*I received my copy of this book from Hachette Book Group Canada in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Six Impossible Things Author: Fiona Wood Publisher: Poppy, and imprint of Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: August 15, 2015 ISBN: 9780316242165 Synopsis from Goodreads: Fourteen year old nerd-boy Dan Cereill is not quite coping with aContinue reading “Review: Six Impossible Things by Fiona Wood”
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Review: Boo by Neil Smith
*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. * Title: Boo Author: Neil Smith Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: May 12, 2015 ISBN: 9780804171366 Synopsis from Goodreads: When Oliver “Boo” Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart defect at his school. But soon afterContinue reading “Review: Boo by Neil Smith”
Review: The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens
*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: The Mountain Story Author: Lori Lansens Publisher: Knopf Canda Publication Date: April 14, 2015 ISBN: 9780345809025 Synopsis from Goodreads: Five days. Four hikers. Three survivors. From Lori Lansens, author of the national bestsellers Rush Home Road, The Girls and The Wife’s TaleContinue reading “Review: The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens”
Review: Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon
*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Everything Everything Author: Nicola Yoon Publisher: Delacorte Press Publication Date: September 2015 ISBN: 9780553496642 Synopsis from Goodreads: My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world.I don’t leave my house, have not left my houseContinue reading “Review: Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon”
Watch the Sky by Kirsten Hubbard
*I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Title: Watch the Sky Author: Kirsten Hubbard Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Publication Date: April 7, 2015 ISBN: 9781484708330 Synopsis from Goodreads: The signs are everywhere, Jory’s stepfather, Caleb, says.Red leaves in the springtime. Pages torn from a library book. All the fish in the aquariumContinue reading “Watch the Sky by Kirsten Hubbard”
Book Club No. 4 – The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth / Alexandra Robbins / Hachette Books 2009 / 9781401302023 I’d rate this book somewhere between 3 and 3.5 stars. As one who was definitely part of the cafeteria fringe in high school, I was super eager to see Robbins’ analysis of the high school outcasts and why they tend toContinue reading “Book Club No. 4 – The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth”
Review: If I Fall, If I Die
Title: If I Fall, If I Die Author: Michael Christie Publisher: Hogarth, The Crown Publishing Group Publication Date: January 13, 2015 ISBN: 9780804140805 Synopsis from Goodreads: Will has never been to the outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely lovingContinue reading “Review: If I Fall, If I Die”
Book Club No. 2: How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran
Title: How to Build a Girl Author: Caitlin Moran Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: September 2014 ISBN: 9780062335999 Synopsis from Goodreads: It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking gothic hero and full-time LadyContinue reading “Book Club No. 2: How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran”
Review: Inked by Eric Smith
*I received this book on NetGalley in exchange for and honest review.* Title: Inked Author: Eric Smith Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark Publication Date: January 2015 ISBN: 9781619638594 Synopsis from Goodreads: Tattoos once were an act of rebellion. Now they decide your destiny the moment the magical Ink settles under your skin. And in a world where InkContinue reading “Review: Inked by Eric Smith”
Review: Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Title: Annabel Author: Kathleen Winter Publisher: House of Anansi Press Publication Date: 2010 ISBN: 9780887842368 Synopsis from Goodreads: In 1968, into the devastating, spare atmosphere of the remote coastal town of Labrador, Canada, a child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor fully girl, but both at once. Only threeContinue reading “Review: Annabel by Kathleen Winter”
Worn Pages and Ink 