Mourlevat, Jean-Claude.
THE PULL OF THE OCEAN
New York : Delacorte, 2006
IL YA
ISBN 9780385903646
"My name is Yann Doutreleau. I am ten years old. On a very rainy November night, I convinced my brothers to flee our parents' farm. We went west." Yann and his six brothers, three sets of twins, set out in search of the ocean. Yann was the youngest brother but he was definitely the leader. What a site it must have been. Three sets of identical twins being led through the countryside by a ten year old the size of a two year old.
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Monday, January 1, 2007
Happy New Year!!
Well, here it is 2007. I've been doing some reading over the break and want to share with you. I hope you had a chance to catch up on your reading as well. How about sending me a comment and telling about a book you read?
Park, Linda Sue.
ARCHER'S QUEST
New York : Clarion Books, 2006
IL 5-8, RL 5.3
ISBN 0618596313
Imagine sitting in your bedroom when an arrow barely misses your head! What would you think? And when you turn around, a young man who is dressed really strange is standing in your room aiming another arrow at you? For twelve-year-old Kevin, the whole thing is really frightening and yet he knows that he must try to figure out what is going on. The stranger is Chu-mong, the legendary ruler of ancient Korea! And the last thing he remembers is riding on a tiger through his kingdom. Together, they try to figure out what happened to bring The Archer to modern day New York. And more importantly, how to get him back!
Park, Linda Sue.
ARCHER'S QUEST
New York : Clarion Books, 2006
IL 5-8, RL 5.3
ISBN 0618596313
Imagine sitting in your bedroom when an arrow barely misses your head! What would you think? And when you turn around, a young man who is dressed really strange is standing in your room aiming another arrow at you? For twelve-year-old Kevin, the whole thing is really frightening and yet he knows that he must try to figure out what is going on. The stranger is Chu-mong, the legendary ruler of ancient Korea! And the last thing he remembers is riding on a tiger through his kingdom. Together, they try to figure out what happened to bring The Archer to modern day New York. And more importantly, how to get him back!
Monday, November 6, 2006
Pretties by Scott Westerfield
Well, the Blue Duke has been a bit lax in keeping up with the blog. It's been a few months since I posted. But I've been busy. School has started up and then there was the testing but now things have settled into a routine so I hope to start blogging a bit more often now. So, here is a book I recommend for you. The first book in the series was called The Uglies. This is the second book and there is one more after this. This is a really interesting book about a utopian society. Would you like to live here?
Westerfield, Scott
PRETTIES
New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
IL YA
ISBN 0689865392
Tally Youngblood has become a pretty. She is living her new life just as the other new pretties -- partying and having fun with no worries. But she has a nagging feeling that there is something important that she has forgotten. Something she promised she'd never forget. And now her new boyfriend Zane keeps asking her questions about her time in the Smoke. Tally remembers some of it but can't understand why Zane would want to know. That was before. Before she was pretty. But the night of the party, Tally runs into Croy. He has risked everything to find Tally and remind her of her time at the Smoke. He has come to give her the cure. What is Croy talking about? The cure for what? Being pretty? But Tally remembers enough to try the cure. With Zane. But something has gone terribly wrong with Zane. And now the other Crims are asking about a cure. Is it time for Tally to come to grips with what is going on around her?
Westerfield, Scott
PRETTIES
New York : Simon Pulse, 2005.
IL YA
ISBN 0689865392
Tally Youngblood has become a pretty. She is living her new life just as the other new pretties -- partying and having fun with no worries. But she has a nagging feeling that there is something important that she has forgotten. Something she promised she'd never forget. And now her new boyfriend Zane keeps asking her questions about her time in the Smoke. Tally remembers some of it but can't understand why Zane would want to know. That was before. Before she was pretty. But the night of the party, Tally runs into Croy. He has risked everything to find Tally and remind her of her time at the Smoke. He has come to give her the cure. What is Croy talking about? The cure for what? Being pretty? But Tally remembers enough to try the cure. With Zane. But something has gone terribly wrong with Zane. And now the other Crims are asking about a cure. Is it time for Tally to come to grips with what is going on around her?
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles
Wiles, Deborah.
EACH LITTLE BIRD THAT SINGS
Orlando : Harcourt, 2005.
IL 3-6, RL 4.0
ISBN 0152051139
Ten year old Comfort Snowberger lives in a funeral home with a loving extended family. It’s a very busy place with flowers to arrange, special foods to cook, mourners to console and life notices (not obituaries) to be written. Her happy, contented world is shaken when first Uncle Edisto dies and then within months, great-great-Aunt Florentine dies. Beyond those tragedies her best friend, Declaration, is starting to hang out with two other girls from their class. Comfort learns that she will be responsible for keeping her younger cousin, Peach, calm at great-great-Aunt Florentines funeral. Peach is a special child who is very upset about the deaths in the family. Comfort objects but her mother reminds her of the family motto, “We live to serve”. On the way to the graveside, Comfort’s beloved dog, Dismay, and Peach are swept up in a flash flood. Instant decisions have to be made. Would you have done the s ame thing? (New Hampshire Great Stone Face 2007)
EACH LITTLE BIRD THAT SINGS
Orlando : Harcourt, 2005.
