Review: Two Way Street

Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt YA fiction/romance, Published 2007 Challenges: YA Read Dec 2010, 288 pp. Verdict: 3/5 Book Blurb: There are two sides to every breakup. This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love.  Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple.  But they clicked; it worked.  They’re even going to the same college, [...]

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Review: Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Caster Chronicles #1 YA Gothic Fiction/Paranormal Romance, Published 2009 Challenges: RIP V, 2010 YA, Series IV Read Oct 2010, 563 pages Source: Purchased Verdict: 4.5/5 First sentence: There are only two kinds of people in our town. Book Blurb: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern [...]

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Review: Perfect Chemistry

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles Perfect Chemistry Trilogy #1 YA Romance, Published 2008 Challenges: YA, Series IV Read Oct 2010, 357 pages Verdict: 5/5 Book Blurb: A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue [...]

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Review: Magyk

Magyk by Angie Sage Septimus Heap Series #1 YA Fiction/Adventure/Fantasy, Published 2005 Challenges: YA, Series IV Read: Oct 2010, 560 pp. Shelf Life: 2.5 years – Purchased: 3-19-08 Verdict: 5/5 Book Blurb: Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife.  That same night, [...]

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Review: Beauty

Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast by Robin McKinley Fantasy, Published 2005, Orig. 1979 Read: Aug 2010, 325 pp. Challenges: Summer 2010 Reading Challenge, Once Upon a Time, YA Reading Challenge Shelf Life: 3.5 Years – Wow!… – Purchased 12-19-2006 Verdict: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: Beauty has never liked her nickname.  [...]

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Review: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable by John Boyne YA Fiction/Historical Fiction – Holocaust, Published 2006 Read June 2010, 218 pp. Challenges: 2010 YA Reading Challenge Shelf Life: 1 year, 6 mos. – Purchased 12-16-08 4/5 Book Blurb: If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a [...]

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Eragon – a fast paced adventure tale and this is just the beginning

Eragon by Christopher Paolini, Audio narrated by Gerard Doyle Inheritance Cycle #1 YA Fiction, SciFi/Fantasy, Published 2005 Challenges: Audio Book Challenge, 2010 YA Reading Challenge, Once Upon a Time IV, Series Challenge IV Read April 2010, March 2005 Story: 4.5/5, Narration: 4/5 From the Cover: When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, [...]

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Tuck Everlasting is Enchanting!

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt YA Fiction, Published 1975 Read April 2010 Challenges: Once Upon a Time IV, 2010 YA Reading Challenge, Time Travel Reading Challenge Shelf Life: 4 yrs, 2 mos – Purchased 2-3-06 5/5 Book Synopsis: What if you could live forever? Doomed to – or blessed with – eternal life after drinking [...]

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Beware, You Never Know Where A Story Beginning Will Lead You…This One Leads To A Fantastical Adventure!

The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup YA Fiction, Published 2006, 2008 Read March 2010 Challenges: 2010 Young Adult Reading Challenge 4.5/5 From the Cover: In June 1914, young Oscar Martin mysteriously disappeared from his Iowa farmhouse home.  His sister claimed Oscar had rowed out to sea – but there is no ocean in [...]

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