The Middle Grade Review Bonanza is a new feature of 2-3 mini-reviews for short (typically 250 pages or less) MG books we both really wanted to read. It’s a new Regular Thing (and we’d love to hear your thoughts…
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“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
Over at Kirkus: Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia Mccall
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus! Today Ana reviews Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall. The book – a retelling of The Odyssey featuring 5 sisters travelling in Mexico, guided by the ghostly La…
And now for something completely different! At the beginning of this year, we started a new feature called Old School Wednesdays. We came up with the idea towards the end of last year, when both of us were feeling…
Title: When We Wake Author: Karen Healey Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication date: March 5 2013 Hardcover: 304 pages My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my…
Hello everybody and a happy Sunday to us all! A few bits, bobs and also: OUTRAGE. Giveaway Winner: The winner of an ARC of These Broken Stars is BEE Congratulations! You know the drill. Send us an email (contact…
“On The Smugglers’ Radar” is a feature for books that have caught our eye: books we have heard of via other bloggers, directly from publishers, and/or from our regular incursions into the Amazon jungle. Thus, the Smugglers’ Radar was…
Title: Beautiful Music for Ugly Children Author: Kirstin Cronn-Mills Genre: Contemporary, LGBQT, Young Adult Publisher: Flux Publication date: October 1st 2012 Paperback: 262 pages “This is Beautiful Music for Ugly Children, on community radio 90.3, KZUK. I’m Gabe. Welcome…
“Inspirations and Influences” is a series of articles in which we invite authors to write guest posts talking about their…well, Inspirations and Influences. The best part about I&I posts? Writers are given free rein so they can go wild…
Old School Wednesdays: Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman
Welcome, everyone, to a brand new weekly Smugglerific feature: Old School Wednesdays! We came up with the idea towards the end of last year, when both of us were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of new and shiny…