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This week's WoW picks has a theme: Blue. And, well, gorgeous covers. Just check them out below! :D Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine Title: Made You Up by Francesca Zappia Release Date: May 19th 2015 Published by: Greenwillow Books Want? Add to your Goodreads list! Summary: Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. This is a compelling and provoking literary debut that will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson, Silver Linings Playbook, and Liar. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her c...

Sometimes we just need to pay attention. Sometimes we just need to notice. Sometimes, we just need to ask for help when we need it. Title: Falling into Place by Amy Zhang Release Date: September 9th 2014 Published by: Greenwillow Books Buy: Fully Booked Summary: On the day Liz Emerson tries to die, they had reviewed Newton’s laws of motion in physics class. Then, after school, she put them into practice by running her Mercedes off the road. Why? Why did Liz Emerson decide that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up? Vividly told by an unexpected and surprising narrator, this heartbreaking and nonlinear novel pieces together the short and devastating life of Meridian High’s most popular junior girl. Mass, acceleration, momentum, force—Liz didn’t understand it in physics, and even as her Mercedes hurtles toward the tree, she doesn’t understand it now. How do we impact one another? How do our actions reverberate? What does it mean to be a friend? To love someone?...

I will tell you this early, but The Tragic Age by Stephen Metcalfe is one of the few YA contemporary books that caught my eye last year, so I am very, very excited to be a part of this. This is the second stop on the tour, and we are releasing the FIRST 50 PAGES of The Tragic Age. Yes, you can read the first fifty pages by checking out the blogs below: Excerpt 1: Tuesday, February 3rd: KellyVision Excerpt 2: Saturday, February 7th: Amaterasu Reads Excerpt 3: Tuesday, February 10th: The Young Folks Excerpt 4: Friday, February 13th: Unbound Books Excerpt 5: Sunday, February 15th: Books and Whimsy Excerpt 6: Thursday, February 19th: Stories & Sweeties Excerpt 7: Monday, February 23rd: As I Turn the Pages Excerpt 8: Saturday, February 28th: Novel Novice I have 3 ARCs of The Tragic Age to giveaway, so if you are liking what you've read so far, here's your chance to win a copy! Scroll down below! And now for the excerpt... ( this is chapter 2 and 3 in the book ) The drum room. Th...

How are you all? The weather is still somewhat chilly (in the mornings, at least) which is a plus. Okay, I am not sure why I'm talking about the weather, but yeah, my 1st WoW post of the year! Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine Title: From Where I Watch You by Shannon Grogan Release Date: August 4th 2015 Published by: Soho Teen Want? Add to your Goodreads list! Summary: 16-year-old Kara is on course to be a superb professional baker. Perfectly designed and piped, her cookies are masterpieces, but also her route out of the rainy streets of Seattle. Winning a prestigious culinary contest could take her away from the misery that is her home life since her widely hated big sister Kellen drowned. Now Kara's dad is gone, her mom has turned from high-powered attorney into nutty holy-rolling Christian fundamentalist who sells Soul Soup in the family café, and Kara is left with memories of better times. As Kara pieces together the events that led to Kellen...

A world divided by blood and color. The Silvers who are the rulers and the Reds who follow, inferior, slaves. It was the way the world works, until a Red girl named Mare came along. Title: Red Queen (Red Queen Trilogy #1) by Victoria Aveyard Release Date: February 10th 2015 Published by: Harper Teen Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: Graceling meets The Selection in debut novelist Victoria Aveyard's sweeping tale of seventeen-year-old Mare, a common girl whose once-latent magical power draws her into the dangerous intrigue of the king's palace. Will her power save her or condemn her? Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with common, Red blood serve the Silver- blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibili...

National Bookstore brought James Frey signing for their first ever YA Book event for 2015. What can I say? I am pleasantly surprised. James Frey visited Manila for a book signing for his latest interactive book called Endgame: The Calling which features a puzzle you can solve in order to win $500,000. And in case you didn't know, his publisher has also recently announced shortly before his tour that James is Pittacus Lore, the author of the Lorien Legacies books. James opted not to use the mic and proceeded to answer the questions from the bloggers right away. As for his answers? Check the Q&A I listed below: The hardest part of Endgames to write: was it the beginning, middle or end? Books are all sort of the same. The ending for Endgame has been changed four times, which James considered to be the hardest part, because there are now four different endings and he kept redoing it. The beginning is hard because you know there are hundreds of pages in front of you, the middle is t...