Magic, historical fiction, romance, and the Old West collide in fantastic ways in The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell, a delightful companion to her previously released novel The Vespertine. Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed aunt [...]
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A case of exorcizing old ghosts has turned into a stunning piece of historical fiction for young adult readers to devour with the release of Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn. Based on a true-life crime, Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls follows the story of Nora and her friends throughout the summer of 1956 [...]
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With the first book already established as a stellar start to a new series, Veronica Roth’s Insurgent takes the phrase “will leave you breathless” to a whole new level. The second book in the Divergent trilogy, Roth has created a stunning new entry in the realm of science fiction and dystopian literature. One choice can [...]
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I said it last year, and I’ll say it again this year: Kelley Armstrong’s The Calling should be a TV series. Almost like a mix between The Vampire Diaries and The X-Files, Armstrong’s Darkness Rising series continues just as strongly as it started off with last year’s The Gathering. This time, however, the stakes are [...]
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Worlds collide in Stefne Miller’s new YA novel, Collision – aptly titled to address what happens when movie star Cab Stone and missionary Kei Sallee meet in the most unlikely of circumstances. Cab’s got it all: fame, fortune, and legions of adoring fans. But the pressure and constant attention can be too much — so [...]
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That moment when you finish the final book in a beloved series, and it was everything you’d hope for and more, and then depression sets in as you realize it’s all over? That’s where I found myself upon finishing Black Heart by Holly Black, the third and final book in her Curse Workers series. Cassel [...]
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (or OCD) is no laughing matter — unless, of course, you’re reading the new book Lexapros & Cons by Aaron Karo, a riotous look at the ups and downs of high school life made all the more difficult by having to deal with OCD. Lexapros & Cons follows high school senior Chuck [...]
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I’ve been waiting for another series to fall in love with. You know, the kind of love that makes you feel like you’ve been handed a plate of warm, chewy, gooey freshly baked cookies from your grandma, just as you’ve put on an old pair of comfy socks, and snuggled up with a fluffy cat [...]
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Addressing all the ups and downs of adolescence, senior year of high school, teen romance, and self-discovery, Elizabeth Eulberg’s Take a Bow may be the author’s finest book to date. She handily takes on all the classic earmarks of a coming of age tale in a refreshingly new package, with the added pressures and challenges [...]
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Every once in a while, a book comes along that is just so charming and magical and enchanting that you fall in love. This is exactly what happened to me upon picking up Peter Nimble & His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier. The book tells the story of Peter Nimble, a blind orphan who is [...]
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