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IVY’S EVER AFTER by Dawn Lairamore

February 8th, 2010 by Dawn Lairamore · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Holiday House
  • Release Date: April 15, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-823422-61-6
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
The kingdom of Ardendale has always locked its princesses in a white tower guarded by a dragon. It’s the only way to lure gallant young princes to the tiny, out-of-the-way kingdom to marry them. But Ivy is a princess who doesn’t care to be rescued, and Elridge a dragon afraid of being slain. Neither wants anything to do with Romil, a scheming prince from the frozen North who has his own less than romantic reasons for wanting Ivy’s hand in marriage. Never mind that humans and dragons… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Action/Adventure · California · Conformity · Events · Fantasy · Friendship · Holiday House · Humor · Lairamore, Dawn · Local · Middle Grade · Rated PG

SEEDS OF CHANGE by Jen Cullerton Johnson

January 25th, 2010 by Jen Cullerton Johnson · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Lee & Low Books
  • Release Date:  05-31-2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 160060367X,  9781600603679
  • ISBN (paperback):                                
SEEDS OF CHANGE is  picture book biography of scientist Wangari Maathai, the first African womanand first environmentalist to win a Nobel Peace Prize (in 2004), for her work planting trees in her native Kenya. The Author: Jen Cullerton Johnson Location: Chicago, IL Author Visit Information Jen Cullerton Johnson has contributed to Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World as an author. JEN CULLERTON JOHNSON is a writer, educator, and environmentalist with an MFA in Nonfiction Writing and an MEd in Curriculum Development… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Ecology/The Environment · Events · History · Johnson Cullerton, Jen · Lee and Low Books · Nonfiction · Picture Book · Rated PG

TIME FOR BED, BABY TED by Debra Sartell

January 25th, 2010 by Debra Sartell · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Holiday House
  • Release Date: March 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 9780823419685
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD                         
TIME FOR BED, BABY TED is a sweet bedtime story done in rhyme.  With vibrant, lively illustrations by Kay Chorao. It’s time for bed, but where is baby Ted?  He’s not baby Ted!  Try and guess what he is instead.  With a quack, a snack, a cluck and a tuck, a loving father prepares his child for bedtime in this charming story. The Author: Debra Sartell Location: Bay Area, California This is Debra’s bio: In college I studied child psychology, art and theatre.  Which somehow led down a crooked path of… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Holiday House · Humor · Picture Book · Rated PG · Sartell, Debra

THE WITCHY WORRIES OF ABBIE ADAMS by Rhonda Hayter

December 21st, 2009 by Rhonda Hayter · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
  • Release Date: April 6, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover) 978-0-8037-3468-5
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD                         
THE WITCHY WORRIES OF ABBIE ADAMS is about a regular eleven-year old girl with normal problems like a really strict fifth-grade teacher. (Meet Miss Linegar. Rhymes with vinegar.)  She’s chronically behind in homework, struggling to remember all her lines in the drama club play, and tormented  by having to keep a big secret from her very best friend. And on top of all these problems, she’s also a witch and has to deal with outsized crises, like her little brother morphing into a werewolf and… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Dial Books for Young Readers · Events · Family · Fantasy · Hayter, Rhonda · Humor · Magic · Middle Grade · Rated G · Science

GIVEAWAY ALERT: 8TH GRADE SUPERZERO (12/07-12/11)

December 7th, 2009 by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Who: Anyone 13 or over, anywhere
  • What: A signed copy of 8TH GRADE SUPERZERO (January 2010, Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)
  • When: December 7-December 11
  • How: Activism is a major theme of SUPERZERO -- on both a small/personal and large/global scale. Tell us one way that you might be an "agent of positive change" (at home, school, work, in the larger community, among friends, or some sort of change within) in 2010.
  • Where: For details, and to enter, visit the The Tenners, at http://community.livejournal.com/10_ers/350479.html
    • Thank you!…

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Arthur A. Levine Books · Contests · Middle Grade · Perkovich, Olugbemisola Rhuday · Young Adult

    CHANGE OF HEART by Shari Maurer

    September 8th, 2009 by Shari Maurer · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
    • Publisher: WestSide Books
    • Release Date: TBD
    • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD

