Eve's Fan Garden

A few years ago, I found myself teaching a Titanic unit with my fourth grade class. The featured book in our anthology was the Titanic book by Robert Ballard. I was instantly drawn into learning the history behind this terrible disaster. When the Titanic set sail, no one would have ever expected it to suffer [...]

Destined By:  Aprilynne Pike Publisher:  Harper Collins Release Date:  May 1st 2012 Source:  ARC from author Reviewer:  Georgia Summary (from Goodreads): Laurel now knows the truth: Yuki is a rare Winter faerie, the most powerful—and deadly—of all, and she is working with Klea to conquer and destroy Avalon. With Tamani, David, and Chelsea by her [...]

In a future world, Vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity. Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all [...]

It was like a nightmare, but there was no waking up. When the night began, Nora had two best friends and an embarrassingly storybook one true love. When it ended, she had nothing but blood on her hands and an echoing scream that stopped only when the tranquilizers pierced her veins and left her in [...]

Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters From Goodreads.com: Kelsey Finkelstein is fourteen and FRUSTRATED. Every time she tries to live up to her awesome potential, her plans are foiled – by her impossible parents, her annoying little sister, and life in general. But with her first day of high school coming up, Kelsey is positive [...]

Title:  Watcher:  Book 1 of The Chosen Author:  Roh Morgon Synopsis: (From Roh Morgon’s website) If you were faced with the Choice of spending lifetimes with the one you love, the one who makes your blood sing, whose love fills you and resonates in your very soul or spending eternity in exile, hollow and completely alone…  which would you Choose? What [...]

Title: Try Not To Breathe Author:  Jennifer R. Hubbard Synopsis: (From Goodreads) Learning to live is more than just choosing not to die, as sixteen-year-old Ryan discovers in the year following his suicide attempt. Despite his mother’s anxious hovering and the rumors at school, he’s trying to forget the darkness from which he has escaped. [...]

In my mailbox this week a really fascinating book arrived from Scholastic – Discover More: The Elements. Being the science geek that I am, this book really grabbed my interest right away. The pictures are awesome, colorful, and large. The information is detailed and easy to understand. It is full of very useful information about [...]

WARNING!!!  This review will contain some unavoidable spoilers to the first book in the series, Swoon.  If you do not want to be spoiled, I suggest you stop reading now.  ;) Title:  Swear Author:  Nina Malkin Synopsis:  (from goodreads) A promise broken. A bond betrayed. It’s been six months since ghost-turned golem Sinclair Youngblood Powers [...]

Title:  Swoon Author:  Nina Malkin Synopsis:  (from goodreads) Torn from her native New York City and dumped in the land of cookie-cutter preps, Candice is resigned to accept her posh, dull fate. Nothing ever happens in Swoon, Connecticut…until Dice’s perfect, privileged cousin Penelope nearly dies in a fall from an old tree, and her spirit [...]

Every winter, straight-laced, Ivy League bound Evan looks forward to a visit from Lucy, a childhood pal who moved away after her parent’s divorce. But when Lucy arrives this year, she’s changed. The former “girl next door” now has chopped dyed black hair, a nose stud, and a scowl. But Evan knows that somewhere beneath [...]

From Goodreads.com: Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be [...]

Title: First Day on Earth Author: Cecil Castellucci Synopsis: (from Goodreads) A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world. “We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings. “I know what I am.” Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet [...]

Closing Thoughts, Review, and Contest! This has been an incredible week featuring Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell their Stories. I want to thank the all of the authors for sharing a bit of themselves through their stories. I also want to thank everyone who showed up to chat on Thursday. There were some great conversations.  [...]

The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. Their only means of survival is by picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring, and sets off a chain of events that could lead [...]