Mercury Boys A Novel

Mercury Boys A Novel

Chandra Prasod

2021

ISBN: 978-1-64129-265-8

Soho Press, Inc.

349 pages

Living in the present, but wanting to be in past in some way. 'Mercury Boys' is an adolescent novel/young adult novel written by Chandra Prasod that is romance/time travel story. This is the story of Saskia and her search for a perfect boyfriend. The main character of Saskie is a person who really likes history and photography and trying to make lasting friendships through forming a group with similar interests. Saskia and her friends learn various lessons and about acceptance of others and themselves.

Chandra Prasod has written 'Mercury Boys' for young adults who are learning more about themselves as they grow physically and emotionally. Chandra has written a story that is showing and telling how our various relationships that we form will affect how we live with the choices we make or will make. This is also a story of accepting others for who they are and the choices they make. 'Mercury Boys' is a novel for learning about understanding and maybe learn how to understand ourselves and others better through words and actions.

Counselors and social workers could use this novel to teach acceptance of others and provide discussion topics on sexuality, friendship and community issues.

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Beth Legacy of Love

Jeffery Young

2021

ISBN: 978-1-64952-719-6 (paperback)

382 pages

The year is 1976 and oh what a year that was. This is a novel by Jeffery Young who wrote an adult novel for young adults. 'Beth Legacy of Love' is the story of Beth a high school senior, head cheerleader who just wants to do the right thing. She is a person who has many friends or so she thinks. There are many situations that occur that affect the decisions she and her friends need to make. The decisions that Beth, her fellow classmates and even a baseball team all have related needs. 'Beth Legacy of Love' is a novel that would make a good discussion group read to discuss gossip and how it effects everyone one way or another. Other topics could be how the parents in this novel happens to handle various life events dealing with health and illness. A question that can be raised when and after reading could be 'How could Beth have handled the choices she made in a different way?' Did her 'friends' have helped her in her/their decisions on what occurs in all their lives one way or another.

'Beth Legacy of Love' is a good novel that could also be used as a text for how to write a novel involving teens and their parents in a way that does 'read' like an afterschool special.

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A Green Hairy Thing Wearing Dad's Old Vest

Jennifer Coville

2020

ISBN: 9781838750046

31 pages

We can dream anything in our dreams? Jennifer Coville has a children's picture book entitled 'A Green Hairy Thing Wearing Dad's Old Vest'. Jennifer kind of uses all her interests in the writing of this story. This is a story written as a poem about a little boy who has an adventure that takes him to unknown places, but interesting ones that seem to have familiar things.

In this story poem there are rhyming words to make it fun to read, as well as the vivid pictures with all the possible details as when the little boy is in the space capsule looking at planets and landing and yes asking questions and making unusual friends and and from a dream world that he does not want to wake up. 'A Green Hairy Thing Wearing Dad's Old Vest' is quite the modern story from how the main characters dressed to how the house looked even from the rocket ship for there is a bit of realism that went into this children's picture book. This is also a book that introduces what outer space is like that could lead to a science lesson about the stars and planets and even a lab where the students could build a rocket.

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