It’s our fourth blogging anniversary week, and we’re featuring posts and giveaways every day this week, so stay tuned. Today we’re reviewing a book we read as a group over the summer — TRACKED by Jenny Martin. The book has been frequently compared to both STAR WARS and SPEED RACER, so obviously this is a…
Book Club Day: The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre
Our April Book Club selection was “The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things” by Ann Aguirre. It’s been a while since we’ve had a love story to read, and most of our readers found it to be as sweet and encouraging as the main character Sage. Aguirre is one of those multi-talented authors who can…
Book Club Day: Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin
Our latest Book Club selection was “Tabula Rasa” by Kristen Lippert-Martin, who’s a debut author in the DC area, where Sandie lives. It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to post a Book Club selection, so we were more than happy to be able to read this book and share some of our…
Book Club Day: On the Road to Find Out by Rachel Toor
Our Summer Book Club selection was “On the Road to Find Out” by Rachel Toor. This is Toor’s debut YA novel, and it’s a very interesting, humorous, and inspiring story. Through her protagonist Alice, Toor teaches us how to run, how to overcome rejection, how to improve our vocabulary, and inadvertently about the mystery of…
Book Club Day: Pointe by Brandy Colbert
Our April Book Club selection was “Pointe” by Brandy Colbert. It’s not an easy, breezy, shallow book about a boy and girl who meetcute and overcome a few obstacles to be together forever. “Pointe” is a tough but powerful book dealing with several serious issues. It’s the story of Theo, a 17-year-old African-American ballet student who…
Book Club Day: Robert Cormier’s I Am the Cheese & The Chocolate War
For our March Book Club, we decided to check out two old-school novels by the late Robert Cormier, who some consider the grandfather of young adult literature. Cormier wrote novels with teen protagonists at a time when the genre was still developing. Random House has reissued paperbacks of his two classic YA books, “I am…
Book Club Day: Grandmaster by David Klass
This month’s selection for our February Book Club Day is “Grandmaster” by David Klass. Overall, we all enjoyed the father-son relationship in the story, and the way the book will remind teens that their parents were people with interests and passions before they got married and had children. Although some of us found the technical…
Q&A: Interview with Grandmaster Author David Klass
This month, our contributors read “Grandmaster” by David Klass as our monthly selection. In anticipation of tomorrow’s Book Club Day, we’re featuring our interview with Klass, a seasoned novelist and screenwriter. David answered our many questions about chess, father-son relationships in YA, and the appeal of a beta-male protagonist. Teen Lit Rocks: Everyone wants to…
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….
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…