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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Book Club Day: ‘The Girl in the Park’ by Mariah Fredericks + Giveaway!
When Wendy Geller’s body is found in Central Park after the night of a rager, newspaper headlines scream,”Death in the Park: Party Girl Found Strangled.” But shy Rain, once Wendy’s best friend, knows there was more to Wendy than just “party girl.” As she struggles to separate the friend she knew from the tangle of…
Book Club Day + Giveaway: Getting Over Garrett Delaney by Abby McDonald
About the Book: Seventeen-year-old Sadie is in love: epic, heartfelt, and utterly one-sided. The object of her obsession – ahem, affection – is her best friend, Garrett Delaney, who has been oblivious to Sadie’s feelings ever since he sauntered into her life and wowed her with his passion for Proust (not to mention his deep-blue…
First Book Club Selection: “Under the Mesquite”
We’re happy to announce that our very first Book Club selection is “Under the Mesquite” by Guadalupe Garcia McCall. As the oldest of eight siblings, Lupita is used to taking the lead—and staying busy behind the scenes to help keep everyone together. But when she discovers Mami has been diagnosed with cancer, Lupita is terrified…