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Flying Boats and Spies
by Jamie Dodson (OnStage Publishing)
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The giveaway book is: new copy of Flying Boats and Spies.
Flamingnet Student Review
BOOK DESCRIPTION FROM FLYING BOATS & SPIES WEBSITE
1935! The winds of war have
begun to fan the flames of conflict
across the Pacific. As Nick
Grant tries to support his mother
and sister during the Great Depression,
hes swept into a deadly
contest between spies struggling
to control the Pacific Ocean.
Nick's life changes abruptly the
moment world famous aviators,
Charles and Anne Lindbergh, land
at Alameda airport. After Nick
refuels their plane, Anne takes
him aside and offers him a
months wages to deliver a mysterious
map case to Bill Grooch,
aboard the tramp steamer S.S.
North Haven.
Desperate for money, Nick
agrees. Suddenly the map case
and Grooch catapult him into a
quiet, but deadly, cat and mouse
game between U.S. and Japanese
spies.
Nick becomes a vital player as
the U.S. and Japan vie for advantage
and control of the strategic
islands of the Pacific.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JAMIE DODSON
Jamie started writing novels in 2001. He has over 25
years of experience in Counter Intelligence, Special
Intelligence, Signals Intelligence and Intelligence
Analysis for the US Military. He's served with Special
Operations, Army Aviation, Airborne Infantry, and Military
Police. He's been involved in operations in Laos, Viet
Nam, Cambodia, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia, Iraq,
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Japan, Korea, Guam, Samoa, the
Hawaiian Islands and the continental United States.
Jamie holds a Systems Engineering Certificate from the
University of Alabama, Huntsville, a Masters in Computers
and Systems Management from Webster University and a
Bachelor's in Geospatial Science from the University of
Colorado.
Currently, Jamie is a Technology Protection Officer for
the Security and Intelligence Division, US Army, Aviation
and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center
(AMRDEC), Intelligence Division. Email
He is married to Joan Skawski, formerly of Chicago.
They have traveled the world and lived on three continents
with their three children Ian, Neil and Glenna. They have
a spoiled Australian Sheppard named Gracie and have called
Huntsville, Alabama home since 2001.
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Misfit McCabe
by L K Gardner-Griffie (Lulu Press)
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The flames shot to the side as Katie beat them with a
branch. The intense heat of the fire caused sweat to drip
into her eyes and her lungs burned from the smoke. Katie
was losing the battle against the fire and could only hope
that help would be there soon. The fire department quickly
put out the flames and Katie was appalled by the
destruction she had accidentally caused. This had to be
the
worst day of her life. Little did she know it was only the
start.
The giveaway book is: new copy of Misfit McCabe.
Flamingnet Student Review
When trouble maker Katie McCabe gets caught committing
arson, her beloved father, the local sheriff, whisks her
off to her Uncle Charlie's. Sarah, Katie's cousin, intends
to set her straight. On Katie's second day at the farm,
she meets Harvey Junior, her soon-to-be archenemy. Despite
Katie's efforts to get along, she ends up hitting Harvey!
Later on, she starts to make friends like Tom Pike and his
buddies. Tom is the number one football player at school.
Katie doesn't realize that life at Uncle Charlie's isn't
going to be simple. Her new life contains rattlesnakes,
nasty revenge, more archenemies, tears, and mud - lots and
lots of mud!
I loved Misfit McCabe! The descriptions were amazing. I
was glued to Misfit McCabe like a fly stuck to fly tape. I
completely underestimated this book because I figured it
would be boring. It turned out to be a very, very exciting
book. Dont underestimate the book's cover. Misfit McCabe
is a difficult book to read, so I don't think it should be
for 9-12 year olds, it should be labeled for young adults.
This is a great book. Gardner-Griffie has outdone herself.
There are a few situations with underage drinking and
smoking: also some frightening situations, and language.
Reviewer Age: 11
Reviewer City, State and Country: Osseo, Wisconsin United
States
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The Temptress Four
by Gaby Triana (HarperCollins)
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Four best friends, one graduation cruise, a week of
partying.
