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New Book: Five Flavors of Dumb

Five Flavors of Dumb
By Antony John

 

The Challenge: Piper has one month to get the rock band Dumb a paying gig.

The Deal: If she does it, Piper will become the band's manager and get her share of the profits.

The Catch: How can Piper possibly manage one egomaniacal pretty boy, one talentless piece of eye candy, one crush, one silent rocker, and one angry girl? And how can she do it when she's deaf?

Piper can't hear Dumb's music, but with growing self-confidence, a budding romance, and a new understanding of the decision her family made to buy a cochlear implant for her deaf baby sister, she discovers her own inner rock star and what it truly means to be a flavor of Dumb.

I really enjoyed this book. Its amusing and entertaining. Its written very clearly with no hidden meanings or “themes” like other suggested readings for English.
The relationships that are formed in the book are very relatable. I am sure we all know the stereo typical people in this book (hence the five flavors). And the dynamics with Piper and her family are so spot on I feel like I know them.
If you like music, rock/punk history, playing an instrument or just like a Good light read, pick up this book from the library.

 

Read more Here:
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New Book: If I Stay

In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces - to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make.

Read more at: http://thecoffeetable.typepad.com/coffeetables_readings/if-i-stay-by-gayle-foreman-ya.html

New Book: The Goddess of Yesterday

Anaxander is the daughter of the king of a tiny Greek island. As a child she is taken as a hostage to the island of King Nicander. When she is 13, marauding pirates sack the palace, killing everyone but her. Anaxander frightens them off by pretending to be the goddess Medusa, with the help of an octopus as a hairdo. When she is rescued by the ships of King Menalaus, she assumes the identity of a princess, Nicander's daughter, and becomes a royal guest. When Menalaus's cold and vain wife, Helen, runs off to Troy with her lover, Paris, Anaxander goes along to protect Helen's baby son. Within the walls of Troy, she is torn with conflicting loyalties as the bronze-clad warriors of Menalaus land their ships on the plains below the city and war is imminent.

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