Young Adult
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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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Graphic Novel Review: Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol
Review: Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol, color by Alec Longstreth Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Publication: April 24, 2018 by First Second Book Description: All Vera wants to do is fit in – but that’s not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their 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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Coming Up: Blog Tour for Amy Spalding’s The Summer of Jordi Perez!
I am excited to be participating in Thomas Allen & Son‘s upcoming blog tour supporting author Amy Spalding‘s latest buzzed about YA release, The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles)! Take a look below for the blog tour information- you’ll see that there’s not only the promise of reviews and 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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Must Read Monday (76): YA from S.K. Ali, Kelly Jones, Mitali Perkins & more!
Welcome to another 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 is another spotlight on young adult fiction! Six Read more
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Blog Tour Stop: Eileen Cook’s The Hanging Girl!
Welcome to one of the stops on the Raincoast Books tour for Canadian author Eileen Cook‘s latest young adult novel, The Hanging Girl! Read on for my thoughts on the novel as well as a special Q&A that the wonderful author herself participated in! The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Read more
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