Good Reads live video chat with author Gabrielle Zevin-December 13, 7 pm ET

Join Good Reads on Tuesday, December 13 at 7 pm ET/4 pm PT for a live half-hour video chat with author Gabrielle Zevin. We'll be discussing her latest novel All These Things I've Done, as well as her earlier work and her life as a writer. Don't miss it! 

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Book Description

Series: Birthright | Publication Date: September 6, 2011

In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious (and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidently poisoned by the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her mafia family.

Quote...A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

    There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all out kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us."
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Sterling Classics

Beloved in Christmases past, and sure to remain a favorite into Christmases of the future, Dickens’ popular holiday tale is the perfect Christmas present. The uplifting tale follows the mysterious and magical events that transform the miserly, miserable Ebenezer Scrooge into “as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man” as ever lived.

Best Cuddle-Time Books: Ages 3-5

I LOVE Scholastic...my kids will be having a very Scholastic Christmas this year.  I feel like the best gift I can give my children is the gift of imagination and adventure through the pages of books...

Best Cuddle-Time Books: Ages 3-5

Discuss the illustrations in these gorgeous picture books. Ask your little reader about what he thinks will happen next.

FIVE LITTLE DINOSAURS by Will Grace

Five wacky and lovable dinosaurs jump on the bed and get into all sorts of mischief in this fun adaptation of a classic preschool rhyme!

LITTLE GORILLA by Ruth Lercher Bornstein

Little Gorilla's family and friends try to help him overcome his special growing pains.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak

A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.

A SICK DAY FOR AMOS McGEE by Philip C. Stead

When Amos the zookeeper is too sick to go to work, his animal friends decide to visit and help him feel better.

KNUFFLE BUNNY by Mo Willems

Trixie, Daddy, and Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind…

SEE MORE AT BELOW LINK...

http://www.scholastic.com/resources/booklist/best-cuddle-time-books-ages-3-5/

Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day!!!! December 3rd, 2011...

"Bookstores hold a place in the hearts and times of our community. They are places to discover an author, a story, a life. Nothing affords the conversation and interaction among books and book lovers that a bookstore does. In the future, whether you download your story or pluck a volume off a shelf, a bookstore will be able to accommodate. But in order for bookstores to flourish and thrive, we must expose future generations to the unique pleasures they offer. On December 3rd, 2011, take the child in your life to a bookstore. Watch his face light up as you give him free access, not just to a new book, but to tomorrow." —Jenny Milchman

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Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day began when my children were little and I was going to story time at bookstores nearly every week. Did all children know the pleasure of spending time in a bookstore? I wondered. Of being drawn into a magic world for a while, then being left to choose treasures on the shelf? I wanted to begin a holiday that would expose as many kids as possible to this joy. But Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day quickly became bigger than one mother and her children. Bloggers and book lovers took it viral across the web, carried posters into bookstores, and welcomed me and my family to local bookstores when we traveled cross country last summer. Now we are busily adding stores, helping support celebrations on the Day, and leading people to the wonderful places we have found. In the future, Take Your Child to a Bookstore may offer grants for children who can't visit a bookstore on their own, or perhaps there will be internships for kids who want one day to own a bookstore. Because the sky is the limit when there is a book!

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Have a look at our Bookstores page to see a map of the almost 150 bookstores participating in Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day--and add your bookstore to the map! Also see our Books page for the children's book we loved best this year. And finally, here's how you can spread the word about Take Your Child to a Bookstore Day.

Quote...Les Misérables

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It is on December nights, with the thermometer at zero, that we most think of the sun.

Book Description

Publication Date: April 19, 2011

On one level Les Miserables is a detective story in which the relentless Inspector Javert obsessively pursues the escaped convict Jean Valjean. On another level, it is a drama of crime, punishment and rehabilitation set against a panoramic description of French society after Napoleon. But above all, Hugo’s masterpiece is about the metaphysical struggle between good and evil in the soul of every man. It is a plea for social justice, political enlightenment and personal charity.

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NEW POSTING SCHEDULE

I will now be posting nearly daily with reviews, great quotes, author interviews and other tidbits like what my book is reading, what I am reading, great book to movies and other interesting items so check back often to see what is going on!

I appreciate all my fellow booknerds,
Mrs Mommy Booknerd


Note. I have changed this post to be the most updated, since it was getting many page views. I want to see my fellow booknerd's often.

Updated 12/30/11

Great site for SIGNED books...

http://www.abebooks.com/ The Best Novels of 2011 - Signed

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht		Swamplandia by Karen Russell		Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern		The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan		The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst		A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness		Snowdrops by A.D. Miller

Caribou Island by David Vann		Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson		The Hypnotist by Lars Kepler		A Moment in the Sun by John Sayles

On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry		The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell		Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson		The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch		The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith		West of Here by Jonathan Evison		The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

› Find all these and more at AbeBooks.com