<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com</title><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 04:29:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Talking With Melanie Watt About Writing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/talking_with_melanie_watt_about_writing.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/talking_with_melanie_watt_about_writing.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=talking%5Fwith%5Fmelanie%5Fwatt%5Fabout%5Fwriting</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Welcome to day four of the M&eacute;lanie Watt (US) blog tour! Our interview with M&eacute;lanie follows.&nbsp;Hip Librarian&#39;s Book Blog: M&eacute;lanie , what is your writing process?M&eacute;lanie Watt: I usually start with an initial top]]></description><category>melanie</category><category>watt</category><category>authors</category><category>writing</category><category>interview</category><category>scaredy</category><category>squirrel</category></item><item><title>City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/city_of_ember_by_jeanne_duprau.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/city_of_ember_by_jeanne_duprau.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=city%5Fof%5Fember%5Fby%5Fjeanne%5Fduprau</comments><dc:creator>linagordaneer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;***Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow live in the city of Ember, where lightbulbs are the only source of light. They are surrounded on each side by total darkness and because they have no way of creating a movable light (i.e. a flashlight), no one h]]></description><category>city of ember</category><category>jeanne duprau</category></item><item><title>Different Like Coco by Elizabeth Matthews</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/differentlikecoco.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/differentlikecoco.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=differentlikecoco</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Matthews, Elizabeth. Different Like Coco.&nbsp; Candlewick Press, 2007. 32 pp.&nbsp; ISBN 978-0-7636-2548-1. $16.99More than anything, Coco Chanel&#39;s life story is a tale about using what you&#39;ve got and and building on your strengths and resou]]></description><category>different</category><category>like</category><category>coco</category><category>elizabeth</category><category>matthews</category></item><item><title>Hip Librarians Host Mélanie Watt April 10!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/hip_librarians_host_melanie_watts_april_10.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/hip_librarians_host_melanie_watts_april_10.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hip%5Flibrarians%5Fhost%5Fmelanie%5Fwatts%5Fapril%5F10</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tune in here April 10 when the Hip Librarian&#39;s Book Blog hosts Melanie Watts, author of the Scaredy Squirrel series (Kids Can Press. Submit your questions now about writing, reading and Melanie&#39;s thoughts on book reviews.&nbsp; We&#39;ll post]]></description></item><item><title>Black Juice by Margo Lanagan</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/blackjuice.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/blackjuice.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=blackjuice</comments><dc:creator>Jessica West</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&quot;In the winter you come to the pit to warm your feet in the tar. You stand long enough to sink as far as your ankles - the littler you are, the longer you can stand. . . But in summer, like this day, you keep away from the tar . . . Ikky was tal]]></description><category>margolanagan</category><category>blackjuice</category></item><item><title>My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park by Steve Kluger</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/mymostexcellentyear.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/mymostexcellentyear.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=mymostexcellentyear</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dial/Penguin, New York: 2008 ISBN 978-0-8037-3227-8 $16.99 408 pp&nbsp;Three juniors assigned to write about their &quot;most excellent&quot; year all choose the freshman year they became friends in this coming out/coming of age story that blends bas]]></description><category>epistolary</category></item><item><title>Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R.L. LaFevers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/theodosia_and_the_serpents_of_chaos_by_rl_lafevers.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/theodosia_and_the_serpents_of_chaos_by_rl_lafevers.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=theodosia%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fserpents%5Fof%5Fchaos%5Fby%5Frl%5Flafevers</comments><dc:creator>linagordaneer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;***Theodosia Throckmorton (Theo for short), the young daughter of the curator of the Museum of Legends and Antiquities in London, is very busy these days. The year is 1906, and the world&rsquo;s western powers are busily excavating the treasure]]></description><category>theodosia</category><category>and</category><category>the</category><category>serpents</category><category>of</category><category>chaos</category><category>rl</category><category>lafevers</category></item><item><title>Fledgling by Octavia Butler</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/fledgling.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/fledgling.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fledgling</comments><dc:creator>Jessica West</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This was one of those books that I could not put down, and that finishing was more difficult than usual. Octavia Butler is one of my favorite writers, who passed away last year, the same year that Fledgling was published. When I finished reading Fled]]></description><category>fledgling</category><category>octaviabutler</category></item><item><title>Boy Toy by Barry Lyga</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/boy_toy_by_barry_lyga.