Refresher for Series Reading
The Recaptains
website reminds you what happened in a book to get you ready to read next book in series. As it states on their web page, “Yay! The next book in your favorite series is coming out soon! But hey, wait a second… what was it that happened in book 1 again? Did they kiss? Did they beat the bad guy? Did they have to run for their lives and was there a Cliffhanger with Capital C?” Now you can find out quickly and easily what happened in the previous book.
It contains Goodreads summaries and with a click on “read more” you can access more detailed information. There it includes an “In Short” paragraph, a “What Went Down” bulleted list of actions that occurred in the book, and “How Did It End.” I just read through the information on
The Diviners by Libba Bray since I plan to read the sequel
Lair of Dreams this weekend. It did a great job of reminding me who the characters are and what events happened in the first book. It doesn’t cover everything, I just searched for Terry Pratchett and he is not on their author list, still I’m going to be using this site often.
My highlighted book this time is
Jack: The True Story of Jack & the Beanstalk by Liesl Shurtliff; I heard the author speak at the Norfolk Public Library’s 21
st Annual Literature Festival held on July 25, 2015, which is a great opportunity to hear authors talk about their writing processes and get a book signed! (Their next Festival is scheduled for July 30, 2016.)
In the book, Jack’s 7-times great grandfather was the famous Jack the Giant Killer and this Jack wants to imitate him, except that there are no giants. But then two giants come down from the sky and take everything – the entire town – and Jack is soon up in their land to find his father and slay some giants. Things are not that easy. Full of adventure this twist on the fairy tale is logical and fun – with a bit of a message about greed. Fans of her book
Rump: The True Story of Rumplestiltskin (one of the Golden Sower nominees for 2015-2016) are sure to grab it. This book is written for grades 3-6.
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free, via the Regional Library Systems, to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
