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From Goodreads.com: Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s life. She’s stuck at JFK, late to her father’s second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley’s never even met. Then she [...]

I am super excited about this week’s Book of the Week ~ The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight ***** From Goodreads.com: Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s life. She’s stuck at JFK, late to her father’s second [...]

A big THANK YOU to Beth Neff for joining us for this week’s Book of the Week! Be sure to check out Getting Somewhere! Enter to win a copy of your own! // a Rafflecopter giveaway You need javascript enabled to see this giveaway.

For the Want To Go Private giveaway the winner is Amber B! Check your email box!! And thank you to everyone who entered! And an extra big thank you to Sarah Darer Littman for donating the book! ~Donna

Happy Book Birthday to Getting Somewhere! Congratulations on today’s release of your novel. Tell us a little about how you became a writer. How long have you been writing? Is this your full time career? About six years ago, I sold my farm and moved to a much smaller property on a river with my [...]

This or That? is a fun way to get to know our authors a little better. Here’s Beth’s answers to some of our questions! Book or ebook? Definitely book since it’s kind of hard to imagine cuddling up with a good…computer? Beach or pool? Absolutely beach. In fact, I love any natural waterways, live on [...]

From Getting Somewhere… She needs to be the first one off, can’t stand the waiting one second longer. Even as the bus slows to make its wide turn into the gravel driveway, Jenna is scooting to the edge of the worn seat, her seen-better-days backpack strap looped over her elbow. The others are stirring in [...]

Guest Blog by Beth Neff Lately, I’ve been noticing that a subplot for many movies and television programs is the question of whether it is possible for people to change. Sometimes, it’s a critical part of a person’s recovery from oppressive circumstances (as in Good Will Hunting, for instance) and sometimes it’s made into a [...]

We are very pleased to be presenting our next Book of the Week!  Getting Somewhere by Beth Neff Getting Somewhere is Beth’s debut novel. Here’s the description from Goodreads: Sarah, Jenna, Lauren, and Cassie may look like ordinary girls, but they’re not. They’re delinquents whose lives collide when they’re sent to an experimental juvenile detention [...]

Have you ever been bullied? Were you a bully? Have you ever witnessed bullying? 70 authors share their raw and emotional accounts of being bullied at some point in their life – as kids, as teens, even as adults. Read their stories and see first hand what kind of pure hell they went through in [...]

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker – his classmate and crush – who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to [...]

Bobby is sometimes brave. He is sometimes silly. He even sometimes gets into trouble. Bobby doesn’t fit in with the other kids in his class. His hair is different. He wears odd clothes. And he always manages to get into sticky situations. This story would be perfect to highlight the aspect of fear in bullying. [...]

Are you a loser? Do you… Listen to music that’s not popular? Hang out with math geeks? Read poetry? Come from another country? Get embarrassed easily in overly social situations? Worry that everyone else is hooking up more than you? If you said yes to any of these questions, there are people who think you’re [...]

I am so excited to announce a very special give away! In an effort to further promote Anti-bullying awareness, we are giving away a copy of Sarah Darer Littman’s book Want to Go Private! SQUEEEE!!!   Enter below…(if the rafflecopter entry form doesn’t show up right away reload the page.)

Today’s featured book is for the older crowd. Want to Go Private, by Sarah Darer Littman takes a powerful look at how the internet can greatly influence someone. It deals a little more with cyber predators than cyber bullying, but I think it can still be useful in a bully prevention theme. ***(SPOILER ALERT- in [...]