About the Book: Damien’s always been afraid of heights, but he’s never been afraid of fieldwork or of being in the spotlight. At least, he wasn’t before the gala—the one where his grandpa nearly caused a massacre and heroes from the League almost killed his best friend. Now he finds himself dreading the very things […]
Early Bird Review | Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
About the Book: An unlikely teenager starts a feminist revolution at a small-town Texan high school in the new novel from Jennifer Matheiu, author of The Truth About Alice. MOXIE GIRLS FIGHT BACK!Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with a school administration at her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do […]
Top Ten Tuesday | Ten Beloved Books I Can’t Read Now
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday happens to be something I think about a lot. My bookshelves are filled with books from when I was younger, and I look and them and think about how I can’t reread them. I’d love to recapture that love, but I’m nervous they wouldn’t mean as much to me now. […]
Top Ten Tuesday | The Reading Struggle is Real!
This weeks Top Ten Tuesday is all about the struggle. The reading struggle. I know a lot of us are faster to quit a book simply because we have so many books waiting to be picked up. Still, there are those times where you feel in our gut that if we’d just hold on a little […]
Top Ten Tuesday | Hidden Gems in YA
10 Virtually Unknown YA Books I’m betting that some of you are thinking that YA is not a genre, and I would completely agree with you. It’s not a genre, it’s a classification. Basically, yes I am cheating. See, I realized as I was looking through my read books that I don’t consider a lot […]
Girl Talk! The Teenage Perspective
Sophie from Beware of the Reader recently began a feature called Mini-Me Pick, similar to Baby Chick’s Pick. We decided a collaboration was in order so, with Sophie’s daughter Julie and Baby Chick’s/Alex’s help, we’ve brought you twice the teenage perspective! Julie and Alex are strong teenage girls, in every way. Alex is a 13 […]