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Local author Chris Barton has allowed us to share his conversation with author H.M. Bowman about her novel A Crack In The Sea, a magical new middle-grade novel with illustrations by Yuko Shimizu. To sign up for Barton’s newsletter and be eligible for free book giveaways, click here! Chris: The starred review the book received from … Continue reading Chris Barton talks with H.M. Bouwman
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I picked up Universal Harvester, the new novel from John Darnielle, in September of last year. I commandeered a copy as soon as it arrived, cleverly boxed in a VHS tape container. I'd been listening non-stop to The Black Tapes Podcast, about a young podcast journalist who seeks the paranormal alongside a notorious skeptic of the … Continue reading Universal Harvester: Something Else Entirely
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! We're bringing you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps Blog! Don't forget to check out the blog for new reviews, event reports, and other teen news! Local Buzz! Local author Katherine Catmull is collaborating with Physical Plant Theater to bring … Continue reading Teen Thursday (1/26/17)
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! We're bringing you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps Blog! Don't forget to check out the blog for new reviews, event reports, and other teen news! Upcoming Events at BookPeople Jay Asher signing What Light Friday, October 28th at 7PM Join … Continue reading Teen Thursday (10/27/16)
It doesn’t take long to realize that Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut work of literary fiction Pond resists narrative structure. It is uncompromising in its immediacy within the physical world while at the same time viewing scenes from that world as through a window in a rainstorm--you can see the shapes of the world, but you cannot … Continue reading Much Ado About Nothing: New & Noteworthy Book Club discusses Claire Louise-Bennett’s Pond
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! We're bringing you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps Blog! Don't forget to check out the blog for new reviews, event reports, and other teen news! Upcoming Events at BookPeople Laurie Halse Anderson signing Ashes Monday, October 24th at 6PM Tonight BookPeople … Continue reading Teen Thursday (10/20/16)
HAVE YOU VOTED YET? We all know that the presidential election is one of the biggest and most important events of the year. After all, whoever we elect will wield a lot of power, and this is a pretty tight race. The Big Storytime Chair must be filled, after all! Our pollsters are currently monitoring a … Continue reading The BookKids Election is On!
It's YA lucky day! It's Teen Thursday! We're bringing you YA news from around the globe and highlights from the BookPeople Teen Press Corps Blog! Don't forget to check out the blog for new reviews, event reports, and other teen news! Upcoming Events at BookPeople Marie Lu & Margaret Stohl signing The Midnight Star and Black Widow: … Continue reading Teen Thursday (10/13/16)
Replica by Lauren Oliver “Replica reads like an episode of Orphan Black: there are clones, and love stories, and loss, and the story changes depending on perspective. I loved the two storylines! There’s something very satisfying in finishing the narrative from one side and being able to flip it to the other side for a … Continue reading Top Shelf in October: The World of YA
Cinnamon is the story of an Indian princess who is blind and does not talk, her mother, father, great-aunt, a parrot, and... a tiger. I received the manuscript for Cinnamon around the same time I found out I was going to have a baby. It seemed like such a wonderful project and I thought, what a special way … Continue reading Cinnamon Cover Reveal! New Neil Gaiman book with illustrations by local author Divya Srinivasan!
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