October 2008
Irvington Teachers Times
October 14, 2008
Elementary Student Book Choice of the Month
The Boy Who Wouldn’t Swim
By Deb Lucke
Clarion Books (2008)
Electric, sherbet-y colors, uniquely comic characters, and a story line filled with high comedy mark this fabulous picture book by new talent Deb Lucke. Eric Dooley just won't swim. If sweating in the hot summer sun while everyone else cools off in the pool isn't bad enough, Eric's younger sister is having the time of her life. When he sees her dog-paddling right across the middle of the pool, under his sunblock he's positively green with envy. Not to mention sweaty. And irritated. But after the babies in the wading pool give him dirty looks for invading their territory, Eric finds a way to conquer his fears. And just like that he goes from being the boy who wouldn't swim . . . to being the boy who won't get out of the pool. Not even in October.
Secondary Student Book Choice of the Month
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
By Sonya Sones
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (2005)
272 pages
Young Adult
My name is Ruby.
This book is about me.
It tells the deeply hideous story of what happens when my mother dies and I'm dragged three thousand miles away from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray,
to live in L.A. with my father,
who I've never even met because he's such a scumbag that he divorced my mom before I was born.
The only way I've ever even seen him is in the movies,
since he's this megafamous actor who's been way too busy trying to win Oscars to even visit me once in fifteen years.
Everyone loves my father.
Everyone but me.
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