Poet of the Week
Bernadette Mayer - born in 1945 in Brooklyn, New York. She has taught writing workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York City and has written several books of poetry and prose. "Scarlet Tanager" 811 M, her most recent work, can
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I am sure we all have heard of how Magellan’s voyage around the world was described in our grammar school texts: He was the first to sail around the globe. period. end of sentence. It makes the voyage sound as easy as a lazy sunday drive. Nothing could be farther from the truth. When the Voyage...
If you like baseball, you’ll probably enjoy this book about 12-year-old Miguel "Michael" Arroyo, who came to the Bronx with his older brother and father from Cuba two years before the story begins. Miguel is a great pitcher for his little league team, so great that the coach of his team’s biggest...
A tale of war waged between the old Gods of Myth and the Gods of Modern time (Technology). Waged in the present the story takes you through the eyes of Shadow a mysterious character choosen to assist the gods through their battle for the right of worship and victory amongst todays wasteland of Ameri...
Teenage Jane has a life-altering experience when she is one of many victims of a terrorist bomb attack. Realizing that she and the world are mortal and fragile, she decides to make a positive difference. Deemed safer than living in the city, Jane is transplanted from Metro City to a quiet, littl...
This is most definitely a different kind of story. Basically it tells of a current day scenario of Greek gods living in a townhouse in London and their interactions with each other and with mortals. The language can be off-putting for some readers, however, in the context of the story it is quite...
The second in the Frank Bennett mystery series finds the Chief of Police in this remote Adirondack town faced with an illegal adoption ring and an environmental group more concerned with notoriety and money then the environment. There are lots of plot twists and turns which create an interesting t...
A tale humorously told by its main character, Annie Seymour, who is a reporter in New Haven, Connecticut. She is far from perfect with a love life that is falling apart, a distant relationship with her mother and a job going far from smoothly....
once a poun of time i and my self was in trouble and me and my teacher was argeywen about it so she had to call my house so i went home and my mother said notting.so that tell me that my teacher was lying to me all that time but i was not afriad of any teacher in my school so buy now...
One of my all-time favorites. Dawit is an immortal from Ethiopia and is not allowed have permanent close ties with humans or start a family. Yet he persists to do so and must kill others, to keep the secret of his immortality from being exposed. Travel through time, from Africa, slavery in Ameri...
Zora Neale Hurston is probably one of the most famous writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Though Hurston has a significant bibliography her most notable work remains “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Though panned by many critics when it was first released, especially African American critics, it remai...
In the story a 13 year old girl named Koly gets married with a sick boy. After 1 or 2 months she was a widow. Her mother-in-law leaves her with some money. Then she met a guy named Raji who took her to another widow. She found a job and tried to support herself. She married Raji and she sewed and so...
Want to get inside the head of a fourteen year old British teenager? Rennison’s book is the hilarious diary of Georgia Nicholson, who is obsessed with pulling pranks at her all-girls school, bugged by her weird parents, constantly chasing after her Scottish wildcat Angus, and soon finds her self in ...
The numerous suspects makes this an exciting and addictive mystery. The characters have depth and flaws, as all good characters do. This was a great summer read. ...
True Confessions of a Heartless Girl was an amazingly poignant, well-written, and spare novel young adult novel. The arrival of a teenage stranger to a small town sets off a chain reaction of events that forces the towns introverted residents to reveal their deepest secrets and pains. The stranger, ...
A lovely retelling of "Beauty and the Beast", which reminded me quite a bit of the Disney version (except without the musical numbers). Beauty, an ironic nickname in this version, is the youngest daughter of a merchant who falls on hard times. In order to save his life, she agrees to live with the...
This sets the gold standard for a YA novel. It has a fantastic original plot (demon from hell inhabits teen earthling’s body to see what it’s like to live as a human) with all the usual features of a good book (character growth, subtle morality tales) and is written with humor and brevity so that bo...
A very special pig was named Wilbur. He was smaller than his brothers and sisters that were born at the same time. Fern Arable who was the farmer"s daughter nursed him with a bottle to get him strong and healthy. My favorite part was when he made friends with Charlotte, the spider. I would enco...
A really great read. It is relatable and interpantant to one’s own life. A book that teaches patients and self reliance on one’s own individualized strengths and possibilities....
a good but somewhat safe Gaiman collection for teens. It has several good stories but no "great" ones. the standouts are the case of four and twenty blackbirds- a detective story set in the land of nursery rhymes; and the Witch’s headstone- an excerpt from Gaiman’s forthcoming Ya novel The Graveya...
Companion novel (not exactly a sequel) to Wicked Lovely. Semi-dark urban fantasy, should definitely be read by those who enjoyed Marr’s first book. While I didn’t think this one was perfect - there were times when I was entirely exasperated by our heroine - I did enjoy it overall and really admire M...
Beth Cooper does not know Denis Coovermen. Despite this minor fact, Denis’ whole validictorian speech is centered around professing his love to her. The book then chronicles the next 36 hours, and how they end up being the most exciting, painful, scary, and awesome of Denis’ high school life!...
