An abundance of STABcasts.

Jennifer, our STABcaster this week, has chosen to review the 2007 Printz honor book An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. It also appears on the 2007 Best Books for Young Adults list.



An Abundance of Katherines is availabe on CD as well as in your traditinal codex format. As opposed to, like, a scroll.

John Green is also the author of the 2006 Printz Award winning book, Looking for Alaska, which we have on CD, EAdudio, in Spanish as well as a good old fashioned book.

Also, Unshelved highlighted An Abundance of Katherines on their Unshelved Book Club.

Fun fact about John Green: I've had the pleasure of dining with him and have also chatted with him on a number of occasions and he is a heck of a nice guy. I talked with him last year in New Orleans when he spoke a the Printz reception. He had a nasty case of the flu and could barely stand. But, due to his illness, no one would go near him so I had him to myself practically the whole night. He probably doesn't remember this interaction, but he promised me that his next book would be dedicated to me. At least, that is the way I remember it.

Just in case you haven't been keeping up, this is our 7th STABcast. And, coincidentally, Just in case by Meg Rossoff is the book that this week's STABcaster, Jennifer, has chosen to review.



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Just in case is available from the King County Library System.

Fun fact: Meg Rossoff won the Printz award in 2005 for her book How we live now, which we have in Large Print, on CD, Tape and as EAudio to download.

Another fun fact: She also has a great picture book titled Meet the Wild Boars which discusses how difficult it can be to be friends to a pack of four wild boars named Hoarace, Boris, Doris and Morris.

Our STABcast this week is of the creepy What happened to Cass McBride? by Gail Giles. This book is espcially for fans of CSI and shows of that type.

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Our STABcaster, Leslie, even discussed this particular book at ALA when it was in Seattle which no doubt had a great deal with it making the Best Book for Young Adults 2007 list.

A new STABcast.

Our STABcaster, Jennifer, chose 2007 Printz Award winning book American Born Chinese by Gene Yang to review this week.



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You can place a hold, read reviews and look at the cover of American Born Chinese from our catalog.

STABcast of the week!

This week, Molly STABcasts Scott Westerfeld's The Midnighters: Volume 1, The secret hour.



This is a first book in the Midnighters trilogoy . The trilogy also includes Touching Darkness and Blue Noon.

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This week's STABcast

Our STABcast this week is Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill.

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Cry of the Icemark is available from KCLS in audio, large print, as a traditional book and also as an enhanced book (which includes a CD-ROM with maps, timelines and an author interview).

On a personal note, Cry of the Icemark was my favorite fantasy novel of 2005. Nonetheless, this review was not coerced from Jackie. (Though I probably would have paid her to give the book a favorable review.) In fact, this is all the payment Jackie will receive: Thanks for the review!

Our newest STABcast!

Our STABcast this week is a review of The Silver Donkey by Sonya Harnett .


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Thanks, Chelsea, for providing the review.

Our first STABcast!

Hopefully this will be our first of many STABcasts! What is a STABcast you ask? A STABcast is podcast book review preformed by members of the Shoreline Teen Advisory Board.

This week we are happy to have Leslie review The astonishing life of Octavian Nothing, traitor to the nation ; v. 1 The Pox party taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources ; collected by M.T. Anderson of Boston by M.T. Anderson.



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This book is also available on audio.

Fun fact- Octavian Nothing won a Printz Honor this year.

Another fun fact-this is the longest title of any book. Ever. Probably.