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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pixieland Diaries by Christina Bauer</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Release Date: </i>March 31st 2020</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Synopsis: </i></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">WARNING</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">If you don’t like pixies, don’t read this diary.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">If you don’t like loud-mouthed pixies who are really cool but sometimes get told they’re immature (for no reason), then definitely stop reading.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Oh, and if you’re His Awfulness The Elf Prince ‘Dare’ Darius, then you can kiss my butt. My hatred for you burns with the fire of a thousand suns. Thanks for getting me kicked out of Pixieland and exiled to attend some rando human high school on Earth. You’re the worst, even if you have a cute smile. And nice eyes. Your hair looks okay sometimes, too. But you’re still a creep and I loathe you.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">And to everyone else: if you’ve read this far, then you better finish my entire diary.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">My story is supernatural, whacked-out, and overall awesome.</span></span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><i><b>Meet Christina,</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christina Bauer thinks that fantasy books are like bacon: they just make life better. All of which is why she writes romance novels that feature demons, dragons, wizards, witches, elves, elementals, and a bunch of random stuff that she brainstorms while riding the Boston T. Oh, and she includes lots of humor and kick-ass chicks, too. Christina lives in Newton, MA with her husband, son, and semi-insane golden retriever, Ruby. She loves to connect with her fans at BauersBooks.com.</span></span></div>
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Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611160565033490204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858413271179601719.post-48204940842416930102020-03-20T00:00:00.000-07:002020-03-20T00:00:02.017-07:00Blog Tour: Sparrow by Mary Cecilia Jackson REVIEW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sparrow by Mary Cecilia Jackson</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Release Date: </b>March 17, 2020 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Synopsis: </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">In the tradition of Laurie Halse Anderson’s <i>Speak,</i> a devastating but hopeful YA debut about a ballerina who finds the courage to confront the abuse that haunts her past and threatens her future.</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">There are two kinds of people on the planet. Hunters and prey</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">I thought I would be safe after my mother died. I thought I could stop searching for new places to hide. But you can’t escape what you are, what you’ve always been.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">My name is Savannah Darcy Rose.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">And I am still prey.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;">Though Savannah Rose―Sparrow to her friends and family―is a gifted ballerina, her real talent is keeping secrets. Schooled in silence by her long-dead mother, Sparrow has always believed that her lifelong creed―“I’m not the kind of girl who tells”―will make her just like everyone else: Normal. Happy. Safe. But in the aftermath of a brutal assault by her seemingly perfect boyfriend Tristan, Sparrow must finally find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past, or lose herself forever….</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCP1LOTKlBHkJDuVtLbQQOCXjV2pmW4gV6lOp17_7Ia9TQYvO8QNea1hVJquEmRPwJsaOvu_Pg1MTqsD0HFdq41cM-UBi4kCBIWjBrQg3e_2JYhjFmR94hKF-7SibBWM8MMeKDfoxhLT0/s1600/SgTp5ZBA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCP1LOTKlBHkJDuVtLbQQOCXjV2pmW4gV6lOp17_7Ia9TQYvO8QNea1hVJquEmRPwJsaOvu_Pg1MTqsD0HFdq41cM-UBi4kCBIWjBrQg3e_2JYhjFmR94hKF-7SibBWM8MMeKDfoxhLT0/s1600/SgTp5ZBA.jpeg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Mary Cecilia Jackson has worked as a middle school teacher, an adjunct instructor of college freshmen, a technical writer and editor, a speechwriter, a museum docent, and a development officer for central Virginia's PBS and NPR stations. Her first novel, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Sparrow</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">, was an honor recipient of the SCBWI Sue Alexander Award and a young-adult finalist in the Writers' League of Texas manuscript contest. She lives with her architect husband, William, in Western North Carolina and Hawaii, where they have a farm and five ridiculously adorable goats.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Books give readers emotions. Good books give readers more than ONE emotion. The best books make a reader feel like they are living life along with the characters. Sparrow by Mary Cecilia Jackson does every single one of these things. For starters, there are so many books out there with multiple names, that it can be hard to find character names that stick out to readers. Sparrow is both a beautiful name and represents an unforgettable character.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Synopsis: </b><b style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">In the tradition of <i>Girl, Interrupted</i>, this fiery historical novel follows four young women in the early 20th century whose lives intersect when they are locked up by a world that took the poor, the disabled, the marginalized—and institutionalized them for life.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">The Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded is not a happy place. The young women who are already there certainly don’t think so. Not Maxine, who is doing everything she can to protect her younger sister Rose in an institution where vicious attendants and bullying older girls treat them as the morons, imbeciles, and idiots the doctors have deemed them to be. Not Alice, either, who was left there when her brother couldn’t bring himself to support a sister with a club foot. And not London, who has just been dragged there from the best foster situation she’s ever had, thanks to one unexpected, life altering moment. Each girl is determined to change her fate, no matter what it takes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>MEET J. ALBERT MANN,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">J. Albert Mann is the author of the “Sunny Sweet” series, a humorous and quirky set of middle grade stories published by Bloomsbury Children’s USA, as well as "SCAR," a historical fiction novel set during the Revolutionary War published by Boyds Mills Press/Calkins Creek. Jennifer’s short stories have been published by Highlights for Children, where she won the Highlights for Children Fiction Contest. Her next novel--a biographical historical fiction about Margaret Sanger--will be published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster. Jennifer has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Art.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lab Partners by Mora Montgomery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Publisher: Wattpad Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Publication Date: March 10, 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Sometimes you don’t know who you love, until they love you ...</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">When Jordan Hughes arrives at Pinecrest High School, Elliot Goldman’s graduating year suddenly gets a lot more interesting. Smart, good looking and charming, Jordan isn’t exactly the kind of person Elliot’s used to having as a lab partner. But when they start acing their assignments, life is suddenly about more than boring lectures, bad cafeteria nachos, or relentless bullying, and for the first time ever, Elliot can’t wait to get to chemistry class.