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/boy_toy_by_barry_lyga.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=boy%5Ftoy%5Fby%5Fbarry%5Flyga</comments><dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This book still hit me like a train even though I knew what was coming. It&rsquo;s hard not to be exposed to the news stories about teachers that are arrested for sexually molesting a student. You don&rsquo;t necessarily hear about how it happened-or]]></description></item><item><title>Freak by Marcella Pixley</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/freak_by_marcella_pixley.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/freak_by_marcella_pixley.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=freak%5Fby%5Fmarcella%5Fpixley</comments><dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[People notice different things. When I visited Australia, my friend and I pointed out to each other all the &lsquo;avatars&rsquo; we saw walking around (people that literally had wings on and appeared larger than life). A friend I went to a bookstore]]></description></item><item><title>The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/the_blood_of_flowers_by_anita_amirrezvani.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/the_blood_of_flowers_by_anita_amirrezvani.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:20:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fblood%5Fof%5Fflowers%5Fby%5Fanita%5Famirrezvani</comments><dc:creator>Anna Nelson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;In a small village in 17th century Iran, a girl&#39;s parents start searching for a suitable man for her to marry. But when her father dies unexpectedly, the girl and her mother lose all prospects of a comfortable life. They move to Isfah]]></description></item><item><title>Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/vampire_academy_by_richelle_mead.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/vampire_academy_by_richelle_mead.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=vampire%5Facademy%5Fby%5Frichelle%5Fmead</comments><dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Best friends Lissa Dragomir and Rose Hathaway are on the run from their boarding school St. Vladimir&#39;s Academy, hiding from the well-meaning but misguided Guardians of the school and the evil vampires the Strigoi.&nbsp; Lissa is a Moroi princess,]]></description><category>vampires</category><category>vampire academy</category><category>richelle mead</category><category>boarding school</category></item><item><title>Book Divas to Host Online Guest Diva Jenny Downham in October 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/bookdivasjennydownham.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/bookdivasjennydownham.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bookdivasjennydownham</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Book Divas, an online community/ book club for young adult and college readers, is having an author visit with Jenny Downham on October 2nd to promote her novel Before I Die.]]></description><category>before</category><category>die</category><category>jenny</category><category>downham</category><category>book</category><category>divas</category></item><item><title>Pirate&apos;s Passage by William Gilkerson</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/pirates_passage_by_william_gilkerson.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/pirates_passage_by_william_gilkerson.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=pirates%5Fpassage%5Fby%5Fwilliam%5Fgilkerson</comments><dc:creator>linagordaneer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Young Jim&rsquo;s life is about to change&nbsp;due to &nbsp;the abrupt arrival of an old sea dog named Captain Charles Johnson. And a good thing too, as the family inn has hit rough times. The pressure to sell to the wealthy community bullies, the Mo]]></description><category>william gilkerson</category><category>pirates passage</category></item><item><title>Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/twisted_by_laurie_halse_anderson_1.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/twisted_by_laurie_halse_anderson_1.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=twisted%5Fby%5Flaurie%5Fhalse%5Fanderson%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Alissa</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tyler has always been a geek- until a graffiti prank makes him a legend and the physical labor required during his mandatory community service gives him muscles.&nbsp; His new muscles attract the attention of popular Bethany Milbury, the &quot;goddes]]></description></item><item><title>Gooey Jellyfish by Natalie Lunis</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/gooeyjellyfish.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/gooeyjellyfish.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=gooeyjellyfish</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Part of a series on invertabrates, Gooey Jellyifsh presents facts about these spineless sea creations in clear short sentences...]]></description><category>gooey</category><category>jellyfish</category><category>natalie</category><category>lunis</category><category>no</category><category>backbone</category></item><item><title>Southern Sea Otters: Fur-tastrophe Avoided by Jeanette Leardi</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/southernseaotters.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/southernseaotters.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=southernseaotters</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[*****&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description><category>southern</category><category>sea</category><category>otters</category><category>jeanette</category><category>leardi</category></item><item><title>Leonardo&apos;s Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci&apos;s Servant by Christopher Grey</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/leonardosshadow.