What's up next?

 Up next in the book line-up is the February Book Breakfast Title by Newbery author Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow.  I'll be starting it this weekend and so I took a look at what Amazon.com had to say about it...

"He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35)

This book won the Newbery Medal in 1962. This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Daniel bar Jamin—a fierce, hotheaded young man bent on revenging his father’s death by forcing the Romans from his land of Israel. Daniel’s palpable hatred for Romans wanes only when he starts to hear the gentle lessons of the traveling carpenter, Jesus of Nazareth. A fast-paced, suspenseful, vividly wrought tale of friendship, loyalty, the idea of home, community . . . and ultimately, as Jesus says to Daniel on page 224: “Can’t you see, Daniel, it is hate that is the enemy? Not men. Hate does not die with killing. It only springs up a hundredfold. The only thing stronger than hate is love.” A powerful, relevant read in turbulent times."

 I'm looking forward to discussing this with our students...the concept of love being stronger than hate is powerful and timely.  

And then right after that, I'm going to read something fun I found this morning on the adult shelf at work.  Donated by a coworker, Cemetery Girl by David Bell promises to be a page turner!  Here's one of the reviews found on his site, www.davidbellnovels.com...
“David Bell's CEMETERY GIRL is my favorite kind of story because it takes the familiar and darkens it. This story is essentially about a missing little girl, but trust me: you have never read a missing persons story like this one. The reader is taken down the rabbit hole in this novel and when he comes out at the end—just beyond that mysterious and hopeful last page—he is all the better for having been invited inside Bell's disturbing, all-too-real world. I could not stop reading CEMETERY GIRL because I had to know how it ended. A fast, mean headtrip of a thriller that reads like a collaboration between Michael Connelly and the gothic fiction of Joyce Carol Oates, CEMETERY GIRL is one of those novels that you cannot shake after it's over. A winner on every level.”
—Will Lavender, New York Times bestselling author of DOMINANCE 

Cemetery Girl is for adults only.  
Happy Reading!
RC