Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Book Club Bonus! Savvy by Ingrid Law




* Savvy is not  a new book, but it's being discussed during our first 2016 Book Club for grades 4-5. If you would like to join us, sign-up by phone 781-834-5535, online, or come on in and inquire.

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For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a "savvy" -a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark electricity . . . and now it's the eve of Mibs's big day.

As if waiting weren't hard enough, the family gets scary news two days before Mibs's birthday: Poppa has been in a terrible accident. Mibs develops the singular mission to get to the hospital and prove that her new power can save her dad. So she sneaks onto a salesman's bus . . . only to find the bus heading in the opposite direction. Suddenly Mibs finds herself on an unforgettable odyssey that will force her to make sense of growing up -and of other people, who might also have a few secrets hidden just beneath the skin.



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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: The Thing About Jellyfish




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The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin


Suzy Swanson has always known things that others don't.  She can explain the sleep patterns of ants.  She knows there are 150 million jellyfish stings on the planet every year.  She knows that the average middle school kid contains about 20 billion of Shakespeare's atoms.  But she can't understand how Franny Jackson's lifetime could be cut so short . . . before Suzy could make up for the worst thing she'd ever done to her friend.


 As Suzy retreats into a silent world of her imagination, she finds that the universe won't allow escape into grief.



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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: A Riddle in Ruby



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A Riddle in Ruby by Kent Davis

Well, a thief in training. And a pirate's daughter.  A smuggler.  A picklock.  In a world ruled by alchemists who mix magic and science, Ruby has always relied on nothing more mysterious than her skill and her sneakiness.  Swindling and stealing are straightforward.

At least they are supposed to be, until she bungles the robbery of a young aristocratic lord.  Now Ruby's father has been captured, and she must flee deep into the heart of a city filled with characters both honorable and nefarious.  The Royal Navy and the leaders of a notorious secret society are hot on her heels.

Because Ruby has a secret.  One even she doesn't know.  The world is filled those who would help her, and thos who would use her to their own dark ends.  Can Ruby trust anyone?  Can she even trust herself?

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: The Copper Gauntlet



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The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black

The Enemy is close.  Very close.  Callum Hunt's summer break isn't like other kids'.  His closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf, Havoc.  His father suspects him of being secretly evil.  And, of course, most kids aren't heading back to the magical world of the Magisterium in the fall.

It's not easy for Call . . . and it gets even harder he checks out his basement and discovers that his dad might be trying to destroy both him and Havoc.  Call escaped to the Magisterium--but things only intensify there.  The Alkahest--a copper gauntlet capable of separating certain magicians from their magic--has been stolen.  And in their search to discover the culprit, Call and his friends Aaron and Tamara awaken the attention of some very dangerous foes--and get closer to an even more dangerous truth.

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Teen Pick of the Week: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

(Source: epicreads.com)

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Monday, October 5, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Imaginary Fred


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Imaginary Fred: by Eion Colfer

Ages 4-8

Did you know that if you the conditions are just right, and if you add a little electricity, or magic, or luck, that an imaginary friend might appear just when you need one?  An imaginary friend like  . . . Fred.

Fred is the best imaginary friend you could ever hope for, but no matter how hard he tries, the same thing always happens: his friend finds a real friend in the real world, and Fred fades away, but by bit, waiting to be wished for again . . .

Then one day, a boy called Sam wishes for a friend, and Fred appears!  For a while, everything is perfect.

But what about the day when Sam finds a real friend?  Could it be that this time, something magical might happen?

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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Enchanted Air



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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle

Margarita is a girl from two worlds.  Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother's tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy-tale kingdom.  But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of summers when she take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island.  Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not.

Then a revolution breaks out in Cuba.  Margarita fears for her family.  When the hostility between Cuba and the United States erupts into the Bay of Pigs invasion, Margarita's worlds collide in the worst way possible.  How can two countries she loves hate each other so much?  And will she ever get to visit her beautiful island again?

Tween/Middle Grade
Ages 12+


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Friday, August 14, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Shackleton's Journey


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Shackleton's Journey by William Grill

Summary from Goodreads.com---
Winner of the 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal

A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2014
Best Children's Book of 2014, Wall Street Journal
Best Children's Book of 2014, Brain Pickings
A 2015 USBBY Outstanding International Book

Young, up-and-coming illustrator William Grill weaves a detailed visual narrative of Shackleton's journey to Antarctica.

Grill's beautiful use of colored pencils and vibrant hues effortlessly evokes the adventure and excitement that surrounded the expedition. His impeccably researched drawings, rich with detail, fastidiously reproduce the minutiae of the expedition.

