Michelle Quach’s immensely lovable YA debut Not Here to Be Liked centers on Eliza, who’s just been done out of her dream job as editor of the high school paper by an unqualified but very charming boy. NPR Purchase Not Here to be Liked Click here to read this on NPR Review – Not Here to be Liked –…
Laura Sibson’s Edie in Between follows our heroine as she learns her own magic and unravels a family mystery. If only we didn’t have to keep yelling at her to stay out of the metaphorical basement. NPR (PS: I re-watched Practical Magic just last night…) Click here to read this on NPR ************************ Review – Edie in Between –…
In ‘Like Other Girls,’ You Can Be — And Play — Whatever You Want. Even Football. • Britta Lundin’s Like Other Girls follows Mara, a hot-tempered 6’2″ high school sports star who’s booted from basketball for brawling, but finds a new life and a new way of being on the football field. NPR Review – Like Other Girls –…
It’s odd for a major review like this to appear so long after the book’s release…but better late than never! Also, I wholeheartedly support comparisons to the TV show Once Upon a Time. Some of us little people should benefit from The Giant Hammer of Disney, right? ************************* KONTIS, Alethea. Hero. Bk. 2. 304p. (Woodcutter Sisters Series). Houghton Harcourt….
HERO landed in bookstores today, and exploded all over the intarwebs in a big way! *** At the Waterworld Mermaids, I blog about my spectacular, almost supernatural ability to pull off things at the Last Minute. Includes a few stats on Beloved, the first draft of which I finished last night around 11pm. (Click here to read and enter…