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October 25, 2001
Dear Readers,
I love candy and as my mother will definitely attest, I'm a big fan of wearing stupid looking clothes. I should love Halloween. And I did --- until 1994 when, as slightly old trick-or-treater out for a quick tour around the neighborhood with my plastic pumpkin, I was taunted and assaulted with shaving-cream soaked toilet-paper blobs by a gang of fifth-graders dressed like rejects from the Insane Clown Posse.
"Aren't you a little, like, old to be trick-or-treating?" they jeered as I tried to deflect the soggy bombs hurtling toward me with my magic shield (What? All dragon-slayers have magic shields, do they not?). "Aren't you a little immature to be out without your mommies?" I snapped, giving them my best "don't make me use this plastic sword" stare. "Don't you think you should take up running?" they shot back. "Why in the world would I do that?" I asked because, really, why were they concerned with my exercise routine? "Because we are going to chase you." And then they did.
Ever since then, I've opted against trick-or-treating in favor of staying home, reading a scary book and stealing candy from my younger siblings. Trust me, there is infinitely less shame in this then being a 16 year-old dragon slayer with a magic shield and a plastic pumpkin and a bunch of crazy elementary-schoolers chasing after you.
Have a very HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
NEW THIS WEEK...
Win A Free Copy of WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN'T KNOW by Sonia Sones!!
Snag a free copy of Sones' lovely story-poem
just by posting a little somethin' somethin' on Word of Mouth about a recent book you read
and loved (or hated). Besides, Word of Mouth
is a great way to find out what your next great read should be!
Teenreads Chats With...
Vickie Nam, author of YELL-OH GIRLS!: Emerging
Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian American
Teenreads.com writer Jennifer Abbots recently got the chance to talk with
author/editor/activist Vickie Nam about writing YELL-OH GIRLS!: Emerging Voices Explore
Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian American. And Nam is one smart and cool woman, so
read on.
And...
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, author of SHATTERED MIRROR
We enlisted Serena Burns (whose pretty spooky herself) to chat with teenage author Amelia
Atwater-Rhodes about bloodsuckers, the craft of writing, and bad-guy babes.
Happy Horrorreads!!...
In the spirit of the spooky Halloween season, we collected some blood-chilling,
spine-tingling horror books for you to
devour. With the lights on, we suggest.
The Teenreads Pre-College Canon...
We're doing our part in your pre-college prep process the only way we know how --- with
books!! Here's what titles we think you should
read before embarking on the Freshman 15 (lbs, that is). Check back each update to see
what we've added!
Coming Soon...
Here's a list of books that are not yet
published but due out, well, soon. This is top secret info. Guard it with your life.
Reviews...
WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN'T KNOW by Sonia Sones
An honest and heartbreaking story in poems about a girl being true to herself, trusting
her friends, and having the guts to follow her heart.
THE RAG AND BONE SHOP by Robert Cormier
Taking its name from a line in a W.B. Yeats poem, Cormier's final novel is a suspense tale
that explores the lengths to which a person will go to get what he wants.
HEX by Rhiannon Lassiter
The most dangerous person in the 24th century is a 15-year-old girl named Raven, and
officially she doesn't even exist. Why? Raven is a Hex --- part human, part super
computer.
IN THE COMPANY OF MEN: A Woman at The Citadel by Nancy
Mace, with Mary Jane Ross
In 1999 Nancy Mace became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, an elite military
academy seeped in men-only tradition in Charleston, SC. Think it was easy? Think again.
Question of the Week...
Last time we asked:
In light of the current situation in The
Middle East, which books have you been reading to get information or help you take your
mind off things?
And while your checking out how other people ar
What book is so scary that you have to sleep
with the lights on?
5 Best Books About Apples...
That's right, APPLES. It's apple-picking
season in my precious home state of NY and darn it, we're going to give apples their
proper due!
STILL GOING STRONG...
COOL NEW BOOKS
Treat yourself to one of these super-fresh, brand-spanking new books!
WRITTEN IN THE STARS
The Oracularly Fabulous Miss Burns gives you the scoop on the perfect books for the sign
of the scales.
SOMETIMES BOOKS HELP
Here's a list of some good books that might help get through all the craziness of the past
weeks.
TENDER by Valerie Hobbs
Liv is a total New Yorker. That is, until she's forced to move to California and into the
life of her estranged father.
TEARS (Fearless, #15) by Francine Pascal
Gaia's dad has returned and Sam Moon is into Gaia the way she's been into him all this
time!
BORN BLUE by Han Nolan
All Janie wants is to be someone else, someone completely new.
RECENTLY REVIEWED...
READING AND RIGHTS
NAVIGATING THE DARWIN STRAITS by Edith Forbes
THE SONGCATCHER: A Ballad Novel by Sharyn McCrumb
SHATTERED MIRROR by Amelia Atwater Rhodes
THE STONES OF MOURNING CREEK by Diane Les Becquets
WORD FREAK: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession
in the World of Competitive Scrabble by Stefan Fatsis
KLEOPATRA by Karen Essex
MAKING WAVES Series by K.A. Applegate
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Authors and School Reading Lists and to post Original
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