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April 21, 2015

EARLY DECISION --- Putting College in a Different Perspective

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By Alison Stewart
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There are few things that elicit more dread in a high school student's mind than the words "college applications." The agonizing decisions of where to apply, the endless streams of essays asking you to describe every last particle of your accomplishments and your character and confusing financial aid forms.  Teen Board member (and high school junior) Alison S. can relate --- and for this reason, decided to read the adult satire EARLY DECISION for a little bit of light-hearted fare on a semi-daunting topic. However, the book turned out to be a bit different than she expected. Read her thoughts below --- and if you're just starting the college application process, you might decide to pick it up for yourself!
April 21, 2015

EARLY DECISION --- Putting College in a Different Perspective

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By Alison Stewart
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There are few things that elicit more dread in a high school student's mind than the words "college applications." The agonizing decisions of where to apply, the endless streams of essays asking you to describe every last particle of your accomplishments and your character and confusing financial aid forms.  Teen Board member (and high school junior) Alison S. can relate --- and for this reason, decided to read the adult satire EARLY DECISION for a little bit of light-hearted fare on a semi-daunting topic. However, the book turned out to be a bit different than she expected. Read her thoughts below --- and if you're just starting the college application process, you might decide to pick it up for yourself!

April 21, 2015

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that releases on May 5th. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Wednesday, April 22nd at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE DAYLIGHT MARRIAGE by Heidi Pitlor. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Lin Yutang

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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April 20, 2015

BigWow! Comicfest a Colorful Success

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By Doré Ripley
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On a spectacular spring day in northern California, cosplayers, children, gamers and even a few Golden State Warrior fans lined up outside the San Jose Convention Center anxiously waiting for the doors to open at BigWow! Comicfest.

Beth Kephart, author of One Thing Stolen

Something is not right with Nadia Cara. While spending a year in Florence, Italy, she's become a thief. She has secrets. And when she tries to speak, the words seem far away. Nadia finds herself trapped by her own obsessions and following the trail of an elusive Italian boy whom only she has seen. Can Nadia be rescued or will she simply lose herself altogether?
 

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April 20, 2015

The Photo That Inspired it All --- Guest Post by GAME SEVEN author Paul Volponi

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By Paul Volponi
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Books can be inspired by anything --- a snippet of a conversation overheard on the subway, a dream or a trip to a foreign country. For Paul Volponi it was a photo --- specifically, a photo of a 1959 Buick floating into Key West, Florida. Read below to learn the story of the photo and how it translated into his newest book, GAME SEVEN!

Paul Volponi

Paul Volponi is a writer, teacher and journalist living in New York City. From 1992-1998, he taught incarcerated teens on Rikers Island to read and write. That experience formed the basis of his ALA Award-winning novels RIKERS HIGH and BLACK AND WHITE. From 1999-2005, Paul taught teens in drug treatment programs, inspiring his ALA Award-winning novel ROOFTOP. As a journalist, Paul covers the sport of Thoroughbred racing for the national publication The Blood-Horse.

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Evan Esar

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. 

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Finding Me by Kathryn Cushman

All her life, Kelli Huddleston has been told the story of a fire --- a fire that killed her mother and two siblings when she was an infant. After her father's death, though, she uncovers evidence of a different story, including clippings about a boat accident that killed a young father and his infant daughter. And Kelli quietly realizes that the story of her life has been made up. When a trip to Tennessee to uncover the truth threatens to open doors to a past better left shut, and her plans for the future are jeopardized, Kelli is faced with an agonizing choice that will change her life forever.

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