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GIVEAWAY + Early Review: We Can Work It Out by Elizabeth Eulberg

January 15, 2015 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
GIVEAWAY + Early Review: We Can Work It Out by Elizabeth Eulberg

We Can Work It Out (The Lonely Hearts Club #2) Author: Elizabeth Eulberg (website | twitter) Publisher: Scholastic Point Source/Format: ARC provided by Scholastic Canada in exchange for an honest review (thank you so much!) My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | Google Books When Penny Lane started The Lonely Hearts Club, the goal was simple: to show that girls didn’t need to define themselves by how guys look at them, and didn’t have to value boyfriends over everything else. Penny thought she’d be an outcast for life…but then the club […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

January 14, 2015 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. More Happy Than Not Author: Adam Silvera  Publisher: Soho Teen Expected publication date: June 16, 2015 Happiness shouldn’t be this hard… The Leteo Institute’s revolutionary memory-relief procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto — miracle cure-alls don’t tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. But Aaron can’t forget how he’s grown up poor or how his friends aren’t always there for him. Like after his father committed suicide in their one bedroom apartment. Aaron has the support […]

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“Teardrops on My Guitar” Review: No Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown

December 9, 2014 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Teardrops on My Guitar” Review: No Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown

No Place to FallAuthor: Jaye Robin Brown (website | twitter) Publisher: Harper TeenSource/Format: ARC provided by Harper Collins Canada (thank you!)Publication date: December 9th 2014 (today!) My rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars.  Buy it: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | Google Books | iTunes Amber Vaughn is a good girl. She sings solos at church, babysits her nephew after school, and spends every Friday night hanging out at her best friend Devon’s house. It’s only when Amber goes exploring in the woods near her home, singing camp songs with the hikers she meets on the Appalachian Trail, that she feels free—and when […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: Mosquitoland by David Arnold

November 12, 2014 / 10 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Mosquitoland by David Arnold

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. Mosquitoland Author: David Arnold  Publisher: Viking Children’s Books (Penguin Canada) Expected publication: March 3rd 2015   “I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”  After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the “wastelands” of Mississippi, […]

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"Running the Bases" Review: Whatever Life Throws At You by Julie Cross

November 11, 2014 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
"Running the Bases" Review: Whatever Life Throws At You by Julie Cross

Whatever Life Throws at You Author: Julie Cross (website | twitter) Publisher: Entangled Teen Genre: Mature YA/New Adult Source/Format: eBook purchased on Amazon (only $2.99 right now!) Publication date: October 7th 2014 My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Buy It: Amazon.ca | Chapters/Indigo | Indiebound | iTunes | B&N | Amazon.com Life loves a good curveball… Seventeen-year-old Annie Lucas’s life is completely upended the moment her dad returns to the major leagues as the new pitching coach for the Kansas City Royals. Now she’s living in Missouri (too cold), attending an all-girls school (no boys), and navigating the strange world of professional sports. But […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach

October 15, 2014 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. We All Looked Up   Author: Tommy Wallach Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Expected publication: March 31st 2015 Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel. They always say that high school is the best time of your life. Peter, the star basketball player at his school, is worried “they” might actually be right. Meanwhile Eliza can’t wait to escape […]

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Review: I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

September 22, 2014 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Review: I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

I’ll Give You the Sun Author: Jandy Nelson (website | twitter) Publisher: Dial (Penguin Teen) Source/Format: ARC from BEA14 Publication date: September 16th 2014 My rating: 4.75 out of 5 stars.  A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord

September 10, 2014 / 11 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. The Start of Me and You Author: Emery Lord  Publisher: Bloomsbury (Penguin Canada) Expected publication date: March 31, 2015  Following her pitch-perfect debut Open Road Summer, Emery Lord pens another gorgeous story of best friends, new love, & second chances. It’s been a year since it happened—when Paige Hancock’s first boyfriend died in an accident. After shutting out the world for a year, Paige is finally ready for a second chance at high school . . . and she has […]

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“All These Things I’ve Done” Early Review: Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang

September 8, 2014 / 7 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“All These Things I’ve Done” Early Review: Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang

Falling into PlaceAuthor: Amy Zhang (website | twitter) Publisher: Greenwillow Books (Harper Teen)Source/Format: ARC from BEA14 Expected publication date: September 9th 2014 (tomorrow!) My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.  On the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton’s laws of motion in physics class. Then, after school, she put them into practice by running her Mercedes off the road. Why? Why did Liz Emerson decide that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up? Vividly told by an unexpected and surprising narrator, this heartbreaking and nonlinear novel pieces together the short and devastating life […]

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Dear Teen Me: The Art of Getting Stared At Blog Tour: Guest Post by Author Laura Langston

September 5, 2014 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Blog Tour
Dear Teen Me: The Art of Getting Stared At Blog Tour: Guest Post by Author Laura Langston

Hey guys, today I’m excited to be part of the official The Art of Getting Stared At Blog Tour! I didn’t have time to read the book (too many BEA ARCs!), but I really wanted to be part of the tour for this book because I think it addresses self-esteem and appearance issues that we all faced – and still face – as teens and adults. Here’s more on the book! The Art of Getting Stared At Author: Laura Langston (website | twitter | facebook) Publisher: Razorbill Canada (Penguin Canada) Publication date: September 9, 2014 After a school video she produced […]

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