Annabeth lives for her friend Noe because, in many ways, Annabeth hates herself. The easiest way to escape that hatred is to throw her life into someone else’s and Noe’s larger-than-life personality was an easy escape. Annabeth’s struggles and the emotional weight she shoulders is below the radar of the adults in her life, […]
Category: Katherine Tegen Books
Dear Killer By Katherine Ewell
Dear Killer Author: Katherine Ewell Category: Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: 4-1-14 Kit takes her role as London’s notorious “Perfect Killer” seriously. The letters and cash that come to her via a secret mailbox are not a game; choosing who to kill is not an impulse decision. Every letter she receives begins […]
Ex Libris Audio: The Beginning Of Everything
The Beginning Of Everything Author: Robyn Schneider Narrator: Dan John Miller Performance: Good Available Now Golden boy Ezra Faulkner believes everyone has a tragedy waiting for them—a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen. His particular tragedy waited until he was primed to lose it all: in one spectacular night, a reckless […]
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
This review is spoiler free if you’ve read the first two books. Allegiant (Divergent #3) Author: Veronica Roth Category: Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: 10-22-13 The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance […]
Not A Drop To Drink by Mindy McGinnis
Not A Drop To Drink Author: Mindy McGinnis Category: Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: 9-24-13 Lynn knows every threat to her pond: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and, most importantly, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty, or doesn’t leave at all. Confident […]
Rush by Eve Silver
Rush Author: Eve Silver Category: Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: 6-11-13 When Miki Jones is pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game—her carefully controlled life spirals into chaos. In the game, she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the […]
Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith
Wild Awake Author: Hilary T. Smith Category: Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: 5-28-13 Things you earnestly believe will happen while your parents are away: 1. You will remember to water the azaleas. 2. You will take detailed, accurate messages. 3. You will call your older brother, Denny, if even the slightest thing […]
Pretty Girl 13 by Liz Coley
Pretty Girl – 13Author: Liz ColeyCategory: Young AdultFormat: eGalleyPublisher: Katherine Tegen BooksRelease Date: 3-19-13Angie Chapman was thirteen years old when she ventured into the woods alone on a Girl Scouts camping trip. Now she’s returned home…only to find that it’s three years later and she’s sixteen-or at least that’s what everyone tells her. What happened […]
Mila 2.0 by Debra Driza
Mila 2.0Author: Debra DrizaCategory: Young AdultFormat: eGalleyPublisher: Katherine Tegen BooksRelease Date: 3-12-13Mila was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was a girl living with her mother in a small Minnesota town. She was supposed to forget her past —that she was built in a secret computer science lab and programmed to […]
Asunder by Jodi Meadows
Asunder Author: Jodi Meadows Category: Young Adult Format: ARC Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: 1-29-13 Ana has always been the only one. Asunder. Apart. But after Templedark, when many residents of Heart were lost forever, some hold Ana responsible for the darksouls–and the newsouls who may be born in their place. Many are afraid […]