Author Interview & Giveaway: Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas We are huge Aiden Thomas fans (I mean, who isn’t!?) so when we got to spend some time with Aiden at YallWest, we may have screamed a little (ok, a lot). I won’t spoil the convo but if you want to […]
Books On Our Radar: Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen I couldn’t help but put Of Jade and Dragons on my radar, being that this is the Chinese year of the dragon, and this silkpunk YA fantasy from debut author Amber Chen has a lot of things I am […]
Young Adult New Releases May 28th 2024 How is May almost over already? June is coming in hotttt. I like to call the last release in May, get ready for Pride day, because so many of today’s releases are LGBTQIA+ titles! I know I am good and ready for Pride […]
Event Recap: YallWest 2024 We’ve been attending and blogging about YallWest for all 10 years of the festival and were thrilled to attend again this year! This annual pilgrimage to Santa Monica means not only connecting with authors but with fellow bookish people, publishers, and other book aficionados! It’s been […]
Young Adult New Releases May 21st 2024 May is a very big release month, and while today is a modest release day, you can expect to still find something for everyone’s taste. Most of today’s YA releases are below and if you want to see last week’s releases or previous […]
Middle Grade Monday: The Sherlock Society by James Ponti On this Middle Grade Monday we are sharing The Sherlock Society by James Ponti this is the first book in an all new detective adventure series coming this fall. When four kids and one grandfather start looking for Al Capone’s long […]
Cover Crush: One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans Okay I just love the cover for One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans! And I absolutely LOVED & constantly recommended the author’s debut Bianca Torres is Afraid of Everything! Look at this fun cover, first and foremost the Bi-flag color […]
BOOR: Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth Twelfth Knight by Alexene Farol Follmuth is the upcoming coming-of-age YA romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author Olivia Blake (The Atlas Six), under a pen name for her YA audience. This one should be on your radar because this author is […]
Young Adult New Releases May 14th 2024 Summer reading season is upon us and that makes May a very big release month, so get your TBRs and wish lists ready as there are a lot of books to choose from! Hope you find a bunch of new books to read […]
Feature: Celebrate Little Free Library Week I remember the first time I heard of Little Free Library. An early childhood research project included them as a way to improve the community reading level (and they were built by Google employees!). This was 10 years ago, just two years after Little […]