Wish You Were Italian Author: Kristin Rae Category: Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury Release Date: 5-6-14 Pippa is in Italy for the summer and, despite her parents’ wishes, she has no intention of just studying the local art! She has a list of things of her own to do: from swimming in the Mediterranean Sea to […]
Month: April 2014
Giveaway: Deep Blue By Jennifer Donnelly
I am very excited to host a giveaway for Jennifer Donnelly’s s new book, DEEP BLUE. Here’s a little bit about the book: Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnally Release Date: May 6, 2014 Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the […]
Open Road Summer By Emery Lord
Open Road Summer Author: Emery Lord Category: Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury Release Date: 4-15-14 After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about […]
This Side Of Salvation By Jeri Smith-Ready
This Side Of Salvation Author: Jeri Smith-Ready Category: Young Adult Publisher: Simon Pulse Release Date: 4-1-14 Everyone mourns differently. When his older brother was killed, David got angry. As in, fist-meets-someone-else’s-face furious. But his parents? They got religious. David’s still figuring out his relationship with a higher power, but there’s one thing he does know […]
The Summer Of Letting Go By Gae Polisner
The Summer Of Letting Go Author: Gae Polisner Category: Young Adult Publisher: Algonquin Books Release Date: 3-25-14 Just when everything seems to be going wrong, hope and love can appear in the most unexpected places. Summer has begun, the beach beckons and Francesca Schnell is going nowhere. Four years ago, Francesca’s little brother, Simon, drowned, […]
Love Letters To The Dead By Ava Dellaira
Love Letters To The Dead Author: Ava Dellaira Category: Young Adult Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: 4-1-14 It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has […]
Rebel Belle By Rachel Hawkins
Rebel Belle Author: Rachel Hawkins Category: Young Adult Publisher: Putnam Release Date: 4-8-14 Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper’s destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient […]
Hoppy Easter Eggstravaganza Giveaway Hop
Welcome to the Hoppy Easter Eggstravaganza Giveaway Hop hosted by I Am A Reader Not A Writer and Read Now Sleep Later! Not everyone celebrates Easter, of course, but it’s always good to have an excuse to giveaway books, right? Two lucky winners will get to pick one book from the list below. You must […]
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender By Leslye Walton
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Author: Leslye Walton Category: Young Adult Publisher: Chronicle Books Release Date: 3-25-14 Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird. In a […]
What I Thought Was True By Huntley Fitzpatrick
What I Thought Was True Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick Category: Young Adult Publisher: Dial Release Date: 4-15-14 Gwen Castle’s Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her Nantucket-esque island this summer. He’s a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family of fishermen […]