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October 17, 2008
New books 10/17/08
My mother is a french fry and further proof of my fuzzed-up life by Colleen Sydor.
As fifteen-year-old Eli begins to feel that she's losing hold of everything, her pent-up anxiety and anger begin to unfurl, revealing a heartbreaking vulnerability beneath her tough exterior.
Skinned by Robin Wasserman.
Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular -- until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will never feel pain again, she will never age, and she can't ever truly die. But she is also rejected by her friends, betrayed by her boyfriend, and alienated from her old life. Forced to the fringes of society, Lia joins others like her. But they are looked at as freaks. They are hated...and feared. They are everything but human, and according to most people, this is the ultimate crime -- for which they must pay the ultimate price.
I wanna be your shoebox by Cristina García.
Thirteen-year-old, clarinet-playing, Southern California surfer, Yumi Ruiz-Hirsch, comes from a complex family--her father is Jewish-Japanese, her mother is Cuban, and her parents are divorced--and when her grandfather Saul is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Yumi asks him to tell her his life story, which helps her to understand her own history and identity.
Things that are by Andrew Clements.
Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.
Out of the pocket by Bill Konigsberg.
As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.
(Source of Annotations: NoveList Database and Publishers)
Posted by egoldberg at October 17, 2008 1:34 PM