Reader Girls Blog

We have haven't posted our mailbox gifts in a while, but after last week's amount of great reads we had to. Here's what we have received in the last few weeks: For review: Star Crossed: Gemini Night by Bonnie Hearn Hill The Wand Bearer: Juggler in the Wind by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin Wild Legacy by C Fern Cook Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting Fallen Angel by Heather Terrell Through Her Eyes by Jennifer Archer The Postmistress by Sarah Blake Moondogs by Alexander Yates Trance by Linda Gerber (not pictured) Thanks to various book tours, authors, publishers, and Library Thing. We purchased:  Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl We won: Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg We swapped: The Dead Boys by Royce Buckingham The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney Virals by Kathy Reichs What did everyone receive and pick up this week? In My Mailbox  was started by  Kristi over at  The S

Q & A with Beth Fehlbaum, author of Courage in Patience  and  Hope In Patience There are certainly no vampires in this young adult novel. Why did you go such a different route to reach teen readers and what are your Patience series about?   Well, to be honest with you, I do not read any fantasy/vampire/graphic novels. The last fantasy I read was the first Harry Potter ! My books are realistic fiction — rooted in truth. My publisher, WestSide Books, publishes exclusively Young Adult realistic fiction. The Patience Books, Courage in Patience and Hope in Patience , are the story of fifteen-year-old Ashley Nicole Asher, who is sexually, emotionally, and physically abused by her stepfather, from the age of nine. Courage in Patience begins Ashley's story. When she at last tells a trusted teacher what has been happening to her, Child Protective Services steps in, and Ashley is removed from her mother's home. She is then reunited with her biological father, who has not b