Alexa Vega (Spy Kids 1, 2, 3) and two Cassidy brothers, David and Patrick, star in this new ABC Family sitcom that just started up in July. The premise of the show is that Ruby’s mother died when she was 12, and she was raised by her grandparents who “forgot she was there” and was rescued by her Rock Star father, David Gallagher (David Cassidy). [...]
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Green is a fantasy melange of girl-power, slavery, color and gender politics, and gods and humans and nonhumans-it’s one of the most layered fantasies I’ve read in a long time. On the surface, Green appears simple: it’s the story of a young girl from her earliest memories as a three year old toddler to her coming of age at fifteen years old. Green, the character, [...]
“The wolf is sitting on his haunches under our ancient chestnut tree, his eyes boring straight through me. Grace Bab always said he would come to Blackchurch Cottage, and I never believed her.” The first paragraph in The Stolen One. When I picked this book up, I thought it would be about werewolves in the court of Queen Elizabeth (the original QE), according to the [...]
America, where a young man can raise himself up from poverty with only the sweat on his back and the smarts in his noggin! No, I haven’t read Adam Shepard’s Scratch Beginnings, but blogger Frugal Dad has, and his article is an interesting review and view of hauling yourself up by your bootstraps by spending only on survival. What got my attention were the comments [...]
Publisher: Harper/Teen, June 2009 Nothing but Ghosts is a deceptively simple book, written in smooth, poetic language from the point of view of Katie D’Amore, a 16 year old girl whose mother died months before of cancer. She blames herself for not seeing how ill her mother was becoming. She thinks about this as she begins to dig both in the library and as a [...]
Books 1-3: Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, and Club Dead. Harris certainly knows how to write a fun female protagonist. Sookie Stackhouse is waitress. She’s unschooled, doesn’t have a typical education, but has a lot of people smarts. Why? Sookie is a rare human telepath in a world filled with vampires who’ve come out of the coffin, were-people (who have not) and other [...]
Up was a heckuva lot of fun. It did get a little toothgrinding, though, that Ellie, Carl’s wife, ended up dying before she could have HER adventure, and it was a little too pat that, once he actually looked through her adventure book, he discovered all the pictures she of the two of them together with a message to him “I’ve had my adventure [being [...]
