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...LOUIS SACHAR...
Maybe you remember a guy named Armpit from Sachar's last book, Holes? Big, muscular, convicted of assault? You get to know him a lot better in Small Steps. He's out of juvie and trying to go straight as a landscaper-slash-high-school student. Unfortunately his buddy X-Ray (another Holes alum) gets him back into trouble over a ticket-scalping scheme. And when a chance meeting gets Armpit mixed up with a teen pop superstar (the tickets were for her concert), things get complicated. It's a fairy-tale setup, but Sachar gives his characters real emotions...
...which has a joint venture with Pocket Books, and with the Internet and kids' ease in processing information in unconventional formats. Smack is told by multiple narrators. Monster, the latest novel by veteran children's book author Walter Dean Myers, is recounted in the form of a screenplay. Louis Sachar's Holes, last year's Newbery and National Book Award winner about a boy erroneously sent to a juvenile detention center, shuttles between past and present...
...part of the Conscience and Courage film series about resistance during the Holocaust, take in a screening of The White Rose. Director Michael Verhoeven will be there and you should be too.Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar International Center, Brandeis University, South St., Waltham. 781-736-8600. 7:30 p.m. FREE...
...will receive the Sachar award, a tribute to BRandis founding president and current chancellor presented every year by the 65,000 member BRandeis University Women's Committee, on June...