November 21st, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving

November 21st, 2007 · Comments Off · Books

The New and Improved Vivien Leigh Reid: Diva in Control by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout When she arrives to spend Thanksgiving with her actress mother, sixteen-year-old Leigh is horrified to discover that her mother is planning to marry the producer who had fired Leigh the summer before and whose daughters are determined to sabotage [...]

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New by Kenneth Oppel

November 17th, 2007 · Comments Off · Books

Darkwing Dusk, the world’s first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.

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What do you get when you mix soul, country, jazz and pop?

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off · Music

You get Nora Jones Not Too Late http://www.alisweb.org/search/aJones%2C+Norah/ajones+norah/1%2C1%2C11%2CB/frameset&FF=ajones+norah+1979&7%2C%2C11/indexsort=-

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2007 National Book Award Winner for Young People’s Literature

November 15th, 2007 · Comments Off · Books

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

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She’s Back!

November 14th, 2007 · Comments Off · Books

That’s right! Kiki Strike and her partners in crime are back for another adventure in the Big Apple. Kiki Strike: The Empress’s Tomb by Kirsten Miller Fourteen-year-olds Ananka Fishbein, Kiki Strike, and the other Irregulars encounter a Chinese mummy, a ghost, trained squirrels, and old enemies as they try to stop an art forgery ring [...]

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