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Acknowledging that “we all make mistakes, 有时是大的, 有时是小的, 有时很搞笑,” K.L. Going wants readers to confess their biggest “screwups” in an online contest. Those interested in entering (it’s open to readers 12–up) can wrote a paragraph (or more) describing a mortifying or hilarious mistake and email it to the author. Going will reward her favorite entry with a $100 gift certificate to a bookstore of the winner’s choice as well as autographed copies of all of her books; three runners-up will receive autographed copies of King of the Screwups. Enter by visiting Going’s King of the ScrewUps website阅读更多→

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Liam is the popular, charismatic, drop-dead gorgeous son of a former supermodel and high powered CEO.  他很有时尚感, developed over years with his mom on the high fashion circuit; a knack for connecting with people; and an engaging personality.  The trouble is he has no qualities his controlling, reserved, angry father respects.  And to make things worse, Liam continuously makes poor judgment calls that draw his father’s ire.  After the final straw (caught drunk on his father’s desk with a nearly naked party date), Liam is kicked out of the house the week before his senior year. 他不能和阅读更多→

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In James Roy’s Max Quigley: Technically Not a Bully, Australian 6th grader Max Quigley is the biggest kid at school. He and his mate Jared casually torment, tease, and bully just about everyone around them. He’s confident, self-centered, and completely clueless about how his behavior impacts other people.  他声称, 反复, not to be a bully since he doesn’t physically hurt people, steal or make them cry; instead, he’s really proud of his powers of “persuasion.” Things start to change when the mother of his favorite victim,  Nerdstrom, suggests a plan to help both boys work through this: Triffin will tutor Max in math and both boys will阅读更多→

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“Vampires are meant to be glamorous and powerful, but I’m here to inform you that being a vampire is nothing like that. 一点也不. 正相反, it’s like being stuck indoors with the flu watching daytime television, 直到永远.  If being a vampire were easy, there wouldn’t be a Reformed Vampire Support Group.  天啊，我受够了.” And so we meet Nina; a fifty-one year old vampire who’s had a chip on her shoulder since she was infected at the age of 15.  累了无精打采, sickly  life stuck in her mother’s house, Nina writes a vampire adventure series with a阅读更多→

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PBC was thrilled to host a dinner for Heather Brewer, author of The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, 昨晚.  We had about a dozen valley librarians join us for tasty food, 美味的葡萄酒, and lots of great conversation about vampires, 你点燃, 让孩子们阅读.  She’d spent the day at 3 Valley middle schools and is at 3 more today, 星期五, 在她今晚回家之前.  Auntie Heather’s horde of Minions was certainly increased over these two days and we’re stoked to have been a part of that! 由科里发布阅读更多→

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I just finished my second read of John Barnes’ hilarious, 的小说, 地下疯子的故事 (it was too good to read only once!).  Barnes does a brilliant job of capturing the voices, 斗争, insecurities and angst of his teen characters.  He creates a time  and place in life that adults can remember wading through and that teens find themselves in every day. One method by which Barnes authenticates his characters’ reality is through language, 这里我指的是亵渎.  地下疯子的故事 is rife with swear words. At some points, Karl “weaves a tapestry of profanity” that brought tears to my eyes (from laughter). 阅读更多→

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周三, 9月5日, 1973 is the first day of  Karl Shoemaker’s senior year of high school, and the first day of “Operation Be F-ing Normal.”  In John Barnes’ first novel for young readers, 地下疯子的故事, 我们有时会很痛苦, 经常搞笑, uncensored journey through the first six days of Karl’s senior year as he tries to change his life by just being “正常的, 正常的, 正常的.“在俄亥俄州的一个小镇上, Karl’s been part of a therapy group at school dubbed “the Madmen” for years, and he’s decided that he wants out. He wants a 正常的 life, but the question is, can he achieve it? 他父亲的阅读更多→

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In the first book in the new Frontier Magic trilogy, fantasy writer Patricia C.  Wredeintroduces Eff, the 13th child of a large magical family.  Wrede imagines an alternate history of world, where magic and magical creatures co-exist seemlessly with history as we know it. Eff的孪生兄弟, 局域网, is the seventh son of a seventh son; in their magical world he is a rare, 特殊的, 有天赋有权势的人.  Being the 13th child is as powerful, but in the most negative way possible. 被视为女巫, a purveyor of bad luck and misfortune, Eff is shunned and blamed as much (or more) than 局域网阅读更多→