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At dawn on a sweltering summer day, scrabbling sounds alerted Jeanne of the intruder downstairs. The pull chain rattled against the light bulb in the kitchen. Instantly a sliver of yellow light raced up the stairs and into her bedroom. Someone was moving about inside the house and had even been bold enough to turn… Continue reading Jeanne by Sylvia Hornback
Before, I was a million things. Now I'm only one. The Burned Girl. Ava Lee has lost everything there is to lose: Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face. She doesn't need a mirror to know what she looks like--she can see her reflection in the eyes of everyone around her. A… Continue reading Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart
Kit Kat is a fifteen-year-old adoptee who writes letters to her favorite literary character, Jane Eyre, as a means of surviving a violent childhood in Greece and a harrowing adoption in New York that requires her to silence her memories and her voice. In writing letters to Jane, Kit Kat discovers a connection to literature… Continue reading Dear Jane by Marina Delvecchio
Welcome to my blog stop on the fabulous mega blitz tour by R&R Book Tours for four outstanding YA books with GIVEAWAYS. Up first is my review on Hannah R. Goodman's Till It Stops Beating. There are more excerpts and giveaways for three other books below. Good luck and I hope you enjoy my review! Till… Continue reading Till It Stops Beating (The Maddie Chronicles #4) by Hannah R. Goodman
As long as Ellis Sayre could remember, he wanted to know his real parents. He was Native American and had the brown skin to prove it. Which exact tribe was a mystery; he didn’t have the luxury of that information. It was hard for him to gauge why he was the way he was. Awkward.… Continue reading Right Handed Lefty by Ryan Coughlin
"It is a poignant truth of our heedless youthful years, that the events and encounters of a single night can so alter the course of a young person's life that it will be changed forever". Benjamin Steiner, spoiled Columbia undergraduate, devout Orthodox Jew virgin meets two women who will change his life forever. P.T. Deighland,… Continue reading Stainer: A Novel of the “Me” Decade by Iolanthe Woulff
All of us have something about our childhood that stands out and Andie Mitchell is no exception. Food was her comfort and she found out at the age of 13 (weighing in at 200 lbs) that if she kept eating the way she had been, she would weigh close to 300 lbs by the time… Continue reading It Was Me All Along by Andie Mitchell
Sonia has learned that her father has lost his job and he isn't acting like himself. She wonders what he does in his study that makes him feel better. That's not the only change. Now that her father has lost his job, she has to go to the public middle school. Everyone at her private… Continue reading The Whole Story of Half a Girl by Veera Hiranandani
Hailey has a father who has lost his job and is drinking, a mother who lost her inheritance when she married her father and has recently lost a baby, and a brother who has lost his faith in God. What has Hailey got to lose? Her respect? Her virginity? Her "best" friend? Her soul? Tusa… Continue reading Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa