Today I’m reviewing Reunited by Hilary Weisman Graham, as a part of an ARC tour with the Southern Book Bloggers. Reunited will be released on June 12th, 2012. The Summary: In middle school, Alice, Summer, and Tiernan were best friends and the world’s biggest fans of the rock band Level3. But everything changed when they...
May 1st marked two amazing book birthdays. Veronica Roth’s follow-up Insurgent, and Kristin Cashore’s Bitterblue, the long-awaited sequel to Graceling. Reading these two books back-to-back illustrated how sequels can be very different but equally fantastic. I’ll be reviewing Insurgent for YA Book Club later this month, but I can’t help comparing and contrasting a little for my review of...
For this week’s Road Trip Wednesday, the topic is: PROM Oh, it’s so funny to think back to that time. My school had plenty of semi-formal dances for underclassmen. I’d gone to most of those, sometimes with a boy I was dating and sometimes with friends. During my junior year, I hadn’t really thought much...
This has been an exciting week. In the book-blogging world, I am so excited to have found the Southern Book Bloggers through the magic of twitter. This site connects book bloggers who live in the south, keeps track of regional book signings and events, and sends ARCs of fabulous YA books on tours from state...
Welcome to Road Trip Wednesday! Road Trip Wednesday is a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway’s contributors post a weekly writing- or reading-related question. This Week’s Topic: What SNI were you psyched to work on, but discovered it was too close to something already done? A few years ago, I wrote a short story titled Regeneration....
I had planned to post for YA Highway’s Road Trip Wednesday, but I could spend hours with today’s task: Write a dialogue between two of your favorite YA characters. As I considered it, I couldn’t get Eldric from Chime out of my mind. (I envisioned a lively conversation between Eldric and Will from The Infernal...
Welcome to my first book review of 2012! Back in December I was lucky enough to win an advanced copy of the YA contemporary Awkward by Marni Bates. (Many thanks to Kate Scott over at Kate Scott Writes for hosting the giveaway. Click on the link to check out her blog!) Mackenzie Wellesley is happy...
Welcome to the last day of the 2011 YA superlative blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. This has been so much fun, and I’ve added way too many books to my to-be-read list for 2012. Today we chose Best in Show: Favorite Cover: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. This...
Welcome to Day 3 of the 2011 YA superlative blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. (Thanks ladies!) Today the categories are Elements of Fiction. And the awards go to: Most Envy-Inducing Plot: Divergent by Veronica Roth. This is a tough one, because you couldn’t have the plot in Divergent...
Welcome to Day 2 of the 2011 YA superlative blogfest, hosted by Katy Upperman, Jessica Love, Tracey Neithercott, and Alison Miller. (Thanks ladies!) Today’s picks are for the Popularity Contest. Without further ado… Class Clown: Percy Jackson from Son of Neptune –An oldy but goody, Percy still keeps me entertained seven books into the series....
