Today's podcast 07/02/2013

• Aguirre, Ann. ENCLAVE

  Aguirre, Ann. ENCLAVE New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2011 IL YA ISBN 0312650086 Deuce is a huntress trainee beneath the ruins of the old New York City. She is proud of the role she is earning as protector and food provider for her enclave, and is a loyal member of her society. So she is surprised, and disappointed, when she is assigned to work with Fade. He’s an outsider who has never learned to fit in. However, as she works with him, she learns to respect him and to question what she has always understood as benevolent control. When they return from a harrowing patrol to report an enclave destroyed and unusual behavior by the predatory zombie-like Freaks, instead of being praised for their bravery, and valued for their warning, they end up being exiled which pretty much means death.Fade once lived topside, so they go up. This world is unfamiliar, and dangerous. Deuce has to learn on the fly who can be trusted and how to deal with those who can’t. As she does she longs to help friends who whom she now feels are trapped in Enclave. This story gets pretty rough in places, including a topside girl who had been raped. It also poses some good questions about the balance of law and freedom. (Booktalk by the Isinglass Award Committee)

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• Airgood, Ellen. PRAIRIE EVERS

  Airgood, Ellen. PRAIRIE EVERS New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012 IL 3-6, RL 3.1 ISBN 0399256911 Suddenly, you aren’t in Kansas anymore…. Well not in North Carolina at least. Ten year old Prairie Evers finds herself uprooted from the home she has know all her lif*e. Her mom has inherited the family farm. As her parents and Grammy try to re-root in upstate New York, Prairie’s life is about to change forever. Prairie delves into farm life by raising little chicks, and continues her homeschooling with Grammy. Like a tornado, all breaks loose in Prairie’s life. Grammy decides to return to North Carolina, Mom takes a job and Dad is busy with his woodwork. Terrified, Prairie finds herself enrolled in the local school. Never has she been around so many kids and chaos. How will Prairie survive? Will she fit in? What about friends? Join Prairie on her journey of loss, discovery, friendship and sharing. (Booktalk by Catherine Ryan, GSF Committee )

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