Title: Furnace: Lockdown Author: Alexander Gordon-Smith Genre: YA (horror) Publisher: Faber’s Children’s Books Publishing Date: 5 March 2009 Paperback: 304 pages Stand Alone or series: First book in a planned trilogy. Book two is called Furnace: Solitary and book…
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Series Review: The Books of Bayern by Shannon Hale
Until recently, I had not been introduced to the works of Shannon Hale, though her book Princess Academy is a Newberry Honor award winner, and Goose Girl comes highly recommended from basically everyone who has read it. Though embarrassingly…
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Book Review: Everything Beautiful by Simmone Howell
Title: Everything Beautiful Author: Simmone Howell Genre: YA – Contemporary Publisher: Bloomsbury PLC Publishing Date: 5 January 2009 Paperback: 288 pages Stand Alone or series: Stand alone Summary: Riley Rose, atheist and bad girl, has been tricked into attending…
For our Young Adult Appreciation Month, we invited a few bloggers to write a piece on reading and blogging about Young Adult books. This week’s guest is Lenore from the blog Presenting Lenore one of our favorites YA blogs,…
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Young Adult Appreciation Month: Stash, News and Week 3 Schedule
Hola!!! Good Sunday to all! We kick off week three of our Young Adult Appreciation Month with an announcement. We realised that we had way more YA books that we really, really wanted to read so we decided to…
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Joint Review: Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Title: Prophecy of the Sisters Author: Michelle Zink Genre: YA (Horror) Publisher: Little, Brown (US)/ Atom (UK) Publishing Date: August 1, 2009 (US) August 6, 2009 (UK) Hardcover: 352 pages Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a planned…
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Young Adult Appreciation Month: Lisa Mantchev on Young Adult novels (and a giveaway)
Lisa Mantchev is a YA debut author, writer of the recently published Eyes Like Stars – an absolutely fabulous, fun book which became one of Ana’s favorite reads this year (reviewed here). We invited Lisa to write a guest…
Title: Shiver Author: Maggie Stiefvater Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy Publisher: Scholastic Publication Date: August 2009 Hardcover: 400 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel (at least to my knowledge). Why did I read this book: Although…
Title: Cybele’s Secret Author: Juliet Marillier Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Books Publication Date: September 2008 Hardcover: 448 Pages Stand alone or series: Can be read as a stand alone novel, but is the companion book/sequel to Wildwood…
