Stacking the Shelves (58)

After the long list of new books I posted this week, I don't have quite as many to talk about. I did receive a new review book courtesy of the Library Early Reviewers program. And I took a couple of more Mid-grade and Young Adult books from the library hoping that I could read them fairly fast and hit my goal of 200 books for 2015.

From the library:

Betsy Byars is the author of many books for kids. The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown is the first in a series featuring an average sixth grader (named Bingo Brown, duh) who is asking many of the questions that young teens consider, including "How do I avoid the school bully?" Written in the late 1980s, the questions are still pertinent today.

One of my favorite authors of YA fiction is Jane Yolen. Cards of Grief is her award-winning story about an alien civilization and its encounter with human anthropologists who land on their planet and proceed to observe the native population. But some of the scientists do more than observe—they get involved and the culture is changed forever.

To complete the Eclectic Book Challenge which I entered into this year, I need to read a “sports book”. So I selected Gold Dust by Chris Lynch. Seventh grader Richard has hopes of turning himself and the new kid in school into the best baseball players since the Red Sox rookies from 1975 known as the Gold Dust Twins.

For review:

Yep. In the future we can anticipate repossession of star ships just like the cars and trucks of today. I was given a copy of Michael Prelee's debut novel, Milky Way Repo through the LibraryThing Early Readers program. The blurb describes it as “blue collar sci-fi”—sounds pretty good to me. Watch for a review in the next couple of weeks.

 

How about you? Any new books? You're invited to tell us all about it by joining the fun at Stacking the Shelves. According to the reviewers at Tynga's Reviews who host the meme:

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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