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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…
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Book Review: Tighter
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Tighter Author: Adele Griffin Publisher: Knopf Books Pages: Hardcover; 208 Release Date: May 10, 2011 Source: Author/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Clean read! HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart When 17-year-old Jamie arrives on the idyllic New England island of Little Bly to work as a summer au pair, she is stunned to learn of the horror that precedes her. Seeking the truth surrounding a young couple’s tragic deaths, Jamie discovers that she herself looks shockingly like the dead girl—and that she has a disturbing ability to sense the two…
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Interviewing C. Lee McKenzie and a giveaway!
Tweet A treat for you today my friends! C. Lee McKenzie, author of Princess of Las Pulgas, is here for an interview. This interview is a bit special though because it’s answered by both Lee herself AND a character from her other amazing book, Sliding on the Edge. Take some time and get to know them both! 1. If you had to choose an animal to describe you, what would it be and why? Shawna – It depends on when you ask me this question. Before I came to Sweet River, I would have said my favorite animal was a cat and…
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Teenage Garage Sale – Liz Gallagher’s Edition!
Tweet Being grilled on the blog today is Liz Gallagher, author of recently published My Not So Still Life. She’s here today to share a little bit about her past in a post that we invented on The Teen {Book} Scene called “Teenage Garage Sale”. Let’s see what things we might be able to buy if we went back to Liz’s teen days! Ooh, fun. Picturing my old room … I’d have oodles of cassette tapes to sell. As a young teen, I wouldn’t have parted with any New Kids on the Block or Debbie Gibson. They would’ve been priceless.…
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Book Review: Here Lies Bridget
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Here Lies Bridget Author: Paige Harbison Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: Paperback; 224 Release Date: January 18, 2011 Source: NetGalley ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Bridget Duke is the uncontested ruler of her school. The meanest girl with the biggest secret insecurities. And when new girl Anna Judge arrives, things start to fall apart for Bridget: friends don’t worship as attentively, teachers don’t fall for her wide-eyed “who me?” look, expulsion looms ahead and the one boy she’s always loved—Liam Ward—can barely even look…
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Follow Friday and Book Blogger Hop!
Tweet Hi everyone hopping and following! Welcome! If you happen to follow my humble little blog here, please leave a comment so I can follow you back! What is the most scene in a book that you have read lately? Oh man. Hands down, the book Invincible Summer by Hannah Moskowitz wins for emotional scenes! I can’t spoil, but let’s just say that the family in that book just can’t catch a break and near the end something happens that just…AH! Breaks your heart in two. I think I sobbed through the last 150 pages of that book. Get a box…