'Touched'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Librarian types, I need help deciphering something. I was on BN.com earlier looking to replenish some supplies and I found this: [link]
* Publisher: Paw Prints * Pub. Date: May 2008 * ISBN-13: 9781435284647 * Edition Description: Reprint
At a price of $18.95!
Compared to the original entry: [link]
I mean, Paw Prints? WTF? Some cursory searching seems to indicate this is a Library Binding, which his why I ask here. Any ideas? Suggestions?
Library binding is a way to make the spine extra strong for repeated abuses by the book's reader(s). I just had a woman pick up her special order of the last four Harry Potter books all in library binding. She already had the first three and told me that she prefers the stronger binding for the bigger books.
Barb, I looked up Adios on Ingram (which we use for fiction ordering at my library) and the library binding edition is published by Topeka Bindery for $13.86, ISBN: 9781417812585. So that's not the same one. I've never heard of Paw Prints and they don't appear to be an imprint of S&S. Weird!
Barb, take a look at this thread on Absolute Write: [link]
If you liked The Kite Runner, check out Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time.
Non-fiction, about a mountain climber who has been building schools in the remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Evocative and very accurate descriptions of what the people and places in that area are like, and what their lives are like. Brought back a lot of very good memories.
On Wikipedia: [link]
On Amazon.com: [link]
dcp, is there content in that book that would be inappropriate for older elementary students? I've got some higher-level readers who might be interested (besides me, I mean).
I'd suggest you check it out yourself first. I probably wouldn't have liked it as a 5th-grader. It is grim in some places, a little raw in others. It's not much about the students themselves, more about the difficulties and dangers involved in getting things done, what the people are like, and what the area is like.
Ok. Thanks. I'll take a look at it.
I've always been intimidated by the size of that one.