DJ's Life in Fiction

Being a 16-year-old safecracker and active-duty daughter of international spies has its moments, good andbad. Pros: Seeing the world one crime-solving adventure at a time. Having parents with super cool jobs. Cons: Never staying in one place long enough to have friends or a boyfriend. But for Maggie Silver, the biggest perk of all has been avoiding high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. Then Maggie and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, and all of that changes. She'll need to attend a private school, avoid the temptation to hack the school's security system, and befriend one aggravatingly cute Jesse Oliver to gain the essential information she needs to crack the case . . . all while trying not to blow her cover. Hardcover , 320 pages Published February 26th 2013 by Bloomsbury Juvenile US ISBN -0802733905 Received for review via NetGalley       mo...

So many of you may know that I spent my morning yesterday volunteering at the Scholastic Book Fair at my  local elementary school. I like volunteering and added bonus, I got to help kids pick out books. It had nightmare potential especially with the younger kids but I made it out alive and not without a few books for my 5 year old sister. Anyway, I though I'd show you all some books I was surprised to see, some of the ones that sold out, and what my sister ended up getting. The Lost Hero among a bunch of other Riordan novels surprised me. I didn't expect to see them since they are more along the lines of middle graders but they sold good. Monster High- When I read this, I was fresh out of high shcool so it surprised me that this was here (but then, with the appeal of the dolls and accessories I shouldn't have been so surprised). Another surprising thing about it- we sold out ... quick. In fact, several students paid for the book anyway to have it shipped to the school by ...

BTW - THIS BOOK IS NA. BE AWARE AS YOU READ THE REVIEW. Print Length: 235 pages Publisher: InterMix (May 7, 2013) Sold by:  Penguin Publishing Received for review via Netgalley SYNOPSIS: When Rory Macintosh’s roommates find out that their studious and shy friend has never been with a guy, they decide that, as an act of kindness they’ll help her lose her virginity by hiring confident, tattooed bad boy Tyler Mann to do the job…unbeknownst to Rory. Tyler has told Rory that he’s not good enough for her. She’s smart, doctor smart, while he’s barely scraping by at his EMT program, hoping to pull his younger brothers out of the hell their druggy mother has left them in. But he can’t seem to stay away from her, and even when Rory knows she should push him away, something about him makes it nearly impossible for her to resist—even though her heart is at stake… Torn between common sense and desire, the two find themselves caught up in a passionate relationship. But when Tyler’s broken fami...

The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd (NY: Balzer & Bray, 2013). At sixteen, Juliet Moreau leads a harsh life, scrubbing floors at the medical school where her father used to teach before the scandal that led him to abandon his family.  Left seemingly orphaned after her mother's death, Juliet can scarcely believe her circumstances, which quickly worsen to the point that she herself must flee--with a former servant and childhood friend, Montgomery, to her father's island refuge on the other side of the world from Victorian London. Little does she know the grisly details of her father's research that will meet her there, or the choices she'll have to make. Fans of Gothic horror will love this novel, but even readers who don't ordinarily enjoy such gruesome doings can enjoy the way Shepherd explores family secrets and self-revelations. You don't need any knowledge (or even awareness) of the novel's inspiration, H. D. Well's The Island of Dr. More...