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• 23 Apr

  

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  Sarah

  
  

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  book review: bad taste in boys, carrie harris

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  Title: Bad Taste in Boys
  Author: Carrie Harris
  Category: Young Adult
  Publisher: Delacourte Press, July 2011
  Starred Review: 4 out of 5 stars

  What a fun book!

  Truly, I tend to steer clear of a lot of the paranormal YA fiction out there not only because there’s so much of it but also because it’s not my sort of thing. I tend to find vampires and zombies and such as too dark or heavy or — well, some other word that better describes why I don’t read them. That word definitely isn’t “fun” or “lighthearted” — both words which easily describe Carrie Harris’s Bad Taste in Boys.
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• 01 Jun

  

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  Sarah

  
  

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  book review: hereafter, tara hudson

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  Title: Hereafter
  Author: Tara Hudson
  Category: Young Adult, Paranormal
  Publisher: HarperCollins, June 2011
  Starred Review: 3 out of 5 stars
  Challenge: Challenge: 2011 Debut YA Authors
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• 04 May

  

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  book review: bumped, megan mccafferty

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  Title: Bumped
  Author: Megan McCafferty
  Category: Young Adult
  Publisher: Balzer + Bray, April 2011
  Starred Review: 4 out of 5 stars
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• 02 May

  

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  book review: where she went, gayle forman

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  Title: Where She Went
  Author: Gayle Forman
  Category: Young Adult
  Publisher: Penguin, April 2011
  Starred Review: 4 out of 5 stars

  I got my reading copy from Around the World ARC Tours.

  I read If I Stay last year in the midst of a YA afterlife kick, and I knew there would be a sequel, but I wasn’t sure what to expect. After all, If I Stay was about Mia nearly dying and her having to make a decision whether to stay alive or stay dead. It was a difficult, raw read, if I remember correctly, but it ended on a note of finality, or at least close to. So it was never a book that I thought necessitated a sequel.
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• 25 Apr

  

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  Sarah

  
  

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  book review: divergent, veronica roth

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  Title: Divergent
  Author: Veronica Roth
  Category: Young Adult, dystopian
  Publisher: HarperCollins, May 3, 2011
  Starred Review: 4 out of 5 stars
  Challenge: Challenge: 2011 Debut YA Authors

  Dystopian is all the rage. We know this, of course. Each book is different, different characters, different creepy, futuristic worlds, different politics, government problems, different dystopians. Divergent is yet another different dystopian, this one based quite a bit on personality traits and governmental equality and, to a point, socialism.
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