The biggest bully in the school is missing, there’s this weird rash spreading up Tamaya’s arm and there’s this weird mud spreading throughout the town that has the US Government all freaked out… Tamaya usually walks home with her neighbour, Marshall, but one day, he demands they cut through the woods. Tamaya knows her mum…
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Book-sell blurb: How To Be Happy
Ok, so, how do you know if you’re ‘normal,’ and should you even be worrying about that? Figuring out who you are is difficult enough, but when you just can’t seem to get it right, and everything is going wrong, what else can you do but become someone totally new… Enter ‘Crazy Dave’… This is…
Book-sell blurb: They Saw Too Much
Being on the run for your life is not easy, but it’s even harder when you don’t know or trust the only person who understands – the person who witnessed the murder with you… Partnered together for a school art project, John and Ceri decide to take photos at the beach. At first, it’s fun,…
Book-sell blurb: Someday Birds
Your dad is in hospital on the other side of the country. There’s this strange woman in your house who is supposed to be “babysitting” you and your siblings. Your sister convinces you to run away on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend to find your dad but you end up stranded in Las…
Book-sell blurb: Six of Crows
This town isn’t big enough for more than one gang, and Kaz will do almost anything to be the only man of power in Ketterdam. Would you join him? Ketterdam is run by criminals, exiled Grisha, and hunters. Survival is a way of life. Loyalty and honesty are almost non-existent and money is power. In…
Book-sell blurb: Grace and Fury
It’s deadly to be a woman in this world, especially one who likes to think for herself. Would you survive? Two sisters. One heir. A twist of fate. Imprisonment or marriage? How will they save themselves? Serina was born for a life in the palace as the wife of the next heir. Nomi was born…
Book-sell blurbs for YA
I have recently been trying to think of ways I can help overworked, time-poor, teacher librarians (TLs), particularly those with smaller teams or working by themselves. In a conversation with one of my TL colleagues, she got me thinking about how time-consuming and difficult it is for one person to read ALL THE BOOKS (not…
Book review: See you on Venus
I visited my old workplace recently and I got to talking with my lovely library ladies about new books that had come in over the past year. I didn’t realise how much I missed buying for a school library collection! So, I have decided to help them out a little by reading some of the…
Reviewing and rating books: A deeply personal act
The following Tweet popped up in my Twitter feed the other day and it got me thinking… There are a couple of issues within this tweet, including the concept of authors trying to influence reviews/ratings of their books, but the one I want to focus on is the act of rating and reviewing books, and…
Opinion: Teen Reading in the Digital Era Report Update
The Teen Reading in the Digital Era project is a fabulous project that is run by a team of researchers from Deakin University and is all about understanding teen reading habits. Findings of this research provide valuable insights into the reading lives of teens. They have recently released a report with an update on their…
The Lifting Librarian 