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Hande özkurtoğlu ozkurtoglu — 4th grade / 5th grade newbery booktalk This Newbery-award winning book begins with a knife. A knife, and two parents, an older sister, and a man named Jack – and a young boy, barely a toddler yet, but not quite a baby anymore. The knife was bloody, and it did what it was told by the man Jack. The father and mother and sister were bloody, and they lay unmoving in their bedrooms because of the man Jack. The man Jack wiped the blood from the knife, and moved toward the boy’s bedroom to finish his job. But the boy, being a curious and climb-y child, was not there. He had climbed out of his crib, wandered out of the front door and up a hill, holding his pacifier and wearing nothing but a nightshirt. The boy toddled up the hill, passing by and past the fence of a graveyard, where inside, a plump, pale woman made of moonlight, mist, and shadow, called to her husband to come and look at the little boy. Mr. and Mrs. Owens looked at the little boy, wondering where his family might be and why on earth he was wandering a graveyard at night alone at his age – and then, they saw a ghost, which stopped them both in their thoughts. The ghost was of the mother – and she screamed up the hill at the Owenses, “My baby! He is trying to harm my baby!” – and then they saw the man Jack working at the locks of the graveyard gate – and they knew what they had to do. And that is now Nobody Owens, the little boy who escaped a knife and the man Jack, came to live in a graveyard with two ghosts, Mr. and Mrs. Owens, for parents. To learn more about the boy Nobody Owens, and the man Jack and his knife, read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

Isaac Sosa _unkel_atze — Awesome illustrations!

Joong Sun designerwee — I won this book in the First Reads program. I really enjoyed this one. It is a sweeping saga of the Kelly family who survives the potato famine in Ireland and makes a new life in Chicago. It is a bleak story at times but one of survival and human triumph as well. I found all the characters to be realistic and I really cared about them, particularly Honora, Michael, and Maire. The horrors of the potato famine and the absolutely inhumane treatment of the Irish by their English landlords were well told, although the author does tug at the heartstrings a bit too much. The book is also full of Irish legends and stories that add a touch of magic and enchantment to the story. I did find the first part of the story that takes place in Ireland to be more engaging than the second half in Chicago, but it was a good read all the way through.

Lodisl Lodisl lodi_sl8625 — This is one of the strangest collections of stories and essays. With an obvious influence from Kafka, Borges shows the absurdity of the world by showing how the accumulation of knowledge creates a puzzle of labyrinthine proportions. All knowledge, all books, are a part of one gigantic "atemporal and anonymous" entity. This thinking is a great influence on Eco, whose labyrinth of a library in "The Name of the Rose" is guarded by "Brother Jorge".

Francesco Forcellini francescoforcellini — Whoa. This book was emotionally draining and yet at the same time, very difficult to stop reading. The main characters are a father and his sixth grade son. I hate to think that the brutality the boy endures by classmates is remotely possible in today's schools, but I imagine it is probably true. The two of them are at a pivotal point in their lives and the reader really doesn't know until the end how they will survive it all. Very good, very sad.