why is it that i never really know what i'm doing?

i went to school. got the 27k in debt to prove it. they taught me all kindsa nifty stuff.

and yet, what do i do when an 8 year old pees on the floor in a stream from the self checks to the kids computers? (and just how big is an 8 year old's bladder anyway?) what do i do when a man with garlic and steak breath professes his undying love to me. again. for the 3rd time today.

this is a chronicle of what i did, when the crazy happened. which, in a public library is much more often than you'd think. and which, they also don't teach you about in liberry skool.

oh, and there's also a book review or two.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

scary ghosts and friendly prostitutes!

The Boldest Mask (Dear America)The Boldest Mask by Susan Patron


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


PATRON, Susan. Dear America: Behind the Masks. 298p. Scholastic. Jan 2012. ISBN: 978-0-545-30437-5. $12.99. F.




Gr 5-8


In the Diary of Angeline Reddy from Bodie, California, 1880, Angie is distraught when her father disappears and is declared dead by the town newspaper and coroner. Angie and her mother are sure her father is alive and enlist pals Ellie and Ling Loi to help solve the mystery. When the friends see a ghost and witness a murder by a bold gang of vigilantes called the 601s, Angie becomes ever more desperate to find her dad. In this fast paced and action packed novel Patron does not shy away from hot button topics; including prostitutes and murdering vigilantes in the cast of characters and sprinkling some realism into an historical ghost story/romance. Recommended to readers of the rest of the Dear America series.




-Terry Ann Lawler - Phoenix Public Library, AZ.




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