Princess Academy: Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale Series: Princess Academy #2 Published by Bloomsbury USA Children’s on August 21st 2012 Genres: Fantasy, MG Books, YA (Young Adult) Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters Also by this author: Princess… Read more »
Category: YA (historical romance)Book source: public library Seventeen-year-old Althea is the sole support of her entire family, and she must marry well. But there are few wealthy suitors–or suitors of any kind–in their small Yorkshire town of Lesser Hoo. Then, the young and attractive (and very rich) Lord Boring arrives,… Read more »
Free YA ebook! Tera Lyn Childs’ Sweet Venom is available free in the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Sony stores. (If you have another ePub reader, you can purchase books at Kobo or Sony, or check your favorite ePub retailer.) The sequel, Sweet Shadows, just came out this month. Giveaways on… Read more »
A new study of iPad owners shows that parents prefer paper books for co-reading with or to their children — except on trips. The survey also goes into parents reasons for not co-reading on the iPad; their perceptions about the value of added animations, audio narration, and other features; and… Read more »
Several of the blogs I read have great giveaways going on this week: The Book Smugglers have two books available: an ARC of Libba Bray’s The Diviners (through Sept. 22) and an ARC of Phoebe North’s YA SF novel, Starglass (through Sept. 29.) The Midnight Garden is giving away… Read more »
Category: YA fantasy Series: Ascendance Trilogy # Book source: Public library THE FALSE PRINCE is the thrilling first book in a brand-new trilogy filled with danger and deceit and hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end.In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the… Read more »
The Midnight Garden blog is having a Rae Carson giveaway contest: an ARC of the forthcoming The Crown of Embers (due out on Sept. 18), along with a hardcover copy of the first book in the series, Girl of Fire and Thorn. The former has been on my TBR list,… Read more »
NPR has just published its list of the 100 Best Young Adult novels, based on suggestions and votes from an incredible 75,220 participants. I doubt anyone will be surprised that the Harry Potter books top the list, given their wild popularity among children, teens, and adults alike. But the list… Read more »
Here’s what I’ve been reading around the Internet this week: Big Books, Tiny Voices posted “What’s Next: Over 60 Upcoming Young Adult Book-to-Movie Adaptations.” Browse their list to see if your favorite YA fantasy book (plus a few that fall in the children’s or adult category) has a movie in… Read more »
It’s the beginning of August, and I thought I’d give you a preview of what I have planned for the blog over the next month or two. I just finished Home from the Sea, the newest Elemental Masters fantasy from Mercedes Lackey (and one of the books on my summer… Read more »
