Week of October 14, 2007

I’ll be listening to Rash by Pete Hautman this week. It’s about a future society that would rather be “safe than free.”

Scott Westerfeld's latest book, Extras, stars 15 year-old Aya Fuse.
Her initial concern is a popularity ranking of 451,369. Through daring feats involving special circumstances Aya discovers her true self and what’s really important to succeed.

Want to know the ins and outs of the slave trade through the eyes of one family? Try Copper Sun by Sharon Draper.

Here are a few of the latest books received:

• Gym Candy by Carl Deuker

(Freshman football and steroids)

• Frannie in Pieces by Delia Ephron

(Jigsaw puzzle helps Frannie come to terms with father’s death)

• No Place Safe by Kim Reid
  

( T921 A serial murderer began hunting black children in 1979 Atlanta.
Kim Reid's mother was a lead detective on the case)

• It’s Superman by Tom De Haven
  

(Early feats of daring-do by the man of steel)

• Freaks by Annette Curtis Klause
  

(17 year-old Abel, a freak show “normie” is haunted by mysterious wraith)

• In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth
  

(16 year-old goes by bus to visit reclusive Southern author)