KWJ's Readers Advisory
Obviously in principle and reality, libraries are life enhancing palaces of wonder. - Gail Honeyman in Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Week Fifteen Prompt Response - Promoting Collections
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Week Fourteen Prompt Response - Separating Collections
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Week Thirteen Prompt Response: YA and New Adult
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn: A Young Adult Novel
Title: Legendborn
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Publication Date: 2020
Length: 506 pages, 18 hours & 54 minutes audio
Series: The Legendborn Cycle, Book #1
Geographical Setting: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Time Period: Present Day
Plot Summary: 16-year-old Bree Matthews is attending the University of North Carolina's Early College program to escape the memories of her mother's death. On her first night in Chapel Hill, she witnesses a magical attack and meets another teenager calling himself a "Merlin" who attempts to wipe her memories of the attack. Bree quickly discovers she could break the memory magic and accidentally unlocks a memory from the night of her mother's death - recognizing that someone else tried to wipe her memory that night, too. She soon meets Nick, a Legendborn who wants nothing to do with it, Bree throws herself into his world to search for answers about how her mother really died. She soon realizes that Legendborns, and the mysterious "Merlin," are descendants of the famous mythological figures King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the wizard Merlin. And they are all trying to stop a vicious, magical war against the Shadowborn demons that is looming over them. Bree has to decide how far she's willing to go to find the answers she seeks about her mother and her heritage and if she's willing to help the new Legendborn friends she's made in the oncoming deadly war, all while trying to navigate the grief over her mother, the casual (and intentional) racism she encounters daily, and the generational trauma she begins to understand she inherited.
Content Warnings: car accident, death of a parent, depictions of grief, mentions and minor depictions of slavery and rape, mild gore, mind control/memory manipulation, racism (both micro- and macro-aggressions), violence
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Week Twelve Prompt Response - Non-Fiction RA Matrix
- Where is the book on the narrative continuum?
- Highly narrative (reads like fiction)
- What is the subject of the book?
- The making of the television show, Schitt’s Creek.
- What type of book is it?
- Memoir told from multiple points of view