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…
Unputdownable: Red Rising & Golden Son by Pierce Brown
A year and a half ago, we inaugurated a feature called “Unputdownable,” which we described as follows: A category to use any time we read a book that we figuratively couldn’t put down, even though our husbands and children and chores and jobs may have required us to abandon it from time to time… a…
Rule of Three: Fight for Power by Eric Walters
We don’t normally do two blog tours in one week, much less one for a sequel, but “Rule of Three” is one of my son’s favorites from last year, and he couldn’t wait to see what happened to Adam after the events of the first book. At not yet 13, he’s really picky about what…
The Ghosts of Heaven: Guest Post by Marcus Sedgwick
We are big fans of author Marcus Sedgwick, so when Macmillan announced it was hosting a blog tour for his latest novel, we jumped at the chance to promote such an original, intellectual, and captivating author. He’s the winner of many prizes for his work, most notably the 2014 Michael L. Printz Award for MIDWINTERBLOOD…