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Connect with Bettina Restrepo: Potty Talk

March 25th, 2009 by Bettina Restrepo · Email post Email post · Print Print

Potty Humor I believe books cure problems. The SAT study guide got me into college. A resume guide helped me through a bevy of jobs. The bookstore nurtured me through my lonely twenties. When I couldn’t find a husband, I bought a book. When I found the husband, I bought another book. When I couldn’t decide whether to get an MBA or to start writing…. you bet, I bought a book. When I got pregnant, I bought Everything You Needed To Know. When my son Allen was born, he decided not to follow any… Continue reading

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MODELS DON’T EAT CHOCOLATE COOKIES by Erin Dionne

November 27th, 2008 by Erin Dionne · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: February, 2009
  • Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
  • Release Date: February 5, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0803734-35-7
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-0-803732-96-4
Thirteen-year-old Celeste Harris is no string bean, but comfy sweatpants and a daily chocolate cookie suit her just fine. Her under-the-radar lifestyle could have continued too, if her aunt hadn't entered her in the HuskyPeach Modeling Challenge. To get out of it, she's forced to launch Operation Skinny Celeste-because, after all, a thin girl can't be a fat model! What Celeste never imagined was that losing weight would help her gain a backbone . . . or that all she needed to… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Dial Books for Young Readers · Dionne, Erin · Events · Family · Friendship · Humor · Local · Massachusetts · Middle Grade · National · Rated PG · Self-esteem/Self-image

MY BIG NOSE AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS by Sydney Salter

November 2nd, 2008 by Sydney Salter · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Release Date: April 1, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-0152066437
It's the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future--and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem. A curvy, honking, bumpy, problem in the form of her Super Schnozz, the one thing standing between Jory and happiness. And now, with the Summer of Passion stretched before her like an open road, she's determined for Super Schnozz to… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Author speaking availability · Body Image · Contemporary · Events · Family · First Love/First Crush · Friendship · Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · Humor · Local · National · Nevada · Rated PG-13 · Romance · Salter, Sydney · Self-esteem/Self-image · Utah · Young Adult

SOUL ENCHILADA by David Macinnis Gill

October 16th, 2008 by David Macinnis Gill · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
  • Publisher: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins
  • Release Date: April 7, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 0061673013
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Bug Smoot was thirteen years old when her grandfather put her soul up as collateral on his dream car --a classic 1958 Cadillac Biarritz.  Now, five years later, Papa C is dead and buried, and Bug is trying to make it on her own by delivering pizzas and staying one step ahead of her landlord.  And then the repo man arrives.  Only Mr. Beals--stinking to high heaven of rotten eggs and sporting leathery wings--is not just any repo man...just as Pesto, Bug's longtime unrequited crush, is… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Events · Gill, David Macinnis · Greenwillow Books · Local · National · North Carolina · Paranormal · Young Adult

PARIS PAN TAKES THE DARE by Cynthea Liu

October 14th, 2008 by Cynthea Liu · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Summer 2009
  • Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Release Date: June 11, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0399250439
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Twelve-year-old Paris Pan’s life is a mess. She’s just moved to a tiny town in Nowheresville, Oklahoma; her family life is a comical disaster; her new friends are more like frenemies; and the boy she has a crush on is a dork. Things couldn’t possibly get worse, until she discovers that a girl mysteriously died years ago while taking a seventh-grade rite of passage–the Dare– right near Paris’s new house. So when Paris starts hearing strange noises coming from the creepy run-down shed in her backyard… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Summer · Contemporary · Events · Family · Friendship · G.P. Putnam's Sons · Humor · Illinois · Liu, Cynthea · Local · Middle Grade · Multicultural · Mystery · National · Paranormal · Quiz/Discussion Guide/Activity · Rated PG

MY INVENTED LIFE by Lauren Bjorkman

October 8th, 2008 by Lauren Bjorkman · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season, Fall 2009
  • Publisher: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
  • Release Date: September 29, 2009
  • ISBN 13: 978-0-8050-8950-9
Roz and Eva are sisters, friends, and rivals. Roz fantasizes about snagging the lead in the school play and landing sexy skate god Bryan as her boyfriend. Sadly, a few obstacles stand between her and her dream. For one, Eva is the more talented actress. And Bryan happens to be Eva's boyfriend. But does Eva have a secret life with her cheerleading partner? Inquiring minds need to know. Roz, who prides herself on random acts of insanity, hatches a scheme to get Eva to open up. The… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Fall · Bjorkman, Lauren · Contemporary · Events · Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (GLBT) · Henry Holt BFYR · Humor · Local · Multicultural · National · New Mexico · Rated PG-13 · Self-esteem/Self-image · Siblings · Topic · Young Adult