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I'm a librarian, a singer, a cosplayer, an overachiever... @cosbrarian on most platforms. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Cosbrarian's Quick Questions interview.)

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“They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.”

Nyxia by Reintgen, Scott

May 15, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Emmett Atwater is one of ten disadvantaged teens who have been recruited by super-corporation Babel for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: To travel into deep space to newly discovered planet Eden and mine its incredibly versatile and valuable material: Nyxia, an element that has seemingly endless possibilities (it can be manipulated into weapons, into a power source, into smoke, and much more).  Eden is inhabited, and Babel’s first mission there was deadly – the inhabitants of Eden (humanoid aliens) slaughtered most of an Earth crew, except for […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, deep space, diverse books, nyxia trilogy, scott reintgen, series opener, trilogy, we need diverse books, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:31 · Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, deep space, diverse books, nyxia trilogy, scott reintgen, series opener, trilogy, we need diverse books, YA, Young Adult ·
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It’s like you’re a mirror/my mirror staring back at me/oooooh!

Otherbound by Duyvis, Corrine

May 14, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

(Blame “It’s Gonna Be May” on my Timberlake quote) Nolan Santiago suffers from frequent blackouts. His family has been desperate to find the medication that will ease his daily and frequent epileptic fits. But the reason nothing is working is because Nolan isn’t having fits. When Nolan closes his eyes – even when he merely blinks – he is in another world, and in another life. Amara has been a servant on the run for most of her life. She was pulled from the palace […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: bisexual character, corrine duyvis, Disability, diverse books, dual narration, dual narrative, YA, Young Adult

Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: bisexual character, corrine duyvis, Disability, diverse books, dual narration, dual narrative, YA, Young Adult ·
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The pecan doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The Lying Woods by Elston, Ashley

May 13, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

The Lying Woods is a quiet YA mystery surrounding a family scandal. Owen has just been pulled out of his fancy boarding school upon the news that his father has left town,  taking with him millions of embezzled funds from the fracking company he runs. The company employed most of Owen’s small town, so when Owen is forced to return home and enroll in the public school, he doesn’t have any friends left there – as far as they’re concerned, Owen’s cushy life was lived […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: ashley elston, dual narrative, dual timelines, family drama, family scandal, Louisiana, mystery, YA, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:29 · Genres: Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: ashley elston, dual narrative, dual timelines, family drama, family scandal, Louisiana, mystery, YA, Young Adult ·
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“There could be love.”

The Giver (Graphic Novel) by Lowry, Lois; Russell, P. Craig

May 12, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

I read The Giver for my sixth grade language arts class.  Sixth grade is apparently the year that our school decided we were ready to be ruined by literature. Between this, Bridge to Terebithia, and Where the Red Fern Grows, I don’t know how I had the will to read anymore. I guess that’s the amazing thing about well-written literature. It rips your heart in two and yet you keep going back for more! If you are one of the few people who haven’t visited this […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Children's, Comics, Graphic Novel, Lois Lowry, middle grade, p. craig Russell, Young Adult

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:28 · Genres: Children's Books, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Children's, Comics, Graphic Novel, Lois Lowry, middle grade, p. craig Russell, Young Adult ·
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“We should teach our girls that snapping is ok, instead of waiting for someone else to break them.”

Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson

April 26, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

I only learned that Laurie Halse Anderson wrote her modern classic and much challenged novel Speak in response to her own rape as a young teen. But where Melinda came to art to find her voice, Anderson came to writing. Anderson writes in verse that runs the gambit of emotion and holds no punches.  It is a memoir of her full life, opening with a reflection on her father, whose severe PTSD sets the tone for her complicated home (later reflected in her YA fiction The […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Poetry Tagged With: #memoir, autobiography, censorship, Laurie Halse Anderson, poetry, rape culture, verse

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:27 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Poetry · Tags: #memoir, autobiography, censorship, Laurie Halse Anderson, poetry, rape culture, verse ·
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“I like stories where women save themselves.”

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

April 24, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Gaiman smushes the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty together in this gorgeously illustrated novella.  The setting of the book is sometime after Snow White is awakened from her coffin and at the 100 year mark after Sleeping Beauty’s curse set in. But the stakes are raised when the sleeping sickness that has fallen on the princess and her kingdom is spreading out further and further as the curse lingers.  Several of the dwarves bring this to their queen, and conveniently she is looking […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: chris riddell, Fairy Tales, Grimm, illustrated, Neil Gaiman, novella, princesses, Quick read, short book, sleeping beauty, Snow White, strong female protagonist, twisted tales, warrior princesses

cosbrarian's CBR11 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: chris riddell, Fairy Tales, Grimm, illustrated, Neil Gaiman, novella, princesses, Quick read, short book, sleeping beauty, Snow White, strong female protagonist, twisted tales, warrior princesses ·
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