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Ella Enchanted

Levine, Gail Carson
She was given the "gift" of obediance by a fairy when she was born and it causes no end of trouble. Turns into a Cinderella story near the end. Very enjoyable story.

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11/2000

Fairest

Levine, Gail Carson
Kind of a Snow White story, set in the Ella Enchanted world. Aza accompanies a duchess to see the king married, ends up in a mirror, but escapes and marries a prince. Hope I didn't spoil it for ya! Since the kingdom is a singing kingdom, there are lots of song lyrics.

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1/2007

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had

Levine, Kristin
Small-town Southern boy makes friends (eventually) with a new girl in town, a "negra", in 1917. The "n-word" is used a number of times, and I'm not talking about "negra", and it seemed out of place in a middle school level story, but it's essential to getting a feeling of the time and place. I really liked the story, and even wept a bit near the end.

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11/2014

Quote:

"You know, Dit," he said in a quiet voice, "when my wife died, I was real angry. Angry at the ol' doctor who wouldn't come because I didn't have no money. Angry at God for taking her away."
Jim paused to make sure I was listening.

"But after a while I thought of something worse than losing my wife."
"What?" I asked.
"If I'd never met her at all." -- Pg. 252

Last battle

Lewis, C. S.
End of Narnia. Or is it?

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11/2005

Prince Caspian

Lewis, C. S.
Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Edmund are called back to Narnia to help the boy prince Caspian.

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11/2005

The horse and his boy

Lewis, C. S.
A horse, and a boy, travel to Narnia. Very good, of course, have read this at least 3 times.

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10/2005

The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

Lewis, C. S.
Read this for the first time when I was an intern at the Christ Lutheran School library. Wonderful, of course.

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10/2005

The magician's nephew

Lewis, C. S.
Polly and Digory go to Narnia.

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11/2005

The silver chair

Lewis, C. S.
Eustace and Jill go to Narnia to rescue Prince Rilian.

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11/2005

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Lewis, C. S.
All the kids plus Eustace sail to the end of the world. Read again.

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11/2005

Secrets, Lies & Algebra

Lichtman, Wendy
Tess is thirteen and loves math. She uses mathematics to try to understand relationships.
I enjoyed the story, but I thought the suicide/suspected murder might be a bit morbid, but it is nicely concluded in a meaningful way.

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5/2013

Facing The Lion

Liebster, Simone Arnold
Memoirs of a young girl in Nazi Europe. Simone is a Jehovah's Witness and this story tells of her (and her family's) persecution. Maps, appendices, indes. Interesting story. She certainly was a devote little girl!

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6/2002

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Lindsay, Jeff
The first Dexter book. Someone is murdering prostitutes in a flamboyant manner. Dexter admires his technique.

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6/2009

Dexter In The Dark

Lindsay, Jeff
This is my first Dexter book, the third in the series, I think. Probably not the best place to start. Dexter is getting married, with children. If Moloch is a real being, wouldn't the Christian god be a real being too?

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1/2009

Dexter Is Delicious

Lindsay, Jeff
Dexter runs afoul of some cannibals. Rather gruesome!

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5/2012

White Cat, Black Dog

Link, Kelly
Several stories. I like the White Cat one maybe the best?

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To his surprise, he was discovering that being loved could be just as productive of anxiety as the lack of it was. -- The White Cat's Divorce.

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"Or pot macaroni and cheese."
"I still think that's a bad idea," said the white cat. -- The White Cat's Divorce.

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8/2024

Monstrous Affections

Link, editor, Kelly
Gavin J. Grant, co-editor.

Moriabe's Children / Paolo Bacigalupi --
Old souls / Cassandra Clare --
Ten rules for being an intergalactic smuggler (the successful kind) / Holly Black --
Quick hill / M.T. Anderson --
The diabolist / Nathan Ballingrud --
This whole demoning thing / Patrick Ness --
Wings in the morning / Sarah Rees Brennan --
Left foot, right / Nalo Hopkinson --
The Mercurials / G. Carl Purcell --
Kitty Capulet and the invention of underwater photography / Dylan Horrocks --
Son of abyss / Nik Houser --
A small wild magic / Kathleen Jennings --
The new boyfriend / Kelly Link --
The woods hide in plain sight / Joshua Lewis --
Mothers, lock up your daughters because they are terrifying / Alice Sola Kim

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It was Mom's idea for dad and me to build the blood altar in the garage.

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We had 2-60 air-conditioning, which means you rolled down two windows and went sixty miles per hour.

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7/2024

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

Link, editor, Kelly
Some good stories here. Didn't read the two graphic stories due to the limitations of my reader.

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Luz could see the future, or at least her future. It looked just like the present. -- Nowhere Fast, by Christopher Rowe.

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7/2024

Antarctic Tears

Linsdau, Aaron
Very good story of the author's solo expedition to the South Pole. Lots of problems came up, and the author explain how he solved them. I met the author once, so when I saw this book on Amazon I ordered it. The hardback copy, no less!

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2/2021

Harry Hears A Hodaka

Linville, Milo Jon
While berry picking with his family Harry spots an old rusty motorcycle in the bush. It doesn't even have an engine but he decides to rebuild it. Helped (a lot!) by his father and grandpa and many others. Along the way Harry learns about making decisions, the value of work, and relationships. When it is finally finished he realizes that he forgot one thing!

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10/2023
20 books displayed
[L'Amour - Lasky] [latham - Leckie] [Leckie - Leitch] [Leitch - Lescroart] [Levine - Linville] [Lippman - Lovegrove] [Lovegrove - Lutz] [Lutz - Lynn] 

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