Title: Miles From Ordinary Author: Carol Lynch Williams Release Date: March 15, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pages: 208 Source: ARC received from publisher Overall: 3.5 Stars Summary: "Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea what [Williams] has done for early teen readers…" —Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Release Date: April 26, 2011 Publisher: Scholastic Inc. Summary (from author's website): She knows what it's like to die. Now Death wants her back. Seventeen-year-old Pierce knows what happens to us when we die. That's how she met John Hayden, the mysterious stranger who's...

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I recently stumbled across the book trailer for Janette Rallison's My Unfair Godmother, the sequel to My Fair Godmother, on her website! Release Date: March 29, 2011 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Summary: Tansy Miller has always felt that her divorced father has never had enough time for her. But mistakenly getting caught on the wrong side of the law wasn't exactly how she wanted...

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I'm incredibly honoured to have Katie Kacvinsky on the blog today as part of "A Cornucopia of Dystopia!" hosted by Danya (A Tapestry of Words) and Casey (The Bookish Type). Katie Kacvinsky's debut novel, Awaken, is set for release in early May and it's a novel you'll surely won't want to miss!  1) What was your initial reaction when you first gazed your...

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Title: Awaken Author: Katie Kacvinsky Release Date: May 11, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Pages: 320 Source: ARC received for review from Casey (The Bookish Type) and Danya (A Tapestry of Words) as part of "A Cornucopia of Dystopia!" Overall: 4 Stars Summary: Maddie lives in a world where everything is done on the computer. Whether it’s to go to...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren where we share any new books or goodies we bought, received, borrowed, etc. during the week.  This week I got... Received for Review: ARC of Flip by Martyn Bedford Flip by Martyn Bedford Shadows in the Twilight by Henning Mankell What Comes After by Steve Watkins Random House Canada...

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Title: Afterlife (Evernight #4) Author: Claudia Gray Release Date: March 8, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 368 Source: ARC received for review  Overall: 4 Stars  Summary: ** Warning: This summary contains spoilers especially if you haven't read the third novel in the series, Hourglass. ** Destiny awaits Bianca and Lucas . . .  Bianca and Lucas have always believed they could endure anything...

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Yesterday night, I had the very cool opportunity to meet Lisa McMann on her last tour stop for the release of Cryer's Cross at Indigo Yorkdale in Toronto! I was actually a bit worried that she might not be able to make it to the event because a snowstorm decided to hit Southern Ontario, dumping snow on us when just a few days...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Release Date: May 3, 2011 Publisher: HarperCollins / Katherine Tegen Books Summary (from Chapters/Indigo):  In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the...

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St. Martin's Press very kindly offered to give away a copy of M.J. Putney's debut YA novel Dark Mirror during the Dark Mirror blog tour and author Q&A I was fortunate to help participate in... so I'm going to announce the winner now! Random.org has spoken and the winner is... *drumroll* Marcie @ To Read or Not To Read Thank you to everyone...

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A Cornucopia of Dystopia- an event to celebrate the uprising of the dystopian genre- officially began today! The awesome event, hosted by Danya at A Tapestry of Words and Casey at The Bookish Type, will carry on from March 21 all the way until April 18 in a jam-packed schedule of reviews, author interviews and giveaways! I'm so happy that I'll be helping...

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Title: Wither (Chemical Garden #1) Author: Lauren DeStefano Release Date: March 22, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pages: 368 Source: ARC received from publisher  Overall: 5 Stars  Summary: What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren where we share any new books or goodies we bought, received, borrowed, etc. during the week.  This week I got... Bought: The Anti-Prom by Abby McDonald Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann The Dark and Hollow Places (The Forest of Hands and Teeth #3) by Carrie Ryan Demonglass (Hex Hall...

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To my fellow Canadians, get ready to mark your calendars with some exciting YA events coming our way in the near future! You can find the details and locations for the events below also on the Chapters Indigo Store Events page... Wednesday, March 23, 2011   Lisa McMann, author of the bestselling Wake trilogy, will be in Toronto at Indigo Yorkdale from 7:00...

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You might recall that I had the cool opportunity to help reveal the awesome cover for Lesley Livingston's upcoming novel Once Every Never along with some of my fellow Canadian bloggers and that five signed chapter samplers would be given away... well, I'm finally announcing the winners of the giveaway!  The lovely, signed chapter samplers arrived in the mail earlier this week... so...

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I stumbled across the book trailer for Blink & Caution, the latest release from Canadian author Tim Wynne-Jones on Bookurious today and thought I'd share it with everyone! Release Date: March 8, 2011 Publisher: Candlewick Press Summary:  Two street kids get tangled in a plot over their heads - and risk an unexpected connection - in this heart-pounding thriller by Tim Wynne-Jones. Boy,...

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The title really says all because today I'm guest blogging over at Book Junkies during their Canuck Week! I'm sharing one of the series I read when I was younger which helped me become the complete bookworm I am now! Would you like a clue about the series I'm gushing about? It might involve a wizard who attends a magical school and has...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Release Date: April 5, 2011 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Summary (from author's website):  Who will fall in love, and who will find their relationship torn apart?   Who will betray everything they ever believed in?  Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge.  In the heart-pounding fourth installment...

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Today, I'm honoured to be the first stop on Lauren DeStefano's Canadian blog tour! Lauren's debut novel, Wither, the first in the dystopian Chemical Garden trilogy will be in stores next week on March 22... and trust me, you'll definitely be wanting to get your hands on a copy as soon as you can! Thanks to Simon & Schuster Canada, I was able...

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