In THIS ADVENTURE ENDS, Sloane Finch has moved to a small Florida beach town, just in time for her senior year. Not much for friends, she plans to happily pass the time rereading her dad’s cheesy romance novels. But then, she falls in with the twins Vera and Gabe Fuller and their friends Remy, Aubrey,…
Editor’s Pick: Zero Day by Jan Gangsei
Eight years ago Addie Webster was kidnapped straight out of the Governor’s Mansion. Now she’s back, escaped from her captors, returned to her family who now live in the White House. At exactly the same time a terrorist group has begun attacking Washington, D.C.. Zero Day is a engaging Tom Clancy style spy novel seen…
Watched Blog Tour: Author Marina Budhos Guest Post
Today we bring you a guest post by author Marina Budhos about her relevant and excellent new book, WATCHED. Now, more than ever, it’s important we embrace the diversity that literature has to offer. As Gene Yuen Lang has challenged us all, this book, for many, will be a way to Read Without Walls. WATCHED…
Editor’s Pick: The Call by Peadar O’Guilin
A thousand years ago, the Irish banished the twisted faerie race to the Grey Lands. A millennium later, the faeries have enacted their revenge. Before they turn seventeen, every child in Ireland will be spirited away to the Grey Lands, to try their best to survive a day against the Sidhe. In the real world,…
Stealing Snow Giveaway & Launch Recap
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Danielle Paige (Dorothy Must Die series) and Kami Garcia (Caster Chronicles) at One More Page Books to discuss Danielle’s new book, Stealing Snow. Which should come as no surprise is a fantastical take on Hans Christen Anderson’s The Snow Queen. We also got a little sneak…
Heartless Blog Tour: Review and Facebook Live Event
So here’s the deal: Marissa Meyer has a royally raucous imagination. Her retellings are so inventive, it’s hard to not think of them as originals. It’s the way a chef takes a classic recipe and adds an unexpected combination here, a new twist there. Like hot chocolate with chili or clementine and cod potpie. The…
Editor’s Pick: Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick
I don’t know how, but Jordan Sonnenblick has the mind of a 13-year-old girl. In Falling Over Sideways, eighth grader Claire has a lot going on. Her friends are skipping ahead of her in dance, her nemesis is taunting her with his first chair saxophone status, her science teacher has it in for the entire…
Wish It Were Me: Little Black Dresses Little White Lies
Erin has created a new feature, Wish It Were Me, where we discuss a character we’re majorly envious of, and why. First up, Erin has chosen a cool Manhattan-based magazine intern. Who?: Harper Anderson, teen blogger for the elite teen magazine Shift. Where?: New York City! Why?: Aside from my being a wanna-be New Yorker,…
Literary Crush: Gray from The Forgetting
We don’t usually post back-to-back Literary Crushes, but we can’t help it this week. In honor of today’s release of The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron, we’re highlighting the riveting new book with a Literary Crush of its own. Name: Gray the Glassblower’s Son Age: Seventeen-ish. Age is uncertain in Canaan as every twelve years everyone…
Classic Revamp: Interference by Kay Honeyman
BOOK: Interference by Kay Honeyman WHICH CLASSIC: Emma by Jane Austen This time Emma is played by high school junior Kate Hamilton who thanks to some political blunders has moved from DC back to her dad’s hometown in West Texas in order to overhaul his Senatorial career. Kate, dealing with her own PR troubles was…