Jennifer Hubert's Blog, page 35
February 20, 2010
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Samantha Kingston is a bitch. She and her three best friends Lindsay, Elody and Ally rule the school with their better-than-you attitudes and sky-high stilettos. Sometimes Sam feels a twinge in what passes for a conscience at the bottom of her small black heart, but she usually manages to squish it. February 12 is a [...:]
February 15, 2010
Calamity Jack by Shannon and Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale
The crackerjack team of Hale, Hale & Hale are back with another rootin' tootin' graphic adventure of that wild girl Rapunzel and her trouble-making friends. This volume covers the back-story of 'Punzie's scheming sidekick, Jack. Before he met Rapunzel out west, Jack made his living swindling chumps in the big city with his partner Prudence, [...:]
February 10, 2010
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Incarceron is every criminal's worst nightmare: a sentient, ever evolving prison that morphs and grows according to its dark needs. Prisoners are born, live, love, fight and die in its depths like fleas on an infinitesimal dog. Like the Christian hell, it is endless and full of nothing but sadness and pain. Originally intended to [...:]
February 5, 2010
Gunnerkrigg Court, volume 1: Orientation by Thomas Siddell
Following in the fantasy footsteps of Harry Potter and The Wizards of Waverly Place, Gunnerkrigg Court is a funny, off-kilter graphic novel that chronicles the educational adventures of Antimony Carver, a precocious and rather dry seventh grader. Needless to say, the Court is NOT like other institutes of higher learning. Within days of joining [...:]
January 30, 2010
Folly by Marthe Jocelyn
"Somehow I knew there were a gulch between what got writ down about history and what were remembered by the people who went along living it." In this hip hist. fic. about Victorian London, Marthe Jocelyn successfully channels the authentic voices of the ordinary people who "went along living" history, and whose stories are just [...:]
January 25, 2010
Happyface by Stephen Emond
He's just a regular dude. Sure, his parents fight sometimes, and his older brother is a pain in the ass. And yes, occasionally he's lonely and his best friend and secret crush Chloe seems to have no idea how he really feels about her. But for the most part, his life is just fine. After [...:]
January 20, 2010
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Miranda and her family from Life As We Knew It have made it through the brutal winter. Limited government food supplies have started coming to her small Pennsylvania town, enough to keep her, her mother and two brothers alive as they try to figure out what to do next. Even though any food is long [...:]
January 15, 2010
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
Meet Will Grayson. He's the guy at school who tries to blend in with the scenery. He doesn't like to rock the boat and he doesn't like to get too emotional. "I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost…totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. [...:]
January 10, 2010
Mercury by Hope Larson
In 1859 Nova Scotia, shy pioneer teen Josey is thrilled when a handsome stranger named Asa Curry claims he can find gold on her family's farm, and partners with her father to form a business. Josey is of marrying age, and what better beau could she have than her father's attractive new associate? But [...:]
January 5, 2010
Ash by Malinda Lo
In a medieval land where science and logic have begun to overtake faith and enchantment, Aisling still believes in fairies, having been fed a steady diet of supernatural tales by her beloved mother since she was a tot. But now her mother is dead and her father soon follows—but not before marrying a cold [...:]