    CHANGE OF HEART: When you’re 16 years old, it never occurs to you that you might die.  Emmi Miller’s got a fabulous life.  She has tons of friends, does great in school and is an all-star soccer player who played in Europe last summer.  It even looks like Sam Hunter, a totally cute baseball player, might be interested in her.  And then she… Continue reading

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Friendship · Local · Love · Maurer, Shari · National · New York · Rated PG-13 · Sports · WestSide Books · Young Adult

    BEFORE I FALL by Lauren Oliver

    August 7th, 2009 by Lauren Oliver · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
    • Publisher: HarperTeen
    • Release Date: March 2, 2010
    • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061726804
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD
    Samantha Kingston has it all: the world’s most crush-worthy boyfriend, three amazing best friends, and first pick of everything at Thomas Jefferson High—from the best table in the parking lot to the choicest parking spot. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last. Then she gets a chance. Seven chances, in fact. Reliving her last day during one miraculous week, she will untangle the mystery surrounding her death—and discover the true value of everything she is in danger… Continue reading

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Death · Events · Friendship · HarperTeen · Local · National · New York · Oliver, Lauren · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Suicide · Young Adult

    TELL ME A SECRET by Holly Cupala

    August 7th, 2009 by Holly Cupala · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
    • Publisher: HarperTeen
    • Release Date: June 22, 2010
    • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0061766664
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD
    It’s tough, living in the shadow of a dead girl… In the five years since her bad-girl sister Xanda’s death, Miranda Mathison has wondered about the secret her sister took to the grave, and what really happened the night she died. Now, just as Miranda is on the cusp of her dreams—a best friend to unlock her sister’s world, a ticket to art school, and a boyfriend to fly her away from it all—Miranda has a secret all her own. Then two lines on a pregnancy test confirm her worst… Continue reading

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Connect · Contemporary · Cupala, Holly · Death · Drama · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Grief · HarperTeen · Literature · Local · Love · National · Peer Pressure · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Secrecy · Suicide · Washington · Young Adult

    THREE RIVERS RISING by Jame Richards

    June 1st, 2009 by Jame Richards · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
    • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
    • Release Date: April 2010
    • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD
    THREE RIVERS RISING: Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania: 1888-1889. Three Rivers Rising includes a forbidden cross-class romance between a guest and a hired boy at the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, site of the dam that burst releasing 20 million tons of water into the valley below. The main characters are in the city of Johnstown when the wave hits and… Continue reading

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Alfred A. Knopf · Connecticut · Drama · Events · Historical Fiction · History · Local · Love · National · Natural Disaster · Poetry · Richards, Jame · Romance · Societal Pressure · Young Adult

    THE WITCH’S ALPHABET (IRON CODEX VOL. 1) by Caitlin Kittredge

    May 6th, 2009 by Caitlin Kittredge · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2010
    • Publisher: Delacorte Press
    • Release Date: TBD
    • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD
    In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical-born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for… Continue reading

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Delacorte · Fantasy · Friendship · Kittredge Caitlin · Local · Love · National · Rated PG-13 · Siblings · Washington · Young Adult

    THIS TREE COUNTS! by Alison Formento, illustrated by Sarah Snow

    April 20th, 2009 by alison ashley formento · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
    • Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
    • Release Date: March 1, 2010
    • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-8075-7890-2
    • ISBN (paperback): TBD
    In THIS TREE COUNTS! there's only one tree behind Oak Lane School. It needs friends. Before Jake and his friends in Mr. Tate's class plant new trees, they first listen to the story the old tree has to share. The Author: Alison Ashley Formento Location: New Jersey Alison Ashley Formento counts and plants trees with her family in New Jersey. Besides… Continue reading

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Albert Whitman · Animal · Contemporary · Counting · Ecology/The Environment · Formento, Alison Ashley · Local · National · New Jersey · Picture Book · Rated G · Seasons

    SOAR, ELINOR! by Tami Lewis Brown

    February 8th, 2009 by Tami Lewis Brown · Email post Email post · Print Print

    • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
    • Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers
    • Release Date: April 2010
    • ISBN (hardcover): 0374371156
    Soar, Elinor! is the true story of Elinor Smith, America's youngest pilot, boy or girl. When old timers said airplanes are for boys Elinor didn't listen. When they said she couldn't fly a biplane under New York's four East River bridges she said "Yes, I can!" Soar, Elinor! is illustrated by Francois Roca and published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. The Author: Tami Lewis Brown Location: Washington, DC TAMI LEWIS BROWN holds an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College. … Continue reading

    Categories: 2010 Spring · Brown, Tami Lewis · District of Columbia · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · History · Local · National · Nonfiction · Picture Book · Rated G

    PROPHECY OF DAYS, BOOK ONE: THE DAYKEEPER’S GRIMOIRE by Christy Raedeke

    January 26th, 2009 by Christy Raedeke · Email post Email post · Print Print

      • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
      • Publisher: Flux
      • Release Date: TBD
      • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
      • ISBN (paperback): TBD
      PROPHECY OF DAYS, BOOK ONE: THE DAYKEEPER'S GRIMOIRE is the story of Caity Mac Fireland, a funny, tech-savvy girl from San Francisco whose parents drag her to an isle off the coast of Scotland to manage some family property. Caity finds that a Mayan relic is concealed there, intentionally left centuries ago by Mayan Daykeepers in an attempt to keep their profound knowledge about the year 2012 alive into the current era. As she delves into this world of secret knowledge, Caity is… Continue reading

      Categories: 2010 Spring · Action/Adventure · Contemporary · Flux · Local · Mystery · National · Oregon · Raedeke, Christy · Young Adult

      ALL UNQUIET THINGS by Anna Jarzab

      January 7th, 2009 by Anna Jarzab · Email post Email post · Print Print

      • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
      • Publisher: Delacorte
      • Release Date: January 12, 2010
      • ISBN (hardcover): 0385738358
      ALL UNQUIET THINGS centers around the murder of teen heiress Carly Ribelli, who was found shot to death a mile from her house in a wealthy Northern California suburb. Carly's uncle, a dissolute alcoholic, was convicted of the crime, but a year later his daughter still doesn't believe her father is guilty. Determined to prove his innocence, Audrey Ribelli contacts Carly's ex-boyfriend, Neily Monroe, the boy who found Carly's body. She is convinced that he knows more than he thinks about the events that led up to Carly's death. Despite… Continue reading

      Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Crime · Delacorte · Friendship · Jarzab, Anna · Local · Mystery · National · New York · Young Adult

      SCONES AND SENSIBILITY by Lindsay Eland

      January 5th, 2009 by Lindsay Eland · Email post Email post · Print Print

      • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2010
      • Publisher: Egmont USA
      • Release Date: February 14, 2010
      • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
      • ISBN (paperback): TBD
      Polly Madassa is convinced she was born for a more romantic time. A time when Elizabeth Bennet and Anne of Green Gables walked along the moors and beaches of the beautiful land, a time where a distinguished gentleman called upon a lady of quality and true love was born in the locked eyes of two young lovers. But alas, she was not. This, however, does not stop our young heroine from finding romance wherever she can conjure it up. So while Polly is burdened with a summer job of… Continue reading

      Categories: 2010 Spring · Colorado · Contemporary · Egmont USA · Eland, Lindsay · Family · Friendship · Humor · Local · Middle Grade · National · Rated G

      SEASIDE DREAM by Janet Costa Bates

      January 5th, 2009 by Janet Costa Bates · Email post Email post · Print Print

      • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
      • Publisher: Lee and Low Books
      • Release Date: TBD
      • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
      • ISBN (paperback): TBD
      Cora keeps watch as presents and family stream through the door. The house is abuzz with aunts, uncles and cousins. Pots and pans are filled with food from their family's native Cape Verde. A big party, birthday cake and all, will take place on the beach.  It seems like her family has thought of everything to celebrate Grandma's 70th birthday but when Cora and Grandma take a nighttime walk on the beach, it is Cora that notices there is something else Grandma needs to make her celebration… Continue reading

      Categories: 2010 Spring · Costa Bates, Janet · Family · Lee and Low Books · Local · Massachusetts · Multicultural · National · Picture Book · Rated G

      THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY by Kay Cassidy

      January 5th, 2009 by Kay Cassidy · Email post Email post · Print Print

        • Publication Season/Year:  Spring 2010
        • Publisher:  Egmont USA
        • Release Date:  April 13, 2010
        • ISBN (hardcover):  978-1-60684-017-7
        • ISBN (library binding): 978-1-60684-062-7
        When the prom queen becomes your fairy godmother... Sixteen year old outsider, Jess Parker, gets the chance of a lifetime: an invitation to join a secret girl power society dedicated to defeating the mean girls of the world. The Cinderella Society guides all new recruits through its top secret ultimate life makeover. It’s all part of preparing them to face down the Wickeds and win. Determined not to let the Cindys down, Jess dives in with a passion. Finally, a chance to belong and… Continue reading

