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January 2005 Book Picks
All titles are available for check-out in our library!
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The Flip Side by Andrew Matthews
"I'm writing this because I lost it for awhile and I want to understand why. To do
it properly I have to put in everything or it won't be real. Actually, it wasn't real,
that's the whole point; but the way it was unreal was pretty awesome. Of course I
could be pretending that all this happened to me when it didn't . You'll never know.
Reality depends on how you look at things, and how you look at things depends
on the person you are. Whoever that might be." During the study of William
Shakespeare's As You Like It, Robert Hunt is asked to play the female role of Rosalind.
To his great surprise and confusion, Rob discovers that he likes dressing up as a
woman. Thus begins Rob's experimentation with gender bending and exploration of
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Zazoo by Richard Mosher
"Zazoo lives with her adoptive grandfather at the Mill, helping Grand-Pierre open
the locks, poling her boat on the canal, and skating on the ice in winter. When Marius,
a bicycle boy, comes riding along the canal and starts asking questions, Zazoo begins to
investigate the hatred between Grand-Pierre and the local pharmacist, Monsieur Klein.
The mystery seems to involve the war and the Germans' cruelty to the Jews. As Zazoo
digs into the history of these two men, stories of love and war emerge from the past."
-- Book Report
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God Went to Beauty School by Cynthia Rylant
Alanis Morissett step down! In this collection of twenty-three poems, Cynthia Rylant
attempts to explain what it would be like if God really was one of us. Each poem focuses
God attempting some normal, everyday activity or trying something new like going to the
doctor or getting a desk job. God goes to beauty school because He likes hands (He
always thought they were his best creation) and wants to do nails. Don't write this off as
fluff, the poetry here offers some food for thought. |
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Breath by Donna Jo Napoli
"Salz is a boy afflicted with a strange disease-- he coughs and coughs and cannot catch his
breath. The only way he can stay alive is by doing things that make him an outcast. Salz
lives in a town of superstition and fear, in the medieval town of Hameln. This summer his
bare-bones existence has been more fearsome than ever. Salz's father and brothers are
affected by horrifying fits. The rest of the townspeople are gripped by a plague of madness.
And the entire town is visited by a pestilence of rats-- rats that crawl in their soup bowls,
swarm in their sick beds, jump into their baby's cradles. Only Salz remains unaffected. But
is that because he is innocent? Or is he the devil himself?" You might remember the tale of
the Pied Piper who leads all of the rats out of town with his musical talents. Napoli creates a
world for this classic tale-- definitely one that will keep you reading. |
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King of the Mild Frontier by Chris Crutcher
And you thought you had it bad! In this funny, bittersweet and brutally honest autobiography, Chris Crutcher relates how "an unusual path leads from my life as a coonskin-cap-wearing, pimply-faced, 123 pound offensive lineman with a string of spectacularly dismal attempts at romance, to a storyteller of modest acclaim." This is more than just a book of funny, growing up stories. Crutcher uses his experiences to provoke thoughts about life, death, relativity, heroism and why bad things sometimes happen to good people. This is a great piece of non-fiction! |
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