DJ Fiction Book's: March 2009

Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Fallen Angels

This is about the Vietnam War in a first-person perspective of Richard Perry. He needed the money so he joined up for the army. After his first battle he already lost a person he'd knew. He knows that most likely will not get out of Vietnam alive. He made friends and all of them hope to get out of here alive.

Author: Walter Dean Myers. Genre: Historical Fiction and War. Publisher: Scholastic Reading Level Grade: Grade 8 and up for strong language, intense violence, blood and gore and some mature relevance.

Awards: Coretta Scott King Award Winner, ALA Best Book for young adults. A Booklist Editors' Choice and A School Library Journal Best Book.

Reviews:

"Walter Dean Myers's book about the Vietnam War fills a tremendous void...[Myers] is at his best here." -The Boston Sunday Globe

"Excellent...Makes the readers feel they are there, deep in the heart of war." -The San Diego Union

"This gut-twisting Vietnam War novel breaks uncharted ground...Myers does an outstanding job of re-creating the theater of war." -Booklist, starred review

"Heartbreaking...Other authors hAVe gotten the details right, but Myers reaches into the minds of the soldiers...Readers, including those born after the fall of Saigon...will reel from the human consequences of battler." -Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A complex book that stays with the reader in vivd images." -The New Advocate

"Everything about this book rings true...Excellent reading." - Voice of Youth Advocates

"Among the best of the post-Veitnam books." -Journal of Youth Services in Libraries

"A tough book... a vivid story." -The Bulletin of the Center of Children's Books

"War-story fans will find enough action here, though it isn't glorudfied...Readers will be haunted." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"A riveting account of the Vietnam War." -School Library Journal, starred review

"The best Vietnam War novel of all time!" -Me (This is my review).

Friday, 6 March 2009

Eragon

Eragon has been made into a movie as you can see for the 4 pictures above. This story is about a young farmer named Eragon who lived with Roran and his uncle. Later he found an egg and found that it was a dragon when it hatched. The story goes on how that he became a dragonrider and his dragon Saphira was being hunted by evil men. Genre: Fantasy Author: Christopher Paolini Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Reading Grade Level: Grade 6 and up

Reviews
"[A] solid, sweeping epic fantasy…" -- Kirkus Reviews

A #1 New York Times Bestseller

2004 Book Sense Book of the Year

A USA Today Bestseller

A #1 Publishers Weekly Bestseller

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

A Book Sense Bestseller

“Full praise to Eragon, and I want more! A winner . . . tip of the hat to young master Paolini.”—Anne McCaffrey, author of The Dragonriders of Pern series

“Christopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.”—People

“An authentic work of great talent . . . I found myself dreaming about it at night, and reaching for it as soon as I woke.” ─Liz Rosenberg, The New York Times Book Review

“Unusual, powerful . . . fresh and fluid. An impressive start to a writing career that’s sure to flourish.” —Booklist, Starred

“An auspicious beginning to both career and series.”—Publishers Weekly

“Will appeal to legions of readers who have been captivated by the Lord of the Rings trilogy.”—School Library Journal

"One of the best Fantasy book of all time." -My review :-)

