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Book Review: The Summer of May
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: The Summer of May Author: Cecilia Galante Publisher: Aladdin Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: April 26, 2011 Source: GalleyGrab ==================== Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade/Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing to report. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Galante’s bittersweet story of a troubled 13-year-old stars spunky Maeve (May) O’Toole, who holds a lot of grudges. May’s most recent target is her English teacher, “Movado the Avocado,” who she blames for having to repeat English in summer school. Spending her mornings prepping and painting the classroom wall she defaced during the school year and doing…
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Tens List with Alissa Grosso
Tweet Alissa Grosso is here today, and I’m excited! She’s on a tour promoting her newest book, Popular, which I’m pretty psyched about, I shan’t lie. Anyway since I only ask the important questions, I asked Alissa to share with us her Top 10 Snack Foods. Ready to see what she picked? I’ll be the first to say I’d share a snack fridge with her any day! Alissa Grosso’s Top 10 Snack Foods First off, I would like to say that FINALLY someone is asking me the important questions! Also, I would like to point that being asked to name my…
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Join me on a mysterious adventure!
Tweet Morning everyone! (Or afternoon as the case may be.) I’m here to share some awesome info with you and explain why I might be jumping up and down giddily the next few days and attacking you with blog posts asking for help. See I’m participating in the ABC Family Nine Paths Game, that promotes their new show, The Nine Lives of Chloe King. The show sounds and looks amazing, so imagine my surprise and awe when they asked me to help promote it! To start our journey, we received a mysterious box: Upon opening said box, I found lots…
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An Interview with Alyssa from She Loves You, She Loves You Not…
Tweet I’m lucky to have Julie Anne Peters stopping by with a character interview! Her new book, She Loves You, She Loves You Not… is utterly fantastic and I had the awesome opportunity to interview Alyssa, the main character. I love her answers! Take a look! 1) Welcome Alyssa! Let’s start with something fun. You receive a free trip to anywhere in the world you want to go. Where do you choose? Wow. Anywhere? Canada. (Answer deeply influenced by Finn’s birthplace J.) 2) How would you describe yourself in just three words? Out Proud Lesbian 3) How would you describe Carly? …
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Special Subscriber Giveaway!
Tweet Just a heads up! There is a special giveaway on my newsletter this week! If you would like to enter, all you have to do is subscribe and click the link. You can subscribe to it by clicking the button to the left, and see the most recent issue by clicking here. ENJOY!
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Book Review: Unearthly
Media Type: Book Title: Unearthly Author: Cynthia Hand Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: Hardcover; 435 Release Date: January 4, 2011 Source: NetGalley ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart In the beginning, there’s a boy standing in the trees… Clara Gardner has recently learned that she’s part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do.…
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Book Review: OyMG
Media Type: Book Title: OyMG Author: Amy Fellner Dominy Publisher: Walker & Company Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: May 10, 2011 Source: Author/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing! HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Jewish girl. Christian camp. Holy moly. Ellie Taylor loves nothing better than a good argument. So when she gets accepted to the Christian Society Speech and Performing Arts summer camp, she’s sure that if she wins the final tournament, it’ll be her ticket to a scholarship to the best speech school in the country. Unfortunately, the competition at CSSPA is hot-literally.…
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A big hello!
Tweet Well hello there new followers! Welcome welcome welcome! I realize if you’ve just started following me you probably haven’t seen a post where I actually write. Okay, well, that’s a little confusing. I WRITE all my posts! However sometimes I like to get a little candid now and then :). Yeah I’m random. Anyway welcome and thanks for following! Feel free to comment or not, and enjoy the giveaways! If you ever do comment I’ll go visit your blog too if you have one! I’m rambling I realize. It’s late, bed time! However the whole point of this was…
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Book Review: With or Without You
Media Type: Book Title: With or Without You Author: Brian Farrey Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Paperback; 368 Release Date: May 24, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: violence; mild language; sexual scenarios HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Eighteen year-old Evan and his best friend, Davis, get beaten up for being loners. For being gay. For just being themselves. But as rough as things often seem, at least Evan can take comfort in his sweet, sexy boyfriend Erik–whom he’s kept secret from everyone for almost a year. Then Evan and Davis are recruited to…
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OyMG Tens List!
Tweet Today I have Amy Fellner Dominy, author of OyMG, here to share a tens list! This one is a little special, as it is a list of Yiddish quotes. Yup, Yiddish! Read the book and you’ll understand. It’s fantastic! ENJOY! (Number 2 is by far my favorite.) There’s a character in OyMG who says exactly what he thinks, talks to dead people, eats cookies for breakfast and loves to quote wisdom in a foreign language. The character is Ellie’s grandfather, Zeydeh, and the language is Yiddish. Yiddish is a mix of German and Hebrew and was first spoken by…