BOOKENDS: Fly On The Wall
Fly on the Wall by E. Lockhart
audiobook read by Caitlin Greer
To Gretchen Yee boys are alien beings -- she just can't understand them. Everyone at her arts school is working so hard to be "different" and Gretchen just feels ordinary. And when her best friend starts hanging out with the art geeks and her parents announce they're getting divorced, she feels lonely and lost. She wishes she could be a fly on the wall in the boys' locker room, so she could really start to understand them -- and finally work up the courage to talk to to Titus, her crush. And then one Saturday morning, she wakes up and she is a fly on the wall -- in the boys' locker room...!
This is another in my attempts to find audiobooks I like and can listen to -- and it was a fun "read." Truly, who hasn't, at some point in their life, wanted to be a fly in the wall to hear and see what's going on in someone else's life? There are parts of this book that don't lend themselves to audio particularly well, but if you forget about those and don't mind the swearing (lots of f-words flying around) and the sex talk (she's a teen girl in the boys' locker room, after all), it's a pretty funny story.
Y COMPACT DISC FICTION Lockhart

Labels: audiobooks, book trailers, books for girls, school

~emily - 11:46 AM~
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HIPPO GNU DEER!!!

PROJECT 17 BOOK TRAILER
Project 17 is a new book by Laurie Stolarz (who wrote the Blue is for Nightmares series of books) that takes place at the former state hospital in Danvers, MA. Watch the trailer -- see what you think....

Labels: book news, book trailers

~emily - 12:16 AM~
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BOOK TRAILER -- KING DORK
King Dork by Frank Portman. There's not much more to be said than this:

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~emily - 11:20 AM~
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MORE BOOK TRAILERS
There appear to be over 8,000 book trailers on YouTube -- that's a TON!
After a tip from a publishing friend of mine about a trailer for the upcoming book Hallowmere, I decided to grab some trailers to add to my fantasy wiki -- specifically those book trailers that have a pseudo-official stamp of approval — i.e., they were posted by publishers, authors, contest officials, etcetera. You can see the few that I've found so far on the book trailers page of the wiki -- enjoy!

Labels: book trailers, fantasy books

~emily - 3:45 PM~
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MOST DANGEROUS
There's a new book out there -- one of the most dangerous yet -- The Dangerous Book for Boys. It's certain to be a classic that every household should have. It covers everything from building the perfect paper airplane, learning the NATO phonetic alphabet, writing in secret codes, building a tree house, making paper water bombs -- and so much more. There's so much, in fact, that there are even a few YouTube videos previewing the book. Take a look: Part Deux and the Original.
We do own it -- check the catalog for its status.

Labels: book trailers, books for boys

~emily - 3:04 PM~
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TEEN BOOK VIDEOS
Thanks to a tip from a myspace friend....

Expanded Books is streaming "trailers" of some of the current popular teen titles -- videos from a Teen Book Video contest.
Find the 2006 Teen Book Video Awards on the events page of the Book Standard or watch them on their own pages:
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

It's a great idea, making trailers for books -- what do you think?
These are great -- great vids for great books -- watch and enjoy! I can't wait to see what comes next....

Labels: book trailers, links

~emily - 10:10 AM~
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