Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped)…
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Young Adult
Title: The Impossible Knife of Memory Author: Laurie Halse Anderson Genre: Contemporary YA Publisher: Viking Juvenile Publication Date: January 7 2014 Hardcover: 372 Pages For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the…
Title: Golden Girl Author: Sarah Zettel Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Diversity, POC Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publication Date: June 2013 Hardcover: 320 Pages Callie LeRoux has put her grimy, harrowing trip from the depths of the Dust…
Title: Lab Rat One (Touchstone Trilogy Book 2) Author: Andrea K. Höst Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Self-published Publication Date: June 2011 Paperback: 232 Pages In the months since Cassandra Devlin walked onto another planet, she has grappled…
Title: The Deep Author: Zetta Elliott Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult, PoC Publisher: Self-published Publication Date: December 2013 Hardcover: 176 Pages THE DEEP plunges readers into a dangerous, underground world policed by members of The League, a secret group…
Title: Independent Study Author: Joelle Charbonneau Genre: Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Publication Date: January 2013 Hardcover: 310 Pages In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United…
Title: Dust Girl Author: Sarah Zettel Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publication Date: June 2012 Hardcover: 304 Pages Callie LeRoux lives in Slow Run, Kansas, helping her mother run their small hotel…
Title: The Burning Sky Author: Sherry Thomas Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance Publisher: Balzer + Bray Publication Date: September 2013 Hardcover: 465 Pages It all began with a ruined elixir and an accidental bolt of lightning… Iolanthe Seabourne is…
It’s Friday Monday, which means we’re over at Kirkus! Today Thea takes on her first big release of 2014 with a review of YA fantasy novel Defy by debut author Sara B. Larson. Unfortunately, Defy is hardly defiant of…
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Thea’s Smugglivus 2013 Feats of Strength
The Feats of Strength are an integral part of our annual Smugglivus Tradition. In previous years, the Feats of Strength were a challenge in which we dared each other to read a book that we knew was so far…
