Born out of the meme culture of the web, Cake Wrecks the book takes some of the best or the worst in cake making and decorating featured on cakewrecks.com in a photographic homeage to bad spelling, unthinking bakery employees (“Heppy Bertty” really? Really??) and artistic license gone horribly, horribly wrong. Of course, some of the [...]
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Education Weekly recently posed the question: Will fart jokes make boys read more? You’ll be safe to answer that one with a “YES!”, and Captain Underpants is an illustrated series that entices readers ages 7-10 with booger, cootie, and underpants jokes (no fart jokes in this particular series, though the relation is close). Harold and George [...] Love is rarely neatly packaged. Dexter and Emma meet on the last day of college in 1988, poised to launch into their own separate paths, but the brief romantic encounter starts a bond that ties them together, however slightly at times, over more than 20 years. One Day looks at July 15th of each year of [...] Since I discovered this picture book of Cinderella’s next door neighbor in a Chicago independent bookstore years ago, I have bought and given away more than 15 copies. Cinder Edna has inherited a similar set of circumstances as the Disney-made-famous heroine from next door. This girl, however, shows initiative and creativity, earning money by mowing lawns [...] This is another one of those books you’ve heard of your entire life, but there are countless reasons this book is considered a “must read”. When young Heathcliff, a child from the streets, is brought to live with the Earnshaws, he quickly forms a deep bond with young Catherine that will shape and destroy the lives of all [...] When Sophie and Josh get back from England with Nicolas, they are quickly sent off on another journey to try and continue their instruction on the elemental magics. Neither twin wants to go, and it is hard to tell who is on the good side. The fourth b0ok in the series is going to leave [...] In his second series, Rick Riordan trades Greeks for Egyptians on another wild adventure.Carter and Sadie Kane are siblings that have been kept apart for the last six years. They see each other twice a year, but have little in common. That is until their dad takes them to the British Museum and does some [...] Do we take a sense of community for granted? Are we slowly drifting into spheres of isolation- a private sea of e-mails, text messages, and mass media? Finding Beauty is an observation of community, it’s benefits and drawbacks but most of all its necessity. Community is an element of both nature and our own human [...] This is the story of Sanford White’s mistress, Evelyn Nesbit, who in 1900 was the most photographed woman of the era. Very interesting New York history and a fascinating look at the roles women were allowed to chose from: wife or mistress. If you liked Devil in the White City, this one’s for you. Review by [...] Fast paced series for young adults, the main characters find that in their teens there is a reason they don’t feel like they fit in: they are half-bloods, the children of humans and Greek Gods! Blessed (or cursed) with some powers, Percy Jackson and his friends Annabeth and Grover must find and return property stolen [...] |
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