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Laura Miller's Profile
| Display Name: | Laura Miller |
| About me: | Intermittent (substitute) Librarian at Hennepin County Library. |
| Reading Interests: | A little bit of everything :-) |
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 The reformed vampire support group by Jinks, Catherine. Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime. posted Sep 21, 2010 at 10:17AM
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 Mirror mirror : a book of reversible verse by Singer, Marilyn. A collection of short poems which, when reversed, provide new perspectives on the fairy tale characters they feature. posted Sep 19, 2010 at 3:05PM
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 Boy meets girl by Radunsky, Vladimir. This book with text featuring a boy, a girl, a cat, and a dog can be read forwards or backwards. posted Sep 19, 2010 at 3:05PM
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 Reflections by Jonas, Ann. Chronicles a child's busy day by the sea, in a forest, and then home with the hope of going to a carnival or concert. The illustrations change when the book is turned upside down. posted Sep 19, 2010 at 3:04PM
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 Round trip by Jonas, Ann. Text and reversible black and white illustrations record the sights on a day trip to the city and back home again to the country. posted Sep 19, 2010 at 3:03PM
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 Palazzo Inverso by Johnson, D. B. 1944- A young apprentice to a master builder does some mischief that causes a palace to be built upside-down, which creates all sorts of trouble--and fun. Inspired by the work of M.C. Escher and intended to be read front-to-back, then turned over and read back-to-front. posted Sep 19, 2010 at 3:03PM
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 The turn-around, upside-down alphabet book by Ernst, Lisa Campbell. An alphabet book in which each letter becomes three different objects as the book is turned different directions, as when A becomes a bird's beak, a drippy ice cream cone, and the point of a star. posted Sep 19, 2010 at 3:03PM
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 Fat vampire : a never coming of age story by Rex, Adam, After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation. posted Sep 19, 2010 at 2:36PM
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 Sucks to be me : the all-true confessions of Mina Hamilton, teen vampire (maybe)by Pauley, Kimberly, 1973- When sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents, she also faces a choice between her life-long best friend and the boy she has a crush on versus new friends and possible boyfriends in her mandatory "vampire lessons." posted Sep 19, 2010 at 2:35PM
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 Still sucks to be me : more all-true confessions of Mina Hamilton Smith, teen vaby Pauley, Kimberly, 1973- Sequel to Sucks to Be Me.
When newly-turned teen vampire Mina Hamilton, now Smith, moves with her family far from their California home, her best friend Serena, and her vampire boyfriend George, life is not at all what she expects. posted Sep 19, 2010 at 2:35PM
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| Laura Miller's Book Lists | |
| Novels in Verse (Kids) (17 titles)
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| Novels in Verse (Teens) (12 titles)
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| Not Your Ordinary School (10 titles)
From schools of magic to crime academies to schools for animal-human shape shifters and more- these are definitely not your average schools. | |
| If you like Guinness World Records (7 titles)
Other fun fact books for kids | |
| Fun With Food (9 titles)
Food is more than just for eating! It can be a fun means of artistic expression. | |
| Fun with words (10 titles)
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| From Another Perspective (6 titles)
Turn these picture books upside down, sideways, or read the text in reverse to get a new perspective. | |
| Vampire Humor (7 titles)
If you like vampire books with some humor mixed in, try these books: | |
| Parodies of well-known books (19 titles)
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| Books About Book Clubs (16 titles)
(and one about a movie club) |
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