Spellbound by Cara Lynn Shultz

BookTalk

Emma thought her life couldn’t get any worse. Within a year she’d lost both her mother and her twin brother leaving her with a grieving alcoholic of a step dad to take care of her. After her stepfather wrapped both of them around a tree Emma is left not only with a massive scar [...]

Waiting on Wednesday (1) The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly

Waiting on Wednesday is a blog post hosted by Breaking The Spine in which bloggers post about up-coming releases they’re dying to read.

My Pick:

The Wild Rose (publication date: August 2, 2011)

I simply devoured Donnelly’s first two…The Tea Rose and The Winter Rose…and am currently waiting very impatiently for August to come…

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Review

No review for this one. I read it long ago and just wanted to share the BookTalk I use when promoting the series to students. If you haven’t already…read it…it’s amazing and addictive

BookTalk

Imagine “Survivor” but instead of voting people off, you must kill your competitors to win…

North America is [...]

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

BookTalk

I used to be someone.

Someone named Jenna Fox.

That’s what they tell me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch.

More. But I’m not sure what…

Jenna Fox [...]

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Warning: This book is slow to start.

Warning: This book is confusing for at least the first 30 pages.

Warning: This book will become so addictive you’ll shut out the world to finish it…

Seriously, Think Hunger Games addicting…

Like The Hunger Games, The Maze Runner is a dystopian fantasy teen trilogy. I’d recommend it to the same [...]