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Book Review: Forgotten
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Forgotten Author: Cat Patrick Publisher: Little, Brown Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: June 7, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing to report! HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Each night when 16 year-old London Lane goes to sleep, her whole world disappears. In the morning, all that’s left is a note telling her about a day she can’t remember. The whole scenario doesn’t exactly make high school or dating that hot guy whose name she can’t seem to recall any easier. But when London starts experiencing disturbing visions…
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Book Review: Flying Blind (The Dragon Diaries #1)
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Flying Blind Author: Deborah Cooke Publisher: New American Library Pages: Paperback; 336 Release Date: June 7, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Zoë Sorensson is perfectly normal, except she’s been told she’s destined for great things. Zoë’s the one female dragon shapeshifter of her kind. But Zoë is at the bottom of the class when it comes to being Pyr and her powers are AWOL, so she’s sent to a Pyr boot camp. Zoë quickly realizes that she has to master…
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Book Review: The Sext Crime
Media Type: Book Title: CYA 2: The Sext Crime Author: Jason Ancona Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 280 Release Date: February 27, 2011 Source: Author ====================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Do awesome dance moves count? HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart SNAP–a girl sexts racy pics of herself. She thought the fun shots would stay between her and her boyfriend. SNAP–an anonymous hacker hijacks her photos. If she doesn’t obey, she’ll be exposed. SNAP–the Covert Youth Agency takes the girl’s case. The agents jump headfirst into Operation: Sext Crime. Their new client has less than a week…
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Meeting Amalie Howard & a giveaway!
Tweet Amalie Howard is stopping by today to promote her debut novel, Bloodspell on an epic blog tour! I’m lucky enough to have a special bio to post in her honor. She even brought a giveaway with her, you lucky people you. Spoiled, that’s what we are. As a book blogger, I love to learn more about authors so this was great for me! Take a look! My Twitter handle says that I’m a “writer, mother, dreamer, jedi, superhero, evil genius, and part-time lunatic.” That’s me in a nutshell. I write books for young adults because I have a thirteen-year-old girl…
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Book Review: She Loves You, She Loves You Not
Media Type: Book Title: She Loves You, She Loves You Not Author: Julie Anne Peters Publisher: Little, Brown Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: June 1, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ======================= Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Sexual situations; Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Seventeen-year-old Alyssa thought she knew who she was. She had her family, her best friends, and most importantly, she had Sarah. Sarah, her girlfriend, with whom she dreamed with about the day they could move far away and live out and proud and accepted for themselves, instead of having to hide their relationship. Alyssa…
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Favorite Books with Cat Patrick
Tweet Lucky day! Cat Patrick is here to share a bit about herself in honor of her newest book, Forgotten. The best part? She’s here to share her favorite books! For bibliophiles like us, what could be better? Hubby and I try hard not to spoil our girls. In our house, you don’t get a treat for riding quietly in the basket at Target—unless you consider paper towels a treat, which under certain circumstances, I guess they are—and the soft lovie at the check stand is cute to pet while Mommy pays but we always need to tell him “bye,…
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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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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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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.…