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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:14 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled You Against Me by Jenny Downman:
Joan said, "“Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene.” I remembered that line often as I read this amazing book that better receive some awards. In this story of “star-crossed lovers” those two households are..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:14 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled The Anti Prom by Abby McDonald:
Joan said, "It is prom night for popular Bliss, bad girl Jolene, and nerdy Meg. Their prom night is far from imagined perfection. In alternating chapters the girls tell the story of their shared all night adventures that are reminiscent of the feel of..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:14 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater:
Joan said, "Move over zombies, vampires and werewolves for the capaill uisce, the sea monsters that are faster than the winter wind and blood-thirsty for whatever throbs with blood. Well, there goes a girl’s romantic dream of horses! Actually the novel has..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:14 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Beautiful Days by Anna Godbersen:
Joan said, "Okay, I have to get this off my chest right now: panty hose were invented in the 1950s. Outside of that anachronism, I enjoyed reading the continuing soap opera of the lives of Cordelia, Letty and Astrid. Cordelia is fitting well into the..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:14 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Fateful by Claudia Gray:
Joan said, "Tess, in servitude to a rich, unfeeling matron, plans to escape once the Titanic lands in New York City. The night before boarding, she is bullied by a frightening man on the streets of Southhampton, being saved by an equally unsettling, but..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:14 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Hooked by Catherine Greenman:
Joan said, "Thea has been her own care-giver, since mom is flighty and dad seems Aspergers-esque. At the prestigious high school she meets a mesmerizing young man and falls immediately in love with him, Will. Hooked. He is a girl’s dream come true, even..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:13 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Requiem by Paul Janecsko:
Joan said, "Janeczko bases all the poems on his research of events and facts about the Terein Ghetto, known to be the last stop before the furnaces. All but one, “Altre Eisinger/11956 was a found poem, who was shot at Buchenwald in 1945. The composers..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:13 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled :
Joan said, "Woot woot! The two characters that my high school readers wanted MORE written about are here! I did a happy dance about reviewing the continuing saga of Ben and Colleen and their roller coaster relationship. When we left the two in Stoner and..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:22:13 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Every You, Every Me by David Levithan:
Joan said, "Never have I read a book that made me feel the gut-wrenching sorrow of the person left behind like this scrapbook/novel has. Evan was the best bud of Ariel, who took her life. Or did she? How are all these photographs showing up at his locker, in..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:30:14 AM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Chime by Frannie Billingsley:
Joan said, "For those who think there is no creativity any more in fantasy writing, you obviously need to read Chime! For those who think that young adult lit has no meat, you obviously need to read Chime! For those who think there are no more deliciously..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:30:14 AM
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:02:16 AM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Dying to Meet You by Aidan Chambers:
Joan said, "Karl is in incurable love with Fiorella, a girl in love with the written word, especially her favorite author. This all-about-me girl insists that Karl unveil his soul to her in letters. It appears that Fiorella has not noticed that Karl is a shy..." more
Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:02:15 AM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Ingénue by Jillian Larkin:
Joan said, "Lorraine knows that Jerome and Gloria are desperate to perform and eat, so traps them with an audition ad tailored to entice. Clara faces having to choose between flirting with flapper life again and wonderful, patient, redeeming Marcus. Her foray..." more
Monday, March 5, 2012 9:10:16 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled The Fault in our Stars by John Green:
Joan said, "I adored these characters. My only complain was that adding editorial existential angst was not needed when the novel was poignant just because of the characters' situations. That said, having support meetings in the "literal" heart of Jesus was..." more
Monday, March 5, 2012 9:10:16 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Cinder by Marissa Meyer:
Joan said, "Oh no, another Cinderella story you may say. But read on! Cinder is a cyborg and a mechanic, and the sole source of income for her evil stepmother and two stepsisters. Even a disguised Prince Kai is a customer. Her adoptive father brought her..." more
Monday, March 5, 2012 6:20:17 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye:
Joan said, "Lyndsay's love of the word is so apparent in this historical mystery. "The dry march of data," trees "burst[ing] violently red and then faded back into line drawings" and "medical tomes, gigantic and somber" are just a few examples in a book heavy..." more
Sunday, January 29, 2012 10:57:01 AM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled The Meerkat Wars by H.S. Toshack:
Joan said, "I am not the first to think "Watership Down" for meerkats when reading this wonderful little book in which I learned much about meerkats and, through them, about people and their conflicts. As the story begins, Sheena, a bobbed-tailed, black and..." more
Sunday, January 29, 2012 2:21:02 AM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Girl Meets Boy: Because There are Two Sides to Every Story, edited by Kelly Milner Halls:
Joan said, "Kelly and I have been communicating for a few years now due to our endless devotion to "The Man," Chris Crutcher. Kelly is lucky to work with Chris and is an excellent writer with a quirky sense of humor. Kids love her school visits.Voice, voice,..." more
Saturday, November 5, 2011 6:02:00 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Gremlins have messed with my blog! Trying to fix it!:
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Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:45:19 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled My Life Undecided by Jessica Brody:
Joan said, "Brooklyn seems destined to make bad choices. Not only did chasing a lizard into a hole garner nationwide coverage of her rescue, a great party and bad cooking torched her mother’s model home that used to be for sale. Grounded until she is..." more
Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:45:19 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld:
Joan said, "Another Evergreen 2012 contender, Leviatan is a steampuke novel occurring at the inception of The Great War, in Europe at 1914. Add the clanker- (war machine creators) defended prince whose parents were assassinated, and a girl pretending to be a..." more
Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:45:19 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting:
Joan said, "In this sequel to The Body Finder, Violet still is haunted by the echoes of the murdered. When she solves the disappearance of a young boy stuffed in a cargo car, an agent watching her moves in. Violet is also stalked by a younger teen who is..." more
Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:45:19 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled North of Beautiful by Justina Henley Chen:
Joan said, "What kind of man will create an unbearable family life because of his professional humiliation? One son leaves to work in China. Another son does not return from college to visit home. They both leave their sister and mother to suffer from the..." more
Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:45:19 PM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled The Fox Inheritance by Mary E. Pearson:
Joan said, " Locke and Kara’s intelligences have been kept in high-tech black boxes for 260 years, long after Jenna Fox was reconstructed into a minus-0%-original human being. They have been BioPerfect specimens for a year now, Locke is new and improved with..." more
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:12:49 AM
Joan Enders wrote a blog post titled Friends of "What to Read, What to Read?"::
Joan said, "I have frozen entries to this book recommendation blog and started a new one. "Bevy of Books" has all these book recommendations exported to it as well as the news ones I have written.Enjoy "Bevy of Books" at http://bookbevy.wordpress.com/.Cheers,..." more