How I Live Now

 How I Live Now

by Meg Rosoff 

 

How I Live Now is a story about 15 year-old Elizabeth’s struggle to survive during a fictional World War III outbreak sometime in the beginning of the 21^st century. After constant conflicts with her new step-mother, Elizabeth (who goes by Daisy) is sent away from her Manhattan home to live with her maternal aunt in England. She finds that she instantly bonds with her cousins, and together they fight to survive while her aunt is stranded in Oslo after an attack. Meanwhile, Daisy finds herself entangled in forbidden love, and a new desire to protect her new family from any harm.  Her protective instinct is put to use when the boys (Osbert, Edmond and Isaac) and girls (Daisy and Piper) are separated, leaving Daisy solely responsible for protecting her youngest cousin. Will Daisy and Piper make it home safely? Will Daisy reunite with her love? Read Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now to find out!

Witch & Wizard

 Witch & Wizard

James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonet.

 New York City: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

Autistic Girl Expresses Unimaginable Intelligence

This young lady shows amazing strength that teaches as all a lesson about intelligence and over-coming obstacles.   

It gets better project - Stephen Colbert

Love this. It gets better.

Thanks Stephen Colbert.

Official Song for the Hunger Games

I LOVE this song by Taylor Swift (Safe and Sound) as the sound track for the Hunger Games movie. The eerie feeling suits the book perfectly!

"The state has no business in the hard-drives of Canadians" - Rick Mercer (2012)

Another well-put, intelligent "rant" by Rick Mercer about online privacy.

Libraries have fought long and hard for open access to online information, and for the privacy to access it. This also helps to lower the digital divide between the economic classes. Now the federal government wants to take that right away from Canadians through laws that go against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I still believe that the government should have to have a warrant to access private or confidential information. This ensures an (hopefully) unbiased third-party to ensure that there is adequate justification to gain access, and then the Conservatives can't just go fishing. Just because we want privacy DOES NOT mean we are criminals. Well said Mr. Mercer, well said.

Mockingbird

Mockingbird

by Kathryn Erskine

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature