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Book Club Day: The Obvious Game by Rita Arens

March 13, 2013 by Diana 6 Comments

Book Club Day: The Obvious Game by Rita Arens

“Everyone trusted me back then. Good old, dependable Diana. Which is why most people didn’t notice at first.” “Your shirt is yellow.” “Your eyes are blue.” “You have to stop running away from your problems.” “You’re too skinny.” Fifteen-year-old Diana Keller accidentally begins teaching The Obvious Game to new kid Jesse on his sixteenth birthday…. 

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Book Club Day: Return to Me by Justina Chen Headley

February 12, 2013 by Sandie 2 Comments

Book Club Day: Return to Me by Justina Chen Headley

  Return to Me by Justina Chen Headley Release Date: Jan. 15, 2013 | Publisher: Little, Brown, 352 pages | Buy it About the book: Nothing is going as planned for Rebecca Muir. She’s weeks away from starting college–at a school chosen specifically to put a few thousand miles of freedom between Reb and her… 

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January Book Club: Return to Me by Justina Chen Headley

January 22, 2013 by Sandie 2 Comments

January Book Club: Return to Me by Justina Chen Headley

After reading our TLR friend Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s Odyssean adventure “Summer of the Mariposas” in December, we took a short break to recoup, consider our favorite books of 2012, and only then did we pick our January read. We chose “Return to Me” by Justina Chen Headley based on “North of Beautiful,” which I read… 

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Book Club Day: Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

December 31, 2012 by Diana 2 Comments

Book Club Day: Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

  Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall Release Date: Oct. 1, 2012 | Publisher: Lee & Low, 337 pages About the book: When Odilia and her four sisters find a dead body in the swimming hole, they embark on a hero’s journey to return the dead man to his family in Mexico. But… 

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Book Club Day: Skinny by Donna Cooner

October 30, 2012 by Sandie 5 Comments

Book Club Day: Skinny by Donna Cooner

“Skinny” by Donna Cooner Release Date: Oct. 1, 2012 | Publisher: Scholastic, 272 pages About the book: Find your voice. Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful. These are the words of Skinny, the vicious voice that lives inside fifteen-year-old Ever Davies’s head. Skinny tells Ever all the dark thoughts her classmates have about her. Ever knows she… 

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Book Club Day: ‘The Stone Girl’ by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

October 1, 2012 by Diana 3 Comments

Book Club Day: ‘The Stone Girl’ by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

 About the book: She feels like a creature out of a fairy tale; a girl who discovers that her bones are really made out of stone, that her skin is really as thin as glass, that her hair is brittle as straw, that her tears have dried up so that she cries only salt. Maybe… 

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Book Club Day: The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse

July 31, 2012 by Diana 1 Comment

Book Club Day: The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse

 About the book: As an obedient orphan of the U.N.A. (the super-country that was once Mexico, the U.S., and Canada), Alenna learned at an early age to blend in and be quiet—having your parents taken by the police will do that to a girl.  But Alenna can’t help but stand out when she fails a… 

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Book Club Day: ‘The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls’ by Julie Schumacher + Giveaway!

July 7, 2012 by Sandie 1 Comment

Book Club Day: ‘The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls’ by Julie Schumacher + Giveaway!

  This month in honor of summer,  we read Julie Schumacher’s novel about  a mother-daughter summer book club. In this book club the moms decide to help their daughters get their summer AP English reading done.  In practice it sounds like a great idea.  The problem is that although the girls are all in the… 

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Book Club Day: “When You Were Mine” by Rebecca Serle + Giveaway!

June 1, 2012 by Sandie 4 Comments

Book Club Day: “When You Were Mine” by Rebecca Serle + Giveaway!

  In this intensely romantic, modern recounting of the greatest love story ever told, Romeo’s original intended—Juliet’s cousin Rosaline—tells her side of the tale. What’s in a name, Shakespeare? I’ll tellyou: Everything.     Rosaline knows that she and Rob are destined to be together. Rose has been waiting for years for Rob to kiss her—and when he finally… 

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Author Q&A: Rebecca Serle Discusses “When You Were Mine”

May 25, 2012 by Diana 3 Comments

Author Q&A:  Rebecca Serle Discusses “When You Were Mine”

Rebecca Serle’s new novel “When You Were Mine” is our May Book Club pick, and we’re fortunate she took the time to talk about everything from Shakespeare and shopping to alpha girls and swoon-worthy boys with us. In “When You Were Mine,” Rosaline and Rob’s longtime friendship has reached that all-too-familiar point where it’s blossoming… 

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