11/13/2015
Update on the bookstore! We are shelving books - so far about 90 or so boxes, still have 180 to go! We have two books dating back to the late seventeen hundreds and quite a few in the eighteen hundreds and lots over 100 years old. Books just are not the same, content is definitely different!
Thinking of giving a young person a book? You may want to research the book. Found these titles and descriptions. (They are Not in our store, this is only so you can make an Educated purchase.)
Ages 7 to 12
"Orbiting Jupiter," by Newbery Honoree Gary D. Schmidt ("The Wednesday Wars"), is about a 14-year-old foster kid who longs to be with the baby daughter he fathered before being incarcerated. It's tragic but hopeful as characters see the troubled teen's potential and go out on a limb for him.—Regan McMahon, Common Sense Media (Photo: Clarion Books)
"All American Boys," by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, is an eye-opening look at an incident of police brutality and its aftermath, told from the alternating perspectives of the innocent African-American teen boy who was assaulted and his white classmate who witnessed the beating and has a connection to the officer. —Regan McMahon, Common Sense Media (Photo: Atheneum)
"Carry On," by Rainbow Rowell ("Eleanor & Park"), takes the characters from the fan fiction story that Cath, the protagonist in Rowell's novel "Fangirl," wrote about a "Harry Potter"-like school for magic, and spins them into an imagined final book in a fantasy series. Amid the spells and suspense is a sweet romance between two teen boys.—Regan McMahon, Common Sense Media (Photo: St Martin's Griffin)
"The Scorpion Rules," by Erin Bow, is the first book in an intense dystopian sci-fi series that imagines a world where the children of government leaders are held hostage to prevent the outbreak of war. —Regan McMahon, Common Sense Media (Photo: McElderry Books)
Ages 13 to 17
"One," by Sarah Crossan, is a beautiful, emotional story of conjoined twin sisters told in lyrical free verse. It packs a surprisingly emotional punch as the teen girls face a life-changing—and life-threatening—decision.—Regan McMahon, Common Sense Media (Photo: Greenwillow Books)
