Me & My Mailbox: Does My Head Look Good in This?

A lot to show and tell today. In fact, I got so many books in the past month and a half I am going to do a follow-up "Me & My Mailbox" next week…manga style. In the mean time, here's what I've been browsing these days.

Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randah Abdel Fattah (Amal, an Australian-Palestinian teenager has decided to wear the "hijab" but can she handle the racism and ostracizing? Is it worth it? This looks cool to me– a sassy girl and her faith, I like it.)

- Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara? The Fascinating Stories behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books by Jenny Boyd and Chris Sheedy (A great reference– 50 little gems that explain a story behind the story, so to speak. Great teaching tool, pick-up reader, or gift for a book lover.)

- The Calder Game by Blue Balliet (A third exciting book mystery about art, history, math and philosophy. Looks great! Of course.)

- Same Difference by Siobhan Vivian (Looooved A Little Friendly Advice, looking forward to Vivian's new story about Emily, a talented art student who realizes there isn't that much difference between suburb and city when it come to growing up.)

- Top 8 by Katie Finn (Online mayhem ensues and threatens to destroy her reputation when Madison MacDonald returns from spring break.)

- Untamed by PC Cast and Kristin Cast (At vampyre finishing school, Zoey has a lot of the same drama any teen would except maybe for WAR ON HUMANS and all of her undead and unMarked friends.)

- We are Quiet, We are Loud: The Best Young Writers and Artists in America (So cool. Entries were chosen from tens of thousands of pieces submitted to the "Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.")

- Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott (Not sure if I'll be reading this. It sounds really really super dark. Alice is kidnapped on a class trip an enslaved and abused for five years! Now she's being asked to find her replacement in return for her freedom. Jeez.)

- Goosebumps: Night of the Living Dummy by RL Stine (Wicked dummies are scary!)

- What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell (Family secrets and coming of age in Post WWII America.)

- Fabulous Terrible: Choose Your Own Adventure by Sophie Talbot (A modern Gossip-y Girl, Clique, UpperClass version of the old classic Choose Your Adventure Series.)

- Runaway by Steve Simpson (Scared and alone, Steve is embraced by a gang of runaways who take him in and show him the ropes.)

- The Center of the Universe, Yep That Would Be Me by Anita Liberty (Suzanne Weber) (Part Diary, part poetry, part performance — this is the story of Anita Liberty's senior year. She's hip and cool and sarcastic and your average teen, NOT.)

- Zoe's Tale John Scalzi (Science Fiction is always so hard to describe quickly….Zoe's a girl living in "the colonies" and she has to save the human race. 'Nuf said? Seriously, this is a stand alone book that can be read as a companion to Scalzi's Old Man's War series.)

- Kendra by Coe Booth (The daughter to a very young mom, Kendra is left to be raised by her grandmother while her mom finishes school. How will life change when mom returns with a PH.D and a new life for her, away from the 'hood? This seems really fresh and original. I'm intrigued.)

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