Thursday 26 February 2015

PAGE TURNERS- BOOK CHOICE #3 is DOROTHY MUST DIE BY DANIELLE PAIGE

After a very quick discussion, we all agreed that Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige sounded so good, we had to read it! Please read the description below and consider joining our club! We are always welcoming new members!

I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.
But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado - taking you with it - you have no choice but to go along, you know? Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little bluebirds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still a yellow brick road - but even that's crumbling.
What happened? Dorothy.
They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.
My name is Amy Gumm - and I'm the other girl from Kansas.
I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.
I've been trained to fight.
And I have a mission. (goodreads).

Tuesday 3 February 2015

FEBRUARY- 2 BOOKS OF THE MONTH! THE GARGOYLE & THE BOOK OF NEGROES!

Hello Spartans! For February I wanted to celebrate the love with Valentine's Day, but also honour and acknowledge Black History Month. I decided to make The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson the Valentine's book of the month, and Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill the book honouring Black History Month. To learn more about each book read on!

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As the story opens, the narrator of The Gargoyle is burned almost beyond recognition in a car accident. Filled with self-hatred and depression he is ready to take his own life, when a beautiful women enters his room. Her name is Marianne Engel and she tells him she's know him for several hundred years. Marianne weaves the story of their lives together, and intertwines it with other mesmerizing and beautiful love stories from Japan, Iceland, Italy and England. She carves gargoyles out of stone for a living, and slowly nurses her own "gargoyle" back to health, but god has told her she only has 27 sculptures left to create, and what will happen then.....? (Andrew Davidson is a Canadian author, and this is his first novel- what an accomplishment!!!)

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Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle—a string of slaves— Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way to freedom, serving the British in the Revolutionary War and registering her name in the historic “Book of Negroes.” This book, an actual document, provides a short but immensely revealing record of freed Loyalist slaves who requested permission to leave the US for resettlement in Nova Scotia. (amazon.ca)

Both our authors for the month of February are Canadian! How cool is that?!

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