Young Adult
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Blog Tour Stop: Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli
Welcome to one of the stops (the last one!) on the Raincoast Books blog tour for David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli’s graphic novel Fish Girl! Please read on for my thoughts as well as a look inside the book… Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Read more
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Coming up: Blog Tour for Fish Girl by David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli!
Next week, I am participating in the Raincoast Books organized tour for Fish Girl, a graphic novel by multiple Caldecott winner David Wiesner and Donna Jo Napoli! I am delighted to be taking part as I am a huge fan of David Wiesner’s illustrative work (Sector 7, Flotsam, Mr. Wuffles) and Donna Jo Napoli’s work Read more
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Review: The Other F-Word by Natasha Friend
dReview: The Other F-Word by Natasha Friend Source: ARC courtesy of Raincoast Books. Thank you! Expected publication: March 7, 2017 by Farrar Straus & Giroux Book Description: Hollis Darby-Barnes has never met her father, but she hates him. For making her feel like a lab experiment, a half-person, a freak. Sometimes she fantasizes about tracking the guy Read more
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Review: Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen
Review: Optimists Die First by Susin Nielsen Source: ARC courtesy of Susin Nielsen and Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada. Thank you! Expected publication: February 21, 2017 by Tundra Books Book Description: Petula’s funny, and a crafting genius, but no social star at high school, and it doesn’t help that she’s isolated herself after her adored Read more
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Must Read Monday (57): YA from Nina LaCour, Robin Roe & Katie Kennedy
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: new and upcoming young adult fiction titles on Read more
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Review: If This Is Home by Kristine Scarrow
Review: If This Is Home by Kristine Scarrow Source: ARC courtesy of Dundurn Press. Thank you! Canadian Publication: January 28, 2017 by Dundurn Press Book Description: When her mom is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Jayce searches for her estranged father, hoping he can fix everything. Jayce Loewen has had to take on a lot of Read more
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Blog Tour Stop: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti!
Welcome to one of the stops on the Raincoast Books blog tour for Chelsea Sedoti’s contemporary YA debut, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett! Read on for my thoughts on the book as well as a special Q & A with Chelsea! The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti Source: ARC courtesy of Read more
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Coming up: Blog Tour for The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett!
What a week, folks! The New Year started off brilliantly with a dinner out and a trip to the theatre to see the gorgeous and moving La La Land and then…cue sad trombone music. I’ve been trying to recuperate from a dragging-on illness and then our little one got sick as well. It was a Read more
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Best of 2016: YA, Adult Fiction & Non-Fiction
Now it’s time for part two of my ‘Best of 2016’ reads: this post’s focus is all about young adult and adult fiction. I feel that, while my reading year was overwhelmingly picture books and middle grade lit, there was so much depth and matter in the contained selection of YA and adult fiction I Read more
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Year End Giveaway: Children’s/YA Book Bundle & Adult Fiction Book Bundle!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for giveaways! Right?! Over the course of the year, I have- through a variety of ways- accumulated duplicate copies of some titles. Whether through generous publisher extras, my own purchases, gifts, etc., I have a handful of titles I would like to give readers a chance to win Read more
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