Children will love examining the diagrams of the peculiar provisions and the individual drawings of each sled dog and packhorse. This book takes the academic and historical information behind the expedition and reinterprets it for a young audience

Ms. Jen says--This is an amazing story about endurance and optimism in a situation when spirits could have taken a bad turn and cost these men their lives.  Shackleton's ambition and determination helped keep those spirits high and formidable.  Check out this inspiring, beautifully illustrated children's book.


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Friday, July 10, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: LumberJanes


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LumberJanes by Noelle Stevenson & Grace Ellis

5th grade+

Friendship to the Max!
At Miss Quinzella Thiskwin PenniQuiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady-Types, things are not what they seem.  Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves.  Anagrams.  Luckily, JO, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals determined to have an awesome summer together...and they're not gonna let a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters get in their way!  The mystery keeps getting bigger, and it all begins here.








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Small Fry Pick of the Week: I lived on Butterfly Hill



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I lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin

Ages 10-14+

Eleven-year-old Celeste Marconi is a dreamer, a writer, a collector of words.  But then a new whispered word trickles into her life" "subversives--people considered a threat to the new government--are increasing danger.  Celeste's doctor-parents must go into hiding to remain safe, and Celeste, heartsick, must say good-bye to them.

But the situation continues to worsen.  More and more people are "disappearing," and soon Celeste herself is sent thousands of miles away, all the way to the coast of Maine--where she doesn't have a single friend or know a word of English.  How can she possibly call another country-a country where people eat breakfast out of a box, where the cold grays of winter mirror the fears that envelope her-home?  Will she ever see Chile again? And if she does-what, and who, will she find there?

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Here Comes the Tooth Fairy Cat





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Cat lost a tooth!  And the Tooth Fairy left . . . This coin.

A coin is nice, but what Cat really wanted was to meet the Tooth Fairy.  Aw, I'm sorry, Cat.

Wait-you have a plan?  Of course you do.  But be careful, Cat . . .

This time, you may just Meet Your Match.

**Clever book to share with your tooth-fairy-newbie. Simple colored pencil sketches and witty visual humor will charm adults and young-ones alike. -MS. Jen

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: The Fog Diver


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The Fog Diver by Joel Ross

Ages 8+

A deadly white mist has cloaked the earth for hundreds of years.  Humanity clings to the highest mountain peaks, where the wealthy Five Families rule over the crowded slums and rambling junkyards.  As the ruthless Lord Kodoc patrols the skies to enforce order, thriteen-year-old Chess and his crew scavenge in the Fog-shrouded ruins for anything they can sell to survive.

Hazel is the captain of their salvage raft: bold and daring.  Swedish is the pilot: suspicious and strong.  Bea is the mechanic: cheerful and brilliant.  And Chess is the tetherboy: quiet and quick . . . and tougher than he looks.

But Chess has a secret, one he's kept hidden his whole life.  One that Lord Kodoc is desperate to exploit for his own evil plans.  And even as Chess unearths the crew's biggest treasure ever, they are running out of time.


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Friday, June 26, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: The Nightsiders The Orphan Army

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The Orphan Army ( The Nightsiders) by Jonathan Maberry

Ages 8-12

In a world filled with Bugs--monsters that ceaselessly ravage the earth--Milo Silk has a hard time keeping his dreams separate from reality.  So he keeps them locked up in his dream journal and hopes they'll never to pass.  But too often they do--like when his father disappeared three years ago.  Lately the Witch of the World has been haunting his dreams, saying he is destined to be the hero who saves everyone.  But all Milo can think about is how he fears the Bugs will attack his own camp and bring something even more terrible than ever before.

What Milo doesn't know is that the Earth is already fighting back with its own natural power in the form of Nightsiders, magical creatures who prefer shadows to sunlight and who reside in trees, caves, and rivers.


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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Ice Cream Summer


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Ice Cream Summer by Peter Sis

Dear Grandpa, so far, it's been a delicious summer. I am very busy.  But don't worry, I am not forgetting about school.  I read every day. I practice my math facts.  And I am even diving into world history.

Peter Sis's breezy, sweet, tongue-in-cheek vision of summer dishes up the whole scoop on everyone's favorite frozen treat--and proves that ice cream is every bit as enriching for the mind as it is for the taste buds.

Readers everywhere will be begging for seconds and thirds!

Ms. Jen says: Playful pastel illustrations set the cheery and yummy tone of this fun picture book. There is a neat little note in the beginning of the book with references to historical books written about ice-cream development, and key dates with facts and inventors are sprinkled throughout the text.

