Oh, unreliable narrators, how I love you. LIAR’s protagonist, Micah, is the ultimate unreliable narrator, and I have been blown away by her.
I can’t tell you much about this book, because just about anything I say will be a spoiler. I’m not going to tell you much more than the jacket does. Micah tells us [...]
Filed under: Author: Melissa, Bloomsbury, October 2009, teen | Comments (4)
In honor of the early release of Chris’s new book THE CIRCUS SHIP, we are posting this video in which we ramble on like besotted maniacs about his books (for about six minutes). We made the video before the book had come out, thinking it wasn’t going to be released until mid-October, but we were [...]
Filed under: Author: Melissa, Author: Sarah, Candlewick, Chronicle, Gold Star Classics, Melissa's favorites, October 2009, Old Release Tuesdays, Penguin, Random House, picture book, video entries | Comments (3)
Several years back, a certain bookseller named Melissa grabbed my arm and said, “Sarah! You’ve got to read this! Now!” She handed me the galley for THE WARRIOR HEIR, and I put it on my to-be-read pile. As usual, Melissa was dead-on. From the moment I started WARRIOR HEIR, I knew this was an author [...]
Filed under: Author: Sarah, Hyperion, October 2009, fantasy, galley review, teen | Comment (1)
There will never be another John Hughes movie. I am incredibly sad about this. However, books like this one – heirs to John Hughes’ oeuvre in all of the very best ways – go a long way toward alleviating some of that sadness.
This book may have the best title of any on the fall list. [...]
Filed under: Author: Melissa, October 2009, Scholastic, galley review, teen | Comments (4)
I am very bad at sports. I am the last person you want on your team. I drop things. I stand in the outfield and stare up at the sun. I only have hand-eye coordination when I’m holding a video game controller. Given this fact, it may not come as much of surprise to you [...]
Filed under: Author: Sarah, HMH, October 2009, galley review, teen | Comment (1)