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Banned Book Review: Looking for Alaska by John Green
Looking for Alaska John Green Speak (Puffin Books) Publish Date: August 14, 2008 ISBN 978-1-101-43420-8 Smoking cigarettes. Swearing. Drinking – lots of drinking. Sexual activity. Rule breaking –...
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LitStack Review: Hero by Alethea Kontis
Hero (The Woodcutter Sisters) Alethea Kontis Harcourt Children’s Books Release Date: October 1, 2013 ISBN 0-5440-5677-9 Finally! A book with a girl – well, young woman, she’s at least 16 – who is...
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LitStack Review: Scintillate by Tracy Clark
Scintillate Tracy Clark Entangled: Teen ISBN-10: 1622661451 A mighty flame follows a tiny spark… Cora Sandoval’s mother disappeared when she was five and they were living in Ireland. Since then, her...
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LitStack Review: Half Bad by Sally Green
Half Bad Sally Green Viking Release Date: March 4, 2014 ISBN 978-0-670-01678-5 Being an teenager isn’t easy for anyone, but it’s especially difficult for sixteen year old Nathan Byrn. Growing up in...
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LitStack Review: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green
The Fault in Our Stars John Green Dutton Books ISBN: 978-0-525-47881-2 The world is not a wish-granting factory. Sixteen year old Hazel Lancaster has a rare form of cancer. Terminal. But her doctors...
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LitStack Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
We Were Liars E. Lockhart Delacort Press Release Date: May 13, 2014 ISBN 978-0-385-74126-2 Take a privileged family – the beautiful Sinclairs, headed by Granddad and Tipper, and their three married...
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Flash Review – The Iron Trial
The Iron Trial Holly Black and Cassandra Clare Scholastic Press Release Date: September 9, 2014 ISBN 978-0-545-52225-0 Callum Hunt is a 12 year old boy. He lives with his dad; his mother died when he...
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LitStack Review: The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Doubt Factory Paolo Bacigalupi Little, Brown and Company Release Date: October 14, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-22075-0 Paolo Bacigalupi has written, among other things, a gritty, dystopian award winning...
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LitStack Review: Biggie by Derek E. Sullivan
Biggie Derek E. Sullivan Albert Whitman & Company Release Date: March 1, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8075-0727-8 Henry Abbott is 16 years old, and a 10th grader at Finch High School in the little town of...
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LitStack Review: I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest
I Am Princess X Cherie Priest Arthur A. Levine Books Release Date: May 26, 2015 ISBN 978-0-545-62085-7 Is there anything Cherie Priest cannot do? I first got to “know” her through her steampunk...
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LitStack Review: Stone in the Sky by Cecil Castellucci
Stone in the Sky Cecil Castellucci Roaring Brook Press Release Date: February 24, 2015 ISBN 978-1-59643-776-0 Stone in the Sky is the follow up to Cecil Castellucci’s 2014 young adult science fiction...
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LitStack Review: Court of Fives by Kate Elliott
Court of Fives Kate Elliott Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Release Date: August 18, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-36419-5 It’s wonderful how author Kate Elliott has been able to make Jessamy, the heroine...
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LitStack Encore Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Holly Black The Coldest Girl in Coldtown Holly Black Little, Brown Books Release Date: September 3, 2013 ISBN: 978-0-31621-310-3 In honor of the upcoming Halloween holiday, here is a slightly...
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LitStack Review: Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Archivist Wasp Nicole Kornher-Stace Big Mouth House Publishing Release Date: May 5, 2015 ISBN 978-1-61873-097-8 Wasp isn’t her real name. But it’s the one given her by the Catchkeep-priest, who...
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LitStack Review: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
The Rest of Us Just Live Here Patrick Ness Harper Teen Release Date: October 6, 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-240316-2 Did you ever read a book, or a series of books where strange, supernatural things happened...
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Blog Tour: The Secrets of Solace by Jaleigh Johnson
The Secrets of Solace Jaleigh Johnson Delacorte Books for Young Readers Release Date: March 8, 2016 ISBN 978-0-385-37648-8 Jaleigh Johnson has written an absolutely delightful youth fantasy book with...
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LitStack Review: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo Henry Holt and Company Release Date: September 29, 2015 ISBN 978-1-62779-212-7 For many years, I have had a favorite rapscallion literary character of ill repute: Jack...
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LitStack Review: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Signal to Noise Silvia Moreno-Garcia Solaris Release Date: February 10, 2015 ISBN 978-1-78108-299-7 Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s debut novel, Signal to Noise, had been on many “best of the year” fantasy/YA...
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LitStack Review: Ophelia by Lisa Klein
Ophelia Lisa Klein Bloomsbury USA Childrens Release Date: December 26, 2007 ISBN 978-1-58234-801-8 Earlier this month, word broke on the entertainment wires that Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts were in...
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LitStack Review: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire Tor.com Release Date: April 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-8550-5 I’m just going to come out and say it: this little book is pert’ near perfect. You’ve heard the tales,...
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