Archive for September, 2012

It’s Monday! What are you reading this week? 2

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? This is a weekly event to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finish this week. It is hosted by Sheila from One Person’s Journey Through a World of  Books so stop by and join in! On the Blog: Fairly normal […]

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Review: What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang

Publisher: HarperCollins Publish Date: September 18th, 2012 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Secret Twins Synopsis: What’s Left of Me tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl fighting for her right to survive in a world where two souls are born into each body and one is doomed to disappear. Pitched as The Golden Compass meets Girl, Interrupted.  Eva and Addie started […]

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Review: Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant

Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Publish Date: October 2nd, 2012 Source: ARC Goodreads Rating: 3/5 Apples Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker lives an affluent life in San Francisco with her mother, EmmaRose, a successful geneticist and owner of Spiker Biotech. Sure, Evening misses her father who died mysteriously, but she’s never really questioned it. Much like how she’s […]

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Fireblood Cover Reveal

  Synopsis: To save a kingdom, Zara must choose between a prince who could be the answer and a rising rebellion that threatens to take control. When Zara Dane is chosen to marry Prince Sebastian Hart, son of the man who ordered her father’s capture, Zara knows she must fight to save everything she loves from ruin. […]

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Review: Plague by Michael Grant

Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books Publish Date: April 5th, 2011 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Flying Snakes Synopsis: It’s been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE. They’ve survived hunger. They’ve survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, […]

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It’s Monday! What are you reading this week?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? This is a weekly event to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finish this week. It is hosted by Sheila from One Person’s Journey Through a World of  Books so stop by and join in! On the Blog: Last week […]

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Minder- Kate Kaynak

Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Maddie Dunn is special, but she needs to figure out how to use her new abilities before somebody else gets hurt. Ganzfield is a secret training facility full of people like her, but it’s not exactly a nurturing place. Every social interaction carries the threat of mind-control. A stray thought can burn a building […]

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The Giver- Lois Lowry

Synopsis: Jonas’s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and […]

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Time Cat- Lloyd Alexander

Synopsis: Gareth’s definitely no ordinary cat. For one thing, he can talk. For another, he’s got the power to travel through time. And the instant he tells this to Jason, the two of them are in ancient Egypt, on the first of nine amazing adventures that Jason will never forget. -Goodreads Review:  Time Cat is about […]

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The Secret of the Old Clock- Caroline Keene

Synopsis: In the first book of the classic series, Nancy Drew uses her wit and deductive skills to search for a missing will that could help a lot of people.  Review: Going into my reread of ‘The Secret of the Old Clock’, the first book in the Nancy Drew series, I didn’t realize just how long […]

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