        Categories: 2010 Spring · Bullies · Cassidy, Kay · Contemporary · Egmont USA · Indiana · Local · National · Peer Pressure · Rated PG · Romance · Self-esteem/Self-image · Young Adult

        BLEEDING VIOLET by Dia Reeves

        January 5th, 2009 by Dia Reeves · Email post Email post · Print Print

        BLEEDING VIOLET by Dia Reeves

        BLEEDING VIOLET by Dia Reeves

        • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
        • Publisher: Simon Pulse
        • Release Date: January 5, 2010
        • ISBN (hardcover): 1416986189
        • ISBN (paperback): TBD
        BLEEDING VIOLET summary:

        Sixteen-year-old Hanna Järvinen is an unusual girl with a head full of hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet full of frilly, violet dresses. Everything a girl needs--except love.  But that's what mothers are for, and Hanna is sure she can reconcile with hers, even though she was abandoned

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        Categories: 2010 Spring · Family · Horror · Local · Mental Illness · Monsters · National · Paranormal · Rated · Rated PG-13 · Reeves, Dia · Simon Pulse · Texas · Young Adult

        THE RED UMBRELLA by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

        December 9th, 2008 by Christina Diaz Gonzalez · Email post Email post · Print Print

          • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2010
          • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
          • Release Date: May 11, 2010
          • ISBN (hardcover): 0375861904
          • ISBN (paperback): TBD
          The Red Umbrella is the moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution. In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. Her friends feel like strangers. And her… Continue reading

          Categories: 2010 Spring · Alfred A. Knopf · Drama · Family · Florida · Friendship · Gonzalez, Christina Diaz · Historical Fiction · History · Local · Middle Grade · Multicultural · National

          TORTILLA SUN By Jennifer Cervantes

          December 9th, 2008 by Jen Cervantes · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Chronicle
            • Release Date: May 05, 2010
            • ISBN (hardcover):ISBN 9780811870153
            "Sometimes you can't see the magic. You just know it's there because you can feel it." Tortilla Sun -- When twelve-year-old Izzy discovers a beat-up baseball marked with the words "Because…magic" while unpacking in yet another new apartment, she is determined to figure out what it means. What secrets does this old ball have to tell? Her mom certainly isn't sharing any—especially when it comes to Izzy's father, who died before Izzy was born. But when she spends the summer in her Nana's remote New Mexico village, Izzy discovers long-buried
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            Categories: 2010 Spring · Cervantes, Jennifer · Chronicle · Contemporary · Family · Friendship · Local · Middle Grade · Multicultural · National · New Mexico · Rated G · Young Adult

            OTHER by Karen Kincy

            December 6th, 2008 by Karen Kincy · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2010
            • Publisher: Flux
            • Release Date: July 1, 2010
            • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
            • ISBN (paperback): TBD
            Seventeen-year-old Gwen hides a dangerous secret: she's Other. Half-pooka, to be exact, thanks to the father she never met. Most Americans don't exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others, especially not the small-town folks of Klikamuks, Washington. As if this isn't bad enough, Gwen's on the brink of revealing her true identity to her long-time boyfriend, Zack, but she's scared he'll lump her with the likes of bloodthirsty vampires and feral werewolves. When a pack of werewolves chooses the national forest behind Gwen's home as their new… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Fantasy · Flux · Kincy, Karen · Local · Mystery · National · Paranormal · Prejudice · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Washington · Young Adult

            FORGET HER NOTS by Amy Brecount White

            December 6th, 2008 by Amy Brecount White · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Greenwillow Books
            • Release Date: March 2, 2010
            • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-06-167298-9
            • ISBN (paperback):TBD
            When someone leaves three mystery flowers outside her dorm door, Laurel thinks that maybe the Avondale School isn't so awful after all -- until her own body starts to freak out.  In the middle of her English presentation on the Victorian Language of Flowers, strange words pop into her head, and her body seems to tingle and hum.  Impulsively, Laurel gives the love bouquet she made to demonstrate the language to her spinster English teacher.  When that teacher unexpectedly and immediately finds romance, Laurel suspects that something -- something magical -- is… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Fantasy · Friendship · Greenwillow Books · Local · Magic · National · Romance · Virginia · White, Amy Brecount · Young Adult

