Category: Book Reviews

Review: The True Meaning of Smekday

Post author By karlschmieder
Post date September 8, 2010
Categories In book notes, Book Reviews, Influences, Writing
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Here’s Gratuity “Tip” Tucci and the invading alien Boov, J.Lo, traveling from Pennsylvania to Florida then Arizona in a floating hatchback called “Slushious” with a cat named “Pig.” Wait. That’s a lot of information. What’s Smekday? The True Meaning of Smekday is a 400-page tour de hilarious force aimed at middle grade readers (9 to 12). I […]

Summer Reading 2010

Post author By karlschmieder
Post date August 15, 2010
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Here’s a list of the fictional books we’ve been reading this summer: The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex Carlos is Gonna Get It by Kevin Emmerson (assigned to Alejandro for 6th grade summer reading) Stargirl and Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (the former assigned to Alejandro for 6th grade summer reading) Norwegian Wood […]

Y! The Last Man – Volume 6

Post author By karlschmieder
Post date September 14, 2008
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Here’s Yorick, Dr. Mann and 355 on their way to Australia, a side trip as they cross the ocean in search of Ampersand, who was kidnapped in San Francisco. Ampersand, Yorick’s capuchin helper monkey, holds the key to Yorick’s immunity from the plague that killed all Y-chromosome containing mammals. There’s a fair amount of drama on the […]