Disney Pulls Sexy Merida Makeover After Public Backlash
There are multiple versions of this article out there, but I like this one because it also includes the original and princess versions of the other Disney women - too bad there wasn’t more of an Internet dust up over Tiana’s makeover!
Railsea by China Mieville is on Booklist’s Top 10 SF/Fantasy for Youth 2013. All the titles sound interesting, but the description for this one really grabbed me:
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can’t shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea–even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-coloured mole she’s been chasing since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it’s a welcome distraction. But what Sham finds in the derelict—a series of pictures hinting at something, somewhere, that should be impossible—leads to considerably more than he’d bargained for. Soon he’s hunted on all sides, by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham’s life that’s about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
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It got a lot of coverage. First in the United States, the article went slightly supernova on
Tip for all my student readers: if you’re too lazy to use a bibliography creator like NoodleBib or RefWorks, let Google generate your bibliography entries for you. All you have to do is google the article/book title in Google Scholar, click “cite” at the bottom of the search result, and copy either the MLA, APA, or Chicago cite into your word document.
THIS IS AMAZING!
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Interview with Veronica Roth: Divergent author talks Allegiant, the Divergent movie, and more!
Iron Man and PTSD
Click through for a very thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion about Tony Stark’s mental state by a clinical psychologist. WARNING: IRON MAN 3 SPOILERS!!!
What Makes a Good YA Love Story?
Interesting look at romance in YA and some great suggestions. Click on the title below to place your hold at TBPL:
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Oh, fancy!! ….is it bad if I kind of like some of the fan versions better though?
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10 Diverse Dystopian YA Books:
- The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- Above by Leah Bobet (Arthur A. Levine Books)
- Diverse Energies edited by Tobias S. Buckell and Joe Monti (Tu Books)
- Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner (Candlewick)
- The Blending Time by Michael Kinch (Flux)
- No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz (Dial)
- Shadows Cast by Stars by Catherine Knutsson (Atheneum)
- Tankborn by Karen Sandler (Tu Books)
- Orleans by Sherri L. Smith (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- Extras by Scott Westerfeld (Simon & Schuster)
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Looking for funny books? Check out our humor in YA fiction flowchart.
Love this! We’ve got almost all of them here at TBPL - click here to place holds.
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