Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Summer Reading...

Dear Readers,
When I saw one of my books on a bookstore table labelled: WHAT TO READ WHILE YOU'RE WAITING FOR HARRY, I thought I'd give you a few suggestions of my own.
I'll start (briefly) with the one of mine I saw on the table & give you a few others that are ABNORMAL reads for NORMAL readers.

SEVEN TEARS INTO THE SEA -- Young adult
by Terri Farley
(instead of writing my own review, I borrowed this one)
When Gwen and her parents abruptly move away from their coastal family seat, her clairvoyant grandmother predicts that forces "no mortal can imagine and no female can resist" will draw her back. Sure enough, when Gwen, 17, returns for a summer job, she falls for exotic wanderer Jesse and finds herself immersed in a modern, California version of a Scottish selkie myth.

A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
by Laura Amy Schlitz -- 4 grade and up!
The book's first sentence gives you a glimpse of the style & humor to come: "On the morning of the best day of her life, Maud Flynn was locked in the outhouse, singing, The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Maud, like ANNIE, is an orphan with sudden good fortune. She's showered with beautiful clothes and great food. She lives at a wonderful beach house But why is Maud kept hidden by the sisters who adopt her? And what would the deaf housekeeper tell her, if only she could?
Lots more going on beneath the surface of this book than you expect!

Owl in Love by Patrice Kindl - 5th grade & UP
Of course you've heard of were-wolves, but what about wereowls? If they run in your family, you're used to shape-shifting and flying around in the night. But what happens if you have a crush on your science teacher and as you're flying over his house you notice this creepy boy lurking in the bushes? How do you explain?
Maybe it's because I'm writing a book with the pueo -- Hawaiian owl -- in it that I found this book so funny/dreamy/creepy, but I liked it a lot.

SOME ENCHANTED EVENING -- for adult readers
by Alice Alfonsi
(another borrowed review)
Mary Jane Magorski's life is dull. She needs excitement. She needs adventure. She needs a better job. And then one morning, right there behind the perfume counter, she unpacks a box of antique bottles and finds one that glows with emerald light. Her supervisor buys the bottle and gives it to Mary, but that's Unfortunately the last good thing that happens to her for hours. First: she's fired from her job. Next: her landlady kicks her out of her apartment for harboring a stray dog. After that: her purse is stolen, and finally her birthday bottle shatters. But then a strange green fog pours from the bottle. When the fog lifts, Mary is stunned to see a six-foot-tall pirate captain. Sinjin Avery is dark, dangerous, handsome. He's a genie, who now belongs to Mary.

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