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New Romeo and Juliet Movie Coming Out In 2013

Do you know that Amber Entertainment is working on a new Romeo and Juliet movie? 

Well, they are!

It would be hard to mess this up, and I think they got the casting right.

What is the point after Mercutio dies again?

John Green Talks Romeo and Juliet

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Coming Up: 2013 Printz Award Winners

I just ordered these books.

In January, at the Youth Media Awards, the winners of this year’s Printz awards were announced! The Michael L. Printz Award is an award for a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature. It is named for a Topeka, Kansas school librarian who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association.  The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association.

Winner: In Darkness by Nick Lake

In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L’Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804. 

Honor: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz 

Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before. 

Honor: Dodger by Terry Pratchett

In an alternative version of Victorian London, a seventeen-year-old Dodger, a cunning and cheeky street urchin, unexpectedly rises in life when he saves a mysterious girl, meets Charles Dickens, and unintentionally puts a stop to the murders of Sweeney Todd.

Honor: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.

Honor: The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna

Taylor Jane, a young woman with Asperger’s Syndrome, travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor’s earliest memories, along with immediate scenes in Lourmarin, a picturesque village in the Luberon Valley, The White Bicycle results in a journey for independence both personal and universal, told in Taylor’s honest first-person prose.

What Boys Really Want (FIC Hautman)

Despite the cheesiest cover, ever, CGHS girls who have read this one, like it.
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Serious Lita and easy going Adam have been BFFs forever. But that doesn’t mean that they agree about stuff, especially when it comes to girl/boy stuff. They each have very different opinions about the best way to go about currying the favor of the opposite sex. So when Adam decides he’s going to write a self-help book for girls that gives them the secret scoop on what boys are really thinking, Lita is more than a little annoyed because a) Adam has NO idea what he’s talking about and b) Lita DOES know what she’s talking about because she advises clueless teens though her anonymous blog, “Ask Miz Fitz.” But she can’t tell Adam that because, well…it’s an anonymous blog. So she continues to fume while Adam continues to write and have no idea why Lita is so angry with him. Meanwhile, Adam develops a crush on a “skank”, while Lita starts dreaming about a “grease monkey” mechanic, but neither one of them is about to ask the other for dating advice. Finally, when Lita discovers that Adam’s research for his book has been collected in questionable ways and that his skank knows her grease monkey, the self-help really hits the fan. This rollicking read by one of my favorite authors reads like the teen version of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. Pete Hautman writes some of the sharpest, funniest teen dialogue around, and this title is no exception. Think you know what boys really want? Think you have any idea what goes on in girls’ heads? Think again! (Review from Reading Rants.)

Books to Film: Life Of Pi (FIC Martel)

This book was hot in CGHS Library eight to ten years ago. I read it then, captivated as it crept up on me, grabbed me by the throat, and shook me soundly. I haven't had the heart to see the movie because I liked the book too much.

The movie was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Music--Original Score, Music--Original Song, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, and Writing--Adapted Screenplay.