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This Book Makes Me Happy :)

Are you looking for the perfect summer book? A light romance that is fast-paced AND well-written? This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith is the perfect escape. Fans of Sarah Dessen’s… more →

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This Book Makes Me Happy :)

hooray4books wrote 1 month ago: Are you looking for the perfect summer book? A light romance that is fast-paced AND well-written? Th … more →

Tags: Ages 14 and Up, jennifer e. smith, Jenny Han, Maine, Romance, sarah dessen, Teen celebrity, The Summer I Turned Pretty, This is What Happy Looks Like

Honest and Real: The Diary of an American Girl

goodreadswithronna wrote 1 month ago: Here at Good Reads with Ronna we only review books we have read cover to cover and love. I’m t … more →

Tags: children's book reviews, YA Nonfiction, Chicago Review Press, books about WWII for young adults, World War II, Literature, Diary, University of Chicago, Growing up in Wartime America

A Perfect Winter Read

hooray4books wrote 2 months ago: Looking for the perfect young adult novel to curl up with while it’s freezing outside? Try The … more →

Tags: Ages 12-14, Mystery, Young Adult Fiction, Young-Adult, boarding school, Romance, New Releases, Elizabeth LaBan, Tragedy Paper

Shades of London Trilogy — 1 comment

hooray4books wrote 2 months ago: The Madness Underneath just came out, and we have signed copies! For those of you new to the Shades … more →

Tags: Ages 12-14, Ages 14 and Up, Mystery, YA Fiction, Maureen Johnson, Paranormal, mystery stories, jack the ripper, Ghost Stories

Of Dragons and Music and Dangerous Secrets

goodreadswithronna wrote 2 months ago: Seraphina Strikes a Most Positive Chord Seraphina ($17.99, Random House Books for Young Readers, age … more →

Tags: YA Fiction, children's book reviews, dragons, teen literature, Rachel Hartman, Seraphina, YALSA Morris Award Winner, YA Fantasy novel, Random House Books for Young Readers

Fridays Featuring Flintridge - Discovering Dragons — 2 comments

goodreadswithronna wrote 3 months ago: A Hoard of Dragon Gold: Mining Children’s Literature for the Best Dragon Books While shelving books … more →

Tags: Juvenile Fiction, YA Fiction, ages 4 and up, Ages 3 and Up, MG fiction, ages 10 and up, Seraphina, patricia wrede, Enchanted Forest Chronicles

Okay for Now is an NPR Backseat Book Club Pick!

hooray4books wrote 3 months ago: We loved Gary Schmidt’s Okay for Now! You can read Miss Megan’s glowing review here. And … more →

Tags: Ages 10 - 12, Booksellers Diary, Ages 10 and up, Okay for Now, gary schmidt, npr backseat book club, "All Things Considered", npr

Adventure Awaits: the Fever Crumb Trilogy by Philip Reeve

hooray4books wrote 3 months ago: When I’m hand selling a book, I typically have a spiel to introduce a favorite title. For the  … more →

Tags: Ages 12-14, Ages 14 and Up, Ages 10 - 12, Booksellers Diary, Ages 10 and up, fever crumb, A Web of Air, Scrivener's Moon, Predator Cities

Women of Courage and Determination — 3 comments

goodreadswithronna wrote 3 months ago: Debbie Glade reviews Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, an … more →

Tags: Juvenile nonfiction, Chicago Review Press, Sarah Winnemucca, Donner Party, Pioneer Women, Brandon Marie Miller, paiute indian, Miriam Davis Colt, Martha Dartt Maxwell

The Name of the Star

hooray4books wrote 4 months ago: If you have ever seen, heard, or followed the twitter of Maureen Johnson, you know that she has a di … more →

Tags: Ages 14 and Up, Ghosts, Maureen Johnson, Penguin, The Name of the Star, Ages 12+, jack the ripper, British boarding school

Miss Megan's Newbery Picks — 3 comments

hooray4books wrote 4 months ago: Newbery choices are tough. There are so many great books to choose from, so many rules and various c … more →

Tags: Ages 8 - 10, Ages 12-14, Ages 14 and Up, Ages 10 - 12, Booksellers Diary, Ages 10 and up, ages 8 and up, Laura Amy Schlitz, newbery predictions

Alive in the Killing Fields

Lanie Honda wrote 4 months ago: Alive in the Killing Fields: Surviving the Khmer Rouge Genocide By Nawuth Keat and Martha Kendall Pu … more →

Tags: Cambodia (Set in), Cambodian Americans, Region: Asian (Southeast), Thailand (Set In), Theme: Family Death, Theme: Genocide, Theme: Immigration, theme: survival, Alive in the Killing Fields

A Time of Miracles

Lanie Honda wrote 4 months ago: A Time of Miracles By Anne-Laure Bondoux (Trans. by Y. Maudet) Published by Random House “The … more →

Tags: Caucasus (Set In), France (Set In), French, Georgia (Set In), georgian, *Theme: Family Relationships, theme: identity, Theme: Immigration, Theme: Refugee Life

Miss Megan's Printz Picks — 3 comments

hooray4books wrote 4 months ago: The Michael L. Printz Award honors achievement in young adult literature. Since this is probably my … more →

Tags: Ages 12-14, Ages 14 and Up, Adult fiction and non-fiction, Booksellers Diary, John Green, Libba Bray, The Fault in Our Stars, printz award, me and earl and the dying girl

Our 2013 Printz Shortlist! — 2 comments

hooray4books wrote 4 months ago: The Printz Award honors excellence in young adult literature, and there are some strong contenders t … more →

Tags: Ages 12-14, Ages 14 and Up, Booksellers Diary, John Green, A.S. King, The Fault in Our Stars, Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Trouble

Lanie Honda wrote 4 months ago: Trouble By Gary Schmidt Published by Graphia/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Written by a 2008 Newb … more →

Tags: Cambodian Americans, Region: Asian (East), Theme: Family Death, *Theme: Family Relationships, Theme: Immigration, Theme: Multicultural Friendship, Theme: Racial Discrimiation, gary schmidt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Our 2013 Newbery Shortlist! — 1 comment

hooray4books wrote 4 months ago: We love to read middle grade books, so we’re very excited about the upcoming Newbery awards ce … more →

Tags: Ages 12-14, Ages 10 - 12, Booksellers Diary, Ages 10 and up, Laura Amy Schlitz, newbery predictions, R.J. Palacio, Wonder, Summer of the Gypsy Moths

Miss Megan's Favorite Books of 2012 — 1 comment

hooray4books wrote 4 months ago: 2012 was a good year to be a reader! Ask me my favorite book and I’ll probably hem and haw bef … more →

Tags: Ages 3-6, Ages 8 - 10, Ages 12-14, Ages 14 and Up, Ages 10 - 12, Ages 6 - 8, Adult fiction and non-fiction, Booksellers Diary, Ages 10 and up

Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

libragaga wrote 5 months ago: It’s Christmastime and my favorite Christmas book is Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. It i … more →

Tags: adventure, Romance, New York City, Christmas


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