IL 3-6, RL 4.0
ISBN 0152051139
Ten year old Comfort Snowberger lives in a funeral home with a loving extended family. It’s a very busy place with flowers to arrange, special foods to cook, mourners to console and life notices (not obituaries) to be written. Her happy, contented world is shaken when first Uncle Edisto dies and then within months, great-great-Aunt Florentine dies. Beyond those tragedies her best friend, Declaration, is starting to hang out with two other girls from their class. Comfort learns that she will be responsible for keeping her younger cousin, Peach, calm at great-great-Aunt Florentines funeral. Peach is a special child who is very upset about the deaths in the family. Comfort objects but her mother reminds her of the family motto, “We live to serve”. On the way to the graveside, Comfort’s beloved dog, Dismay, and Peach are swept up in a flash flood. Instant decisions have to be made. Would you have done the s ame thing? (New Hampshire Great Stone Face 2007)
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Three Good Deeds by Vivian Vande Velde
Vande Velde, Vivian.
THREE GOOD DEEDS
Orlando : Harcourt, 2005.
IL 3-6, RL 6.1
ISBN 0152053824
Click on Howard had a problem. One day, when he joined in with the other boys in Dumphrey’s Mill, teasing the ugly old village witch, She retaliated by turning him into a goose…an actual goose, with feathers and webbed feet, able only to say “honk”! She informed him that there was only one way out of his predicament. He must perform three genuine good deeds. But how was he to do that in his present condition? Follow Howard on his quest and find out how this prankster-turned- poultry attempts to carry out his mission, and what he learns along the way. (New Hampshire Great Stone Face 2007)
THREE GOOD DEEDS
Orlando : Harcourt, 2005.
IL 3-6, RL 6.1
ISBN 0152053824
Click on Howard had a problem. One day, when he joined in with the other boys in Dumphrey’s Mill, teasing the ugly old village witch, She retaliated by turning him into a goose…an actual goose, with feathers and webbed feet, able only to say “honk”! She informed him that there was only one way out of his predicament. He must perform three genuine good deeds. But how was he to do that in his present condition? Follow Howard on his quest and find out how this prankster-turned- poultry attempts to carry out his mission, and what he learns along the way. (New Hampshire Great Stone Face 2007)
Sunday, July 30, 2006
The Silver Spoon of Solomon Snow by Kaye Umansky
Umansky, Kaye.
THE SILVER SPOON OF SOLOMON SNOW
Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2005.
IL 3-6, RL 5.2
ISBN 0763627925
“Dumped…foundling…” and to think he’d never guessed any of it before! Young Solomon had been brought up in the sleepy little village of Boring , by an uncouth couple known as Ma and Pa Scubbins. He always knew there was something different about himself. He had a certain gentility and sensitivity that distinguished him somehow from the slovenly washer woman and her ne’er do well, hard-drinking husband. Nevertheless, he dutifully carried out his many assigned tasks, which included pick up and delivery of customers’ “unmentionables”. That is, until the day he learned that he was actually left on the Scubbins’ doorstep as an infant, with a silver spoon in his mouth! As he sets out to find this silver spoon and the loving parents who left him with it, Solomon is joined in his quest by an irritable redhead named Prudence, a coquettish “Infant Prodigy” with a lisp, and a very cheerful young chimney sweep. (New Hampshire Great Stone Face 2007)
THE SILVER SPOON OF SOLOMON SNOW
Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2005.
IL 3-6, RL 5.2
ISBN 0763627925
“Dumped…foundling…” and to think he’d never guessed any of it before! Young Solomon had been brought up in the sleepy little village of Boring , by an uncouth couple known as Ma and Pa Scubbins. He always knew there was something different about himself. He had a certain gentility and sensitivity that distinguished him somehow from the slovenly washer woman and her ne’er do well, hard-drinking husband. Nevertheless, he dutifully carried out his many assigned tasks, which included pick up and delivery of customers’ “unmentionables”. That is, until the day he learned that he was actually left on the Scubbins’ doorstep as an infant, with a silver spoon in his mouth! As he sets out to find this silver spoon and the loving parents who left him with it, Solomon is joined in his quest by an irritable redhead named Prudence, a coquettish “Infant Prodigy” with a lisp, and a very cheerful young chimney sweep. (New Hampshire Great Stone Face 2007)
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Tiger by Jeffrey Stone
Stone, Jeffrey S.
TIGER
New York : Random, 2005.
IL 5-8
ISBN 0375830715
Set in 17th century China, the first of the Five Ancestors series follows five young monks who are schooled in various forms of kung fu. The young monks live at the Cangzhen Temple with thier revered Grandmaster who has taught them the animal kung fu. But a former student has left the temple and vowed to kill the Grandmaster. When Ying returns, the Grandmaster successfully protects the brothers but the temple is destroyed and valuable scrolls are stolen. Young Fu, a twelve year old monk who has mastered tiger kung fu is separated from his brothers but will do anything to retrieve the scrolls and extract revenge on Ying.
TIGER
New York : Random, 2005.
IL 5-8
ISBN 0375830715
Set in 17th century China, the first of the Five Ancestors series follows five young monks who are schooled in various forms of kung fu. The young monks live at the Cangzhen Temple with thier revered Grandmaster who has taught them the animal kung fu. But a former student has left the temple and vowed to kill the Grandmaster. When Ying returns, the Grandmaster successfully protects the brothers but the temple is destroyed and valuable scrolls are stolen. Young Fu, a twelve year old monk who has mastered tiger kung fu is separated from his brothers but will do anything to retrieve the scrolls and extract revenge on Ying.
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