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/leonardosshadow.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=leonardosshadow</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;****Inspired by Leonardo&#39;s Notebooks, author Grey creates a portrait of the famous painter and inventor as imaginitively seen through the eyes of his faithful young servant Giacomo. Much of the plot concerns the completion of the fresco, th]]></description><category>leonardos</category><category>shadow</category><category>christopher</category><category>grey</category></item><item><title>Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/marked_by_pc_cast_and_kristen_cast.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/marked_by_pc_cast_and_kristen_cast.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=marked%5Fby%5Fpc%5Fcast%5Fand%5Fkristen%5Fcast</comments><dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp; When a tracker marks her as a fledgling vampire, Zoey Redbird is afraid her life is over.&nbsp; It could be if her body rejects the Change.&nbsp; As a vampire fledgling, she must attend the House of Night, a boarding school where she wil]]></description><category>vampires</category><category>marked</category><category>pc cast</category><category>kristen cast</category><category>boarding school</category></item><item><title>Hamish X and the Cheese Pirates of the Arctic by Sean Cullen</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/hamishxandthecheesepiratesofthearctic.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/hamishxandthecheesepiratesofthearctic.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hamishxandthecheesepiratesofthearctic</comments><dc:creator>linagordaneer</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Life is looking pretty dreary for the orphans of the Windcity orphanage and cheese factory. They work excruciating shifts producing the most foul cheese on the earth (2 ounces make you hallucinate. 3 ounces will kill you) and to top it all of they mu]]></description><category>hamishx</category><category>sean</category><category>cullen</category></item><item><title>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows_by_j_k_rowling.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows_by_j_k_rowling.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=harry%5Fpotter%5Fand%5Fthe%5Fdeathly%5Fhallows%5Fby%5Fj%5Fk%5Frowling</comments><dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; No spoilers here . . . Book 7 starts with some shocking events.&nbsp; Harry learns more about Dumbledore&#39;s history.&nbsp; Things get a little less exciting by page 300 (or maybe I was just getting tired because it was 6:30 in the morning a]]></description><category>young adult fiction</category><category>harry potter</category><category>deathly hallows</category></item><item><title>Bloom by Elizabeth Scott</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/bloom_1.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/bloom_1.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=bloom%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[*****Lauren is a perfect but stagnant seed of a girl, content but not really happy. The story of her attraction to the new boy at school, who turns out to the son of one of her father&#39;s previous girlfriends, unfurls like a rose &nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description><category>bloom</category><category>elizabethscott</category></item><item><title>The Celebutantes: On the Avenue by Antonio Pagliarulo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/thecelebutantesontheavenue.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/thecelebutantesontheavenue.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=thecelebutantesontheavenue</comments><dc:creator>Susan Smith</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Celebutantes: On The Avenue by Antonio Pagliarulo]]></description><category>celebutantes;</category><category>on</category><category>the</category><category>avenue;</category><category>antonio</category><category>pagliarulo;</category><category>teen;</category><category>series;</category><category>like</category><category>gossip</category><category>girl;</category><category>contemporary;</category><category>mystery</category></item><item><title>The Fairy Chronicles by J.H Sweet: Marigold and the Feather of Hope &amp; Dragonfly and the Web of Dreams</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/fairychronicles.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/fairychronicles.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=fairychronicles</comments><dc:creator>Beth Gallaway</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This new fantasy series, meant to appeal to early elementary school age girls, concerns four nine year old  who discover they are fairies, each with a special power.]]></description><category>fairy</category><category>chronicles</category><category>jh</category><category>sweet</category></item><item><title>While I Live (The Ellie Chronicles) by John Marsden</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/while_i_live_the_ellie_chronicles_by_john_marsden.htm</guid><link>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/while_i_live_the_ellie_chronicles_by_john_marsden.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 05:55:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://hiplibrariansbookblog.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=while%5Fi%5Flive%5Fthe%5Fellie%5Fchronicles%5Fby%5Fjohn%5Fmarsden</comments><dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The war is over, but things will never again be normal for Ellie Linton.&nbsp; The redistribution of land after the war has taken most of her family&#39;s farm and her father is struggling to make a living on what is left.&nbsp; When tragedy strikes,]]></description></item></channel></rss>