tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91682776335576002762012-02-15T23:26:03.954-08:00Book reviews and teasers for literature owned by the Screven-Jenkins Regional Library system. I'll be posting here on an irregular basis, so make sure to check in often - or just sign up for the RSS feed!sblankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07984657753752705270noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9168277633557600276.post-82235575578989360572008-06-23T12:52:00.000-07:002008-06-23T13:18:32.894-07:00

C. S. Lewis is known by adults for his writings on Christian philosophy and theology, but to children, he is best known for his series THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA - a series that begins with this book. In it, four English schoolchildren, sent away from London during World War II, have arrived in a mysterious manor. During a game of tag, the youngest girl, Lucy, goes to hide in the wardrobe... and

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Ten-year-old Mary Lennox was quite the disagreeable child, who said what she felt and didn't care a pin for anyone else. Why, she didn't even shed a tear when her parents died!But something happened when the orphaned Mary was transplanted from her parent's home in India to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, her only living relative - like the roses in the secret garden which she found

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Is there anyone who hasn't read this one, or at least heard of it?Harry Potter was just the Dursley's orphaned nephew, used as cheap labor and housed in a tiny room under the stairs, until the owls came, with their letters telling him that he had been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witches and Wizardry.Entering school was like entering a whole new world, one where he was rich, famous... and the

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Stanley Yelnats is one unlucky kid. I mean, who else could be just walking down the street and have a set of super-stinky sneakers bean him on the head? And if it did happen, what are the odds that those gross old tennis shoes would have been donated to a homeless shelter auction by an NBA star and worth $5000?Now, Stanley's been sent to Camp Green Lake (which isn't green, and doesn't have a

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Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is smart when it comes to numbers and science, but when it comes to people, he finds them utterly confusing. His autism makes human behavior a mystery, but he loves all animals, especially dogs. So when he finds his neighbor's dog killed by a pitchfork, he decides to investigate.Along the way, he learns to face his fears, deal with a hostile and

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The subtitle of this book is "life and love with the world's worst dog" and it's pretty apt. Marley started off well enough - a cute puppy brought home by newspaper columnist John Grogan. He chewed things, he made messes... but that's just what puppies do, right?Despite Grogan's best efforts, however, Marley never outgrew that puppy destructiveness, nor his puppy playfulness. Instead, Marley

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THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA: A NATURAL HISTORY OF FOUR MEALS is a study of four different meals, each one traced from its beginnings in field or farm to the dinner plate.The first traces a meal from McDonalds, and discusses how much of our processed foods are based upon a single plant species: corn.The second is a meal of mass-produced organic foods, and how the big-business organic companies are

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The author of SABRIEL has taken us to a very different world this time, a world in which children are raised in the Dormitories until their Sad Birthday, when their 14-year-old brains are transplanted into the bodies of bioengineered monsters and forced to battle to the death.But some children escape. The strongest, the smartest or the ones who were affected by the Change, the event that made

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Science fiction classic ENDER'S GAME is about a young boy with a genius-level IQ and a talent for strategy that hasn't been seen since the days of Alexander the Great.Taken from his family, young Andrew "Ender" Wiggins is brought to a space-based military school dedicated to creating the military leaders needed to fight back an invading alien force, the Bugs. The insectoid attackers greeted the

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Nobody reads anymore. Why bother? Just jack in with a mindprobe needle and you can experience anything you want - sex, adventure, drama, whatever. Who cares if it rots your brain and destroys your long-term memory? It's the ultimate escape in a world destroyed by a massive earthquake centuries ago, the best way of all to escape the gangs, the hunger, the knowledge that once in the Backtimes

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Everybody knows the story of PETER PAN, right? And we've all seen the Disney movie at one time or another.But the original, as penned by James Matthew (J. M.) Barrie, is more detailed, more sardonic, and darker than the cartoon that we all know and love. Barrie was originally a playwright of no small repute before he created a play called "Peter Pan in Kensington Garden", in which a baby escaped

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Imagine a world without hate, divorce, poverty, injustice, or any of the other maladies that plague our society. Imagine a world where a child simply cutting in line on the playground is considered a horrible offense against courtesy.Imagine a world which doesn't know what love is.The seemingly-utopian society of the Giver is a pretty shell over something far darker and more disturbing: a world

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Welcome to the new book review blog for the Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System! This blog is set up especially for you to comment on the books reviewed here, and to help create a community of readers in Screven and Jenkins Counties in Georgia.Here's how it's going to work (and what you can do to make it work!) 1. I post a short synopsis/review of a book. Each book gets its own post, so

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