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March 19, 2012

Movie Casting for The Hunger Games

Posted by tbrmaureen
When I read fiction, I conjure up the essence and general looks of each character in my head; but unlike some of my friends and family, I don’t match a specific face to each name. One of my friends recently told me that she assigns celebrities or well-known faces to each character --- others don’t have any images of the characters in their heads at all, focusing instead on the characters’ inner lives.

Editorial Content for Dead to You

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Amy Alessio

Ethan was kidnapped from his front yard when he was seven years old. Now, at 16, he has found his family on a website for missing children. He has been homeless for a while, and the reintroduction to family life is not going smoothly.

"Author Lisa McMann has written strong suspense fiction for teens with powerful, likable characters, and DEAD TO YOU is no exception. She includes many surprise twists in this engrossing page turner while creating a layered situation where it’s possible to sympathize with many points of view."

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Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was seven. Now, at 16, he has returned to his family. It's a miracle...at first. But his reintroduction to his old life isn't going smoothly, and there's something that's keeping his memory blocked. Something unspeakable.

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Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was seven. Now, at 16, he has returned to his family. It's a miracle...at first. But his reintroduction to his old life isn't going smoothly, and there's something that's keeping his memory blocked. Something unspeakable.

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Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was just seven years old. Now, at 16, he has returned to his family. It's a miracle...at first. Then the tensions start to build. His reintroduction to his old life isn't going smoothly, and his family is tearing apart all over again. If only Ethan could remember something, anything, about his life before, he'd be able to put the pieces back together. But there's something that's keeping his memory blocked. Something unspeakable...

March 19, 2012

20 Questions: A (Wednes)Day in the Life of...Andy Selsberg

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  Andy Selsberg, author of YOU ARE GOOD AT THINGS: A Checklist, let us in on what a Wednesday is like for him. From teaching composition classes at John Jay College, to being inspired to go for a run by our questionnaire find out what it's like to be Andy Selsberg.
Elizabeth Heyman is a senior at Watchung Hills Regional High School in Warren, New Jersey. “It’s for school! I swear!” I admit to using the excuse more than necessary in order to justify my occasional $50 hauls from the comic book store to my mother. However, it’s not as irrelevant as she may think it to be. During my time in high school I’ve used my background as an amateur comic geek as a platform for my development into an esteemed fan of all literature.

Editorial Content for Bewitching

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Norah Piehl

In Alex Flinn's BEASTLY, an unpopular girl who turns out to be a witch transforms a high school jerk into a real monster. Kendra, the witch in that novel, was an interesting character in her own right. In BEWITCHING, she has the opportunity to tell her own story --- all several centuries of it. Read More

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Kendra Hilferty, the witch who curses Kyle Kingsbury in BEASTLY, tells about her immortal existence --- how she discovered she was a witch and the various ways she has used her powers to help people throughout the centuries.

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Kendra Hilferty, the witch who curses Kyle Kingsbury in BEASTLY, tells about her immortal existence --- how she discovered she was a witch and the various ways she has used her powers to help people throughout the centuries.

About the Book

Bewitching can be a beast....

Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn’t.

I go to a new school now --- one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I’m not still here because I’m stupid; I just don’t age.

You see, I’m immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years --- except for when to take my powers and butt out.

I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal, remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the Titanic lifeboat? I don’t even want to think about it.

Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn’t get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core.

by Marissa Meyer - Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult 12+

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

Editorial Content for Cinder

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Benjamin Boche

When it comes to the story of Cinderella, you’re stuck with either images of dancing and singing mice, or the bloody limb version from Grimm’s. CINDER, however, introduces a whole new twist on the beloved fairy tale that is sure to be something you’ve never read before --- and is just as exciting. There’s a handsome prince, a lost shoe, a horrible stepmother, and even some semblance of a carriage, but not in the way you remember. Read More

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Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

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Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

About the Book

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl...

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

March 16, 2012

We had a brilliant burst of glorious summer-like weather in the middle of the week, and the “jetlag” of the clock change did not hit me until today. While there was less time last weekend, I still got in some great reading.