Keeping you a Secret
This phenomenal young adult novel, written by nationally recognized LGBTQ author Julie Anne Peters, introduces us to Holland, an overachieving high school senior, who is president of her student council,...
Posted by on August 29, 2014
Skottie Young: Savior of Nerddom
Friend, do you fear for the future of nerddom as I do? Do you look around in disbelief at the happy, normal couples – couples! – filling the seats of...
Posted by Book Rex on August 13, 2014
The Mockingbird sang!
I read a big girl book! And it was non-fiction!! I know…shocking!!! All of my posts have been Young Adult with an occasional juvenile non-fiction thrown in from time to...
Posted by on August 8, 2014
Minecraft for the Masses
If you Google Minecraft you get “about 99,000,000 results (0.28 seconds).” I will confess up front that I am not a gamer. So I have tried to make sure our Juvenile...
Posted by on August 1, 2014
The Last Policeman Trilogy
What would you do if you were 100% certain the world was going to end in six months? An asteroid is on a direct course to Earth and not only...
Posted by Adrian L. on July 25, 2014
Daytripper
Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon is the most spellbinding, jarring, and exquisite graphic novel I have ever read. It fills the dreamless void with dreams worth living. It tells you...
Posted by on July 16, 2014
What the World Eats
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. Menzel and D’Aluisio traveled to twenty-four countries to photograph families with their weekly diets. It’s a fascinating idea,...
Posted by on July 14, 2014
Forbidden Island
My brother Matt was a board-flipper. Perhaps you know someone like that. You’re in the middle of playing a board game when the game turns sharply in your favor and...
Posted by Adrian L. on June 27, 2014
Tiny House
Tiny: A Story About Living Small that follows Christopher Smith as he builds a tiny house. In general, a tiny house is a house that is under 200 square feet and...
Posted by Adult Services on June 25, 2014
Laugh Out Loud with It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
I don’t know about any other couples out there, but it is nearly impossible for my husband and me to find a television show that we both enjoy. We recently...
Posted by on June 20, 2014
Are You Getting It? Armageddon It.
After the Dark is a feature film version of the popular TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It for you non-preppers out there) party game, Would I...
Posted by Book Rex on June 9, 2014
Wild Weather
In my quest to again read all of the Bluestem and Caudill nominees for the 2015 awards, I’ve come across two Bluestem titles that fit in well with our recent...
Posted by on June 6, 2014
The Director: A Novel
The Director. When a disheveled computer hacker stumbles into the American consulate in Germany, no one is prepared for the fallout it creates, especially newly-appointed CIA director Graham Weber. With...
Posted by Adult Services on June 2, 2014
Paperboy by Vince Vawter
Paperboy, a 2014 Newbery Honor Book, accomplished both. An 11 year-old boy growing up in Memphis in 1959 takes over his best friend’s paper route for a month. While throwing...
Posted by Adrian L. on May 30, 2014