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Caroline Funke was born December 10, 1958, in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia. She is a multiple award-winning German author of children's fiction. Funke is best known for her Inkworld trilogy, with the English translation of the third book, Inkdeath, released on October 6, 2008. The Inkworld books have gained a variety of attention, and critics have praised Funke as the "German J. K. Rowling" Her books are very popular in her native country, and many have now been translated into English. Her work fits mainly into the fantasy and adventure genres. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.Cornelia Funke was born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten to Karl-Heinz and Helmi Funke. As a child, she wanted to become an astronaut and or a pilot, but then decided to study pedagogy at the University of Hamburg. After finishing her studies, Funke worked for three years as a social worker, focusing on children with a deprived background. She had a stint illustrating books, but soon began writing her own stories, inspired by the sorts of stories that had appealed to the deprived children she had worked with. During the late 1980s and the 1990s, Funke established herself in Germany with two children's series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books. Her international breakthrough came with the fantasy novel Dragon Rider (1996), which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 weeks, and was continued with The Thief Lord (2000, translated into English in 2002), which immediately climbed to the #2 position of the New York Times bestseller list, stayed there for 19 weeks and sold 1.5 million copies. Her follow-up novel was Inkheart (2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which was continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Funke her second BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award (2006). As a testament to her growing importance, Time magazine listed Funke as one of the "100 most influential people of 2005", calling her the "German J. K. Rowling" and praised her work as a mix of "(underrated) prose, moody, unpredictable characters and the instinctive feel of her plots, which are happily devoid of emotional manipulation". The trilogy was finally concluded in Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, English version Spring 2008, American version Fall 2008). Check out her website at www.corneliafunkefans.com/.

Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer (born: 14 May 1965) is an Irish author of children's books and a comedian. He is most famous as the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also achieved success with other books. His novels have been compared to those of J. K. Rowling, and like Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl is used as a reference to describe the work of other writers e.g. Jack Heath and Mark Walden. In September, 2008, Colfer was commissioned to write the sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, entitled And Another Thing....

Eoin Colfer (pronounced "Owen" Colfer) was born in Wexford, Ireland. He attained worldwide notice in 2002, when his first Artemis Fowl book was published. He then became a New York Times best-selling author of books for children and teens, known for writing the Artemis Fowl series, Half Moon Investigations, and The Supernaturalist, along with the Eoin Colfer’s The Legend of... books. In January 2008, Colfer published a book titled Airman, which was a New York Times bestseller.

Colfer currently resides in Wexford, Ireland with his wife, Jackie, and two children, Seán and Finn.

Reviews

"A new thriller fairy tale that will grab your interest, no matter your age." -- Liz Smith, The New York Post

"Action-packed, it's perfect for long, lazy summer days." -- Family Life magazine

"Artemis Fowl is pacy, playful, and very funny, an inventive mix of myth and modernity, magic and crime." -- Time.com

"Colfer has done enormously, explosively well." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Hilarious and exciting story." -- Denver Post

"It's smart, it's funny, and even contains some nuggets of wisdom about the human condition." -- Buffalo News

"Kids absolutely love it." -- Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America

"Savagely funny page-turner." -- Kirkus Reviews --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Check out his website at www.eoincolfer.com

Roland Smith

Roland Smith (b. November 30, 1951 in Portland, Oregon) is an American author of young adult fiction as well as nonfiction books for children.

Smith graduated from Portland State University and, following a part-time job at the Oregon Zoo in Portland, began a 20-year career as a zookeeper, both at the Oregon Zoo and the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Washington. After working to save wildlife following the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in 1990, he published his first book, Sea Otter Rescue, a non-fiction account of the process of animal rescue. Smith continued to draw upon his zoo experiences for other non-fiction titles, including Journey of the Red Wolf, which won an Oregon Book Award in 1996.

In 1997, Smith published his first novel, Thunder Cave. The book continues Smith's animal themes, as teenage protagonist Jacob Lansa follows his biologist father to Africa where the father is researching elephants. The Lansa character also appears in 1999's Jaguar and 2001's The Last Lobo.

Other novels by Smith include The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe, Zach's Lie, Cryptid Hunters, and his most recent, Peak, the story of a teenage boy obsessed with climbing mountains. Smith's books have won "Book of the Year" awards in Colorado, Nevada, South Carolina, and Florida, as well as in his native Oregon.

He lives in Tualatin, Oregon with his wife and stepchildren.

List of Books: Snakes In The Zoo, Primates In The Zoo, Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises, Cats In The Zoo, Journey of the Red Wolf, Vultures, African Elephants,

In The Forest With Elephants,

Sea Otter Rescue: The Aftermath of an Oil Spill

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Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Fallen Angels

Friday, 6 March 2009

Eragon

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Eoin Colfer

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