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BONE GAP by Laura Ruby

There’s a slogan in London regarding their mass transit system that has become something of a rallying cry for various causes: Mind the Gap.  In London’s Underground this means make sure you pay attention when you’re disembarking.  It is this slogan that kept running through my mind when reading Laura Ruby’s masterful young adult novel…

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When We Collided by Emery Lord COVER REVEAL!

Do you love Emery Lord? If you’ve read her first two books: Open Road Summer and The Start of Me & You then you’ll know the answer is obviously YES.  Her books are the exquisite and painful and lovely contemporary stories that are about romance, friendship, healing, and grief. Her work reminds me of early Sarah Dessen –…

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The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick – an interview & a giveaway!

I honestly can’t think of anyone in YA who does what Marcus Sedgwick does.  Perhaps this is why I am so entranced by everything he’s ever written.  Sedgwick won the Printz Award last year (that is the highest honor in young adult literature) for Midwinterblood, which remains one of the most atmospheric and overwhelming YA books…

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The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey

They’re coming for us.  All of us. “You’re going to keep reading that book even though it gave you a nightmare last night?” My boyfriend teased as I rolled over and reached out for The Fifth Wave. I’d just finished briefing him on the intense, very scary nightmare I’d had thanks to The Fifth Wave, the book…

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When We Wake by Karen Healey

“You are not the future I wanted. I can’t believe the same stupid shit is still happening. I wanted you to be better!  Be better!” I wait for it, you know.  I wait for that minute, that second, when I will become tired of dystopias.  And sometimes it comes to me in a flash.  Sometimes…

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An Open Letter to US Publishers: PLEASE Publish Kirsty Eagar

It started back in November. At the 2012 YALSA YA Lit Symposium (another fine year at the Sympoisum, let me add!  I’ve been to all three. I’ve loved, learned, and networked at all three more than any other professional event I’ve ever attended.  Oh, and I’ve presented at every one too! I am double plus…

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