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stephxsu
Swarthmore College student, YA book blogger, reader, writer, swimmer, lover of beautiful things. Web Site: Steph Su Reads Claimed Blog: Steph Su Reads TeenBlips Member since June 8, 2009 |
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 4 hours ago
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Thanks for entering the giveaway! Those of you
who commented on my reviews of those 6 books,...
I enjoyed reading your comments. We had a total of 394 entries, so without further ado, the first place winner as random.org decrees it is: #207 randomlybree !!! Second place winner is: #226 ...
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stephsureads.blogspot.com - 13 hours ago
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The latest thing to stir up the YA
lit and education communities is the removal of some...
YA books being taught alongside classics in a college preparatory English class at Montgomery County High School in Kentucky. Many of the parents and administration argue that the books are not intellectual ...
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Discussion: Does YA Lit Belong in Classrooms?
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 32 hours ago
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So I didn't do a wish list feature
that month, because I was incredibly busy. This month,...
I'm no less busy, but I've decided that this is more fun to do for the moment... so there you go! Wish List is a monthly feature on my blog in which I mention recently published and soon-to-be published ...
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Wish List - December 2009
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 39 hours ago
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Tags: YA, paranormal, mental illness, family, action, quirky
Rating: 4 out of 5 Summary Hanna Jarvinen is...
an unusual teenager. She is biracial, sees and hears hallucinations, wears only purple to remember her dead father (with whose ghost she still communicates)—and is hardly ...
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Review: Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Insatiable by Meg Cabot Sick of vampires? So
is Meena Harper. But her boss is making her...
write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn’t believe in them. Not that Meena isn’t familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you’re going to die (not that you’re going to ...
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stephsureads.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Tags: YA, feminism, cheerleading, secret societies Rating: 3
out of 5 Summary Jess Parker is used to...
being the new girl at school. However, she always has her love of cheerleading to fall back on, even when her new teammates at Mt. Sterling High shun her because of a rumor that her ...
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Review: The Cinderella Society by Kay Cassidy
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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It's been a while since I've done an
IMM post, and the books have really *gulp* piled...
up. So for everyone's sake and mine, I'm only going to report the ones I've received for review. Really looking forward to reading these all! The Silent Gift by Michael Landon, Jr. and Cindy Kelley (Baker ...
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stephsureads.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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Tags: YA, paranormal, fallen angels, love triangle, boarding
school Rating: 2 out of 5 Summary When 17-year-old...
Luce Price enters Sword & Cross reform boarding school in Savannah, Georgia, she is immediately attracted to the aloof, gorgeous, and strangely achingly familiar Daniel ...
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Review: Fallen by Lauren Kate
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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I hope everyone had a splendid Thanksgiving (or
Thursday, if Thanksgiving doesn't apply to you) and have...
by now slept off the aftereffects of stuffing yourselves silly. I know I slept for a loooong time today, but now I'm all set to do some work and then to see New Moon with my friends--finally! ...
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Guest Blog: Greg of 5ftShelf.com
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready When Aura's boyfriend dies
a most untimely death, she is forced to reconsider...
her relationship with the living and the dead alike. [from Jeri's website ] WICKED GAME and Aspect of Crow trilogy author Jeri Smith-Ready's first teen fiction GENERATION GHOST , ...
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stephsureads.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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By now you've probably heard of Fallen by
Lauren Kate , coming out from Random House on...
Dec. 8, which will most likely be really popular with lots of readers--even though *whispers* I personally didn't enjoy it that much. What you might not know, however, is that on Nov. 12, Lauren Kate came ...
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Lauren Kate GIVEAWAY!
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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NCTE stands for the National Council of Teachers
of English. This past weekend, they held their annual...
convention at the Philadelphia Convention Center, and through talking with my incredible professor/advisor/to-be (hopefully) thesis advisor, I found out that I would be able to go, and that my ...
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My Awesome Time at NCTE
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers is all about his
theory that success more influenced by environment and experience...
than innate talent. Sometimes, the "successful" ( put "successful" in quotes because I firmly believe there are many types of success, but Gladwell is talking mostly about fame ...
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How Blogging Has Helped My Writing
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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Tags: YA, popularity, murder, drinking Rating: 3 out
of 5 Summary High school senior Natalie Hargrove has...
worked hard to get from trailer trash to a ruling member of Palmetto High School. The culmination of her work should be the much coveted Palmetto Princess crown, alongside her ...
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Review: The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove by Lauren Kate
stephsureads.blogspot.com - 16 days ago
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The Shadow Project by Herbie Brennan Danny Lipman
is a thief . . . until one night...
he robs the wrong house. He inadvertently breaks into the headquarters of the Shadow Project, a secret government organization where teenage spies are trained to leave their bodies, using astral projection ...
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