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">As they start spending more time together outside of school, Elliot realizes he’s never met anyone quite like Jordan. And then everything changes one night when Jordan kisses him, making Elliot question everything about their relationship and about himself. The butterflies start to make sense—the trouble is, right now, nothing else does.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Love was the last thing on Elliot’s mind. But as he begins to figure out how he really feels about Jordan, he realizes that sometimes the last thing you are looking for is the one thing you need the most.</span></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transcendent by Jus Accardo</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">The boy she’d lost, and finally found again, is not the same boy she remembers. As one of the most powerful Sixes, Kale has changed in ways Dez can’t ignore.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">He swore he’d never kill, and now he’s out for blood.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">He swore he’d never harm her, and now he struggles to control his fatal touch.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">They’ve been to hell and back, over and over, but this time they might not survive the fire.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">When the truth at the root of the Denazen Corporation’s origins begins to unfold, those behind the scenes will do anything to keep it hidden.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Dez and Kale will be pushed to their breaking point. As long buried secrets come to light, they must fight for their freedom—and each other—as they never have before.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Kale’s destructive power could win the battle, if he doesn’t lose himself to it in the process. Or Dez will be faced with an impossible task—saving the world from the boy she loves.</span></span><br />
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<b><i>MEET JUS,</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">JUS ACCARDO spent her childhood reading and learning to cook. Determined to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps as a chef, she applied and was accepted to the Culinary Institute of America. But at the last minute, she realized her true path lay with fiction, not food.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Jus is the bestselling author of the popular Denazen series from Entangled publishing, as well as the Darker Agency series, and the New Adult series, The Eternal Balance. A native New Yorker, she lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, three dogs, and sometimes guard bear, Oswald.</span></span><br />
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Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611160565033490204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858413271179601719.post-85109638215910263562020-02-27T00:00:00.000-08:002020-02-27T00:00:09.350-08:00REVIEW: Keep Me Wanting by Angela Addams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Keep Me Wanting by Angela Addams</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Release Date: </i>February 10, 2020</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Synopsis: </i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">All I’ve ever tried to do is keep the people in my life safe. That’s gotten me into hot water more times than I can count. Hell, the last time got me four years behind bars.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">So when my favorite barista tells her mom that I’m her boyfriend to stop the woman’s endless criticism, I can’t stop myself from helping her out. But she’s too innocent and I’m too damaged for this to ever be the real deal.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I can’t allow myself to touch her, not when making her mine will drag her into my world and drown her in my messed up life. What I really need to do is stay away.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Except every touch and every accidental kiss breaks my control. I want her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Then I find out her dad is the detective who put me away...and he’s trying to take down my family.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I don’t blame him. The secrets I’m keeping are big enough to destroy everything.</span></span><b><br /></b>
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Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611160565033490204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858413271179601719.post-49664081782627636142020-02-21T00:00:00.000-08:002020-02-21T00:00:03.942-08:00Blog Tour: What I Want You To See by Catherine Linka REVIEW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I Want You To See By Catherine Linka</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Release Date: </b>February 4, 2020</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wrong Bed, Right Man by Rebecca Brooks</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Synopsis: </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Rose Campbell is determined to get her stuff from her cheating ex-fiancé’s apartment. There’s just one problem. A sexy stranger is sleeping in her bed. Work boots and scruff so aren’t her type––except when they’re on furniture maker Owen Crowley, who is funny, kind, and speaks his mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">The prim and proper Rose isn't the kind of woman Owen is usually interested in. But the more he gets to know her, the more intrigued he becomes. There’s passion underneath those stiff suits of hers that he can’t wait to explore.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">There’s no reason these two opposites can’t have some sexy fun––except that one thing. Rose works for the very people trying to destroy Owen’s business.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Sign up for Rebecca Brooks's monthly newsletter for her travel updates, hiking updates, news on new releases, and giveaways just for subscribers: </span><a href="http://rebeccabrooksromance.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #00635d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">http://rebeccabrooksromance.com/newsl...</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Rebecca Brooks lives in New York City in an apartment filled with books. She received a PhD in English but decided it was more fun to write books than write about them. She has backpacked alone through India and Brazil, traveled by cargo boat down the Amazon River, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, explored ice caves in Peru, trekked to the source of the Ganges, and sunbathed in Burma, but she always likes coming home to a cold beer and her hot husband in the Bronx.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Keep Me Waiting by Angela Addams</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Publish Date:</b> February 10, 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><b>Synopsis:</b> All I’ve ever tried to do is keep the people in my life safe. That’s gotten me into hot water more times than I can count. Hell, the last time got me four years behind bars.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">So when my favorite barista tells her mom that I’m her boyfriend to stop the woman’s endless criticism, I can’t stop myself from helping her out. But she’s too innocent and I’m too damaged for this to ever be the real deal.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I can’t allow myself to touch her, not when making her mine will drag her into my world and drown her in my messed up life. What I really need to do is stay away.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Except every touch and every accidental kiss breaks my control. I want her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Then I find out her dad is the detective who put me away...and he’s trying to take down my family.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">I don’t blame him. The secrets I’m keeping are big enough to destroy everything.</span></span><br />
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get some more napkins from the back.” She doesn’t wait for me to respond. She
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Thanks, Stella. </i>She knows I’ve been fantasizing about
Liam for months, lusting over his muscles, his face, that chiseled jaw,
thinking about running my fingers over that stubble that’s sometimes there.
