With the aid of Charlie, a newfound friend, Alice sets out to get to the bottom of the mystery. Someone wants Aunt Polly's piecrust recipe badly. It isn't long before the animal is catnapped, the bakery is trashed, and Blueberry Medal fever hits Ipswitch. Alice cries for two days and "felt like a slice of Swiss cheese inside, all limp and full of holes." At the reading of her aunt's will, she learns that Polly left her piecrust recipe to her fat, grumpy cat, Lardo, and that she left Lardo to Alice. Many selfishly wonder where they are going to get their pie fix, and some wonder what will happen to the tourist industry that was built around Polly's fame. So when Polly Portman dies unexpectedly, the town is bereft. She also lavishes love and attention on her niece, Alice, an only child who can never please her mother. Polly Portman, 13-time winner of the coveted Blueberry Medal, knows everyone's favorites and keeps meticulous notes for each filling, but not the crust. In the 1950s, the small town of Ipswitch, PA, is famous due to the proprietor of Pie, who gives her wares away rather than selling them. This is the review I starred for the September, 2011 issue: I originally read and reviewed Pie for SLJ. Unabridged audiobook on 1 Playaway (self-contained MP3).
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Octavia faces down the popular crowd at school and must straddle the line between protected and protecting daughter. Rodney is a precocious little boy who struggles to make friends and wants only to please his abusive father. Tasha, who is coping with the separation of her parents, is discovering the first sweet pain of a crush on a tough but tender boy named Jashante from the rough side of town. Tasha, Rodney and Octavia each has a unique voice and story and each is struggling to find a path through the turmoil. This haunting menace provides a powerful backdrop to the stories of three young children fighting the painful everyday battle of adolescence. By the time this heinous killing spree was over, 29 children were dead. In the summer of 1979 black children were disappearing from the streets of Atlanta. While this isn’t necessarily the worst thing, it does make finding the best yoga pants a challenge-that’s where we come in. 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This site requires Javascript to be turned on. It starts with an extreme situation and doesn’t let up. Reynolds has pared down his style, introduced new characters and provided all the necessary background tightly integrated into the new story. That said, (though I’m not the best judge) I believe anyone new to this universe can read Inhibitor Phase as a stand alone adventure. I’ve been waiting a long time to get back to that universe (the Prefect novels didn’t quite get me there), and here at last in Inhibitor Phase is a book that links directly to all that future history and delves into questions I’d always been curious about. Here was a great city perched on a chasm being eaten away by a terrible plague, people called Conjoiners with shared mental experience and collective memories, hybrid races of humans, a vast decaying twisted up space ship, powerful women dominating much of the action and an elaborate history of human space exploration over many centuries. Those intricate stories combined deep imagination with scientific care for detail about how things worked. Before then, I just didn’t take SFF seriously, but in those books suddenly my mind popped. When I started reading science fiction seriously almost 20 years ago, Alastair Reynolds and the Revelation Space novels and stories opened the world of the genre to me. |