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Our pick this week is Then I Met My Sister by Christine Hurley Deriso (264 pages, published by Flux, April 1, 2011).  The summary: Shannon has been the backdrop of my life since the moment I was born. Summer Stetson lives inside a shrine to her dead sister. Eclipsed by Shannon's greatness, Summer feels like she's a constant disappointment to her controlling, Type A momzilla and her all-too-quiet dad. Her best friend Gibson believes Summer's C average has more to do with rebelliousness than smarts, but she knows she can never measure up—academically or otherwise. On her birthday, Summer receives a secret gift from her aunt: Shannon's diary. Suddenly, the one-dimensional vision of her sister becomes all too solid. Is this love-struck, mom-bashing badass the same Shannon everyone raves about? Determined to understand her troubled sister, Summer dives headfirst down a dark rabbit hole and unearths painful family secrets. Each revelation brings Summer closer to the m...

Reading Level: YA Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books; 1 edition (June 1, 2010) Book Synopsis: Eighteen-year-old Bronwen Oliver has a secret: She's really Phoebe, the lost daughter of the loving Lilywhite family. That's the only way to explain her image-obsessed mother; a kind but distant stepfather; and a brother with a small personality complex. Bronwen knows she must have been switched at birth, and she can't wait to get away from her "family" for good. Then she meets Jared Sondervan. He's sweet, funny, everything she wants -- and he has the family Bronwen has always wanted too. She falls head over heels in love, and when he proposes marriage, she joyfully accepts. But is Jared truly what she needs? And if he's not, she has to ask: What would Phoebe Lilywhite do? My Review: Bronwen Oliver is your average seventeen year old girl. She has a family, an older brother, and attends the local highschool. However, Bronwen has co...

To participate on Teaser Tuesdays is simple, take your current read, choose two sentences from any page and post. Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of ShouldBeReading . Our pick this week is from Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride. "Ramon filled everyone's cups as I told the two women about the last forty-eight hours. Telling them seemed risky, but like Ramon, I trusted them, and we needed help from someone." -- Page 120 , Advance Reader's Edition. Book summary: Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but he's doing all right--until a fast food prank brings him to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak. Turns out Douglas is a necromancer who raises the dead for cash and sees potential in Sam. Then Sam discovers he's a necromancer too, but with strangely latent powers. And his worst nightmare wants to join forces . . . or else. With only a week to fig...

Reading level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover: 160 pages Publisher: Clarion Books; 1 edition (September 6, 2010) Book summary: When twelve-year-old Florence boards the crowded horse-drawn coach in London, she looks forward to a new life with her great uncle and aunt at Crutchfield Hall, an old manor house in the English countryside. Anything will be better, she thinks, than the grim London orphanage where she has lived since her parents' death. But Florence doesn't expect the ghost of her cousin Sophia, who haunts the cavernous rooms and dimly lit hallways of Crutchfield and concocts a plan to use Florence to help her achieve her murderous goals. Will Florence be able to convince the others in the household of the imminent danger and stop Sophia before it's too late?  My review: Florence, 12, is an orphan. Five years after her parents’ death, a man claiming to be her great uncle Thomas invites her to live with him, his sister, her great aunt Eugenie, and a cousin. And so Fl...

ReaderGirls promised an  October BOOktacular contest   and here it is:  4 GREAT YA ARCs, 4 lucky winners!  We are offering: Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick Book summary:   Nora should have know her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch is starting to pull away and Nora can't figure out if it's for her best interest or if his interest has shifted to her arch-enemy Marcie Millar. Not to mention that Nora is haunted by images of her father and she becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to him that night he left for Portland and never came home. The farther Nora delves into the mystery of her father's death, the more she comes to question if her Nephilim blood line has something to do with it as well as why she seems to be in danger more than the average girl. ...

This is our first time doing the hop. We hope everyone tries the hop out at some point. Jennifer from Crazy for Books hosts this weekly event which runs Friday through Sunday of every week. Who can participate and how? The answers can be found in the following rules from Jen's site: RULES: Your blog should have content related to books, including, but not limited to book reviews. 1. Enter your book blog link in the Linky List.  2 . Post about the Hop on your blog. Spread the word about the book party! The more the merrier! In your blog post, answer the following question (new question each week!). If you have a suggestion for a future HOP question, click here to fill out the form! Thanks! This week's question comes from Suko who blogs at Suko's Notebook. What's your favorite beverage while reading or blogging, if any? Is it tea, coffee, water, a glass of wine, or something else? 3. Visit other blogs in the Linky List! Make new friends! Follow new book blogg...

Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Tor Teen; First Edition edition (September 14, 2010) Book summary: The first novel in an exciting new YA urban fantasy trilogy. Luc Cain enrolls in Frannie Cavanaugh's class, but what Frannie doesn't know is that Luc has been sent from hell to claim Frannie's soul. My review: Personal Demons is one joyride of a read. There's lots of romance, hot guys, good vs. evil, and did I say hot guys? Main narrator Frannie is instantly attracted to the new guy, Luc, with his bad boy dark looks and sexy smile. But she also finds herself strangely attracted to the new blonde hottie, Gabe. What's a good hearted d on't believe in love and God high school senior girl like Frannie to do? Luc works for Acquisitions in Hell and his latest assignment is to "tag" Frannie so her soul belongs to Hell. Gabe is a Dominion, a powerful angel, sent to protect this golden girl and "tag" her for Hea...