Flamingnet Book Reviews Enewsletter
Topics:
1. New and Advance Books Recently Reviewed On Flamingnet
2. Other Recent Flamingnet Reviews
3. Flamingnet Donations
4. New Feature on Our Home Page
5. Student Reviewers
6. Please Tell Your Students and Friends
7. Dad of Flamingnet's Blog
8. To Unsubscribe
1. New and Advance Books Recently Reviewed On Flamingnet
THE WIZARD TEST Hilari Bell
Dayven has always wanted to be a Guardian for his army of Tharn, and as he grows up he becomes better and better with the sword. Then, he comes to a period in time when he must take the wizard test, to see if he has magic, and will become a wizard. Dayven eventually discovers a secret plan, and he is faced with a decision of loyalty.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=132Fdaw
47 Walter Mosley
Veteran mystery novelist Walter Mosley strays out of his comfort zone and deftly tackles historical and science fiction in 47. The title character is a young slave resigned to the plantation lifestyle until Tall John, an enigmatic and agical runaway, finds him and teaches him about freedom.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=232Fdaw
HORSEMAN #1 (The Hollow) Ford Lytle Gilmore and
Christopher Golden
Sleepy Hollow has always been a town of legend and myth, but now it seems that those legends are coming alive. And when an apparently headless horseman begins murdering people in town, Shane and Aimee begin to fear for their lives. The two teens decide to try and uncover the truth, even though the adults insist it must be an ordinary murderer dressed up as the horseman.
Christopher Golden is the bestselling author of numerous Buffy the Vampire Slayer titles and winner of the Bram Stoker award. Ford Lytle Gilmore is a film producer and comic book writer.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=332Fdaw
DELIVER US FROM NORMAL Kate Klise
What is normal, anyway? Kate Klise's book Deliver Us from Normal is an intriguing, adolescent view on what normal is and why it is so important to children and teenagers. Klise uses the perspective of a twelve year old boy who lives with his four other siblings and his parents in Normal, Illinois.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=432Fdaw
BEYOND THE DEEPWOODS Paul Stewart and Chris
Riddell
Abandoned at birth in the Deepwoods, Twig is living with a family of woodtrolls. One day, his adopted mother tells Twig that she is not his real mother and he must travel to his cousin's and hopefully he will find his destiny. Twig strays from the path that leads to his cousin's house, and he is lost in the dangerous Deepwoods. Twig has many adventures in the woods, and he meets many different creatures. Twig also learns many lessons, about nature and the ways of life.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=532Fdaw
GHOST SHIP Dietlof Reiche
A blend of mystery, ghost story and pirate tale, Dietlof Reiche's Ghost Ship is a brilliant novel that will keep readers intrigued until the end.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=632Fdaw
2. Other Recent Flamingnet Reviews
A MANGO-SHAPED SPACE Wendy Mass
Mia has a perfectly harmless yet rare condition where sights and sounds have a color in her head. Whenever she hears a noise, a color streaks across her vision. She has had trouble in school trying to figure out how numbers can be added together to get another number. To Mia the
corresponding number they add up to does not match the color that the original numbers were. As long as she has known about it she has kept it
a secret, until now. Her family and many of the people she knows have trouble getting used to this new idea. Mia, herself, experiments with
her colors and it takes a heart breaking experience to find out what a special thing her colors are.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=732Fdaw
SHOCK WAVE Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt is a character that is featured in many Clive Cussler novels. He is like a more modern day Indiana Jones. Also, his job and many of
his hobbies are similar to those of Clive Cussler. In what has been
called the best Clive Cussler novel, Dirk Pitt must stop Arthur Dorsett, the owner of a major diamond mining company, from carrying out a plan that will kill countless lives and has already killed many sea creatures. At the beginning, by what seems like chance he meets Maeve Fletcher, one of Dorsett's three daughters. Unlike her other sisters, Maeve realizes what a dangerous and cruel man her father is. Pitt, Maeve, and Giordino, a good friend of Pitt's, join together to put an end to Arthur Dorsett's plan, and to stop all of his brutal actions forever.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=832Fdaw
THE GENIE IN THE BOOK Cindy Trumbore
Although this book is for children ages 7 - 11 (younger than
Flamingnet's typical reader), Cindy is a very good friend of ours. We
really enjoyed reading The Genie in the Book. It is about a boy named Will, who matures as he is given the chance to make his truest wish come true.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=932Fdaw
THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY Douglas Adams
Ford Prefect is a researcher for the revised edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He has been disguised as a human for the last 15 or so years while he has been researching Earth. Just before the world is about to be blown up by a group of hostile starships, Ford rescues a newfound human friend, Arthur Dent. He beams Arthur and himself up to the starship, but eventually the captain of the ship find they are onboard and throws them out the airlock. By a near impossible feat they are picked up by another ship exactly 29 seconds later. This ship happens to be piloted by Zaphod Beeblebrox, an old friend of Ford's. This leads Ford and Arthur into an unimaginable adventure with humans, mice, robots, and two headed, three armed monsters.
http://www.flamingnet.com/enewsletter/305.cfm?enb=1032Fdaw
3. Flamingnet Donations
As many of you already know, for all books or other items purchased through our website, we receive credit from Amazon.com. We use this credit to buy books for libraries in need. Recently we donated books to a small suburban library outside of Philadelphia with "a slim budget for YA materials" in need of books for teenagers and to a very small library for a K-12 school with just over 200 students on the island of St. Thomas (Virgin Islands). The middle and high school book collections, in the latter, were nonexistent at this point since these grade levels were recently added to the school. Thanks to your purchases through our web site, we were able to donate over 40 books.
We want to thank you all for making your purchases through Flamingnet and for helping us raise money for books. If you know of any libraries in need of books, please let us know so we can look into sending them book donations.
4. New Feature on Our Home Page
We have added a new feature to our home page( www.flamingnet.com ), "Recent Flamingnet Reviews." In the past, we listed our four most recent student reviews on the left side of the page, but our reviewers have been so busy that we expanded this section and put it front and center. Now we list the ten most recent student reviews. These are reviews of new and advance books that have recently been sent to Flamingnet by publishers and authors.
5. Student Reviewers
In our last enewsletter, we asked for you to let us know if you had students interested in reviewing for Flamingnet. Your response was overwhelming. We accepted many of the students you referred and now have close to fifty Flamingnet student reviewers from all over the
country. These students range from fifth grade to college. We are
still accepting your referrals and putting them on a waiting list, so please continue to have interested students contact us.
6. Please Tell Your Students and Friends
Please spread the word about Flamingnet Book Reviews. The more we grow, the better we can become. http://www.flamingnet.com This month we had our largest single day total of visitors to Flamingnet.com, over 1200! THANKS for telling people about our site!
7. Dad of Flamingnet's Blog
This is a little self-promotion, but yes, Gary has a Blog. Nothing earth-shattering and no "Breaking New" about which readers at Seth's school are taking steroids to improve their reading speed...(just joking!). Just some reviews of books I have read with Sister of Flamingnet and interesting book lists from the YALSA listserv.
http://flamingnet.com/blog/blog.html
8. To Unsubscribe
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