From: Brothers, Deborah <Deborah.Brothers>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:29:36 -0500

Currently Reading: Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Deborah Brothers

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Deborah Brothers, Ph.D.
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:34:21 -0400
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:48:46 -0500
From: "OReilly, Alison" <Alison.OReilly at ci.austin.tx.us>
Subject: [CCBC-Net] Jacqueline Woodson's novels
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Maybe the Texas heat is getting to me, but the first image that enters
my mind when I think of Jacqueline Woodson's novels is snow falling. In
my experience, it hardly ever snows when you really need it too, but in
Ms. Woodson's stories, snow creates the landscape we all want for our
most introspective moments.
In Feathers, Frannie and Samantha don't know what to make of an
unsettling encounter between Jesus Boy and Trevor:
Most of the way home that afternoon, me and Samantha were quiet. The
snow was coming down in heavy white flakes and the snow on the ground
came up past my ankles. We walked slowly through it, afraid of slipping
on the patches of ice beneath the snow. That afternoon in geography, we
had talked about weather in different parts of the world. It was hard to
think that in some places, the sun was shining and people were walking
half-naked along the beaches. Because even though Ms. Johnson said that
in other places crocuses were blooming and kids were jumping into bright
blue swimming pools, right here, where we were, it was still winter. It
felt like it would always be.
In After Tupac & D Foster, during the months of Tupac's trial, the
narrator struggles to answer her mother's questions about the origins of
her new friend, D:
I stared out the window. Outside, snow was beginning to come down. It
was the first snow of the year and the tiny white flakes made me think
about being a little girl - me and Neeka all excited and stupid over the
idea of playing outside. Sitting at the kitchen table with Mama, that
cold gray winter-light coming in from outside making everything, even
the toaster, look like it was on the verge of tears, it was hard to even
believe there was a time when I got so happy and silly over something
like snow.
Thank you, Ms. Woodson, for the memorable contrasts between the driving
New York City snow and your warm, deliberating characters.
Regards,
Alison
Alison O'Reilly, Teen Services Librarian
Austin Public Library - Southeast Austin Community Branch
5803 Nuckols Crossing Road, Austin, TX 78744
phone: 512.462.1452 fax: 512.447.7639
Currently reading: Savvy by Ingrid Law
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:14:49 -0500
From: "Sally Miller" <derbymiller at fuse.net>
Subject: [CCBC-Net] What fun!
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I just read Alison O'Reilly's thoughtful email and noticed at the end of it she had a notation, "Currently reading: Savvy by Ingrid Law." And I thought, what fun it would be if CCBC posters would always do that. No work involved, no need to comment or critique, but fascinating to realize what a breadth of reading the group represents! Sally Derby
Currently reading: The Little Grey Men by 'BB'
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