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It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning. A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are […]
Every review you see if this book is sparse in details but tells you that you MUST READ IT. There is a reason for that. If I gave you too many details, I would totally ruin this book for you and you would hate me forever. And, yet, somehow I must convey to you that […]
Once upon a time . . . There are so many don’ts in Mirabelle’s life. But the most important one seems to be that she can never go visit the town of Beau Rivage, where she was born and her parents died. Which is why she feels she must. Here she can finally find answers […]
I remember when I first saw Hourglass; the cover caught my eye and I thought to myself I need to read that. But like all readers my list of books to read is long and some books fall in the cracks. If I could go back in time, I would read it the moment it […]
Margot Wood is a lover of YA lit and calls herself the Real Fauxtographer. She has a blog where she takes pictures inspired by her favorite YA fiction. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you really should because she does some amazing photography. If you are fan of this blog you know that a […]
So last night I was thumbing through a journal and there was a one sheet ad from Harper Teen with all their starred books including Variant by Robison Wells. As the ad said Variant has received a starred review from VOYA magazine (and a lot of other places) and I thought to myself, “Hey, I did that!” Then I […]
Please join me me in welcoming school librarian Amianne Bailey to the TLT team. She will be joining us periodically to review middle grade fiction and provide us with a Middle Grade Moment (MG Moment). Today she reviews Okay for Now by Gary d. Schmidt. A Story of Baseball, Birds, and BulliesOkay for Now by […]
You don’t want to touch Juliette. Her touch is lethal power. As a baby, her touch caused her mother and father intense pain, so they shunned her. Then one day she saw a mother hurting a young boy and she reached out to hurt him help him. He ended up dead. She has spent the […]
Here’s my geek admission of the day: When I graduated from high school I took all that cash I received and promptly went out and bought the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe. Sure, some people do practical things with the money, like pay for college or textbooks. Others take a trip. But for me […]
Teens today won’t remember a time without Facebook, but it did exist (really!). What would happen if the year was 1996 and you got your first computer and logged on only to find yourself reading status updates in the future? That is the premise of Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler’s The Future of Us. The […]
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