Vacations from Hell by Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Mlynowski

I am on Vacation…So it’s Beach Week here on the blog.

Granted I live less than a mile from the ocean in Southern Florida, so really every week is beach week for me, but there is just something special about being on vacation at a beach. Even if you’re a year round beach bum a [...]



June 27th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Short Stories, YA Lit | Leave a comment

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

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Willa Jackson left her hometown, Walls of Water, infamous. Revealing herself as the Jokester after 4 years of pranks. Willa left high school in handcuffs, unwittingly inspiring more than a few of her classmates to take more risks in their lives. Unfortunately, after failing out of college and the death of her father, Willa remembers her prankster [...]



May 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Adult Lit, BookTalks, Review | Leave a comment

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

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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 [...]



May 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment

I need a break…A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

I work with teens for roughly 8 hours a day, I read a lot of YA…Believe me, there are times when I can’t listen/read to one more teen-centric drama! They whine, they complain about things that really aren’t all that important in the long run, sometimes they giggle really really loud, they ask stupid questions [...]



May 3rd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Adult Lit, Review | Leave a comment