It's supposed to be the best eight days of their lives.
But
when a fortune-teller predicts trouble the night before
their trip, Fiona, Killian, Alma, and Yoli are left on
edge, wondering what it could all mean.
The giveaway book is: new copy of The Temptress Four.
Flamingnet Student Review
The Temptress Four is about four girls named Fiona,
Killian, Alma and Yoli. The girls have just graduated from
high school, and they decide to celebrate by going on a
cruise. The night before the cruise, the girls go to a
fortune teller who predicts that there will be trouble
during the trip and that one of them may not return. The
fortune teller's comment makes the girls think about
whether they should still go on the cruise. After a lot of
debate, the girls decide to go. They will soon learn
whether the fortune teller is correct.
The Temptress Four was one of the best books I have
ever
read! Unlike most books I have read, this book kept me on
my toes. When one problem gets solved, there is another
problem waiting. I also loved how the author made the
book unpredictable. That made me want to read the book
even more. I'd highly recommend this book!
Reviewer Age:10
Reviewer City, State and Country: Potomac, Maryland USA
OTHER BOOKS BY GABY TRIANA
ABOUT GABY TRIANA
Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Gaby Triana
unknowingly began her writing career in the 3rd grade when
she wrote her 3-page novel, Skeeter Creek, a story about a
girl who loved fishing during the lazy days of a mosquito-
filled summer. It had no plot, but it sounded like Mark
Twain and won her an A+++++ from her teacher anyway. It
was then she had the brief twinkling of an idea that she
might be a writer in the future, but being a 3rd grader,
she naturally thought becoming a veterinarian would
be "much neater" because she'd be able to "work with cats
and stuff."
Never one to listen to her instincts, Gaby dabbled in
many other activities throughout her schooling-softball,
violin, dance, color guard, even cake decorating, a talent
which still persists today. Throughout all this, she still
wrote, but only for fun and 1st prize fair ribbons, never
with any serious publishing intent. Upon graduating from
high school, she further ignored her calling and studied
at Florida State University, diving headfirst into a
career in teaching, graduating with both a Bachelor's and
Master's degree in Elementary Education. She spent the
next seven years teaching 3rd and 4th grade in Miami,
earning Teacher of the Year, and writing stories for her
students who asked her to read them over and over, all the
while STILL never thinking they'd amass to anything.
It wasn't until the birth of her first son, Michael,
during those long, lonely days of speaking to a toddler
for hours at a time that Gaby thought it was time to share
her stories with people taller than 35 inches. She joined
a critique group of actual adults that specialized in
children's books, and during that time, wrote her first
published novel for young adults, Backstage Pass, a story
about a rock star's 16-year-old daughter caught between
her real life of on-road living, catered meals, and plenty
of global publicity and her secret life of nothingness and
normality at a public high school in Coconut Grove.
Backstage Pass was published by HarperCollins, earned an
IRA Teen Choice Award in 2006, and plenty of praise from
Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publisher's Weekly.
Always a late bloomer, Gaby finally realized what her
career should have been from the very beginning.
Her follow-up teen novel, Cubanita, about a Cuban-
American girl and her last summer at home before leaving
for college, earned acclaim from School Library Journal,
Booklist, and Kliatt, as well as its place on the
YALSA/ALA Popular Paperbacks list for 2008. Her upcoming
novel, The Temptress Four, about four best friends going
on a graduation cruise together will be out in May, 2008,
followed up by Motor Girl in 2009. Today, Gaby has
realized her full potential as an author, visiting
schools, public speaking, and conducting critiques and
workshops at SCBWI conferences. She enjoys making special
occasion cakes (www.theloveofcake.com), going to Disney
World, driving fast cars, kickboxing, and spending time
with her husband, Chris, stepdaughter, Devin, and sons,
Michael, Noah, and Murphy. She is currently at work on her
first supernatural novel for teens- Wake the Hollow. Her
literary agent is Steven Chudney at The Chudney Agency in
NY.