A very quick read about choices and the paths we take in life are a part of us....
Both funny and touching, Bob Morris (a writer for the New York Times) recounts what it’s like to be trying to find a date with for your dad--a 79-year-old recent widower. Along the way, Mr. Morris begins dating a nice guy himself. To me the insights and reflections on relationship with elders, on ...
Sandro loved this book. A must for any toddler....
This was an amazing storyfilled with so much wisdom and fate! It’s a must read for anyone feeling lost or uncertain in life. Although it is a fiction story, it helped me to understand my purpose in life and not feel guilty for the sacrifices I have made and will continue to make in order to accom...
i love the character fern i love the book its fun also especially the spider....
Summer Reading 2008? Yes, and winter, spring, and fall, too, for about the last three years. I’m almost half-way through this book that is so boring and inaccessible, I think of it as literary torture. I have read four other novels by Bellow, and one novella: two were much-loved, two were just okay...
Basically Achilles gets mad at Agamemnon when he takes Briseis from him. Achilles then refuses to fight in the war, which is happening because Paris, son of Priam, stole Helen away from Menelaus, who is the king of Sparta. Odysseus, along with Ajax the greater and old Phoinix, go to Achilles an...
Cinder-Elly lives in New York City, just like me! This is a modern day take on Cinderella in poetic form with a basketball player Prince Charming and two mean older sisters who learn their lesson....
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An interesting historical novel set in a small English village in 1666 during the Black Plague. The villagers decide to seal the village off to protect others. The reader gets a real feel for the era, including witchcraft hysteria, the daily lives of the villagers and the emotional life of the her...
You can not be reading this book and doing something else at the same time, like cooking, you are sure to get your food burned. That is how good it is. It is set in South Carolina in 1964 and it recounts the life of Lily Owens the heroine and her life changing experience. It is a must read....
A girl who saved two children from a fire....
This book takes place in a black suburb in Chaucey, Ohio. This book is about a seventh grade girl named Marie. Her mother has left and now she lives wit her father. She is one of the most popular black girls in her class. One day a girl named Lena came to her class. Marie’s friend...
Princess Aurelia is in trouble unknown to her someone is trying to kill her. Her father has Robert (a friend and former classmate to young Aurelia) comes to investigate. There are many suspects as well as a great deal of intrigue and suspence. This was an interesting book I wish the author does a...
This book is about a boy name Charlie and his family is really poor. And he loves willy wonkar Chocolate, but willy wonka’s factory has been closed for lots of years. But one day a contest was made for 5 lucky children and a parent can come on a tour to his factory. Charley thought he had no chance...
This book was a quick read; it is well-written, but it didn’t live up to my expectations. ...
This is at least the third time I’ve read Cold Comfort Farm, and I’m so totally not the sort of reader who goes back to books over and over again. But, I love this book and it’s a such a dose of pure pleasure when I’m having a bad day (or week, or what have you). I’m truly jealous of those who’ve ne...
Aregular sized print of 282 pages with acknowledgements and notes extra. Awomen who was taken with a collection of duty for the bugs, insects and color in artistic to depict the species and how it feeds , where it is located, how it survives, when it mates ,who finds it, and what it creates and su...
17-year-old Alice is trying to put her life together again after being released from prison a few months ago, for killing her friend several years ago. No one in her town knows she’s the girl who killed her friend years ago, however the media is looking for her and she may need to re-locate and lose...
A girl named Mattie Gokey has a hard life. Her mother had passed away and she raised her sisters by herself. Her father works hard all day long on the farm. Mattie finished college in New York City and became a writer. She married Royal Loomis. Maddie starts to live her own life now. ...
Mary "Jacky" Faber wasn’t always living in the streets of London, England. Once, before her family was wiped out by disease, she us to live in a fancy house, with fancy clothing. But not anymore. Ever since in order to stay alive shes been with the Charlie Rooster Gang. Only now Charlie got himself ...
I enjoyed reading how people give their all to help animals. I felt angry knowing that sometimes animals are euthanized for no other reason then lack of space at a shelter. Also that people do no time for doing cruel things to animals,animals are not treated fairly in the courts....
This is a dreary chronicle of homicidal maniacs....
"Night"by Elie Wiesel explores the dark experiences of a Holocaust survivor, which is Elie himself. It opens your eyes to how cruel a world could be if we don’t stand up for what is right. Although Wiesel has shared his survival of the Holocaust , all the pain that he endured left him feeling like ...
very good for leaning expert advice from a make up pro with pearls of wisdom on life and having a good self image ....
Pearl S. Buck is a Nobel Prize-winning author. She is also one of my favorite authors. Her most famous book is "The Good Earth," which I read in 11th grade and loved. More recently, I read "Letter from Peking," "The Townsman" (written under the Sedges pseudonym) and many of her short stories. They...
This book should become a movie..it was fastpaced and exciting. EL writes so well; I’ve other books shes written and they are great....
Unusual novel set in Iceland. Worth reading....
need to start with her first book to understand whats going on...
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