Wonderstruck Winner!

For some reason I started this book with the expectation that I wasn’t going to like it. Or that it was going to be inferior somehow. I’m not sure where this idea came from and it begs the question…why did I buy the book if I was so sure I wasn’t going to like it?…

Most of you probably recognize the author’s name from her  Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants fame. Despite being a contributor to a YA blog, I have to confess that I decidedly did not make that connection when I purchased this book, seeing that I’ve never read the series. I have, however, read her other novel,…

I don’t have a good intro for this one. Other than thanks to Penguin Young Readers, ALA and Comic Con for hooking us up with advance copies. The day Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For Rory, it’s the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But…

I love Susane Colsanti’s books for the sole reason that they take me back to what it was like to be in high school without having to, you know, actually be in high school. Her books really capture the realities of being a teenager without making them completely shallow, which I’ve really appreciated because it…

When I first saw the covers for Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series, I almost didn’t buy them. The covers seem, at first glance, maybe a little young. But then I kept thinking about how clever all of the titles to the books were and I changed my mind. Boy am I glad I did. The…

I want to start out by sending a huge thanks to Michelle Zink for making the contest I’m about to announce the winner of infinitely more fun and exciting. My favorite thing about Twitter and the internets in general is getting to reach out to people who write books that make me happy and letting…