Pressing against those pouty lips he has or licking along the scar on his
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“No problem,” I mumble. I wipe my hands on the towel and move to the cash. “Is
today a butterscotch day?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Excuse me?” His voice is so gruff, like he’s gargled in
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I snap my eyes up, suddenly panicked. Maybe he doesn’t get a
shot some days. Am I remembering it wrong? “I thought you liked your coffee
black with a shot of butterscotch every once in a while.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my mouth is doing. I go all crazy smile on him, like flash my teeth and set my
burning red cheeks on full display. My eyes are probably sparklingly with
unconfined lust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His eyes flick to my chest, where I can feel my nipples
harden. Wearing a cotton bra might be comfortable, but it does nothing to disguise
the twins from jutting at the slightest breeze—or penetrating gaze.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Um...huh?” I choke on the words, sputtering a little as I
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How I Became A Spy by Deborah Hopkinson</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Publisher:</b> Alfred A. Knopf Books For Young Readers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Release Date:</b> February 12, 2019</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Book Format:</b> ARC</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b># of Pages:</b> 248</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Synopsis:</b> <span id="freeText7908000798897858633">Bertie Bradshaw never
set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn
London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a
traitor to the Allied forces. He certainly never expected that a
strong-willed American girl named Eleanor would play Watson to his
Holmes (or Holmes to his Watson, depending on who you ask).<br /><br />But
when a young woman goes missing, leaving behind a coded notebook, Bertie
is determined to solve the mystery. With the help of Eleanor and his
friend David, a Jewish refugee--and, of course, his trusty pup, Little
Roo--Bertie must decipher the notebook in time to stop a double agent
from spilling the biggest secret of all to the Nazis.<br /><br />From the author of <i>The Great Trouble</i>, this suspenseful WWII adventure reminds us that times of war call for bravery, brains <i>and </i>teamwork from even the most unlikely heroes.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-46af30b0-7fff-4afc-a5b7-07b4da73bc58" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How I Became A Spy by Deborah Hopkinson follows a young man by the name of Bertie who takes on the responsibility of warning the citizens of his town in Great Britain during air raids which are beginning to happen more and more frequently with the invasion upon them. On his first day on the job, he meets two mysterious ladies: one who drops a very important notebook before running off and the other who is seemingly dead on the side of the road before disappearing completely before Bertie can make his way back to her with help. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Upon looking through the dropped notebook, Bertie discovers some cryptic notes that he is not sure of. He can tell one thing for sure, and that is that the notebook is important, but what any of it means, he is not sure of just yet. After reading the entirety of the journal, he realizes that the writer must be a spy and he sets out to find who the owner might be. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along the way, he bumps back into the girl who dropped the journal in the first place, and she is angry at first but eventually comes to trust Bertie and the two work hard together to figure out what the notebook means and how they can find the girl it belongs too. Not only do the two find themselves revealing what it is like to be a spy and everything that goes into it but they are also figuring out things about their city and the war that they never understood before. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a middle grade categorized story which means it is all strictly friendship based. Eleanor--who is Bertie’s American friend--becomes closer with his bet dog Little Roo than she is with him. Little Roo provides a lot of comfort for the characters in this book between rescuing people in danger during air raids, being a companion to Bertie and just being friendly to everyone else. This little dog had to be my favorite addition to the story. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Come Find Me by Megan Miranda</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Publisher:</b> Crown Books For Young Readers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Release Date: </b>January 29, 2019</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Book Format:</b> ARC</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b># of Pages:</b> 336</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Synopsis: </b><span id="freeText5692898210262631239">After surviving an
infamous family tragedy, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones has made it her
mission to keep her brother's search through the cosmos alive. But then
something disturbs the frequency on his radio telescope--a pattern
registering where no signal should transmit.<br /><br />In a neighboring
county, seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler is determined to find out what
really happened to his brother, who disappeared the day after Nolan had
an eerie premonition. There hasn't been a single lead for two years,
until Nolan picks up an odd signal--a pattern coming from his brother's
bedroom.<br /><br />Drawn together by these strange signals--and their
family tragedies--Kennedy and Nolan search for the origin of the
mysterious frequency. But the more they uncover, the more they believe
that everything's connected--even their pasts--as it appears the signal
is meant for them alone, sharing a message that only they can
understand. Is something coming for them? Or is the frequency warning
them about something that's already here?</span></span></span><br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7fc83a8b-7fff-09bd-db57-cb0e1f543e87" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Megan Miranda is one of my all time favorite writers. I have been reading her since her first young adult debut a few years back. Come Find Me happens to be her newest young adult release. </span></span></span></b></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-7fc83a8b-7fff-09bd-db57-cb0e1f543e87" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book is a little confusing in the beginning being that it switches back and forth between two characters, Kennedy and Nolan. We’re unsure of what happened to Kennedy and her family and why she no longer lives in her family home but instead with who we assume is her uncle Joe in a tiny apartment. But Nolan on the other hand reveals his background early in which we find out his older brother Liam had gone missing two years back and they had yet to find him alive or any evidence of his death.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since his brothers disappearance Nolans parents have made it their mission to bring justice to all missing children. He does his best to steer clear of this organization and stays true to finding his brother no matter what it takes. Kennedy on the other hand is determined to not let Joe sell her family home either because its </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">her</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> home or because it is her last tie to her brothers work and what really happened in that house 6 months ago. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As usual with books that alternate between character these two end up coming together in a stranger but interesting way and thus their stories begin to intertwine in ways they probably could have never imagined. Together they begin their quest to not only decode a message that will lead them to figure out not only what truly happened in Kennedy’s house but also what happened to Nolan’s brother. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many young adult novels include a lot of instalove which in some situations is desirable but here given everything at stake and what these two were trying to do together, the instalove would have just gotten in the way. Come Find Me, had the perfect amount of character bonding that didn’t get in the way of the rest of the story line. As a reader I was able to really sink myself into the story and not have to worry about any relationship issues which made for a great mystery/thriller. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something that Megan Miranda is phenomenal at is flashbacks. Almost all of her novels include some kind of character flashback to give the reader background on the current character and or situation. This kind of writing can be hard because it is super easy to get confused between the past and the present, but Miranda has managed to successfully give her readers background knowledge without leaving us confused. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Publisher:</b> Simon & Schuster </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Release Date: </b>April 11, 2017</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b># of Pages: </b>337</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Synopsis: </b><span id="freeText1896659627825934614">Confronted by a
restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah
Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend,
Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they
