Book Review: Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero

Gabi, A Girl in Pieces is the story of high school senior Gabi. She’s dealing with a lot in her life including a drug addict father, a mother who wants her to stay a virgin, body image, culture, college applications, poetry, friendship, and love. The reader learns Gabi’s story through journal entries where Gabi works […]

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YA Diversity Book Club: I Love I Hate I Miss My Sister by Amélie Sarn

  In the YA Diversity Book Club we chat about the latest YA books that celebrate diversity. Our book club includes Sandie @ Teen Lit Rocks, Kristina @ Gone Pecan (currently taking a break from the book club – we miss you Kristina!) and Kristan @ We Heart YA. Each month we’ll focus on one book with a book review (our […]

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Landline by Rainbow Rowell Audiobook Review

Your new favorite Rainbow Rowell book is on sale today! With Landline, Rowell is back with another book for adult readers, her first since Attachments. This book is about a marriage in trouble. Can it be saved with a phone call to the past? A little time travel hocus-pocus could make this couple remember what […]

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How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford Audiobook Review

How to Say Goodbye in Robot is a 2009 YA title from Natalie Standiford. I recently grabbed the audiobook from Paperback Swap (good place to find under the radar books you may have missed the first time around) and really enjoyed listening to it. It is not about robots or anything SciFi, but is in fact […]

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Torn Away by Jennifer Brown Audiobook Review

Torn Away is Jennifer Brown’s (Hate List, Thousand Words) new book. In Torn Away, Jersey’s life is turned upside down (literally) when her Missouri town is ravaged by a tornado, killing her mother and sister. Now she’s carted off to relatives she doesn’t know, including the biological father who doesn’t want her, and her mother’s estranged parents, […]

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