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Audio Book Review: Liesl & Po
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Liesl & Po Author: Lauren Oliver Narrator: Jim Dale Publisher: Harper Audio Format: MP3 Digital Download Duration: 5 hours and 55 minutes Release Date: October 4, 2011 Source: Audible ——————————————– Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of Note ——————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers looking for a book with a heaping helping of magic! Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N / Book Depository Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and the mice—until one…
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Book Review: Stitch
Media Type: Ebook Title: Stitch *Series: Stitch Trilogy #1 Author: Samantha Durante Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 314 Release Date: August 1, 2012 Source: Author ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of Note ——————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a unique read that blends the science fiction, dystopian fiction and elements of the paranormal. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Her heart races, her muscles coil, and every impulse in Alessa’s body screams at her to run… but yet she’s powerless to move. Still struggling to…
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Book Review: Frozen
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Frozen Author: Mary Casanova Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pages: Hardcover; 264 Release Date: September 1, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy Historical Fiction with vivid characters and story line. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sixteen-year-old Sadie Rose hasn’t said a word in eleven years—ever since the day she was found lying in a snowbank during a howling storm. Like her voice, her memories of her mother and what happened…
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Book Review: What the Heck Dec?!
Media Type: Print Book Title: What the Heck, Dec?! Author: Elizabeth Dudak Publisher: Orange Hat Publishing Pages: Paperback; 264 Release Date: March 29, 2012 Source: Author ———————————— Genre: Romance / Contemporary HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good, quirky romance with great characters. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N / Book Depository Marti Karnawski is waiting in the front office of Noteah Middle School trying to land first her teaching position, not a man. Yet one casual glance at Declan Reed – the school’s droolicious social worker with bad boy…
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Audio Book Review: Girl of Nightmares
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Girl of Nightmares *Series: Anna #2 Author: Kendare Blake Narrator: August Ross Publisher: Audio GO Format: MP3 CD Duration: 10 hours and 3 minutes Source: Audio Go ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence; Swearing ————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It’s been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can’t move on. His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could…
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Book Review: Pushing The Limits
Media Type: Print Book Title: Pushing The Limits Author: Katie McGarry Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: July 31, 2012 Source: Publisher —————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Drug use; Swearing; Violence —————————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a contemporary read with a lot of heart, and a lot of grit. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with “freaky” scars on her arms. Even Echo can’t…
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Book Review: Evergreen
Media Type: Print Book Title: Evergreen * Series: Mer Tales #2 Author: Brenda Pandos Publisher: Obsidian Mountain Publishing Pages: Paperback; 275 Release Date: June 29, 2012 Source: Author ——————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ——————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a great mermaid story and a fabulous romance! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A kingdom on the brink of war. A king on the fringes of insanity. A family running for their lives. Ash and Fin’s only desire is to be together…
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Book Review: Throne of Glass
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Throne of Glass *Series: Throne of Glass #1 Author: Sarah J. Maas Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Pages: Hardcover; 416 Release Date: August 7, 2012 Source: NetGalley ——————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language ——————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a strong female character, and amazing adventure! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince.…
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Book Review: So L.A.
Media Type: Print Book Title: So L.A. Author: Bridget Hoida Publisher: Lettered Press Pages: Paperback; 384 Release Date: June 20, 2012 Source: TLC Book Tours / Author ——————————————– Genre: Contemporary HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love reality tv, and are okay with satirical humor Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Magdalena de la Cruz breezed through Berkeley and built an empire selling designer water. She’d never felt awkward or unattractive… until she moved to Los Angeles. In L.A., where “everything smells like acetone and Errol Flynn,” Magdalena attempts to reinvent…
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Book Review: The Downside of Being Charlie
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Downside of Being Charlie Author: Jenny Torres Sanchez Publisher: Running Press Kids Pages: Paperback; 268 Release Date: May 22, 2012 Source: Publisher ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ————————————- HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Everyone. Seriously. EVERYONE. Especially readers who enjoy contemporary reads. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Charlie is handed a crappy senior year. Despite losing thirty pounds over the summer, he still gets called “Chunks” Grisner. What’s worse, he has to share a locker with the biggest Lord…