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January 7, 2008
Books to Begin the Year With - #1
Here are some books to begin the year with by E. Lockhart:
by e. lockhart
Dramarama-for all of you theater folks (and non-theater folks). Demi, aka Douglas Howard, is black, gay and theatrical. He lives 'under' the radar at school so he won't be picked on. Sadye, Sarah Paulson, is a dancer. She knows every song from every Broadway show. Outcasts, both, they become inseparable once they meet at auditions for the Wildewood Academy for the Performing Arts Summer Theater Institute. They get accepted and attend together, ready to conquer the theatrical world. Demi has star power, but Sadye finds the going rough. Dramarama portrays the world of performing arts camps vividly, the applause and the heartbreak, the fun and torture of continuous rehearsals. This is a must for anyone who has been to theater camp, joined school theatrical productions or just loves theater.
Fly On the Wall-At the Manhattan School for Art and Music, where everyone is “different” and everyone is “special,” Gretchen Yee feels ordinary. She’s the kind of girl who sits alone at lunch, drawing pictures of Spider-Man, so she won’t have to talk to anyone; who has a crush on Titus but won’t do anything about it; who has no one to hang out with when her best (and only real) friend Katya is busy. One day, Gretchen wishes that she could be a fly on the wall in the boys’ locker room–just to learn more about guys. What are they really like? What do they really talk about? Are they really cretins most of the time? See what happens when she gets her wish.
The Boyfriend List-Siegfried makes a believable 15-year-old narrator as she slips into the role of Ruby Oliver, a spirited girl struggling with identity and self-esteem after suffering the kind of social crisis that sets high schoolers reeling. Ruby's boyfriend of six months, Jackson, has dumped her in favor of her best friend, Kim. Ruby's resulting panic attacks land her in the office of a shrink, Dr. Z, and part of her therapy involves writing a complete list of the boys with whom she's ever had a crush, kiss, relationship or "little any-kind-of-anything."
I think E. Lockhart is an author who understands teens and how they think, act and feel. I hope you enjoy these books.
Ed Goldberg
Teen Services Librarian
Posted by egoldberg at January 7, 2008 12:19 PM