move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and
both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a
woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and
Emmy disappears days later.<br /><br />Determined to find Emmy, Leah
cooperates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the
case. As they investigate her friend’s life for clues, Leah begins to
wonder: did she ever really know Emmy at all? With no friends, family,
or a digital footprint, the police begin to suspect that there is no
Emmy Grey. Soon Leah’s credibility is at stake, and she is forced to
revisit her past: the article that ruined her career. To save herself,
Leah must uncover the truth about Emmy Grey—and along the way, confront
her old demons, find out who she can really trust, and clear her own
name.<br /><br />Everyone in this rural Pennsylvanian town has something to
hide—including Leah herself. How do you uncover the truth when you are
busy hiding your own?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><b id="docs-internal-guid-b1e4f396-7fff-f658-cf5d-77c396033459" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Megan Miranda has done it again with her most recent adult fiction publication known as The Perfect Strangers. It follows to young girls who decide to up and leave everything behind and rent a cute little cabin together in a small town. As time goes on Leah starts to notice some odd things about her roommate Emmy, and it all gets worse once she goes missing. </span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The premise of this reminds me a lot of Stephen King’s newest novel, The Outsider in which a well known/liked school coach is convicted of murder. It’s a little different here because coach Cobb is only being charged with assault for a part of the book, but just the reminisce of an author I loved made me happy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the type of mystery that had me yelling at the book at some points, and that is how you know you are reading something good. Miranda took her time to flesh out each character and bring them together in such ways that were surprising as well as satisfying. The relationship between main character Leah and the lead detective on the case Kyle is forbidden, but that doesn’t stop the two from getting to know each other. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leah not only is having a hard time figuring out what is going on with her missing roommate but she is afraid to even be in her house in fear that someone is watching her closely and is trying to hurt her somehow. As readers we get to see her grapple with everything that is going on in her life--juggling her students at her new job, assault issues, her missing roommate, a new romance and her past following her around is a lot to handle for this young women. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book is pretty small, so I was apprehensive about Miranda’s ability to wrap up the plethora of loose ends. But just like any other good mystery, she did a great job giving us so many different puzzles to pay attention to, and she was able to wrap each one of them up nicely without leaving her readers unsatisfied. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My favorite part of this novel was the inclusion of a small relationship between Kyle and Leah. Although romance is to be expected the two who were involved in this romance had a lot going on in both of their lives which is why it was peaceful to read those moments between them almost as a quick and much-needed break to all the fear and mystery going on in their town. </span></div>
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Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611160565033490204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858413271179601719.post-80767360638356188952019-01-07T08:26:00.000-08:002019-01-07T08:26:41.997-08:00Review: Survive The Night by Danielle Vega<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Survive The Night by Danielle Vega<br />
Publisher: Razorbill<br />
Publish Date: July 7, 2015<br />
Book Format: Paperback<br />
# of Pages: 288<br />
Synopsis: <span id="freeText17256136729965500475"><b>Stephen King meets <i>Pretty Little Liars</i> in this pulse-pounding novel from the author of <i>The Merciless</i></b><br /> <br />Just
back from rehab, Casey regrets letting her friends Shana, Julie, and
Aya talk her into coming to Survive the Night, an all-night, underground
rave in a New York City subway tunnel. Surrounded by frightening drugs
and menacing strangers, Casey doesn’t think Survive the Night could get
any worse...<br /> <br /> ...until she comes across Julie’s mutilated body
in a dank, black subway tunnel, red-eyed rats nibbling at her fingers.
Casey thought she was just off with some guy—no one could hear her
getting torn apart over the sound of pulsing music. And by the time they
get back to the party, everyone is <i>gone</i>. <br /> <br /> Desperate
for help, Casey and her friends find themselves running through the
putrid subway tunnels, searching for a way out. But every manhole is
sealed shut, and every noise echoes eerily in the dark, reminding them
they’re not alone. <br /> <br /> They’re being <i>hunted</i>.<br /> <br /> Trapped underground with someone—or some<i>thing</i>—out to get them, Casey can’t help but listen to Aya’s terrified refrain: “We’re all gonna die down here.”</span><br />
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<span id="freeText17256136729965500475"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have heard many good things about Danielle Vega and her recent publications. She has been well known for her horror infused stories including Survive The Night which is a standalone compared to her popular Merciless series which is up to four books currently. <br /><br />Survive The Night tells the story of a high school aged girl named Casey who is fresh out of rehab from a pill addiction. Her parents are wanting to keep a close eye on her which means they only allow her to spend time with her “safe friends” even though she doesn’t feel like she fits in with them any longer. Shana rescues her from this uncomfortable situation and off she goes with the crew that got her in trouble in the first place. <br /><br />Shana reveals herself as a bad ass with her old buick and maniacal driving. She is interested in hearing all about Casey’s rehab stint even if it bothers her to speak of her time there. In the back seat are Shana’s tagalongs, Aya and Julie whom are busy sharing a joint and painting each others toenails for a good portion of the beginning chapters. Casey is excited to see these three girls at first as it has always given her a rush hanging out with them, that feeling is back and full force especially when Shana begins their adventure by bringing them to a club featuring a band extremely familiar to Casey.<br /><br />Before even stepping into the club Casey recognizes the music and instantly wants to leave. Before rehab the love of her life broke her heart and this just “happens” to be his band playing. Everything turns out well though once he notices her watching him play. It might be a little mix of relief that she’s home and pain because they are no longer together. Now a group of six, they head off in search of a popular underground rave that nobody can stop talking about, even if the rumors of murder down there are pretty creepy. <br /><br />Sam--the ex boyfriend--and Casey find themselves awful close and forced to talk about the events leading up to their break up and rehab stint. This brings on a lot of emotion and tears but ends with kissing and groping. The couple seem to have made up for now anyways. Not long after this magical moment does the terror start. A body is found ripped open with intestines spilling out and soon after the--now five--of them realized they are trapped underground with no way out. The candles are starting to dim, their phones are dying and they have no idea who--or what--is down there with them. <br /><br />As you can imagine only some of them make it out of the underground subway alive and the trek to find an exit is a dark and wet one for this group of teenagers. They encounter homeless men, starving rats, and a tentacled monster that nobody really understands. Who comes out alive is the big question: all, none or some? </span> </span></span></div>
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<br />Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611160565033490204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858413271179601719.post-22534749572312743572018-09-18T11:28:00.000-07:002018-09-18T11:28:19.019-07:00Spotlight: The Law of Finders Keepers by Sheila Turnage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Law of Finders Keepers by Sheila Turnage<br />
Publisher: Kathy Dawson Books<br />
Release Date: Sept 11, 2018<br />
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<b>Pirates, family, and the truth about Mo's Upstream Mother collide in the conclusion to the Newbery Honor and </b>
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watery origins that they've been saving, it seems the time is finally
right for the Desperado Detectives (aka Mo, Dale, and Harm) to tackle
the mystery of Mo's Upstream Mother. It's the scariest case Mo's had by
far. But before they can get started, Mayor Little's mean mother hires
them to hunt in her attic for clues to Blackbeard's treasure, which
could be buried right in Tupelo Landing. Turns out, the Desperados
aren't the only ones looking. A professional treasure hunter named Gabe
has come to town with Harm's estranged mother--and soon the race is on,
even though the treasure's rumored to be cursed. As centuries- and
decades-old secrets are dragged into the light, there isn't a single
person in Tupelo Landing quite prepared for all that they uncover.