            THE NAUGHTY LIST by Suzanne Young

            November 27th, 2008 by Suzanne Young · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010The Naughty List
            • Publisher: Razorbill/Penguin
            • Release Date: 02/04/2010
            • ISBN (paperback): 1595142789
            • Preorder available: Here
            • Series-The Naughty List: Book 1
            Junior class president Tessa Crimson is the captain of the Smitten Kittens—the Wildcats cheerleading squad. But when Washington High experiences a break-out of make-outs, Tessa and her girls create a secret snooping society to catch the cheaters in the act. The Naughty List. Is your boyfriend on it? The Author: Suzanne Young Location: Oregon

            Suzanne Young is an author, wife and mother of two. Originally from Utica

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            Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Humor · Local · National · Oregon · Rated PG · Razorbill · Romance · Young Adult · Young, Suzanne

            LEAVING GEE’S BEND by Irene Latham

            November 10th, 2008 by Irene Latham · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring  2010
            • Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
            • Release Date: TBD
            • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
            • ISBN (paperback): TBD
            Every quilt tells a story. When ten year old Ludelphia Bennett decides to make a quilt for her mama, she thinks it will tell the story of her quiet life in the isolated sharecropper community of Gee's Bend, Alabama. But when Mama gets deathly ill and rumors start flying about the "witches of Gee's Bend," life gets tangled and Ludelphia worries that it's all her fault. Determined to fix things, Ludelphia takes her needle and thread and leaves Gee's Bend for the very first time. Her adventures take her across… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Action/Adventure · Alabama · Family · G.P. Putnam's Sons · Historical Fiction · Latham, Irene · Local · Middle Grade · National · Survival

            HARMONIC FEEDBACK by Tara Kelly

            November 8th, 2008 by Tara Kelly · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Henry Holt BYR
            • Release Date: TBD
            • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
            • ISBN (paperback): TBD
            Doctors have pinned 16-year-old Drea Horvath with everything from ADHD to Asperger's Syndrome. She has an obsession with sound design, a tendency to blurt out whatever she's thinking, and a problem making friends, but likes to think of this as following her own rhythm in a confusing world. Drea is hesitant to befriend purple-haired Naomi Quinn, her teenage neighbor with a kamikaze personality. But Naomi is the first person to treat her like she isn't a world class dork. Then there's Justin Rocca, the persistent boy in her… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Conformity · Contemporary · Death · Drugs · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Henry Holt BFYR · Kelly, Tara · Learning Disabilities · Local · Music · National · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Societal Pressure · Washington · Young Adult

            THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM A TO Z by Catherine L. Osornio

            October 24th, 2008 by Catherine L. Osornio · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
            • Release Date: February 15, 2010
            • ISBN (hardcover): 9781589806764
            • ISBN (paperback):TBD
            THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM A TO Z is a chronological history of one of America's most famous documents written in an alphabetized format for ages 5 to 10. The Author: Catherine L. Osornio Location: Ontario, California Writing was never a serious pursuit for me when I was growing up. Although I loved to read (I would literally devour books from the library), I wanted to pursue a career in math and science. Fortunately, being a scientist or engineer didn't pan out. I ended up as a film major with… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · California · History · Local · National · Nonfiction · Osornio, Catherine L. · Pelican Publishing · Picture Book · Rated G

            THE SECRET YEAR by Jennifer R. Hubbard

            October 10th, 2008 by writerjenn · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Viking Children's Books
            • Release Date: TBD
            • ISBN: 978-0670011537
            Seventeen-year-old Colt has been sneaking out at night to meet Julia, a girl from an upper-class neighborhood unlike his own. They've never told anyone else about their relationship: not their family or friends, and especially not Julia's boyfriend.When Julia dies suddenly, Colt tries to cope with her death while pretending that he never even knew her. He discovers a journal she left behind. But he is not prepared for the truths he discovers about their intense relationship, nor to pay the price for the secrets he's kept. The Author: Jennifer R. Hubbard Location… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Contemporary · Death · Hubbard, Jennifer R. · Local · National · Pennsylvania · Secrecy · Viking Children's Books · Young Adult

