kid-literary adventure:
What about a field trip to the Library of Congress? (Caroline's idea) Think they'd let a bunch of kidlit enthusiasts rummage around in the archives? Or trot out a few of their kidlit related treasures? Maybe not if we've had a few drinks beforehand, but if we promise to show up nice and orderly on a weekday morning?
I'd like to check out the new Arlington location of Busboys and Poets. The original location, on U Street in D.C. was named for Langston Hughes, who worked as a busboy at the nearby Wardman Park Hotel and left poems beside the dinner plate of another poet, Nicholas Lindsay. Most of the authors that visit seem to be decidedly non-kidlit, but hey, with as edgy as YA is becoming, we could probably pitch something to them. Or just hang out and eat. They've got peanut and banana sandwiches, if we wanna stand up for our youthful perspective. Think those would be good with a green apple martini? For pictures, see here.
The Lorton Arts Foundation is transforming a closed prison workhouse into a 55-acre cultural arts center. In 1917, the workhouse once held 170 women arrested for agitating for the right to vote; throughout the years, it housed other prisoners up until December of 2001. Now, it's the site of proposed arts programs that are heavy on the visual and performing arts, but I did see in their planning documents something called Letters and Lore, which promises workshops and author readings. Perhaps our newly formed D.C./VA/MD Kidlit group could come up with a rocking program? I'm game!
Go see Caroline at the Longstockings or comment here to join us!
Liked all three of these especially The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer which I actually read. I do think there is an overload of steamy scenes though... :)
I know! What is up with all the steamy scenes? I haven't read the book - it made me think it was all about sexy times. But still, the trailer was posh.