It’s Friday Monday and we are over at Kirkus! Ana read Rituals by Roz Kaveney, this super fun Fantasy/Adventure/Myth featuring awesome queer ladies. Pretend this cover is not real and go read the review HERE.…
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Title: The Thing About Luck Author: Cynthia Kadohata Genre: Contemporary, Middle Grade, PoC Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers Publication Date: January 2013 Hardcover: 288 Pages There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck—which is exactly…
Title: Blackberry Blue Author: Jamila Gavin (illustrated by Richard Collingridge) Genre: Fairytales Publisher: Tamarind Publication Date: November 7 2013 Hardcover: 240 Pages Prepare to enter a world of magicians, enchanted forests, talking animals and wicked witches . . .…
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Title: Sorrow’s Knot Author: Erin Bow Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Young Adult Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books Publication Date: October 2013 Hardcover: 352 Pages From the acclaimed author of PLAIN KATE, a new novel about what lurks in the shadows,…
Title: Boxers/Saints Author: Gene Luen Yang Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Graphic Novel Publisher: First Second Publication Date: September 2013 Hardcover: 336 / 176 Pages One of the greatest comics storytellers alive brings all his formidable talents to bear in this…
Title: The Real Boy Author: Anne Ursu Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade Publisher: Walden Pond Press Publication Date: September 2013 Hardcover: 288 Pages On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and…
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Smuggler’s Ponderings: thoughts on The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson Arthur A. Levine, March 2013, HC: 289 pages. Bought. A heart-stopping story of love, death, technology, and art set amid the tropics of a futuristic Brazil. The lush city of Palmares Três…
Title: Inheritance Author: Malinda Lo Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Little, Brown Publication Date: September 24 Hardcover: 480 Pages The triangular spaceship hovered motionless in the sky above Reese Holloway’s house, as inscrutable as a black hole. It…
Title: Counting by 7s Author: Holly Goldberg Sloan Genre: Contemporary, Middle Grade, PoC Publisher: Dial Publication Date: August 29 2013 Hardcover: 384 Pages In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving…
