Damon’s Noise – WHIRL – My Rotten Life by David Lubar
My first book up for WHIRL is David Lubar’s My Rotten Life (Lubar is also a native of my town). It seems I have been reading a lot of YA stuff lately, and really enjoying it. Nathan Abercrombie, fifth-grader, accidentally becomes a zombie.
Check out the full review after the jump . . .
Book Review – The Eye of the Heron
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Cover Artist: Mary GrandPré Publisher: Starscape Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: September 2003 I picked up a very cheap copy of the Starscape edition (Tom Doherty’s YA imprint) of The Eye of the Heron. Le Guin is of course one of the greats of speculative fiction but this is actually [...]
Book Review – The Curse of the Campfire Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales
Author: David Lubar Publisher: Starscape Books/Tor Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: 2007 David Lubar’s Curse of the Campfire Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales is a straightforward collection of short stories. This is the third book of short stories following Land of the Lawn Weenies and Invasion of the Road Weenies. There are a total [...]
Book Review – Dreamquest
Author: Brent Hartinger Cover Artist: August Hall Publisher: Starscape Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: March 2007 Let me confess up front, I find the consolatory, self-indulgent nature of much recent middle grade and young adult fiction troubling. I started reading novel-length fiction when I was 10 or 11 years old, the same age as the [...]
Book Review – True Talents
Author: David Lubar Publisher: Starscape Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: March 2007 True Talents is the sequel to Hidden Talents where we first met the group of boys who were just discovering their unique capabilities when they met at the Edgeview Alternative School. Now we meet them again, a little older, a little wiser, but [...]
Book Review – Hidden Talents
Author: David Lubar Cover Artist: Greg Swearingen Publisher: Starscape Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: January 2003 Hidden Talents by David Lubar (originally published in 1999, this is a Tor Starscape Books release) Hidden Talents is a fun and funky Afterschool Special of a book. Certainly not as politically correct or rigidly prudish as that American [...]
Book Review – Lavender-Green Magic
Author: Andre Norton Cover Artist: Tristan Elwell Publisher: Starscape Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: November 2006 and originally published in 1974. It tells the story of Holly Wade who, along with twin brother and sister Crockett and Judy, have moved to Dimsdale, a city much more rural than their native Boston. While their mother works [...]
Book Review – Chance Fortune & The Outlaws
Author: Shane Berryhill Publisher: Starscape Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: July 2006 I couldn’t help but smile when reading this and could easily imagine Berryhill doing the same while writing it. Chance Fortune takes place in a world that has a prevalent super-hero population. The goal for those with powers is to be accepted into [...]
Book Review – Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy
Author: M. Jerry Weiss, Helen S. Weiss Publisher: Starscape Books Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: March 2006 Dreams and Visions: Fourteen Flights of Fantasy, a wonderful collection of fantasy and science fiction stories by both children’s and young adult authors, opens with Joan Bauer’s “Blocked.” In it, Chloe is having a terrible time finishing up yet [...]
