What Joa is Reading & Other Stuff

Book reviews...from picture books to adult books, as well as books-to-movie info, and other stuff I think is interesting. Note: Not all books reviewed or recommended are appropriate for all ages.
OCTOBER 12, 2009
Diary of Wimpy Kid #4 is here!

Lots of people have been waiting for Dog Days, the fourth book in the The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. We have four copies, so check yours out (or place a hold) today!

Also, browse through our display on the table near the orange reading pavilion "If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid...You Might Like:"  with lots of other funny book choices (including The Dork Diaries, Wayside School books, Frankie Pickle, Alvin Ho series, Moxy Maxwell series) that you might want to check out.

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Categories: sequelsFunny Stuff

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OCTOBER 7, 2009
New book-based movies coming in October

A new movie, The Vampire's Assistant is coming out in October. This movie is based on the first three books in Darren Shan's Cirque de Freak series. Check these out from the teen fiction section at the library.

Astro Boy (PG), produced by Imagi Studios and directed by David Bowers, premieres in theaters on October 23, 2009. This movie is based on the graphic novels. Find Astro Boy at MPL in the juvenile graphic novel collection.

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Categories: Movie Tie-insScary/Horror

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OCTOBER 6, 2009
Recommend The Hunger Games

I just finished reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins...it was very hard to put it down. This is suspenseful survival story about Catniss, a teenage girl who volunteers to take her younger sister's place in the brutal and sadistic Hunger Game tradition, that pits young citizens from the 12 districts of the dystopic world of Panem, in a fight to the death.

Like Gregor in Collins' Gregor the Overlander series, Catniss is a loyal and self-sacrificing person. She has been taking care of her family after her father's death left her mother unable to cope, and ends up using a lot of her survival skills, including an unparalleled gift for archery, to survive in "The Games."

There are shades of reality-based shows like Survivor that are distorted to horrific proportions, making this fast-moving cautionary tale a sometimes brutal read. Yet, the humanity of the characters in spite of the situation is what keeps you reading.

Copies of this book can be found in the Teen and Adult Science Fiction/Fantasy collections, and the sequel, Catching Fire, was recently released in this expected trilogy.

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Categories: FantasyJoa RecommendsSurvival/Adventure

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