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Monday, April 08, 2013 11:04:39 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled :
Sara said, "Poison by Bridget ZinnMy rating: 4 of 5 starsA fresh rom-com adventureA lot of YA literature is about dystopia, dysfunction, and darkness. I’m not knocking dystopia, dysfunction, and darkness—some of my favorite books are pretty grim. But..." more
Friday, March 29, 2013 8:39:16 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled The Book of Jonas (review):
Sara said, "The Book of Jonas by Stephen DauMy rating: 5 of 5 starsThe lives behind collateral damageFifteen-year-old Younis is injured and orphaned when a U.S. military raid gone awry hits his village in an unnamed Muslim country that resembles Afghanistan...." more
Monday, February 25, 2013 1:00:06 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Tell the Wolves I'm Home (review):
Sara said, "Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka BruntMy rating: 4 of 5 starsLove and grief in the time of AIDS“Tell the Wolves I’m Home: A Novel” (Dial Press, 2012), by Carol Rifka Brunt is a coming of age story of love, grief, and renewal as two..." more
Sunday, February 03, 2013 7:44:11 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled The Fault in Our Stars (review):
Sara said, "The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenMy rating: 5 of 5 starsA Stellar Read—or ListenI hadn’t originally intended to write a review of John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars” (Dutton Juvenile, 2012). Not because I don’t adore John..." more
Monday, January 21, 2013 10:48:09 AM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Beautiful Creatures (review):
Sara said, "Beautiful Creatures by Kami GarciaMy rating: 3 of 5 starsSouthern Gothic Fantasy Hits the Big ScreenI always prefer to read the book before seeing the movie. I think it’s more fun to imagine what the characters look like before some casting..." more
Monday, January 21, 2013 10:48:09 AM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled The Vanishing Act (review):
Sara said, "The Vanishing ActNear the beginning of Mette Jakobsen’s debut novel “The Vanishing Act” ( W.W. Norton, 2012), Minou, the story’s 12 year old narrator tells the reader “You might not believe my story. You might read it as a fairytale,..." more
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 6:41:20 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled :
Sara said, "Sailor Twain by Mark SiegelMy rating: 4 of 5 starsMystery, Romance and Legend on the HudsonLet’s get one thing straight: the mermaid in Mark Siegel’s graphic novel “Sailor Twain, or The Mermaid in the Hudson” (First Second, 2012) is no..." more
Tuesday, December 04, 2012 10:39:01 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Never Fall Down (review):
Sara said, "Never Fall DownArn was eleven years old when the Khmer Rouge, a radical Communist regime, came to power in Cambodia. He was a happy, mischievous kid who hustled for spare change by singing and dancing with his brother, selling ice cream,..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 8:22:53 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled A Soldier's Secret: The Incredibly True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero (Book Review):
Sara said, "Frank Thompson wasn’t your ordinary Civil War soldier. For starters, Frank was extraordinarily versatile, serving as a nurse, mail carrier, and a spy. By all accounts, Frank was unusually brave. And while Frank was slight of build, with..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 8:22:53 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled The Enslow Blog! | Enslow Publishers, Inc.: Interview With Author, Sara Latta:
Sara said, "The Enslow Blog! | Enslow Publishers, Inc.: Interview With Author, Sara Latta"
Thursday, October 25, 2012 8:04:22 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled The Age of Miracles (review):
Sara said, "In his book “Writing Science Fiction” (St. Martin’s Press, 1988), author Christopher Evans says, “Perhaps the crispest definition is that science fiction is a literature of ‘what if?’ What if we could travel in time? What if we..." more
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:04:56 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Another day, another body:
Sara said, "What if you woke up every morning in a new body? One morning you are a white teenage boy; the next, a sixteen year-old Asian-American girl. You wake up in the body of a clinically depressed girl who wants to commit suicide, or a boy whose..." more
Monday, August 20, 2012 5:34:33 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Review):
Sara said, "On July 16, 1945, a fireball 600 feet wide exploded in the sky above a top-secret site in New Mexico bearing the code-name Trinity. Years later, the chief architect behind the experiment recalled, "We knew the world would not be the same." In..." more
Sunday, July 29, 2012 10:02:35 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled The usual mea culpa:
Sara said, "I'm shocked, shocked to see that it's been so long since I've posted something on this blog. Blame it on the book on Invasive Species I just turned in for Capstone (Burmese pythons! Asian carp! Killer kudzu!) and the biography of Percy Spencer, the..." more
Sunday, July 29, 2012 10:02:35 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Kill Bill Meets Buffy:
Sara said, " “Kill Bill meets Buffy in this supernatural samurai tale.” If the publisher’s blurb grabs your attention like it did mine, then you’ll love “Katana,” by Cole Gibsen (Flux,..." more
Sunday, July 29, 2012 10:02:34 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled While he was away:
Sara said, " After years of drifting around the country, seventeen year-old Penelope and her single mother Linda ("'Flotsam and jetsam,' she always said."), have returned to her mother's hometown of Killdeer, Oklahoma. Having inherited a house and bar and..." more
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:08:03 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Something Wicked This Way Comes:
Sara said, "The following review appeared in the Sunday, June 17 edition of the News-Gazette. The whole world, it seems, is mourning the loss of Ray Bradbury, who died on June 5 at the age of 91. One of the greatest American science fiction and fantasy..." more
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:08:03 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Zen in the Art of Writing:
Sara said, "Three Bradbury posts in a row. I know, I know! But I'm not obsessed, I promise. Well, maybe just a little. But I just had to share this. I'm preparing to lead a yoga for writers session at our upcoming writers retreat (Words in the Woods 2012:..." more
Thursday, June 07, 2012 11:48:21 AM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012:
Sara said, "Like many writers, I discovered Ray Bradbury when I was young--perhaps 12 or 13. His extraordinary imagination and use of language carried me off the farm as surely as any rocket ship carried people to Mars. I think this video of him reading a poem..." more
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:43:12 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Code Name Verity (review):
Sara said, " I know that I promised in last month’s column that I’d write about the Edgar Award Winner in the YA category, but once I read it, I wasn’t all that crazy about the book. Since this is a recommendation column, I’ll tell you instead..." more
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:43:12 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled I'm getting a makeover:
Sara said, "I'm working on integrating my website (http://www.saralatta.com) into the blog, so things are a little messy and incomplete here right now."
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:43:11 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled New titles!:
Sara said, "I just received my author's copies of my latest books from Enslow! Check them out!Who Invented the Ferris Wheel?George FerrisWho Fixed Babies' Hearts? Vivien ThomasWho Invented Basketball? James NaismithAll three are available in both library..." more
Sunday, May 13, 2012 4:41:09 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled The Girl is Murder (review):
Sara said, "If the TV show “Veronica Mars” and some 1940s-era Nancy Drew books got together and had a love child, it might be “The Girl is Murder” (Roaring Brook Press, 2011), by Kathryn Miller Haines...." more
Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:09:05 PM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled Books for March Madness:
Sara said, "Are you in the grips of March Madness? Can’t get enough of basketball? Let me suggest some great books to read in between games. “Pick-up Game: A Full Day of Full Court” (Candlewick Press, 2011) is a collection of interlinked short..." more
Sunday, May 05, 2013 12:31:49 AM
Sara Latta wrote a blog post titled :
Sara said, "The Diviners by Libba BrayMy rating: 4 of 5 starsJazz-era New York City comes to live in supernatural thrillerOnce again, Libba Bray has sprinkled whatever magical fairy dust she employs onto her computer keyboard and come up with something utterly..." more