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Swine Not?
by Jimmy Buffett (Little, Brown)
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Best-selling writer Jimmy Buffett weaves an irresistible
new tale---filled with colorful characters, wry humor, and
the pursuit of a very clever pig.
When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from
Vertigo, Tennessee to New York City, they wouldn't dream
of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel
where Ellie has found work (and living space) has "No
Pets" writ large on its portal. So hiding Rumpy from the
hotel staff---especially the ultra-carnivorous hotel chef,
who would like nothing better than to transform their pet
into pork roast---becomes imperative.
The giveaway book is: new copy of Swine Not?.
Flamingnet Student Review
Reviewer Age:13 Reviewer City, State and Country: Fin, |
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Devil May Care
by Sebastian Faulks (Doubleday)
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Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of the James
Bond legacyan electrifying new chapter in the life of the
most iconic spy of literature and film, written to
celebrate the centenary of Ian Flemings birth on May 28,
1908.
An Algerian drug runner is savagely executed in the
desolate outskirts of Paris. This seemingly isolated event
leads to the recall of Agent 007 from his sabbatical in
Rome and his return to the world of intrigue and danger
where he is most at home. The head of MI6, M, assigns him
to shadow the mysterious Dr. Julius Gorner, a power-crazed
pharmaceutical magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by
his greed. Gorner has lately taken a disquieting interest
in opiate derivatives, both legal and illegal, and this
urgently bears looking into.
Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape of a
glamorous Parisian named Scarlett Papava. He will need her
help in a life-and-death struggle with his most dangerous
adversary yet, as a chain of events threaten to lead to
global catastrophe. A British airliner goes missing over
Iraq. The thunder of a coming war echoes in the Middle
East. And a tide of lethal narcotics threatens to engulf a
Great Britain in the throes of the social upheavals of the
late sixties.
Picking up where Fleming left off, Sebastian Faulks takes
Bond back to the height of the Cold War in a story of
almost unbearable pace and tension. Devil May Care not
only captures the very essence of Flemings original
novels but also shows Bond facing dangers with a powerful
relevance to our own times.
The giveaway book is: new copy of Devil May Care.
Flamingnet Student Review
The book Devil May Care is a continuation of the various
dangerous adventures of the notable character James Bond.
Bond is summoned from his sabbatical in order to investigate
Dr. Julius Gorner, a powerful figure that seems to
have an interest in selling drugs, of both the legal and
illegal kind. He is helped on his adventures by Scarlett
Papava, who is, supposedly, a banker. James Bond struggles
to uncover Gorner's operations as strange things occur,
such as a missing British airliner and heroin addicts
on the rise in Britain. Bond travels to the Middle East
and has quite a few surprises. There is a twist at the end
concerning Scarlett Papava.
The book Devil May Care has
a few significant flaws. First of all, some scenes have way
too much detail. Some parts of the book are absolutely
gory. There did not have to be that much detail. Also, it
is a little boring in some places. It seems that Bond
is always eating, talking, traveling, or thinking about
Scarlett. The writing is not difficult to follow, but it
is not too easy either. I don't think I'll ever read this
book again; it was pretty disappointing. Even without the
disgusting scenes, this book is not at all
spectacular. However, Sebastian Faulks did make it seem
realistic, just
too realistic in some places. The characters seemed real,
but I, for one, would not like to meet them.
Reviewer Age:15 Reviewer City, State and Country:
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Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls
by Carrie Brownstein (Chronicle Books)
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Girls, get ready to rock! Since 2001, the Rock 'n' Roll
Camp for Girls has taught legions of girls, ages 8 to 18,
how to let loose and rock out. This book brings the camp's
inspiring, hands-on approach and advice from its all-star
crew of female musicians to girls everywhere. Fun and
informative features offer instruction and tips on how to
play instruments, write songs, publicize a show, sing your
heart out, and much more. Featuring a short history of
women in rock, 50 awesome illustrations and photos of
young bands, and contributions by members of Sleater-
Kinney, the Gossip, Mirah, and others, Rock 'n' Roll Camp
for Girls will have readers turning up their amps in no
time.
The giveaway book is: new copy of Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls.
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