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Book Review: Wanted
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Wanted Author: Heidi Ayarbe Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: May 1, 2012 Source: Publisher / Teen Book Scene —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language —————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a different type of contemporary that is gritty and honest. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A one-word text message: That’s all Michal “Mike” Garcia needs to gather a crowd. Mike is a seventeen-year-old bookie, and Sanctuary is where she takes bets for anyone…
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Book Review: White Horse
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: White Horse Author: Alex Adams Publisher: Atria / Emily Bestler Books Pages: Hardcover; 292 Release Date: April 17, 2012 Source: Publisher —————————————— Genre: Science Fiction / Dystopian HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a dark story, with plenty of humanity and hope thrown in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the President of the United States announces that human beings are…
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Book Review: The Dragonfly Prophecy
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Dragonfly Prophecy Author: Jacquelyn Castle Publisher: Class Act Books Pages: Paperback; 290 Release Date: July 15, 2011 Source: Author ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a clean, fun read with a twist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Seventeen-year-old Lexi Blane believed she was the creator of her own destiny. With a brilliant mind, a flawless boyfriend, and parents who would stop the earth from spinning for her, all was going…
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Book Review: Blue Asylum
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Blue Asylum Author: Kathy Hepinstall Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: Hardcover; 288 Release Date: April 10, 2012 Source: Publisher / TLC Book Tours —————————————— Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy light historical fiction with a great storyline. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Virginia plantation wife Iris Dunleavy is put on trial and convicted of madness. It is the only reasonable explanation the court can see for her willful behavior, so she is sent…
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Book Review: Silver Knight
Media Type: Print Book Title: Silver Knight Author: Caron Rider Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 278 Release Date: February 24, 2012 Source: Author / Lightning Book Promotions ————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a well-written and well paced read, with twists and turns galore. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon When seventeen-year-old Diana recognizes an elderly priest in a video on YouTube, she realizes that reincarnation is real and that she’s been alive before! Every night in her dreams, she relives her…
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Audio Book Review: The Graveyard Book
Media Type: Audio Book Title: The Graveyard Book Author: Neil Gaiman Narrator: Neil Gaiman Publisher: Harper Children’s Audio Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 7 hours 47 minutes Source: Purchased on Audible ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————- HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.…
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Book Review: Delta Legend
Media Type: Ebook Title: Delta Legend Author: Kelan O’Connell Publisher: Self-published Release Date: November 8, 2011 Source: Author ————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ————————————– HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a mix of mythology and magic, with a YA twist. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When 16-year-old Oakland California teenager, Calvin Pierce, makes a bad decision and winds up getting arrested, his mother is quick to take action. Determined not to lose a second son to the drug and gang violence of the inner…
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Book Review: Medusa the Mean (Goddess Girls #8)
Media Type: Print Book Title: Medusa the Mean *Series: Goddess Girls #8 Author: Joan Holub, Suzanne Williams Publisher: Aladdin Pages: Paperback; 256 Release Date: April 3, 2012 Source: Author / Teen Book Scene ——————————————– Intended Reading Group: Middle Grade Content Screening: Nothing of note! ——————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Young readers who love a good adventure, and are interested in Greek Mythology. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari /Amazon / B&N Medusa is the ultimate mean girl in this series that blends modern drama with ancient myths.Well researched and true to the original myths,…
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Book Review: The Comet’s Curse
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Comet’s Curse *Series: Galahad #1 Author: Dom Testa Publisher: Tor Teen Pages: Paperback; 240 Release Date: March 2, 2010 Source: Publisher ———————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence ———————————- HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love science fiction; reluctant readers Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When the tail of the comet Bhaktul flicks through the Earth’s atmosphere, deadly particles are left in its wake. Suddenly, mankind is confronted with a virus that devastates the adult population. Only those under the…
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Book Review: On The Day I Died
Media Type: Ebook Title: On The Day I Died: Stories From The Grave Author: Candace Fleming Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc. Pages: Hardcover; 208 Release Date: July 10, 2012 Source: NetGalley —————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Violence —————————————- HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good ghost story, and aren’t afraid of a little macabre reading. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The phenomenally versatile, award-winning author, Candace Fleming, gives teen and older tween readers ten ghost stories sure to send chills up their spines. Set…