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February 2015

Diary of a Penguin Napper (Sally Harris) Diary of a Penguin Napper is the first novel from Melbourne-based author, Sally Harris, which I discovered upon wandering into a bookstore in Richmond the other day.  I started chatting with a nice guy who I can only assume was the owner, and he convinced me to buy a copy (evidently he's a good salesman!).  I then proceeded to enjoy reading the book. OK, so I am a lot older than the target audience of 8-12 year olds, but hey, I can appreciate a good junior novel when I read one! Basically, Marty and his amusingly-named best friend Turds (yes, Turds) need to raise money fast so Marty can go on camp with the love of his eleven-and-a-half year old life, Jessica.  I won't go into too much detail, but in the end, kidnapping a penguin seems to be the best option to raise the bucks. Told as a kind of retrospective from Marty's point of view, the story is well paced and has it's amusing, if not slightly predictable scenarios an...

February 2015

100 Best YA Books of all time?  You be the judge! OK, so Time Magazine has just posted a list of what they believe to be the best 100 Young Adult books of all time (follow the link below): TIME's 100 Best YA Books of all time How many of these have you read? More importantly, how many of these are in your local or school library?