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  That Lesbian Mom Next Door — Authority: 110
  Ash by Malinda Lo I started crusing the Young Adult section of bookstores years ago, looking for new material for our daughters four hundred page a day habit. Then after she talked me into reading a few, I started looking for myself. And that Im writing YA, Im checking out the new releases all the time. Which is ...
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• Book Review, outside IN

  
  The Book Chook — Authority: 118
  One of our strongest human needs is to fit in. This drives so much behaviour, particularly in our teenage years. Do you remember feeling that everyone else was cool, confident and charismatic, while you didn’t even fit inside your own skin? I don’t think things are any different for Generation X, Y or Z: ...
  5 days ago

• Guest Post with Tammar Stein, Author of Light Years

  
  Mother Daughter Book Club Blog — Authority: 126
  Today I’m guest posting at Tammar Stein’s blog . My essay is about how reading with your daughter helps you stay closer to her as she grows. Tammar is the author of Light Years . Here’s the publisher’s description of Light Years : “ He went to school to learn how to kill me. The Israeli girl who ...
  6 days ago

• The Wyrm King (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles) by Holly Block and Tony DiTerlizzi

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 125
  This has turned into YA fiction week here at CM.  So we might as well keep things going with another illustrated chapter book.  The Wyrm King is the final book in the Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles which appropriately enough followed The Spiderwick Chronicles . Here is a video trailer to pique your interest: ...
  6 days ago

• Review – The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson

  
  Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'? — Authority: 531
  The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson 265 pages Published April 29, 2008 Fiction, young adult You can hear me blather on about The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson OR you can take my word for it that you should just drop everything and go read this book. I’d seen this book around and I was ...
  6 days ago

• I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You by Ally Carter

  
  Semicolon — Authority: 132
  For me, the last panel discussion of the day of on Saturday at the Texas Book Festival was a discussion with four children’s/YA authors about writing series fiction. The title was something like “How To Write Characters That Go the Distance: Writing Books in a Series.” The authors were Derrick Barnes (Ruby and ...
  1 week ago

• Announcing Young Adult Fiction Author Larry Sweitzer’s The Ghost, The Eggheads, and Babe Ruth’s Piano

  
  Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours — Authority: 124
  Join Larry Sweitzer , author of the young adult fiction novel, The Ghost, The Eggheads, and Babe Ruth’s Piano (iUniverse), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion ! Larry Sweitzer About Larry Sweitzer Larry Sweitzer was born in ...
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• Twilight Prisoner by Katherine Marsh

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 125
  Even though I picked up – and read – The Night Tourist from the remainders/bargain bin at Borders back in July, I just now got around to reading the sequel The Twilight Prisoner : After traveling to New York City’s ghostly underworld, Jack Per du has made it back aboveground, to join the living. But if ...
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• Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 125
  I have become something of a Neil Gaiman fan.  Not an acolyte of anything, but I do enjoy checking out his latest project.  So when I spotted Odd and the Frost Giants at the library I quickly added to the pile.  After all, it fit right into my recent children’s and young adult kick. Rather than stealing ...
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• Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols

  
  Books Lists Life — Authority: 123
  I read Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols back before the Read-A-Thon so forgive me if my review is brief. This one got great reviews all over the blogosphere and I was really excited about getting my hands on it. I think it really holds up to the hype and only have a few minor complaints. So what happens? Meg is ...
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• It’s only words …

  
  Christine Bongers — Authority: 106
  When I took my first baby steps as a writer of fiction, it was the good folk at the Qld Writers Centre who held my hand and picked me up when I stumbled and fell. They encouraged me to walk unassisted, and then to run. They clapped when I did cartwheels over my first book contract, and my second. So what do you say ...
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• Ottoline Goes to School by Chris Riddell

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 125
  Cover of Ottoline Goes to School For those of you keeping score at home, I have been exploring what you might call the graphic novel side of children’s and young adult literature.  Works that are more than picture books; chapter books with a heavy visual aspect to them. The latest book I stumbled upon at the ...
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• Anna’s World by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin

  
  Semicolon — Authority: 132
  I’ve always been interested in aberrant minds, people who think differently from the rest of us, and in aberrant religious groups, group that detour from orthodox Christianity into a spiritual path that obviously has its roots in Christianity, but doesn’t adhere to Biblical teaching. The Shakers of nineteenth ...
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• William S. and the Great Escape by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  
  Foreign Circus Library — Authority: 112
  Flap copy from hardcover: "William S. Baggett is a good kid trapped in a really awful family. William has his running-away money ready to go, hes just been waiting until hes older than twelve to leave. When his big brothers flush his sisters pet guinea pig down the toilet, she insists they leave now. And take the two ...
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• Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

  
  Hope Is the Word — Authority: 464
  Back last month, Carrie of Reading to Know  had the crazy brilliant idea to read every picture book in her public library  and her new blog, Reading My Library , was born. This actually sounds like a lot of fun to me, but since I’m pretty sure that when it’s all said and done, I will have done that  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede

  
  Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Authority: 110
  While her twin brother is born the 7th son of a 7th son which makes him magically powerful and lucky, Eff is born thirteenth which means she is certain to poison the lives of those around her.  Eff’s is made miserable by her cousins and Uncle Earn who believe that her parents should not have kept an unlucky ...
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• A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS up on CFBA

  
  CARLAS WRITING CAF — Authority: 416
  This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing A Little Help from My Friends FaithWords (October 15, 2009) by Anne Dayton & May Vanderbilt ABOUT THE AUTHOR: ANNE DAYTON graduated from Princeton University and is earning her masters degree in English literature at New ...
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• The Sorceress by Michael Scott

  
  Collected Miscellany — Authority: 125
  Cover via Amazon I will fully admit that I can be far too derivative in my reviews. I think that I can write some thoughtful and detailed reviews when I have the time and energy.  But I also post a number of “here is the publishers blurb and here is my reaction” type posts. This doesn’t bother me too much ...
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• Airborn

  
  Book Dads — Authority: 516
  This award-winning YA novel concerns the adventures of 15-year-old Matt Cruse, cabin boy aboard the lighter-than-air ship Aurora. Matt lives in an alternate history, steampunk world in which such dirigibles, filled with a gas called hydrium, have taken the place of airplanes. Airships like the Aurora ply the ...
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• Numbers

  
  Bending Bookshelf — Authority: 113
  Rachel Ward s debut novel, Numbers (2010), is the story of Jem, a girl whose ability to see a persons "numbers" - the date of their death - causes her and her friend, Spider, to become suspects in a terrorist attack at the London Eye. What follows is a story of friendship and love amid chaos, further complicated by ...
  2 weeks ago

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