Especially Mo.<br /><br />The fourth and last book in the Mo & Dale Mystery series and the long-awaited conclusion to <i>Three Times Lucky</i>, <i>The Law of Finders Keepers</i> is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, honest, and hilarious adventure that you can read right after you finish <i>Three Times Lucky</i>.</span><br />
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<span id="freeText10799149186637883236"></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="background: white; color: black;">Sheila Turnage</span></b><span style="background: white; color: black;"> is from eastern North Carolina, just like Miss Moses LoBeau, the protagonist from the Mo & Dale mystery series that began with <i>Three Times Lucky</i>. <i>Three Times Lucky </i>is a Newbery Honor Book, a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, an E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book, and an Edgar Award finalist. It has been nominated for nineteen state awards, including the Texas Bluebonnet Master List, and has been licensed in five countries. Her follow-up book, <i>The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing</i>, also a <i>New York Times</i>bestseller, received five starred reviews and was a SIBA Winter 2014 Okra Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection. Sheila is also the author of two more books in the Mo & Dale Mystery series, <i>The Odds of Getting Even</i> and <i>The Law of Finders Keepers</i>, and the nonfiction adult books <i>Haunted Inns of the Southeast</i> and <i>Compass American Guides: North Carolina</i>, as well as one picture book, <i>Trout the Magnificent</i>, illustrated by Janet Stevens.</span><b><span style="color: black;"></span></b></span></div>
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Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611160565033490204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858413271179601719.post-38131743750618747752018-08-12T00:00:00.000-07:002018-08-12T00:00:03.436-07:00Review: See All The Stars by Kit Frick<br />
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is alone, her once inseparable group of friends torn apart by secrets,
deception, and a shocking incident that changed their lives forever.<br /><br /><b>THEN</b> Lazy summer days. A party. A beautiful boy. Ellory met Matthias and fell into the beginning of a spectacular, bright love.<br /><br /><b>NOW</b>
Ellory returns to Pine Brook to navigate senior year after a two-month
suspension and summer away—no boyfriend, no friends. No going back.
Tormented by some and sought out by others, troubled by a mysterious
note-writer who won’t let Ellory forget, and consumed by guilt over her
not entirely innocent role in everything and everyone she’s lost, Ellory
finds that even in the present, the past is everywhere.<br /><br />The path
forward isn’t a straight line. And moving on will mean sorting the
truth from the lies—the lies Ellory has been telling herself.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxkU5EkYmMfXyQ0kA64VHH0cNDFXCODlfnhMof4nsbhaFTc1MljP90n9wYrwXoXlxAJy9n2nzka1yqaCAwuNzSOauUF_G-c6VqvScayiSVbOqGHR7u_AzIL87N_Qcal7vp9Al-CNJ9jM/s1600/oYrGE9_g.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxkU5EkYmMfXyQ0kA64VHH0cNDFXCODlfnhMof4nsbhaFTc1MljP90n9wYrwXoXlxAJy9n2nzka1yqaCAwuNzSOauUF_G-c6VqvScayiSVbOqGHR7u_AzIL87N_Qcal7vp9Al-CNJ9jM/s1600/oYrGE9_g.jpeg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="freeText9334946904115372221">Kit Frick is a novelist, poet, and MacDowell Colony fellow Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, she studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College<br />e and received her MFA from Syra-cuse University. When she isn’t putting complicated characters in impossible situations, Kit edits poetry and literary fiction for a small press, edits for private clients, and mentors emerging writers through Pitch Wars. Her debut young adult novel is See All the Stars<br /> (Simon & Schuster / Margaret K. McElderry Books, August 14, 2018), and her debut full-length poetry collection is <br />A Small Rising Up in the Lungs<br /> (New American Press, fall 2018).<br /> </span><span id="freeText9334946904115372221"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">See All The Stars </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Kit Frick follows a group of friends who never thought they would be seperated. The four of them are held together by one person acting as glue, but do they see that? Do they see that all it would take is one falling out to send them off in separate directions forever? Not until it's too late… </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The novel is categorized under young adult and displays many of the themes expected in that genre. Young group of friends who think they are inseparable until some major falling out happens that drives them all apart. The difference here is that Frick doesn’t just tell the story in chronological order, like every other novel, she goes back and forth between what she calls THEN and NOW. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The THEN details what the group of friends were like in the beginning; how they came together, how they functioned, what made them tick and really just their entire friendship as a whole while the NOW made up the aftermath of the falling out. The group was made up of four girls, main character Ellory, head of the pose Ret followed up by Bex and Jenni. Each of these girls were very different from the next. Ellory is quiet and very much keeps to herself. When she isn’t with her friends she spends most of her time working on her artwork in the schools art dungeon. Ret is the glue, she met and befriended each of the girls pulling them into the circle. She makes their friendship run smoothly. Everything they do is with her approval or with her in mind, she is the leader. Bex and Jenni are always in the background either jealous of the relationship between Ellory and Ret or just rolling with it in hopes for a good time. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things start to go south when Ellory meets a boy. She is supposed to be sticking by Ret’s side but she wanders off bumping into the infamous Matthias, who she has admired since Freshman year. The two hit if off and the two are the next IT couple. Ret doesn’t like this, she calls the shots and she definitely isn’t okay with “her” Ellory being occupied by someone else, especially a boyfriend. Soon enough Ret turned into a passive aggressive version of herself making it painfully clear that she missed her friend and wanted her back. Frick did a great job in focusing the reader on the relationship between Ellory and Matthias than what Ret was doing in the background. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>The History of Jane Doe by Michael Belanger</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Publisher: </b></i>Dial Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Release Date: </b></i>June 5, 2018</span><br />
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buff Ray knows everything about the peculiar legends and lore of his
rural Connecticut hometown. Burgerville's past is riddled with green cow
sightings and human groundhogs, but the most interesting thing about
the present is the new girl--we'll call her Jane Doe.<br /><br />Inscrutable,
cool, and above all mysterious, Jane seems as determined to hide her
past as Ray is to uncover it. As fascination turns to friendship and
then to something more, Ray is certain he knows Jane's darkest, most
painful secrets and Jane herself--from past to present. But when the
unthinkable happens, Ray is forced to acknowledge that perhaps history
