New books!
I've been trying to figure out how to get to advanced readers copies so I can read the latest and greatest books so I can then recommend them to my students. Through a group I follow on Goodreads, an completely awesome book recommending site, I found Netgalley. Netgalley provides advanced readers copies online (like through a Kindle) so you can read books ahead of time. Some of them are REALLY badly formatted, but in the case of this last book I read, the formatting didn't distract from the complete awesomeness of the book! This one was called "Ava and Pip" by Carol Weston. Ava and Pip are sisters and they are word nerds. Their names and their parents names are palindromes, they like to play a homonym game, and Ava would like to be a writer. Pip has some un-named issue that makes her smaller and shyer than Ava so Ava tries to help. When a new girl decides to have a party the same time as Pip's thirteenth birthday party, Pip is very hurt. ...