The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks

I loved 99% of this book.  The ending was left so wide open, I am praying for a sequel. The exploits of Frankie Landau Banks have obviously just begun.  Infiltrating the top secret society of her prep school as a sophomore leaves two more years to create havoc.

Why should we care?  Frankie is out to take down the "good old boy" system.  She knows where the power lies and with her keen eye for strategy and detail, I am sure she can find some new icons to overthrow.  I am also dying to know what happens in several of her unresolved relationships.  Author E. Lockhart has left the second semester wide open and too many characters hanging.  I want/need to know more.

The book trailer doesn't do it justice, but here it is anyway:
History of Frankie Landau Banks Trailer

Starting a Twitter Book Club

The Norris HS students will be starting a Twitter Book club this fall.  My hope is to have the first title chosen soon and announce it when we come back from Labor Day weekend.  To sign up and or nominate a title check out the book club page.

Getting Ready for School!

I'm in BACK TO SCHOOL mode, frantically inputting new students into the library database and coding all of the magazines that came in this summer.  I'm still reading, just not as much.

 I have just started Feed by M.T. Anderson. It is a story about a future world where television and computers are connected directly into people's brains when they are babies. The result is a chillingly recognizable consumer society where empty-headed kids are driven by fashion and shopping and the avid pursuit of silly entertainment--even on trips to Mars and the moon--and by constant customized murmurs in their brains of encouragement to buy, buy, buy.  Click here to read an excerpt.