It wasn't hard for the folks at Random House to convince me to team up with them for a week-long feature on their new book Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly. A quick peek at their press release revealed that the book was chock-full of backstory, history and more -- all things we love delving into here... Continue Reading →
Much of what we learn about characters comes through certain characteristics and mannerisms. But in Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush and Crescendo, we also get insight from the cars the characters drive. We saw in Hush, Hush that Nora drove a brown 1979 Fiat Spider, but it's Vee, Nora's best friend, who's 1995 purple Dodge Neon gets the... Continue Reading →
Much of what we learn about characters comes through certain characteristics and mannerisms. But in Becca Fitzpatrick's Hush, Hush and Crescendo, we also get insight from the cars the characters drive. We saw in Hush, Hush that Nora drove a brown 1979 Fiat Spider, but it's Vee, Nora's best friend, who's 1995 purple Dodge Neon gets the... Continue Reading →
Two noteworthy entries on this week's best sellers (and no, I am NOTÂ going to mention Justin Bieber!): Andrea Cremer debuted at No. 9 with Nightshade; and P.C. Cast's The Fledgling Handbook 101 (Of House of Night fame) landed at the top of the paperbacks, dethroning The Book Thief for the moment. CHAPTER BOOKS This Week... Continue Reading →
Today, we are thrilled to present an exclusive guest blog from Michaela MacColl, author of the new book Prisoners in the Palace. Very briefly, here's the synopsis of her book (which will put her guest blog into context): London, 1838. Sixteen-year-old Liza's dreams of her society debut are dashed when her parents are killed in... Continue Reading →
Today, we are thrilled to present an exclusive guest blog from Michaela MacColl, author of the new book Prisoners in the Palace. Very briefly, here's the synopsis of her book (which will put her guest blog into context): London, 1838. Sixteen-year-old Liza's dreams of her society debut are dashed when her parents are killed in... Continue Reading →
* First things first -- awesome author (& our good friend) Lisa Schroeder revealed the cover for her new, upcoming YA book, The Day Before. Here's the shiny cover & official synopsis: Sometimes there's no turning back. Amber's life is spinning out of control. All she wants is to turn up the volume on her... Continue Reading →
For this week's Hunger Games segment, I'm going to focus on Visualization and Symbolism. Good readers tend to visual scenes much like a movie while they read a book, but not all readers do this automatically. In fact, it's part of what holds reluctant readers back. If a reader can't visualize while reading, how can he... Continue Reading →
For this week's Hunger Games segment, I'm going to focus on Visualization and Symbolism. Good readers tend to visual scenes much like a movie while they read a book, but not all readers do this automatically. In fact, it's part of what holds reluctant readers back. If a reader can't visualize while reading, how can he... Continue Reading →
Author Becca Fitzpatrick has all sorts of goodies on her website related to Hush, Hush and Crescendo -- including playlists for each book. But we wanted to get even more specific. So below you'll find polls listing all of the songs from each of Becca's playlists. We want you to vote on which song from... Continue Reading →
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