The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu5/24/2023 Both sides are searching for a way off-planet, and the Genjix will sacrifice the entire human race, if that’s what it takes. Now split into two opposing factions – the peace-loving, but under-represented Prophus, and the savage, powerful Genjix – the aliens have been in a state of civil war for centuries. He now has a passenger in his brain – an ancient alien life-form called Tao, whose race crash-landed on Earth before the first fish crawled out of the oceans. When out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing voices in his head, he naturally assumed he was losing it. Yes, it’s a lot of parts, but they blend together quite well.” – Examiner “a science fiction story that is one part spy novel, one part buddy flick, one part comic book, one part eye-opener history lesson…among many other elements. But like most great stories, there’s a little more going on under the surface. If you want something to read on a plane or settle into over the weekend, this is the book you want to pick up. – Huffington PostĬhu’s good-natured adroitness with character development is matched by his thriller-style plotting, a fine blend of gentle humor and sharp suspense. Winner of the Alex Award for the American Library Association’s 2014 Youth Media Awardsįew books begin more engagingly than The Lives of Tao, a science fiction romp which wears its principal strength - the wit and humor of the narrative voice - on its sleeve. Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 Finals for Best Science Fiction
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s LiteratureĪn Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult FictionĪn Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017Īn ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds-the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. “A tour de force.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review)Ī Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature “Astonishing.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” - Booklist (starred review) Batman vol 4 zero year secret city5/24/2023 Taking place 6 years ago from the start of the New 52, Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham City after all his years training across the globe and has started his war on crime, yet he is unsure of how to accomplish this just yet. 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So far Snyder has focused on Gotham's underbelly by making the Court of Owls story and Jokers connection to Batman. After making a huge success in the New 52 with Batman, writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Cappullo are comics dynamic duo with modern day readers for the Caped Crusader. Fallen in love lauren kate series5/24/2023 Her standalone novel, The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove, was released on November 12, 2009, and her second work, Fallen (the first in the Fallen series), was released that same year. Kate married Jason Morphew, a poet and singer-songwriter, in 2009. Kate has stated that experience of the " Old South" in the Atlanta area (she went to college at Emory) inspired her to set Fallen in a Civil War era academy. Kate was raised in Dallas, Texas, and has a Master's degree in fiction from the University of California, Davis. The sequels Passion and Rapture also reached the spot of NYT Best Seller #1. Fallen 's sequel Torment entered the NYT Best Seller list at number 1. Her titles include The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove and Fallen, which reached number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List for children's chapter books. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages, have sold more than eleven million copies worldwide, and have spent combined months on the New York Times Best Seller list. Lauren Kate (born March 21, 1981) is an American author of adult and young adult fiction. Water Is Water by Miranda Paul5/24/2023 That when teachers said I could be anything, they meant it. ME: What do you know now that you wish you had known when you first started writing for children? Or maybe those are just the ones that have “k” sounds in their names… There are too many to name, but Jacqueline Woodson, Kevin Henkes, Kat Yeh, and Kadir Nelson come to mind. But seeing as how I never grew up, I think my current favorites also apply to this question. Shel Silverstein, Lois Lowry, and Roald Dahl. ME: Who were your favorite authors/illustrators when you were a child? I’m so happy to have her here to share her thoughts with us. She is kind and generous and loving and a super smart mentor! Both were named Junior Library Guild selections. She’s published more than 50 short stories for magazines and digital markets, and is the author of One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia, and Water is Water. A passionate advocate for literacy and leader in the movement to encourage diversity in books, Miranda is a doer, not just a dreamer. Friends told me about a website called RateYourStory that was run by a writer named Miranda Paul, where you could get a manuscript looked at by professionals – for free! I went, I saw, I fell in love…with the site, the service and Miranda herself. I met today’s Will Write for Cookies author a couple of years ago when I first discovered this incredible kid lit community. Wide sargasso5/24/2023 How are different races depicted in the novel? Do you find that the black characters are less complex or sympathetic than the white or Creole characters, or vice versa? Why?.What are the different characters' attitudes toward race? How do these attitudes affect the way they perceive themselves and relate to other people?.(See our discussion of "Race" in "Character Clues" for a rundown of racial categories operating at the time of the novel.) Questions About Race It could be that these characters' expectations about race are tested by the novel itself, particularly with a Creole character such as Antoinette, who alternately identifies with both white and black communities. Instead, we might consider how everything is told from a character's point of view, and not necessarily the author's. But what if we were to give the novel the benefit of the doubt? That's not to say we should excuse the language. Some writers and scholars claim that Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea portrays black characters as flat stereotypes – child-like, primitive, animalistic. Race is absolutely integral to the way that the characters understand themselves and their place in society. |