Happy 2017 everyone! It has been a tough month here for me, so we haven’t updated much on TLR, but I’m starting the year with the team’s picks of best books of 2016. We look forward to another year sharing of great books with you all. Cassie’s Picks: Exit, Pursued By a Bear by EK…
Middle Grade Mondays: ‘The Danger Box’ by Blue Balliett
Author: Blue Balliett Release date: Sept. 1, 2010 Publisher: Scholastic, 320 pages A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing. A mischievous girl who doesn’t belong. A mysterious notebook . A fire. A stranger. A death. These are some of the things you’ll find within The Danger Box, the new…
Middle Grade Mondays: “See You At Harry’s” by Jo Knowles
Author: Jo Knowles Release date: June 15, 2012 Publisher: Candlewick, 310 pages (Thanks to the publisher for providing a review copy of the book.) Since summer reading in my house involves my three children, and because I was so ridiculously impressed with the slate of upcoming Middle Grade books at BEA, I’ve decided to dedicate…
Editor’s Pick: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green
Hazel Grace Lancaster is a teenager living on borrowed time. She has terminal thyroid cancer that has metastasized to her lungs, but a miracle drug has prolonged her life thus far. How she chooses to spend her time rereading her favorite novel, An Imperial Affliction, for the dozenth time and watching marathons of “America’s Next…
Editor’s Pick: ‘Faking Faith’ by Josie Bloss
“Faking Faith” by Josie Bloss Release Date: November 8, 2011, 240 pages, Flux “Dylan Mahoney is living one big unholy lie. Thanks to a humiliating and painfully public sexting incident, Dylan has become the social pariah at her suburban Chicago high school. She’s ignored by everyone—when she’s not being taunted—and estranged from her two best…