Sunday, September 30, 2012

Stuff I Got This Week

Bought:
(I bought this at a YALS conference this week. I got to meet and talk with Sarah. She's super nice! So glad I could pick up a copy of this and have it signed.)
Since losing both of her parents, fifteen-year-old Katie can see and talk to ghosts, which makes her a loner until fellow student Law sees her drawing of a historic house and together they seek a treasure rumored to be hidden there by illegal slave-traders. Law Walker knew Katie Mullens before she was crazy. Before her mother died. Law knows Katie’s crazy now, but she’s always been talented. And she keeps filling sketch pads even though her drawings have gone a little crazy as well—dark, bloody. What Law doesn’t know is that these drawings are real. Or were real. Katie draws what she sees—and Katie sees dead people. People who have died—recently, and not so recently—in accidents, from suicide, even a boy who was trapped in a house that burned down more than 100 years ago. And it’s this boy who makes Law want to get to know Katie all over again. So what if his dad doesn’t want him dating a white girl? So what if people think Katie is dangerous? The ghost boy is hiding a secret that Law needs to know—and it’s much bigger, much more shocking than anyone ever expected.

For Review: Thanks to Feiwel & Friends
Pearl Littlefield’s first assignment in fifth grade is complicated: She has to write an essay about her summer. Where does she begin? Her dad lost his job, she had to go to a different camp—one where her older sister Lexie was a counselor-in-training (ugh!)—and she and her good friend James Brubaker III had a huge fight, which made them both wonder if the other kids were right that girls and boys can’t be good friends and which landed one of them in the hospital.

So that's what I got this week. What did you all get?

3 comments:

  1. I haven't heard much about The Other Side of Dark before so I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it. Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far) looks really cute as well! Happy reading! :)

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  2. Oooh nice! The Other Side of Dark looks familiar. I'm not positive though! Hope you enjoy your books!

    Here's my STS

    Have a GREAT day!

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  3. Both of these are new to me but they both sound great - enjoy them!

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