If you’re Canadian, then you probably know what it’s like to see a contest announced on Twitter and Facebook, click on the site link, and immediately realize that the giveaway is only open to US residents. It’s happened to me more than once, so believe me…I understand the disappointment you feel in a real way. [...]
Realistic Teen Fiction
The Babysitter Murders by Janet Ruth Young
Buy The Babysitter Murders Special: $13.85 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Atheneum Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on July 26, 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars We all have weird thoughts sometimes. (The kind we’re glad no one else can hear or see.) However, in The Babysitter Murders, these uncomfortable thoughts seem to have taken on [...]
YA Mailbox
What’s In My Mailbox?: The July 25th Edition
It’s been awhile since I’ve gotten a lot of paranormal teen fiction to read in my mailbox post, but today, along with a few contemporary and dystopian novels, has been one overwhelming love in for paranormal YA. For those of you who have already read one or more of these or who are interested in [...]
YA Novelist Interviews
Interview With Tabitha Suzuma, Author Of Forbidden
Forbidden is a compelling novel about how child neglect leads to an unnaturally close relationship between two siblings until their love turns romantic. I had the opportunity to read and review when it first came out, and even now, nearly a month later, it’s still stuck in my mind. For this reason, I was really [...]
Realistic Teen Fiction
Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn’t Have) by Sarah Mlynowski
Buy Ten Things We Did (And Probably Shouldn’t Have) eBook price: $10.99 Publisher: Harper Teen Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on July 21, 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars When you’re 16, you would probably jump at the chance to live parent free, and April is no exception. In Ten Things We Did (And Probably [...]
Free YA Giveaways
Dark Parties Giveaway!
Sixteen-year-old Neva has lived her life trapped inside a world with no conceivable way out. Born in the Protectosphere, she lives in a nation ruled by fear, xenophobia, and lies. The government says that the war destroyed everything that remains outside of their bubble, but when a bunch of people, especially girls, go missing, their [...]
YA Mailbox
What’s In My Mailbox?: The July 18, 2011 Edition
Those who read this blog often know that I’m a big fan of contemporary YA and Dystopian YA. It shouldn’t by surprising that I was a little bit excited to receive a bunch of realistic novels set to release in July, August, and September and a dystopian novel that’s coming out in September as well. [...]
Realistic Teen Fiction
We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
Buy We’ll Always Have Summer Special: $10.49(Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on July 14, 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars It’s late at night. Isabel, her old best friend, Taylor, and her new best friend, Anika, are all studying for the last final exam of their freshman year [...]
Realistic Teen Fiction
Summer Time YA Reading Ideas?
Summer time and the reading is easy…or at least that’s what “they” tell me. The truth is that a lot of the books I read in the summer time in the past were some of the longest, most challenging ones on my book shelf at the time. Others that I remember reading last summer were [...]
YA Mailbox
What’s In My Mailbox?: The July 11, 2011 Edition
Many of my readers – the vast majority anyway – live in the US, but what you might not know is that I don’t. No, I’m Canadian, so while I read a lot of American-authored books, every once in awhile I try to do what I can to bring some Canadian young adult novels into [...]