can only tell us so much.<br /><br />Mixing humor with heartache, this is an unmissable coming-of-age story from an exciting new voice in YA.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An interesting aspect of this book is that it seems to be characterized for a younger audience since the book says right on it young readers, but there are some very mature themes within this book that I feel like some might cause some controversy on whether or not this should not be marketed toward a young audience. But at the same time, these themes need to be introduced to the younger crowd eventually and in a delicate way so maybe this is the perfect platform for some younger to start hearing about some of the themes in this book.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The themes strewn throughout the book include sex, suicide, death, and divorce. All of these situations can be hard to go through and everyone handles them differently so I feel like featuring these themes in this book for a younger audience to see is almost necessary so they can begin to understand what these different things mean and how to handle them in different ways. The biggest message I get from The History of Jane Doe is to cherish all relationships, never take any for granted and it is okay to express yourself and to let out your emotions. Those are important messages for not just a younger audience but those in an older age group as well.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I loved the characters in this book so much they were all so close and as a reader, I could feel the bond that the three main characters especially had. A lot of young adult and even middle-grade books portray their main characters as a female especially in other books that deal with themes such as the ones this one does. Belanger does something so different as to chose Ray as a male main character. It’s so refreshing because there are not that many books out there that accomplish what this one does.</span></span></span></div>
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<i><b>The Interns Handbook by Shane Kuhn</b></i><br />
<b>Publisher:</b> Simon & Schuster<br />
<b>Release Date: </b>April 8, 2014<br />
<b># of Pages:</b> 276<br />
<b>Book Format: </b>ARC<br />
<b>Synopsis:</b> <span id="freeText13665500593830867499">Interns are invisible.
That’s the mantra behind HR, Inc., an elite "placement agency" that
doubles as a network of assassins-for-hire, taking down high-profile
executives who wouldn't be able to remember an intern’s name if their
lives depended on it.<br /><br />At the ripe old age of twenty-five, John
Lago is already New York City’s most successful hit man. He’s also an
intern at a prestigious Manhattan law firm, clocking eighty hours a week
getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all the grunt work no one
else wants to do. But he isn't trying to claw his way to the top of the
corporate food chain. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm’s
heavily guarded partners. His internship is the perfect cover, enabling
him to gather intel and gain access in order to pull off a clean,
untraceable hit.<br /><br />The Intern’s Handbook is John Lago's unofficial
survival guide for new recruits at HR, Inc. (Rule #4: "Learn how to make
the perfect cup of coffee: you make an exec the best coffee he’s ever
had, and he will make sure you’re at his desk every morning for a repeat
performance. That’s repetitive exposure, which begets access and trust.
44% of my kills came from my superior coffee-making abilities.")<br /><br />Part
confessional, part how-to, the handbook chronicles John’s final
assignment, a twisted thrill ride in which he is pitted against the
toughest—and sexiest—adversary he’s ever faced: Alice, an FBI agent
assigned to take down the same law partner he’s been assigned to kill.</span><br />
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Intern’s Handbook by Shane Kuhn follows a young man who has never known
anything but death. It’d be one thing if this death was coincidental,
but John Lago, our main character, is an assassin which means he is
behind all of the death he deals with. Lago lost both of his parents or
so he thought at birth and at a young age was recruited by Bob, who
trains him to be the fully equipped assassin he is today. <br /><br />This
novel is set up as a guide book for all of the new “interns” that are
beginning their careers as assassins just as John did 25 years prior. To
give you some background, the company Lago works for is called Human
Resources, INC all of the employees aka assassins are disguised as
interns whenever the person they are hired to kill works. This novel is
set in an office building where John pretends to be an intern while he’s
working on getting close to his target. Things go crazy from there.<br /><br />Characters
need to make you feel for them and love them while reading to make for a
good book. I felt something whether it be hate, pity or love for each
and every character which is a good sign. The main character comes off
as a hard and a no feeling type of guy, but buy the end we see him
break, we see emotions which makes him extremely indelible as a
character. My heart breaks for him quite a few times and that's how you
know you’re reading a good book.<br /><br />Kuhn does a fantastic job
describing all of the action scenes. I get nervous reading action scenes
in book for fear of being bored but everything within this novel is so
bloody and gorey I couldn’t tear my eyes away during those scenes I was
so into it the entire time. Everything was so pictureable as If I was
watching a movie in my head while reading. <br /><br />Not only is this book
filled with death and gunfire but there is also a lot of laughs and
even a hint of love mixed in the pot to make one hell of a read. I
cannot wait to dive into book two to see what is in store there because
this book was wrapped up nicely enough to be a standalone so I’m really
interested to see what's next. If you read this book then you know what I
mean when I say I hope there is more of Marcus and Alice. </span></span><br />
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Good evening lovelies! How was your Holiday? Did you get anything cool? Do anything fun? Tell me in the comments!<br />
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From Work:<br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17312156-tempests-and-slaughter?from_search=true">Tempest and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce </a><br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35297507-a-kind-of-mirraculas-paradise?from_search=true">A kind of Miraculas Paradise by Sandra Allen</a><br />
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Christmas Gifts:<br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32895291-the-lying-game?from_search=true">The Lying Game by Ruth Ware</a><br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34066621-strange-weather?from_search=true">Strange Weather by Joe Hill</a><br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29937103-avery?from_search=true">Avery by Ken Kratz</a><br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34217494-member-of-the-family?from_search=true">Member of the Family by Diane Lake </a><br />
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Bought:<br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29358373-indefensible?from_search=true">Indefensible by Michael Griesbach</a><br />
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Thanks for stopping by!Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611160565033490204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858413271179601719.post-20041798401288647582017-09-26T00:00:00.000-07:002017-09-26T00:00:01.944-07:00Review: A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>A Short History of the Girl Next Door by Jared Reck</b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Publisher: </b></i>Knopf Books for Young Readers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Release Date: </b></i>September 26, 2017</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Book Format: </b></i>ARC</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b># of Pages: </b></i>272</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Synopsis: </b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="freeText1350439738987627740">The unrequited love of the girl next door is the centerpiece of this fiercely funny, yet heart-breaking debut novel.<br /><br />Fifteen-year-old
Matt Wainwright is in turmoil. He can’t tell his lifelong best friend,
