ARC, 271 pages Release Date: September 13, 2016 Published by: Feiwel and Friends Read from: September 16-September 19, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TxLA For fans of: Contemporary, Magical Realism, Religion, YA Sixteen-year-old Latoya Williams, who is black, attends a mostly white high school in the Bible Belt. In a moment of desperation, she prays for the power to change her race…
This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine! Erin Blake has one of those names. A name that, like Natalee Holloway or Elizabeth Smart, is inextricably linked to a grisly crime. As a toddler, Erin survived…
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week we will post a new Top Ten list. Everyone is welcome to join. This week’s topic is: Top 10 Reasons I Started Listening to Audio! 1. I listen to them while doing my homework: Before I started my Master’s I wasn’t big on listening…
Hardcover, 320 pages Release Date: September 13, 2016 Published by: St. Martin’s Griffin Read from: September 6 Stand-alone Source: From the publisher For fans of: Mystery, Contemporary, YA Luke Grayson’s life might as well be over when he’s forced to go live in rural Tennessee with his Baptist pastor father. His reputation as a troublemaker has followed him…
This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what all we borrowed, bought, and received for review. It’s hosted over at Tynga’s Reviews. For class: This is for my seminar in YA class where we’re studying Alternating Narrators. Weekly Wrap-Up Sunday 09/11/16: Stacking the Shelves #188 & the Weekly Wrap-Up! Monday 09/12/16: Middle Grade Monday: Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier Tuesday 09/13/16: Top…
Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee’s View & Alison Can Read. The goal is to increase blog followers and make friends. Basically how it works is you follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. So looking forward to making new blogging friends & following blogs! show us your tbr!!! This is…
As y’all know, I’m a Library Science student at University of North Texas. This semester I have the pleasure of taking an AWESOME class called Seminar and Trends in YA! This semester the focus is YA books! One of the things we have to do is read some books from a list my Prof has…
This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what we’re waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) for! It’s hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine! Juliet Young always writes letters to her mother, a world-traveling photojournalist. Even after her mother’s death, she leaves letters at her grave. It’s the only way Juliet can…
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week we will post a new Top Ten list. Everyone is welcome to join. This week’s topic is: Top 10 All Time Faves in Contemporary Romance! How many of my followers saw this one coming???
ARC, 256 pages Release Date: September 13, 2016 Published by: Graphix Read from: May 12, 2016 Stand-alone Source: BEA 2016 For fans of: Diverse Reads, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade Catrina and her family are moving to the coast of Northern California because her little sister, Maya, is sick. Cat isn’t happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de…
