A School Librarian Sharing Books & #ClassroomBookADay
Title: TWO BOYS KISSING Author: David Levithan Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (a Random House imprint) Release Date: August 27, 2013 Number of Pages: 208 Source of Book: Book provided by the publisher to Book Divas for review New York Times bestselling author David Levithan tells the based-on-true-events story of Harry and Craig, two 17-year-olds who… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2013 Some of these authors are newer this year, but I honestly can’t believe it took me this long to finally read a book by a few of these authors. Jessica Verdi MY LIFE AFTER NOW Trish Doller SOMETHING LIKE NORMAL WHERE THE STARS… Read More
ENDANGERED by Eliot Schrefer was my favorite YA book of 2013. When I heard that he was going to be writing a whole series of books on the four great apes, I was so excited because I love his writing so much. I was able to get an early copy of the second one about chimpanzees, THREATENED, at the NCTE Convention,… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten 2014 Releases I’m Dying to Read PANIC by Lauren Oliver THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOU AND ME by Jennifer E. Smith THE YOUNG ELITES by Marie Lu THREATENED by Eliot Schrefer The Series Finales THE RETRIBUTION OF MARA DYER by Michelle Hodkin IGNITE ME by Tahereh Mafi GASP (Visions series)… Read More
Title: DARK EDEN Author: Patrick Carman Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (a HarperCollins imprint) Release Date: November 1, 2011 Number of Pages: 336 When Will Besting approaches Fort Eden for the first time, he knows something isn’t right. With more terrifying secrets at every turn, he discovers a hidden fear deep inside himself, a dark mystery… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten Books I Recommend to… my 8th grade girls looking for more mature/edgy contemporary romance books to read next Typically my students start with PERFECT CHEMISTRY (& the rest of the series) by Simone Elkeles because they end up having it recommended by a friend, and after they read and love… Read More
I was so excited when one of my students took my recommendation to read THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN because I wanted to get a student’s perspective on it. I’m thrilled that she loved it as much as I did, and she wrote her response in such a fun way, so I wanted to share some of my own thoughts… Read More
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten Sequels I Can’t Wait to Get My Hands On CHAMPION by Marie Lu (Legend #3) 11/5/13 {Came out yesterday-reading now!} THE RETRIBUTION OF MARA DYER by Michelle Hodkin (The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer #3) 6/10/14 IGNITE ME by Tahereh Mafi (Shatter Me #3) 2/4/14 SNAKEROOT by Andrea Cremer (Nightshade #4) 12/10/13 GRADUATION DAY by Joelle Charbonneau (The… Read More