Tabby, how he really feels about her; his promising basketball skills
are being overshadowed by his attitude on the court, and the only place
he feels normal is in English class, where he can express his inner
thoughts in quirky poems and essays. Matt is desperately hoping that
Tabby will reciprocate his feelings; but then Tabby starts dating Liam
Branson, senior basketball star and all-around great guy. Losing Tabby
to Branson is bad enough; but, as Matt soon discovers, he’s close to
losing everything that matters most to him. <br /><br />Humorous and heart-wrenching, <i>A Short History of the Girl Next Door</i> is perfect for readers who fell in love with All the Bright Places' Finch or <i>Stargirl</i>’s Leo.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span id="freeText1350439738987627740">Meet Jared, (Taken from Goodreads)</span></b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="freeText1350439738987627740"><span id="freeTextContainerauthor15215380">Jared Reck lives in Hanover,
Pennsylvania, with his wife and two daughters. He teaches 8th grade
Language Arts, where he has been reading awesome books and writing
alongside his students for the past twelve years. A Short History of the
Girl Next Door is his first novel. <br />Learn more about Jared at jaredreckbooks.com and follow him on Twitter @reckj.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A Short History of the Girl Next Door </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Jared Reck tells the story of a classic love story with a twist that I wasn’t expecting. Matt & Tabby grew up together, and had been inseparable since the day Tabby’s mother left. Her dad needed the help taking care of a newborn baby and the Wainwrights enjoyed having little Tabby around all the time. Everything changes when Matt realizes that he’s in love with his best friend. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the beginning, I had the feeling that the story was going to be a typical love story. Neighbors grew up together, the boy falls in love with the girl, they have some falling out but then they make up and fall in love. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BUT </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that is not what this book was like at all. Without any spoilers it had most of the typical love story aspects but in the middle nearing the end the book took a turn that I didn’t see coming. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I don’t normally read mushy love stories so I found myself really loving the initial relationship between Matt and Tabby. Even though it was typical I just loved them so much. I loved how close Tabby was with Matt’s family especially his little brother and grandparents. I also loved that even though she was becoming a little more popular by dating the popular senior at school she still loved Matt as a friend and didn’t treat him any differently. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another favorite part of the story was the school aspects of the story. All of the teachers were so involved in the lives of all of their students especially Matt and Tabby and they stood by them when tragedy struck. I love how everybody in this book was so good to one another everybody was so supportive and it just felt like such a great community to be in. </span></span></span></div>
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Paigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611160565033490204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858413271179601719.post-54646048659948164412017-09-07T00:00:00.000-07:002017-09-07T00:00:18.445-07:00Review: Click'd by Tamara Ireland Stone <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Click'd by Tamara Ireland Stone </b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Publisher: </b></i>Disney-Hyperion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Release Date: </b></i>September 7, 2017</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Book Format: </b></i>ARC</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b># of Pages: </b></i>208</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Synopsis: </b></i><span id="freeText13182041336635389068">Allie Navarro can't
wait to show her best friends the app she built at CodeGirls summer
camp. CLICK'D pairs users based on common interests and sends them on a
fun (and occasionally rule-breaking) scavenger hunt to find each other.
And it's a hit. By the second day of school, everyone is talking about
CLICK'D.<br /><br />Watching her app go viral is amazing. Leaderboards are
filling up! Everyone's making new friends. And with all the data Allie
is collecting, she has an even better shot at beating her archenemy,
Nathan, at the upcoming youth coding competition. But when Allie
discovers a glitch that threatens to expose everyone's secrets, she has
to figure out how to make things right, even if that means sharing the
computer lab with Nathan. Can Allie fix her app, stop it from doing any
more damage, and win back the friends it hurt-all before she steps on
stage to present CLICK'D to the judges?<br /><br />New York Times
best-selling author Tamara Ireland Stone combines friendship, coding,
and lots of popcorn in her fun and empowering middle-grade debut.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="freeTextContainerauthor4792225" style="font-size: small;">TAMARA IRELAND STONE is the
author of Time and Time Again, a collection of her two novels Time
Between Us and Time After Time, and the New York Times best seller Every
Last Word.<br /><br />A Silicon Valley native, she has worked in the
technology industry all her life, first testing Atari game boards in her
parents’ garage, and later, co-founding a woman-owned marketing
strategy firm, where she worked with small startups as well as some of
the world’s largest software companies. She enjoys skiing, music,
movies, and spending time with her husband and two children. She lives
in the San Francisco Bay Area.<br /><br />Listen to playlists and learn more about her books at <a href="http://www.tamarairelandstone.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.tamarairelandstone.com</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I received this book for review from the publisher and this is my honest review.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Click’d </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Tamera Island Stone follows 12 year old Allie who has just finished coding camp and which helped her to create an app to help anyone looking to make friends easily. Because of her brilliant app her teacher nominates her to compete in a competition for young coders who also created games or apps. In the book Allie beta tests her app using her middle school as testers to help her chances in the competition. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was really interesting to me to read this being that I have read bits and pieces of her other more mature works. I’m not sure how I feel about Stones middle grade title, the writing is so different which is to be expected but I felt as if the writing was more simplified than it really needed to be, but it could just be because I am 21 reading a book for younger kids. Another aspect I had trouble with was the ages of some of these characters. The writing was really young but I don’t think the characters fit with the writing. There were some scenes in which the characters seemed to act their ages but there were also times where Allie for example seemed a lot older than 12 she was always seemingly out on her own, and her friends were way to boy crazy and mature than 12 year olds seem in my experience. </span></span></span></div>
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sixteen years Ivy Lovely has been hidden behind an enchanted boundary
that separates the mundane from the magical. When Ivy crosses the
border, her powers awaken. Curiosity leads her crashing through a series
of adventures at the Halls of Ivy, a school where students learn to
master their magical blood and the power of Croswald’s mysterious gems.
