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Kimberley's Book Buzz is Back for 2012-2013!
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Welcome Back to Book
Buzz! October is always our "welcome back" month since SPELLBINDERS
takes June - September off for summer vacation. We have readers from
coast to coast and school begins anywhere from the end of July through
mid-September.
As much as I love the
Fall colors, the cooler weather and crisp gorgeous mornings, it takes me
awhile to get out of summer mode.
So . . . I give you a few
of my favorite Summer Reads! Hopefully, you got a chance to relax this
past summer and read, read, read, whether you were at the beach, in a
car headed out to a great vacation, or relaxing at home.
Picture Book Titles:
I KNOW A WEE PIGGY by Kim Norman
 A clever, colorful read-aloud in the tradition of I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. A
fun day at the fair becomes color chaos when one boy's energetic pig
gets loose. Upside down, piggy wallows in brown, but that's only the
beginning of this cumulative, rhyming text. Soon, he's adding a rinse of
red (tomatoes), a wash of white (milk), a pinch of pink (cotton candy),
and many more. Can piggy be caught before he turns the whole fair
upside down? With exuberant art by Henry Cole, this wild pig chase is a natural choice for teaching colors and begs to be read aloud.
PAJAMA TIME! by Sandra Boynton
Here is a good-night book with the irrepressible language, the
inimitable illustrations, the irresistible cast of characters only
Sandra Boynton could create. A jump-roping chicken and a pig on a
swing. A Scottie in plaid pajamas and an elephant in a fuzzy one-piece
with feet. And in sing-along nuttiness reminiscent of Barnyard Dance!,
it's time to head to bed-to the beat: Pajammy to the left. Pajammy to
the right. Jamma jamma jamma jamma P!J! Everybody's wearing them for
dancing tonight. Jamma jamma jamma jamma P!J!
Middle-Grade Titles:
THE FALSE PRINCE by Jennifer A. Nielsen
A thrilling first book in a brand-new trilogy filled with danger and
deceit and hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly
to the end. In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To
unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a
cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and
install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete
for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that
Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a
sword's point -- he must be chosen to play the prince or he will
certainly be killed. But Sage's rivals have their own agendas as well.
LEISL AND PO by Lauren Oliver
Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel
stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and the mice-until one
night a ghost named Po appears from the darkness.
That same evening, an
alchemist's apprentice named Will makes an innocent mistake that has
tremendous consequences for Liesl and Po, and it draws the three of them
together on an extraordinary journey.
From New York Times
bestselling author Lauren Oliver comes a luminous novel that glows with
rare magic, ghostly wonders, and a true friendship that lights even the
darkest of places.
BREAKING STALIN'S NOSE by Eugene Yelchin
 Newbery Honor Book for 2012
Horn Book's Best Fiction of 2011
Sasha
Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of
six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist
Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always
acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize
shortcomings.
But now that it is finally time to join
the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything
seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He
accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst
of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last
night.
Young Adult Titles:
SKYLARK by Meagan Spooner
 In magic there is power, and in power, life. For
fifteen years, Lark Ainsley waited for the day when her Resource would
be harvested and she would finally be an adult. After the harvest she
expected a small role in the regular, orderly operation of the City
within the Wall. She expected to do her part to maintain the refuge for
the last survivors of the Wars. She expected to be a tiny cog in the
larger clockwork of the city. Lark did not expect to become the City's power supply.
SMALL DAMAGES By Beth Kephart
It's senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom
and starting college in the fall, she discovers she's pregnant. Her
determination to keep her baby is something her boyfriend and mother do
not understand. So she is sent to Spain, where she will live out her
pregnancy, and her baby will be adopted by a Spanish couple. No one will
ever know.
Alone and resentful in a foreign country, Kenzie is
at first sullen and difficult. But as she gets to know Estela, the
stubborn old cook, and Esteban, the mysterious young man who cares for
the horses, she begins to open her eyes, and her heart, to the beauty
that is all around her, and inside her. Kenzie realizes she has some
serious choices to make--choices about life, love, and home.
Lyrically
told in a way that makes the heat, the colors, and the smells of Spain
feel alive, Small Damages is a feast for the heart and the soul, and a
coming-of-age novel not easily forgotten.
DON'T TURN AROUND by Michelle Gagnon
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her
parents died. Now living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her
computer-hacking skills to stay safely anonymous and alone. But when she
wakes up on a table in an empty warehouse with an IV in her arm and no
memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her
side.
Enter Peter Gregory. A
rich kid and the leader of a hacker alliance, Peter needs people with
Noa's talents on his team. Especially after a shady corporation called
AMRF threatens his life in no uncertain terms.
But what Noa and Peter
don't realize is that Noa holds the key to a terrible secret, and there
are those who'd stop at nothing to silence her for good.
~Happy Reading from Kimberley!~
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Kimberley
Griffiths Little is the recipient of the Southwest Book Award, The
Whitney Award for Best Youth Novel of 2010, and the author of the highly
acclaimed, The Healing Spell and Circle of Secrets, published by Scholastic Press. Look for her books at the Scholastic Book Fairs, as well 
as two more forthcoming novels in
2012 and 2013. She lives on a dirt road in a small town by the Rio
Grande with her husband, a robotics engineer and their three sons.
Kimberley is a favorite speaker at schools around the country,
presenting "The Creative Diary", a highly successful writing
workshop and has been a speaker at many conferences. Please
to download free Teacher's Guides and Book Club Guides.
Carolee
Dean has made numerous appearances as a guest poet/author at schools,
libraries, poetry events, and teacher/library conferences. She holds a
bachelor's degree in music therapy and a master's degree in
communicative disorders, and she has spent over a decade working in the
public schools as a  speech-language
pathologist. Her first novel, Comfort,was nominated as a Best Book for
Young Adults, was named the Best YA Novel of 2002 by the Texas Institute
of Letters, and was on the TAYSHAS (Texas Library Association) reading
list. She conducts teacher trainings on inspiring reluctant writers
including "The Secret Language of Stories" and "Random  Acts of Haiku."
To find teacher's guides, writing activities, and information about author visits, go to www.caroleedean.com.
Caroline Starr Rose spent her
childhood in the deserts of Saudi Arabia and New Mexico, camping at the
Red Sea in one and eating red chile in the other. She's taught English
and social studies to upper elementary and middle-school students in New
Mexico, Florida, Virginia, and Louisiana. Back in New
Mexico, Caroline now writes middle-grade novels and picture books full time.
UPCOMING AUTHOR EVENTS
October 27, 2012
6-7 p.m.
FORGET ME NOT BOOK LAUNCH
Alamosa Books
Albuquerque, NM
November 3, 2012
YALSA Literature Symposium
"Author Research Panel"
Carolee Dean
and four other authors
St. Louis, Missouri
February 2, 2013
Montgomery Teen Book Festival
Carolee Dean
Kimberley Griffiths Little
Houston, TX
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