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Thirty Sunsets by Christine Hurley Deriso Available July 8th, 2014 Publisher: Flux  Paperback 240 pages YA Contemporary Reviewed E-ARC from Publisher Pre-Order Links- Amazon/   BN / Book Depository Goodreads -  To Forrest Shephard, getting away to the family's beach house with her parents and her brother, Brian, is the best part of every summer. Until this year, when her mother invites Brian's obnoxious girlfriend, Olivia, to join them. Suddenly, Forrest's relaxing vacation becomes a mission to verify the reality of Olivia's rumored eating disorder. But the truth behind Olivia's finicky eating isn't at all what Forrest expected. And over the next thirty days, Forrest's world is turned upside down as her family's darkest secrets begin to come to light. REVIEW This book was a real surprise to me. I thought Forrest, the sister, was going to spend the summer hating her brother's obnoxious girlfriend trying to break them up. I really have stopped reading ...

Dualed by Elsie Chapman Available Now Publisher: Random House Hardback 292 pages Dystopian/YA To Buy Links- Amazon / Kindle / Paperback / AudioCD /  Audible /  BN / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads -   In the city of Kersh, everyone must eliminate their genetic Alternate twin, raised by another family, before their twentieth birthday. West Grayer, 15, has trained as a fighter, and has one month to hunt and kill her Alt. A tragic misstep shakes her confidence. Guilty, grieving, she feels unworthy, runs from her Alt and from love - both can destroy her. REVIEW West Grayer is like a Tootsie Pop, tough outer shell and soft inner layer. The question is how many licks can she take before she cracks. She has a hard life like so many in her position, but she gets a break, if she can live with herself and take it. It will give her the training she needs to beat her Alt, valuable training she can't afford any other way.  Taking it means she has to turn her back ...

Tour Page and Schedule Zoe & Zak and the Tiger Temple  by Lars Guignard Read by Sonja Field Genre:  Middle Grade Magic, Fantasy Adventure. Ages 8-13 About the Book: Zoe and Zak have learned some things since their first semester at Moonstock Himalayan Academy in India: #1 Don't trust the parrots. #2 Don't eat the food. #3 And most importantly . . . don't stick around if something crawls out of the lava hole beneath your school. Last semester, Zoe and Zak returned the first lost Noble Truth to its rightful home. Now, the seventh graders are back in India for their second semester at Moonstock, their boarding school high in the Himalayan mountains where impossible things seem to happen on a regular basis. School kicks off with the Activity Week Challenge in the tiny mountain kingdom of Bhutan where the students must deliver medical supplies. Things take a turn for the worse when Zak becomes deathly ill after an encounter with a strange floating bubble. On returning to Moo...

We Are The Goldens by Dana Reinhardt Available May 27th, 2014 Contemporary YA Fiction Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Hardcover 208 pages To Buy Links: Amazon / Kindle / MP3 CD / Audible/ BN/ Book Depository / Indiebound/ Kobo Goodreads -  Nell knows a secret about her perfect, beautiful sister Layla. If she tells, it could blow their world apart. When Nell and Layla were little, Nell used to call them Nellaya. Because to Nell, there was no difference between where she started and her adored big sister ended. They're a unit; divorce made them rely on each other early on, so when one pulls away, what is the other to do? But now, Nell's a freshman in high school and Layla is changing, secretive. And then Nell discovers why. Layla is involved with one of their teachers. And even though Nell tries to support Layla, to understand that she's happy and in love, Nell struggles with her true feelings: it's wrong, and she must do something about it. REVIEW If you don't read th...

Waiting on Wednesday Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine  to highlight upcoming releases that we are eager to share. Here is one that I am really anticipating. I think it is THAT book that I have been waiting for someone to write. Chasing the Milky Way by Erin E. Moulton Publishes June 12th from Philomel Hardback 288 pages In a book that pairs science with mental illness, and heart with adventure, Erin E. Moulton delivers a moving story about family, friendship and the lengths we go for the people we love. Lucy Peevy has a dream--to get out of the trailer park she lives in and become a famous scientist. And she's already figured out how to do that: Build a robot that will win a cash prize at the BotBlock competition and save it for college. But when you've got a mama who doesn't always take her meds, it's not easy to achieve those goals. Especially when Lucy's mama takes her, her baby sister Izzy, and their neighbor Cam away i...

THE PARADOX OF VERTICAL FLIGHT by Emil Ostrovski     Release Date: September 24, 2013 Hardcover, 260 pages Publisher: Greenwillow Books Genre: Contemporary / Realistic Fiction / Tough Issues / Suicide What happens when you put a suicidal eighteen-year-old philosophy student, his ex-girlfriend, his best friend, and his newborn baby in a truck and send them to Grandma's house?  This debut novel by Emil Ostrovski will appeal to fans of John Green, Chris Crutcher, and Jay Asher. On the morning of his eighteenth birthday, philosophy student and high school senior Jack Polovsky is somewhat seriously thinking of suicide when his cell phone rings. Jack's ex-girlfriend, Jess, has given birth, and Jack is the father. Jack hasn't spoken with Jess in about nine months—and she wants him to see the baby before he is adopted. The new teenage father kidnaps the baby, names him Socrates, stocks up on baby supplies at Wal-Mart, and hits the road with his best friend, Tommy, and...