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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin is not only a Newbery winner, but it's also one of my favorite books of all time. Though it is a mystery, one of its main characters is a high school boy who is a ( Read more... )

If you like the concept of comedic body switches a la Freaky Friday, then it's time for you to read Megan Shull's new novel The SwapNote that I said comedic "body switches" as opposed to horror-movie-style body swaps - those are invasive and terrifying, whereas The Swap is a smart and sensitive look at what it would be like for two middle school ( Read more... )

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I am a dancer
That's who I am
What I do- lyrics from A Chorus Line ( Read more... )

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We're kicking off 2010 at readergirlz with The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, a book I highly and frequently recommend. ( Read my full-length review of the novel.) This witty story begins with a letter written by Frances (Frankie) Rose Landau-Banks to the headmaster of her prep school. In this letter, Frankie claims to ( Read more... )

This time of year, we're surrounded by advertisements urging us to get gifts for our friends and family members. The ads targetted specifically to families and parents remind us to pick up the latest toys and gadgets for kids and often leave out books, performing arts, and other such hobbies and endeavors. Commercials and print ads that split up ( Read more... )

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To date, Melissa Wyatt has written two novels: Funny How Things Change, published in 2009, and Raising the Griffin, published in 2004. Though the books take place in completely different locations - the fictional Rovenia and the very real West Virginia - both books consider the plights of young male protagonists whose lives are about to change in ( Read more... )

Welcome to He Said, She Said, a feature for GuysLitWire in which a guy (Book Chic, a recent college graduate) and a gal (Little Willow, a bookseller), discuss books that will appeal to both genders.

In October, we talked about Poison Ink by Christopher Golden. Then Little Willow got Book Chic to read Soulless, Golden's newest YA novel. We're both ( Read more... )

My recent interviews with Helen Hemphill and Tracie Vaughn Zimmer for GuysLitWire will most likely turn into a series of similar interviews or articles, fueled by my desire to minimize and eliminate gender bias. I wrote about this at length in the piece Just Say No to Gender Bias, I have spoken about it time and time again with my regular customers ( Read more... )