When Ivy’s magic––and her life––is threatened by the Dark Queen, she
scrambles to unearth her history and save Croswald before the truth is
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Release Date: </b></i>August 8, 2017</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b># of Pages: </b></i>320</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Synopsis: </b></i><span id="freeText16335060491682309987">From the bestselling author of <em>All Is Not Forgotten</em> comes a thriller about two missing sisters, a twisted family, and what happens when one girl comes back...<br /><br />One
night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old
Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns,
without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of
a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic
psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep
within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where
boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. And where
one sister's return might just be the beginning of the crime.</span></span></span><br />
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attorney and investment banker in Fairfield County, Connecticut who
began writing while at home raising her three sons. Her debut thriller,
All Is Not Forgotten, has become an international bestseller and was
optioned for film by Warner Brothers with Reese Witherspoon set to
produce. The paperback will be released July 18, 2017, followed by her
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I was a little apprehensive to read another book having to do with disappearing girls since I had just read </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All The Missing Girls </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">by Megan Miranda but Walker’s novel was completely unique and I was never bored for even a second. Her characters were by far the most interesting and entertaining than I had read in awhile. Both girls had drastically different personalities so it was very easy to tell them apart which sisters can sometimes be. The parents were also crazy neither of them were anywhere near stable and it made the story that much more chaotic but in a good way.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Release Date: </b></i>August 8, 2017</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Genre:</b></i> Young Adult, Historical</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Synopsis:</b></i> Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it. . . . <br /><br />When seventeen year-old Jasper is approached at the funeral <br />of his deadbeat father by a man claiming to be an associate <br />of his deceased parents, he’s thrust into a world of secrets tied to<br />America’s history—and he’s right at the heart of it. <br /><br />First, Jasper finds out he is the sole surviving descendant of Benedict Arnold, the most notorious traitor in American history. Then he learns that his father’s death was no accident. Jasper <br />is at the center of a war that has been going on for centuries, in which the descendants of the heroes and traitors of the American Revolution still duel to the death for the sake of their honor. <br /><br />His only hope to escape his dangerous fate on his eighteenth birthday? Take up the research his father was pursuing at the time <br />of his death, to clear Arnold’s name. <br /><br />Whisked off to a boarding school populated by other descendants of notorious American traitors, it’s a race to discover the truth. But if Jasper doesn’t find a way to uncover the evidence his father was hunting for, he may end up paying for the sins of his forefathers with his own life. <br /><br />Like a mash-up of National Treasure and Hamilton, Matthew Landis’s debut spins the what-ifs of American history into a heart-pounding thriller steeped in conspiracy, clue hunting, and danger. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Meet Matthew,</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I love history, but not in the old, awful, kill-me-now-please kind <br />of way. My passion is convincing my students that the past is actually hilarious, shocking, tragic, disturbing, and altogether <br />UN-boring. While getting my graduate degree in History at Villanova, I realized that there was yet one more way to do this: write contemporary young adult books laced with history to convince my students that past isn't as awful as they think. That’s a huge reason why I wrote The Judas Society. <br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some other stuff: I love poetry but don’t understand it; I want Gordon Ramsay to give me a fatherly hug at some point; I tend toward the unapologetically dramatic; and (to my great shame) I didn’t read the Harry Potter series until last year. I’m also really good at covering up patent insecurities with self-deprecating humor (like this joke).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>1.What is your favorite thing about being a writer? </b></i><br />I love creating worlds and then letting people into them; <br />it’s sort of like letting people get to know me, indirectly. When my friends read my books, they’re often like “Dude I could totally hear you say that” which is awesome, because it means I’m coming through authentically. <br /><br /><i><b>2.What advice can you give to aspiring writers? </b></i><br /><i>Two things.</i> <br />1) Don’t stop. Ever. You won’t finish that novel unless you actually finish it, so go do it. <br />2) Don’t let writing consume you, because it can’t make you happy. Affirmation from getting published is great, but like everything in life, it fades. Pursue your dream of writing a book and getting it into stores, but don’t base your feelings of value on it, because it will let you down.<br /><br /><i><b>3.What do you do when you have writers block? </b></i><br />Depends on the block. If it’s straight up “I have no idea where this scene is going or its purpose” I stop and consult my story map to figure out where the heck I am and what I should<br />be communicating. If the writer’s block is “I have zero good ideas” I stop writing altogether and watch movies and listen to all sorts of music to get the feels. <br /><br /><i><b>4.What is your least favorite thing about being a writer? </b></i><br />I hate how books (like many cool things) can easily become a<br />ll-consuming pursuits. I try really hard to set up concrete boundaries—teacher, husband, dad, neighbor, writer—but that’s harder when it comes to mental space. Books suck you in and you can get lost in them, forgetting that they are actually made up things that matter far less than you are making them currently. It’s not that they are unimportant; it’s that there are many things that are far more important. A convicting question for me is: Am I as invested in the lives and burdens <br />of my coworkers and neighbors as I am my made up story? That answer crushes me constantly, and I am always fighting against the siren call of my manuscript. <br /><i><b><br />5.Do you have an email subscription or Facebook group that my followers and I can follow to keep up to date on you and your writing? </b></i> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My author Facebook page is Matthew Landis, where I post updates on books and other items. I write some blog posts as well on my website, usually about nerdy stuff –<br />http://www.matthew-landis.com/new-blog/ </span></span><br />
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