The Ultimate Meet-Cute: This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith

This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith  Published: April 2nd 2013 by Poppy/Hachette Source: ARC from publisher Synopsis (Goodreads): If fate sent you an email, would you answer? When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O’Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty… Continue reading The Ultimate Meet-Cute: This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith

First Job + First Crush: Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo

Love and other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo Published: December 11th 2012 by Knopf Books for Young Readers (first published in Australia as Good Oil in 2010) Source: local library Synopsis (Goodreads): Love is awkward, Amelia should know. From the moment she sets eyes on Chris, she is a goner. Lost. Sunk. Head over heels infatuated with him.… Continue reading First Job + First Crush: Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo

The Art and Poetry of Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

I love when a book introduces me to a place or concept or idea that sends me to the stacks on a research expedition. The most recent young adult novel to send me on such a journey was Graffiti Moon. I love art and poetry, but when I first read Graffiti Moon, I wasn’t familiar with all… Continue reading The Art and Poetry of Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

Is This What It’s Come To?: Sexy Feminism by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudulph

Sexy Feminism by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudulph  Published: March 12th 2013 by Mariner Books Source: ARC from Publisher Synopsis (Goodreads): Not your mother’s feminism! A humor-filled action plan for an accessible, cool, and, yes, even sexy brand of 21st-century feminism A Mariner Original Paperback Feminism can still seem like an abstract idea that is… Continue reading Is This What It’s Come To?: Sexy Feminism by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudulph

It’s Not What You Think: The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning

Darkfever and Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning  Published: 2006 and 2007 by Delacorte Press Source: local library Synopsis (Goodreads): MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until… Continue reading It’s Not What You Think: The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning