CONTRIBUTORS CONTACT

Teen Lit Rocks

Navigation
  • Books
    • Book Club Picks
    • Upcoming Books
    • Author Appreciation
    • Author Q&A
  • YA Diversity Book Club
  • Reviews
    • Editor’s Pick
    • Books We Adore
  • Features
    • Casting Call
    • Commentary
    • Confessions of a YA Junkie
    • Selective Collective
      • Selective Collective
    • Top 10
  • Favorites
    • Amazing Couples
    • Heroines Who Rock
    • Literary Crush
  • Giveaways
  • About Us
    • Our Teen Lit Rocks Contributors
    • Publicity and Media
You are here: Home / Archives for book club selection

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 0

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Authors, Book of the Month, Books, Top Features, Upcoming Books Tagged With: authors, Book Club Pick, book club selection, justina chen headley, upcoming book, ya books

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share9
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 9

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Book of the Month, Books, Top Features Tagged With: Book Club Pick, book club selection, Guadalupe Garcia McCall, Summer of the Mariposas

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 0

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Book of the Month, Books, Features, Top Features Tagged With: Book Club Pick, book club selection, Donna Cooner, Skinny, ya books

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 0

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Book of the Month, Books, Features Tagged With: Alyssa B. Sheinmel, Book Club Pick, book club selection, The Stone Girl, ya books

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 0

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Book of the Month, Books, Features Tagged With: Book Club Pick, book club selection, Lisa M. Stasse, ya books

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 0

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Authors, Books, Features Tagged With: authors, Book Club Pick, book club selection, Julie Schumacher

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 0

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Book of the Month, Books, Features Tagged With: Book Club Pick, book club selection, reviews

Book Club Day: ‘The Girl in the Park’ by Mariah Fredericks + Giveaway!

April 30, 2012 by Diana 2 Comments

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin1
Shares 1

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Book of the Month, Books, Features Tagged With: Book Club Pick, book club selection, mariah fredericks, random house

Book Club Day + Giveaway: Getting Over Garrett Delaney by Abby McDonald

April 4, 2012 by Diana 7 Comments

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 0

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Book of the Month, Books, Features Tagged With: Book Club Pick, book club selection, reviews

First Book Club Selection: “Under the Mesquite”

September 14, 2011 by Sandie 1 Comment

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… 

Read More »

Share
Tweet
Share
+1
Stumble
Pin
Shares 0

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest

Filed Under: Upcoming Books Tagged With: book club selection, under the mesquite, upcoming book

« Previous Page
Hello fellow book lovers! Teen Lit Rocks is run by Sandie Chen, a professional book reviewer and film critic. Our contributors are all adult women (librarians, educators, mothers) hailing from across the U.S. and Canada who love to read YA. We support diversity in teen literature and can't wait to discuss our recommendations with you.

Recent Reviews

  • Blog Tour: Spill Zone: The Broken Vow
  • Happy Fourth! YA Books That Take You Across America
  • Books We Adore: One of Us Is Lying
  • Books We Adore: The Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
  • Emergency Contact Giveaway & Love

Subscribe To Get Our Updates

Enter your Email

Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz

Categories

Blogs We Love

  • From Left to Write
  • Gone Pecan
  • Novel Novice
  • Quinn's Book Nook
  • Reading Everywhere
  • The Book Addict's Guide
  • The Grown-Up YA
  • The Reading Date
  • We Heart YA
  • YA Bibliophile
  • YA Booklover
  • YA Crush
  • YA Sisterhood
  • YALSA

Currently Reading

Wayfarer

Copyright © 2021 · Foodie Theme by Shay Bocks · Built on the Genesis Framework · Powered by WordPress

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.