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January 8th, 2013
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
"At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother’s death and placed in a boy’s boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains.
Newcomer Jack feels lost yet can’t help being drawn to Early, who won’t believe what everyone accepts to be the truth about the Great Appalachian Bear, Timber Rattlesnakes, and the legendary school hero known as The Fish, who never returned from the war. When the boys find themselves unexpectedly alone at school, they embark on a quest on the Appalachian Trail in search of the great black bear.
But what they are searching for is sometimes different from what they find. They will meet truly strange characters, each of whom figures into the pi story Early weaves as they travel, while discovering things they never realized about themselves and others in their lives."
This one sounds great! I love the cover, too.
April 2013
Sourcebooks Fire
"MY LIFE AFTER NOW is about sixteen-year-old Lucy Moore, an aspiring theater star who learns she is HIV-positive and must learn how to deal with this abrupt change in the script."
I've never read anything like this, so I'm definitely curious about it.
Poor Lucy! Great picks! :)
ReplyDeleteI adoore the first cover.
Makes me want to stargaze.
They both sound very intriguing, and the covers are beautiful! Thanks for sharing! Here's my WoW!
ReplyDeleteWow, that second one sounds especially fascinating--heartbreaking, but fascinating. Great picks!
ReplyDeleteOoo... both books have fantastic covers and sound interesting. :) Thanks so much for visiting our WoW!
ReplyDeleteMy Life After Now sounds like it's going to be really intense - such a short blurb and effective blurb because I definitely want to know more now! Navigating early seems enormously creative and imaginative, I hadn't heard of it before but I don't want to miss out on it. Thanks for the two new recommendations Lea!
ReplyDeleteI just heard about My Life After Now this morning and I am definitely intrigued. Very real concept that I haven't read in a book before. Great picks!
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~ Sara @ Forever 17 Books
Both books sound awesome! Especially 'My Life After Now'!
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Great picks! I've never read anything like My Life After Now either....definitely worth checking out.
ReplyDeleteFantastic picks! I hadn't heard of the first one but I'll definitely adding be adding it to my TBR list now! And My Life After Now sounds like it's going to be an awesome contemporary <3 Thanks for stopping by!
ReplyDeleteOhhh these both look really interesting, I'll have to check them out! Thanks for sharing :)
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Ohh, pretty covers. <3 Seems like great books ;) I hope you'll love them both when they finally come out :)
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Love, Carina @ Carina's Books
Both have lovely covers and sounds like great touching stories! Will definitely be checking these out!
ReplyDeleteBoth sound like great books. I hadn't heard of either before.
ReplyDeleteI love the covers for both books! I hadn't heard of Navigating Early, but it sounds like one I'd enjoy. Great picks :)
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of either of these, but they both sound amazing. Great picks!
ReplyDeleteTwo great books. They look and sound amazing! I can't wait!
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