Cobra Readers Agenda

February 10, 2012

 

I.                    Now Reading:

a.     Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce (available for checkout)

b.     Book Discussion:  Friday, February 24th during lunch

                                                              i.      The Nogues sisters will be leading the discussion!!

c.      Please bring a snack to share!

                                                              i.      Should I order pizza to sell?

d.     Our next book will be voted on and purchased. Submit book recommendations to Ms. Stafford in person or by email.

 

II.                  Operation Paperback Update

 

III.              Author Visit:

a.     Author Alex Flinn

b.     February 25th, 7pm Books and Books, Coral Gables

c.      She will be promoting her new book Bewitching.

d.     Other books by Alex Flinn:

                                                              i.      Beastly, Breaking Point, Breathing Underwater, Fade to Black, A Kiss in Time,  and Nothing to Lose

 

IV.              New Movie:  The Hunger Games

a.     Premieres Friday, March 23rd

                                                              i.      Put it on your calendars!

                                                            ii.      We enjoyed Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close on the last Early Release Day, but it was very sparsely attended.

 

V.                Candy Fundraiser—to fund our next books(s)

a.      All members required to sell at least one box

                                                              i.      Thanks to those members who have already sold a box!

                                                            ii.      Please turn in your money today if you have already taken a box.

b.     We will have our next load to sell on Monday.  If you haven’t sold a box yet, please pick one up on Monday. If you have already sold and would be willing to sell again, we appreciate it!!

 

VI.              Next Meeting:  Friday, February 24th book discussion.

VII.           Next Regular Meeting: Wednesday, March 21

 

 

 

 

 

From the Publisher: Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn't. I go to a new school now-one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I'm not still here because I'm stupid; I just don't age. You see, I'm immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years-except for when to take my powers and butt out. I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal, remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the Titanic lifeboat? I don't even want to think about it. Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn't get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I think I have just the thing to fix that girl-and it isn't an enchanted pumpkin. Although you never know what will happen when I start . . . bewitching.

Full-Text Reviews

Booklist (January 1, 2012 (Vol. 108, No. 9))

Grades 8-11. Kendra, the witch behind the transformational curse in Beastly (2007), finally has the floor. In 1666, teenage Kendra relates the horror of watching her family die from a plague, halted only when she becomes aware of her own magic and heals her remaining brother. Starving, they set out for a new life and find themselves at a gingerbread house. Sound familiar? Flinn twists more fairy tales into this engaging, time-jumping tale as Kendra reflects on helping—and harming—those around her. The Little Mermaid rescues a Titanic passenger. The Princess and the Pea takes place at Versailles. But the showstopper is a clever spin on Cinderella, the pieces hovering just above the puzzle until they fall brilliantly into place in a satisfying and surprising retelling in contemporary Florida. Kendra’s chatty first-person asides can be jarring next to the larger sections filled with a rich storyteller tone. Regardless, the inventive takes on the traditional will please fans of Flinn and fairy tales alike and leave them eager for Kendra’s next volume.

 

American Library Association’s

Teen’s Top Ten List

Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year!

 


 The Teens' Top Ten is:

1.       Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

2.   City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

3.   Heist Society by Ally Carter

4.   Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

5.   Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

6.   Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

7.   Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

8.   If I Stay by Gayle Forman

9.   Fire by Kristin Cashore

10.       Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson