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Book Review: The Way We Fall
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Way We Fall Author: Megan Crewe Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: January 24, 2011 Source: Big Honcho Media —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dystopian reads, but are looking for something a bit different. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It starts with an itch you just can’t shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you’ll be blabbing your secrets and chatting…
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Book Review: Pure
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Pure (Pure #1) Author: Julianna Baggott Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Pages: Hardcover; 448 Release Date: February 8, 2012 Source: NetGalley ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of Dystopian fiction Add it on : Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . . Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather,…
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Book Review: Pretty Bones
Media Type: Print Book Title: Pretty Bones Author: Aya Tsintziras Publisher: Lorimer Pages: Paperback; 160 Release Date: September 2, 2011 Source: Teen Book Scene —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note. —————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are comfortable with discussions of anorexia. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Raine has a family, good grades, best friends, and a boyfriend who loves her. But then anorexia takes over, and her life spirals out of control. Her efforts to hide her condition are finished when she collapses…
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Book Review: Saving June
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Saving June Author: Hannah Harrington Publisher: Harlequin Pages: Paperback; 322 Release Date: November 22, 2011 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language; Sexual Situations —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Key to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good contemporary read. Readers okay with upper YA themes. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When her older sister commits suicide and her divorcing parents decide to divide the ashes, Harper Scott takes her sister’s urn to the one place June always wanted to go: California. On the…
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Book Review: Heavenly
Media Type: Print Book Title: Heavenly (Heavenly #1) Author: Jennifer Laurens Publisher: Grove Creek Pages: Paperback; 296 Release Date: August 15, 2009 Source: Won from author ———————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a well written angel story! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N I met someone who changed everything. Matthias. My autistic sister’s guardian angel. Honest. Inspiring. Funny. Hot. And immortal. That was the problem. What could I do? I did what any other…
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Book Review: Cinder
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) Author: Marissa Meyer Publisher: Fiewel & Friends Pages: Hardcover; 387 Release Date: January 3, 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 fairy tale retellings, mashed with a bit of science fiction! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one…
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Book Review: The Next Shakespeare
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Next Shakespeare Author: Wanda Ernstberger Publisher: Etopia Press Pages: Ebook; 20 Source: Author ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing of note ———————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy short stories, or those looking to take a great respite from long books. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Who thought a poem would trigger World War Three? Tristan Gunner—skateboard fanatic, junk food junkie, award-winning poet. But you’d think he just got detention instead of the school’s grand prize for poetry. And even though…
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Book Review: Feyland
Media Type: Ebook Title: Feyland Author: Anthea Sharp Publisher: Self Pages: Kindle; 159 Release Date: December 4, 2011 Source: Author ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Fantasy Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Lovers of Fantasy Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N WHEN A GAME… Feyland is the most immersive computer game ever designed, and Jennet Carter is the first to play the prototype. But she doesn’t suspect the virtual world is close enough to touch — or that she’ll be battling for her life against the Dark…
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Book Review: Happy Birthday to Me
Media Type: Ebook Title: Happy Birthday to Me Author: Brian Rowe Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: Kindle; 175 Release Date: April 7, 2011 Source: Author ——————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ——————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good heartfelt storyline Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Seventeen-year-old Cameron Martin has a huge problem: he’s aging a whole year of his life with each passing day! High school is hard enough; imagine rapidly aging from seventeen to seventy in a matter of weeks, with no logical explanation,…
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Book Review: The Printmaker’s Daughter
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Printmaker’s Daughter Author: Katherine Govier Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: Paperback; 494 Release Date: November 22, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ———————————————– Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy vivid storytelling and historical references. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place in history in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimed author Katherine Govier. In the evocative tale of 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker’s Daughter delivers an enthralling tale of…