book review-my rotten life

[checkers65477]

I had the pleasure of meeting author David Lubar a while back and was the lucky recipient of an advance copy of his new book My Rotten Life, the first in a new series called Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie.   I'm a huge fan of Sleeping Freshman Never Lie and this new book is sort of like Sleeping Freshman for the elementary group, which means

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[peggy_2]

oh, that sounds like fun! and w00t for you getting an ARC. is it signed, too?

how nice to come across books you think your nephew will like! score to you.

[checkers65477]

The ARC is not signed, but my Sleeping Freshmen is! My nephew would like the book, but I don't think he reads well enough quite yet to read it on his own. I keep giving my brother books to read aloud to his kids. I'm sure he loves me for that. :)

[jade_sabre_301]

that's what librarian aunts are there for!

my eight-year-old cousins are visiting for Malone's graduation and we were sitting around talking about what they liked to read (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, apparently) and reminiscing about Ramona and the Little House and Boxcar Children books...do kids at your library read those anymore?

[checkers65477]

Little House, yes, the others not so much. I'm not sure we even have any Boxcar Children anymore.

My 9-year-old niece loves the Wimpy Kid books. But her favorite right now (purchased by a librarian aunt) is Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale.

[crowinator]

That's awesome! He was in Denver for our Teen Lit Conference and I got to hear him speak, along with Jordan Sonnenblick. Both of them were hilarious. Lubar read us a goofy short story during his speech. And they seemed to get along really really well in the Q&A session, which was a hoot. They both kept mentioning John Green and pretending to swoon!

[checkers65477]

Oh, funny. I'd love to have seen the two of them together. We're thinking of trying to arrange for Jordan Sonnenblick for a visit next year.