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New At The Library
Here’s what’s new at the Yankton Community Library
this week:
Adult Books
• Country by Danielle Steel; Fiction
• Ever After by Jude Deveraux; Fiction
• Invasion of Privacy by Christopher Reich; Fiction
• Love May Fail by Matthew Quick; Fiction
• The Melody Lingers On by Mary Higgins Clark; Fiction
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
by Fredrik Backman; Fiction
• Paradise Sky by Joe R. Lansdale; Fiction
• Summer Secrets by Jane Green; Fiction
• Under Fire by Tom Clancy; Fiction
• War of the Roses: Margaret of Anjou by Conn Iggulden; Fiction
• Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich; Fiction
• The Ultimatum by Dick Wolf; Fiction
• The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan;
Nonfiction
• Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson; Nonfiction
Young Adult Books
• Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone; Fiction
• Omega Dragon by Bryan Davis; Fiction
Junior Books
• The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft, 2nd ed.
by Stephen O’Brien; Nonfiction
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The Bookworm ... For Kids
Haunting ‘Boo’ Will Please
“Boo” by Neil Smith; © 2015, Vintage;
310 pages.
———
BY TERRI SCHICHENMEYER
All your life, you’ve tried very hard to
be good.
You’ve volunteered your time, given
to charity, stood up for kids who are
bullied and tried to set a good example.
You do these things because you like the
way they make you feel and because you
sometimes think about where you’ll go
when you die. But in the new book “Boo”
by Neil Smith, this heaven isn’t all it’s
cracked up to be.
When Oliver Dalrymple woke up to
find himself in a room he didn’t recognize, in a bed next to which sat a snoring
black girl, he quickly assumed that he
was dead.
What else could he think? The last
he remembered, it was the fourth day of
eighth grade at Helen Keller Junior High
and he’d finally had success at memorizing the periodic tables before falling to
the floor. His parents always said that he
had a hole in his heart, so he figured that
was what killed him.
The black girl, his guide, Thelma
Rudd, confirmed it. Oliver, known as
“Boo” to his classmates because of his
pale-pale skin, had been “rebirthed.”
He’d “passed” into this place everyone
called “Town,” where he’d forever be
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thirteen years old, skinny and nonathletic. He’d always be super-smart —
although he might grow wiser - and he’d
stay that way for fifty years before he’d
vanish for good.
Town was an unusual place.
Nothing was breakable there; glass,
buildings and humans all repaired
themselves spontaneously. It was
always sunny, the sky never changed,
there were no birds, and while there
were some Earthly accoutrements, they
were meted out by a god Boo called Zig,
whom nobody ever saw.
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These were things Boo wrote down,
in case his parents might someday find
him or he might find a mythical portal
back to Earth. And so, he settled in to
observe and journal — until another boy
arrived in Town.
If it could be said that Boo had any
friends in life, Johnny Henzel’s name
would have been singularly mentioned,
but now Johnny had a bombshell to
deliver: Boo didn’t die of a holey heart.
The two boys had been shot, and Johnny
thought he could remember that the
killer had died, too. Would Zig have let a
murderer in Town?
As a little bit of a nerd myself, I fell in
love with “Boo” on the very first page.
Author Neil Smith’s title character is
annoyingly smart and fully cognizant of
his social ineptness, neither of which he
can control. He’s guileless, but that innocence is tarnished by a threatening pulse
that runs softly through this story itself.
That grows as the plot progresses, and
it’s cleverly underscored by numerous
mini-shocks that surprise readers again
and again, and an ending you may sense
but won’t totally see coming.
As with so many young adult novels
these days, this book is definitely not
just for teens. I say buy it for your 13- to
17-year-old, but borrow it back and read
it yourself … because “Boo” is very
good.
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