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Friday, June 12, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Rude Cakes



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Rude Cakes by Rowboat Walkins


Who knew cakes were so rude?!  In this deliciously entertaining picture book, a not-so-sweet cake--who never says please or thank you or listens to its parents--gets its just desserts.

Clever and witty tale about one demanding little cake who learns it's never to late to change his ways.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Circus Mirandus





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Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley

Micah's grandpa Ephraim  has always told him wonderful stories about Circus Mirandus, a magical circus he visited when he was a boy.  But now Grandpa Ephraim is dying, and terrible, grouchy Great-Aunt Gertrudis has arrived to take car of Micah.  All the magic of Micah's childhood seems lost until Grandpa Ephraim finally tells him the truth: Circus Mirandus is real, and the Lightbender, the circus's greatest magician, owes Grandpa Ephraim a miracle.

With his friend Jenny Mendoza in tow, Micah sets out to find the circus and the man he believes will save his grandfather.  The only problem is the Lightbender doesn't want to keep his promise.  And now it's up to Micah to get the miracle he came for.

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Friday, May 15, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Dragons Beware!

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Dragons Beware! by Jorge Aguirre


     Claudette is back-and she's in even bigger trouble!
With the evil sorcerer Grombach descending with his hoards of gargoyles, Claudette has got to find a way to save her home-and fast!  Setting off with her borther, her best friend, and even seven lovelorn princes in tow, Claudette must find a way to rescue her father, slay the dragon, and bring back the sword that will protect her village.  

Claudette is funny, fearless, and ready to face dragons.  But are the dragons ready for her?  


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Monday, May 4, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Sweep Up The Sun




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Sweep Up the Sun by Helen Frost & Rick Lieder

Rise into the air.
On the strength
  of your wings-
go out to
  play in the sky.

J Non-fiction. Ages 3+ and bird-lovers of all ages.

Take flight with birds right outside your window, whether chickadees or cardinals, sparrows or starlings.  With stunning photography by Rick Lieder and a poem by Helen Frost.

This makes a perfect addition to a preschool story circle with the theme: Birds or Flying.

Check out the annotated summaries of each bird mentioned in the back of the book.


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Friday, March 13, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Anna was Here


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Anna Was Here by Jane Kurtz

Anna Nickel does not want to move to Oakwood.  Especially when it is almost her birthday and she has a camping party planned.  Especially when the school year isn't even over yet! No fair!  What a disaster!

Luckily, Anna is a Gold Ribbon Safety Citizen, prepared for almost anything!  Unluckily, Anna isn't ready for cousins, lost cats, water balloons and rotten eggs, peculiar relatives, blisters, emus, missing moms, church potlucks, and tornadoes. . . .

Ages 9+

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Small Fry Pick of the Week: The Chimpanzee Children of Gombe

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The Chimpanzee Children of Gombe by Jane Goodall

In this delightful and touching book of chimpanzee children, acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall shows us some of her favorite young chimps from the Gombe National Park, where she has studied the behavior of these fascinating animals for over half a century.  See engaging photos by Michael Neugubauer of some candid interactions, and notice how similar their emotions appear to be to humans. There's even a nice section on other flora and fauna (butterflies, skinks, finches and flowers) Jane notices on those days "when we do not find chimps." 


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Friday, February 13, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan



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Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan by R. A. Spratt

When Mr. Green decides to get married, his children are horrified.  If he carries out his diabolical plan, he'll fire their beloved nanny.  Breakfast withuot chocolate?  Never!  Their father must be stopped, and Nanny Piggins, a former circus Pig and a champion baker, is just the pig to do it!


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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Stella by Starlight

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Stella lives in the segregated south--in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it.  Some stores she can go into.  Some stores she can't.  Some folks are right pleasant Others are a lot less.  To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years.  But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something that they're never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, change not welcome by any stretch of the imagination.  

As Stella's community--her world--is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire, and learns that ashes don't necessarily signify and end . . .

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Teen Pick of the Week: Tear You Apart

Tear You Apart
by Sarah Cross

If you want to live happily ever after, first you have to stay alive.

Viv knows there's no escaping her fairy-tale curse. One day her beautiful stepmother will feed her a poison apple or convince her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Henley, to hunt her down and cut out her heart before she breaks his. In the city of Beau Rivage, some princesses are destined to be prey.
But then Viv receives an invitation to the exclusive club where the Twelve Dancing Princess twirl away their nights. There she meets Jasper, an underworld prince who seems to have everything--but what he really wants is her. He vows to save her from her dark fate if she'll join him and be his queen.

