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Book Review: Memento Nora
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Memento Nora Author: Angie Smibert Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: April 28, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Nora, the popular girl and happy consumer, witnesses a horrific bombing on a shopping trip with her mother. In Nora’s near-future world, terrorism is so commonplace that she can pop one little white pill to forget and go on like nothing ever happened. However, when Nora makes her first trip to a Therapeutic Forgetting Clinic, she learns what her mother,…
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Book Review: Hickey of the Beast
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Hickey of the Beast Author: Isabel Kunkle Publisher: Candlewick Gleam Pages: Serial Novel Release Date: March 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ===================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing to report! HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Connie thought freshman year might suck. She never thought it’d be literal. Bad dreams? No big deal. After all, Connie Perez is starting her first year in the prep school her mom runs. Anyone would be a little stressed, right? When she starts dreaming about strange creatures and places that don’t make sense, she doesn’t think much about…
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Book Review: Future Imperfect
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Future Imperfect Author: K. Ryer Breese Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Pages: Paperback; 320 Release Date: April 26, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ========================= Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, language and sexual content HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Ade Patience can see the future and it’s destroying his life. When the seventeen-year-old Mantlo High School student knocks himself unconscious, he can see days and decades into his own future. Ade’s the best of Denver’s “divination” underground and eager to join the heralded Mantlo Diviners, a group of similarly enabled teens. Yet, unlike the…
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Book Review: The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: The Guardians of the Hidden Scepter Author: Frank L. Cole Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc. Pages: Hardcover; 288 Source: NetGalley ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violent situations and mild death scenes. HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Amber never dreamed her archaeology class would turn into a top secret mission that would take her across the globe, but when her teacher goes missing, Amber realizes it’s up to her to protect the Hidden Scepter or risk unleashing an ancient power too terrifying to imagine. This guaranteed page-turner from the bestselling author of the Hashbrown…
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Book Review: Invincible Summer
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Invincible Summer Author: Hannah Moskowitz Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: Paperback; 288 Release Date: April 19, 2011 Source: GalleyGrab ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Cussing and sexual situations HDB Rating: 5 (Super Shiny) Keys to My Heart Noah’s happier than I’ve seen him in months. So I’d be an awful brother to get in the way of that. It’s not like I have some relationship with Melinda. It was just a kiss. Am I going to ruin Noah’s happiness because of a kiss? Across four sun-kissed, drama-drenched summers at his family’s beach house,…
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Graphic Novel Review: I Love Him To Pieces
Media Type: Graphic Novel Title: I Love Him to Pieces * Series: My Boyfriend Is A Monster Author: Evonne Tsang Illustrator: Janina Gorrissen Publisher: Graphic Universe Pages: Paperback; 128 Release Date: April 28, 2011 Source: NetGalley Can love survive the zombie apocalypse? Maybe Dicey’s first chance at a real relationship was dead from the start. She’s the star of her high school baseball team, and Jack’s the star of the science program. Her idea of a study session includes sleeping in the sun, and his idea of a good game involves dungeons and dice. But opposites start attracting when they’re…
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Book Review: Calling for Angels
Media Type: Book Title: Calling for Angels Author: Alex Smith Publisher: Red Telephone Books Pages: Paperback; 149 Release Date: November 15, 2010 Source: Publisher ========================= Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Nothing out of the ordinary. This is a clean read! HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Em never believed in angels. That was until she met Zak and Kai… Em – shy, sensitive, with her head in the clouds – and Caitlyn – gorgeous, popular and talented – have been best friends forever, in a sleepy, nondescript town called Philiton. But when new boy Zak moves into town, Philiton suddenly becomes a…
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Book Review: Separate Kingdoms
Media Type: Book Title: Separate Kingdoms Author: Valerie Laken Publisher: Harper Perennial Pages: Paperback; 336 Release Date: February 1, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ======================= Intended Reading Group: Adult HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize–winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia and the United States, these are boldly innovative stories—tales of fractured, misplaced characters moving beyond the borders of their isolation and reaching for the connections…
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Book Review: Fourth Grade Fairy
Media Type: Book Title: Fourth Grade Fairy Author: Eileen Cook Publisher: Aladdin Pages: Paperback; 176 Release Date: April 19, 2011 Source: Galley Grab ======================= Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Clean as a whistle. HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart All Willow Doyle wants is to be normal, to fit in at her new school, and to have a best friend. But there’s no way Willow will ever be normal. There isn’t anything normal about her or the Doyle family. Willow comes from a long line of fairy godmothers and she’s expected to be one too when the time comes. (At the moment…
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Book Review: The Night Fairy
What would happen to a fairy if she lost her wings and could no longer fly? Flory, a young night fairy no taller than an acorn and still becoming accustomed to her wings — wings as beautiful as those of a luna moth — is about to find out. What she discovers is that the world is very big and very dangerous. But Flory is fierce and willing to do whatever it takes to survive. If that means telling others what to do — like Skuggle, a squirrel ruled by his stomach — so be it. Not every creature, however,…