            EIGHTH GRADE SUPERZERO by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

            October 10th, 2008 by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
            • Release Date: January 2010
            • ISBN: 0-545-09676-6
            Reginald Garvey McKnight created a superhero character in kindergarten; now he dreams of being a real-life leading man: The Guy who's got game and gets The Girl. Instead, he threw up on the first day of school. In front of everyone. Eighth grade has gone downhill ever since. In EIGHTH GRADE SUPERZERO, Reggie wonders why things are so bad if God is so good; his faith at all levels is challenged by his friendships, his work at a homeless shelter, and a pair of "Dora The Explorer" shoes. Reggie's involvement… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Arthur A. Levine Books · Contemporary · Family · Friendship · Local · Middle Grade · Multicultural · National · New York · Perkovich, Olugbemisola Rhuday · Rated PG · Self-esteem/Self-image · Young Adult

            FAITHFUL by Janet S. Fox

            October 10th, 2008 by Janet S. Fox · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2010
            • Publisher: Puffin
            • Release Date: May 13, 2010
            • ISBN: 978-0-14-241413-2
            Janet S. Fox's debut novel for young adults, FAITHFUL, is a romance, mystery and adventure set in the Gilded Age. Ms. Fox's heroine, Maggie Bennet, loses her mother in a tragic accident, and then is forced to accept her father's desire to leave their high society life in Newport, RI, and move to the American west. They relocate to the Greater Yellowstone, where Maggie searches for herself and for love, while her courage and determination are tested in an astonishing and dangerous environment. The planned sequel to FAITHFUL follows Maggie as she… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Fox, Janet S. · Historical Fiction · Local · Mystery · National · Puffin Books · Rated PG · Romance · Texas · Young Adult

            THE KARMA CLUB by Jessica Brody

            October 10th, 2008 by Jessica Brody · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
            • Release Date: TBD
            • ISBN: TBD
            THE KARMA CLUB is about three best friends who decide to take Karma into their own hands in order get back at the ex-boyfriends who broke their hearts. But as they soon discover, when you mess with Karma...Karma messes back. The Author: Jessica Brody Location: Los Angeles, CA Jessica knew from a young age that she wanted to be a writer. She started self "publishing" her own books when she was seven years old, binding the pages together with cardboard, wallpaper samples and electrical tape. After graduating from Smith College in 2001, Jessica later… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Brody, Jessica · California · Contemporary · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · Friendship · Humor · Local · National · Rated PG · Romance · Young Adult

            TOO PICKLEY! by Jean Reidy

            October 8th, 2008 by Jean Reidy · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Bloomsbury
            • Release Date:
            • ISBN:The Author: Jean Reidy
            Location: Greenwood Village, CO Jean Reidy spent hours, maybe days, of her childhood in "the green chair" - the family timeout corner.  And still, she's told that a naughty little kid lurks within her. She's an award-winning freelance writer and children's author. Her articles and essays have appeared in over fifty publications including FamilyFun, The Christian Science Monitor, Wonder Time, The Writer, The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News. Her books include Too Purpley! and Too Pickley! ( Bloomsbury USA and UK 2010) My Own Little Piece of the Universe (Hyperion, 2011) and There's a… Continue reading

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            TOO PURPLEY! by Jean Reidy

            October 8th, 2008 by Jean Reidy · Email post Email post · Print Print

            • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
            • Publisher: Bloomsbury
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            • ISBN: 1599903075
            The Author: Jean Reidy Location: Greenwood Village, CO Jean Reidy spent hours, maybe days, of her childhood in "the green chair" - the family timeout corner.  And still, she's told that a naughty little kid lurks within her. She's an award-winning freelance writer and children's author. Her articles and essays have appeared in over fifty publications including FamilyFun, The Christian Science Monitor, Wonder Time, The Writer, The Denver Post and The Rocky Mountain News. Her books include Too Purpley! and Too Pickley! ( Bloomsbury USA and UK 2010) My Own Little Piece of the Universe (Hyperion, 2011) and There's… Continue reading

            Categories: 2010 Spring · Bloomsbury · Colorado · Local · National · Picture Book · Rated G · Reidy, Jean