All Viv has to do is tear herself away from the huntsman boy who still holds her heart. Then she might live to see if happily ever after is a promise the prince can keep. But is life as an underworld queen worth sacrificing the true love that might kill her?

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Teen Pick of the Week: Polly and the One and Only World

Polly and the One and Only World
by Don Bredes
Polly and the One and Only World is set in a much-diminished future America called the Christian Protectorates, a poor country ravaged by coastal flooding, drought, and cataclysmic social upheaval, the story features 15-year-old Polly Lightfoot, a maiden witch of rich heritage and tender ability in the craft. When the story opens, Polly is forced to flee New Florida, where she has taken temporary refuge to escape a military purge of the country's infidels, pagans, and followers of false creeds. With the help of her steadfast familiar, Balthazar, a raven, and her brave teenage companion, Leon, whom she meets on the way, Polly undertakes an epic journey from the deep south to the wild north to be reunited in Vermont with her family and to save her ancient craft from obliteration.
Don Bredes is a versatile, visionary novelist. His frightening, vividly realized depiction of our stricken land in the stifling grip of fundamentalists offers young readers a galvanizing motive for preventive action. Not only do readers learn a great deal about witchcraft and religious oppression, but the chilling aspect of an America dominated by hateful zealots in the wake of climate catastrophe presents them with an inspiring challenge-today-to forestall the dire consequences of climate chaos. Gloomy though Polly's world may be, her story does not make use of the horrific realism found in dystopian novels like Cormac McCarthy's The Road, or even in Susan Collins's Hunger Games. Rather, Polly and the One and Only World gives young readers a vision of a future that will inspire them to appreciate their own freedom and their own capacity to work for positive social and political change.
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Teen Pick of the Week: Firefight

Firefight
by Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, presents the second book in the Reckoners series: Firefight, the sequel to the #1 bestseller Steelheart.

Newcago is free.

They told David it was impossible, that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet Steelheart--invincible, immortal, unconquerable--is dead. And he died by David's hand.

Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life simpler. Instead, it only made David realize he has questions. Big ones. And no one in Newcago can give him answers.

Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan, has possibilities, though. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic Regalia, Babylon Restored is flooded and miserable, but David is sure it's the path that will lead him to what he needs to find. Entering a city oppressed by a High Epic despot is risky, but David's willing to take the gamble. Because killing Steelheart left a hole in David's heart. A hole where his thirst for vengeance once lived. Somehow, he filled that hole with another Epic--Firefight. And now he will go on a quest darker and even more dangerous than the fight against Steelheart to find her, and to get his answers.

Check out an audio excerpt from Firefight here.

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Teen Pick of the Week: All the Bright Places

All the Bright Places
by Jennifer Niven
The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning!

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.


Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death.

When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink.

This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.




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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Small Fry Pick of the Week: Ice Whale

Ice Whale

George, Jean Craighead
Middle Grade School

In the far north, beneath the ice-blue waves, a great whale swims.  This whale is Siku, Ice Whale.  He is wary of humans, for he has seen the great harm hunters do.  But he seeks a young Eskimo, the one with kind eyes.

On the water, a boy also searches.  Years ago, he unwittingly let Yankee whalers slaughter a pod of ice whales.For this act, the young Eskimo received a curse of banishment--along with the charge to protect the great whale Siku as long as he lives.  His fate and that of his family are tied to this one whale.  

Over the years, much changes.  The curse is passed down from generation to generation.  New threats abound.  But this bond is strong. It can never be broken.  Told in alternating voices, both human and whale, Jean Craighead George's last novel is a far-reaching quest which take us beneath the waves and onto the forbidding Alaskan tundra. 

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Teen Pick of the Week: Kaleidoscope - Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy

Kaleidoscope:
Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy
What do a disabled superhero, a time-traveling Chinese-American figure skater, and a transgendered animal shifter have in common? They're all stars of Kaleidoscope stories!
Kaleidoscope collects fun, edgy, meditative, and hopeful YA science fiction and fantasy with diverse leads. These twenty original stories tell of scary futures, magical adventures, and the joys and heartbreaks of teenage life.
Featuring New York Times bestselling and award winning authors along with newer voices including:
Garth Nix, Sofia Samatar, William Alexander, Karen Healey, E.C. Myers, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Ken Liu, Vylar Kaftan, Sean Williams, Amal El-Mohtar, Jim C. Hines, Faith Mudge, John Chu, Alena McNamara, Tim Susman, Gabriela Lee, Dirk Flinthart, Holly Kench, Sean Eads, and Shveta Thakrar
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