The Librarian Writer

Title: Rose Under Fire Author: Elizabeth Wein Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Publication Date: September 10, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1423183099 368 pp. Reading copy from publisher via NetGalley Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein is a companion novel to Code Name Verity , which was recently named Number One of the Teens' Top Ten 2013 . Rose Under Fire is not a sequel to Code Name Verity . There are characters from Code Name Verity who make small but important appearances, but the novel really belongs to Rose Justice. Rose is an American teenager who transports planes for the British and gets captured by Nazis. She's sent to Ravensbruck, a women's concentration camp, where she meets the Polish Rabbits, a group of girls who were used for medical experiments. It's near the end of the war, but that makes everything just a little more desperate. When the enemy knows they're losing, how many can they take down with them? Rose Under Fire is a much more traditio...

I hope you're excited for the announcement of the Teens' Top Ten during the week of October 21st! There were 28 nominees this year and I promoted them with displays and bookmarks at my library. These are proven teen-approved titles that make Readers' Advisory easy-peasy. Many of the titles are part of series, so you can hook a voracious reader with the promise of more awesome books. I haven't gotten to all of the nominees, but you can check out my reviews of Butter , Code Name Verity , Of Poseidon , and The Raven Boys . All of the Teens' Top Ten nominees are included here:

Title: Life After Life Author: Kate Atkinson Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar Publisher: Reagan Arthur Books Publication Date: April 2, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1619696969 Listening copy via local library The thing to remember with Life After Life by Kate Atkinson is that it is a character driven story, not plot driven. Don't expect the traditional three-act structure of beginning, middle, and end. Don't expect linear storytelling where plot point A leads to plot point B. Because that's not what Life After Life is about. Life After Life is the story of Ursula Todd, a girl born during a snow storm in 1910 England, only to die and live and die again. And again. And again. Ad infinitum. But this isn't reincarnation where she comes back as other people. She always comes back as Ursula Todd, a girl born during a snow storm in 1910 England. But Life After Life is really about choices. Random choices that haunt us, deliberate choices that don't succeed, cho...