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Blog Tour Stop: SADIE by Courtney Summers
Welcome to one of the first stops on the Raincoast Books blog tour celebrating Canadian author Courtney Summers’ latest young adult release, the thriller Sadie! Today, the tour stops by my site and at Pop! Goes the Reader. Sadie has been gaining major momentum leading up to its release and has already received four starred… Read more
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Review: After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay
Review: After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: March 6, 2018 by HMH Books for Young Readers Book Description: Bunny and Nasir have been best friends forever, but when Bunny accepts an athletic scholarship across town, Nasir feels betrayed. While Bunny tries to fit in with… Read more
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Review: The Ruinous Sweep by Tim Wynne-Jones
Review: The Ruinous Sweep by Tim Wynne-Jones Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Candlewick Press. Thank you! Publication: June 26, 2018 by Candlewick Press Book Description: On the night Donovan Turner is thrown out of a car on a highway in the middle of nowhere, he can barely remember his own name, let alone the past twenty-four… Read more
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Reviews: Kate Messner’s Breakout & Sarah Crossan’s Moonrise
Review posts featuring a children’s lit title and young adult lit title don’t often (if ever!) appear on this site. However, after reading Kate Messner’s Breakout (the children’s title) and Sarah Crossan’s Moonrise (the young adult title) in succession, I thought it might be interesting to pair them together in a review. Both titles deal… Read more
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Coming Up: Blog Tour for Leila Sales’ latest YA & more!
The blog tour for Leila Sales’ latest young adult title, If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, begins on April 29th and it will be stopping here on May 2nd! Do stop by and check out my thoughts on Sales’ contemporary, timely story. I have had such a string of wonderful- truly excellent- reads… Read more
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Review: Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson & Emily Carroll
Review: Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson, illustrated by Emily Carroll Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: February 6, 2018 by Farrar Straus & Giroux Book Description: The critically acclaimed, award-winning, modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel. “Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have… Read more
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Blog Tour Stop: Amy Spalding’s The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles)!
Welcome to one of the stops on the Thomas Allen & Son’s blog tour for Amy Spalding latest contemporary young adult title, The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles)! Read on for my thoughts on the book, my thoughts about burgers (yes!), more about Amy, and …the link to The… Read more
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Must Read Monday (78): YA titles from Emily X.R. Pan, Nic Stone, Melissa Albert & more!
Welcome to the second 2018 edition of Must Read Monday! This feature is where I spotlight older, recent, or upcoming releases I am looking forward to. The lists will include all genres I like to read, everything from picture books to comics, children’s lit to adult fiction! This week: all about young adult titles! I’ve… Read more
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Best of 2017, Part 1: Children’s Lit, Young Adult, Adult Fiction & more!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful, safe and lovely holiday season, whatever your celebrations may be! I am rather late in posting this, but I wanted to get in my 2017 reading highlights before the end of the year. In no particular order, here are my book selections for part one, hope you enjoy! … Read more
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