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What’s This About? Only on the internet can you have so many friends and be so lonely. Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt is taking a year off before college to find her passion. Ambitious in her own way, Katie intends to do more than just smoke weed with her boyfriend, Rory, and work [...]
Horrid Henry, by Francesca Simon is published by Sourcebooks and is Recommended. Between re-visiting favorites from my childhood and reading books with and looking for books for my young cousin, I have definitely branched away from my normal fare. When I picked this up I was thinking that at nine years old, Horrid Henry might [...]
In The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, bad things have happened in North America and the only thing left is the nation of Panem, made up of 12 districts which have been subdued by the The Capitol, and ruled with an iron fist. Hunger and starvation are rampant, and all the district’s children have to compete in what’s [...]
What’s It About? In the Tudor Court of 1518, your friends and enemies can be one and the same…During the annual celebration of the Order of the Garter, Sir Michael Devereaux arrives in King Henry VIII’s court on a mission for his benefactor. The celebration’s endless feats and sumptuous women delight the charismatic newcomer, who [...]
Either You’re In Or You’re In the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keeping a Promise to Their Father, by Logan & Noah Miller is published by HarperCollins and is Highly Recommended. Noah and Logan Miller are twin brothers who both had dreams of playing major league baseball and when that [...]
My wrap-up is super late and will be super-quick. I have been trying to sneak on in the morning when my company is sleeping, so I didn’t get to post yesterday. I would like to thank Natasha at Maw Books. I got caught up some things but I also learned a whole lot more things [...]
I have another 5 hours to report on for Bloggiesta. I ate up major time playing with themes. Frequent visitors will have noticed that they have as much chance heading over here for a new theme as a new post. I think my huge problem is column width and a few other things that [...]
The YA Book Carnival is being hosted over at Shooting Stars Mag starting today and ending on June 27. Check out this this post on the YA Book Carnival Info & Dates if you have a giveaway that you would like to submit. Once you know what giveaways you will be submitting, post them on [...]
What’s It About? Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. Meanwhile, her best friend’s family is accused of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, and Emily is left unsure of whom she can trust. Includes a reader’s guide. Why This? A Presidential asssination, a bodysnatching, a heroine with the last name [...]
This Bloggiesta thing is tough work! I was hard at work for 6 hours today from 8-2, and while I was working steadily I don’t feel all that accomplished. It takes a long time to complete these tasks. Maybe that is why I am so far behind. So far : Wrote my intro to Bloggiesta [...]
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