ARC Review: The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart

Title: The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart

Author: Lauren DeStefano

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Publication Date: September 13, 2016

Source: Bloomsbury for Review

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Lionel is a wild boy, who doesn’t much like to be around other people. He’d rather be a purring cat or a wolf stalking the woods.

Marybeth is a nice girl. She doesn’t need to be told to comb her hair or brush her teeth, and she’s kind to everyone at the orphanage . . . Lionel most of all.

Different though they are, Lionel and Marybeth are best friends in a world that has forgotten about them. So when a mysterious blue spirit possesses Marybeth—and starts to take control—they know they must stop it before the real Marybeth fades away forever.

ARC August 2016: Sign Up and Books I Want to Read

Nothing like waiting until the last minute to sign up for a reading challenge, right? Well... That's kind of how I've been rolling this summer. So on this last night of July (P.S. Happy Birthday to Harry Potter and Jo Rowling!), I bring you all my sign up for ARC August.

ARC Review: A Curious Tale of the In-Between

Title: A Curious Tale of the In-Between

Author: Lauren DeStefano

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Publication Date: September 1, 2015

Source: ARC from Bloomsbury

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Pram Bellamy is special—she can talk to ghosts. She doesn’t have too many friends amongst the living, but that’s all right. She has her books, she has her aunts, and she has her best friend, the ghostly Felix.

Then Pram meets Clarence, a boy from school who has also lost a parent and is looking for answers. Together they arrive at the door of the mysterious Lady Savant, who promises to help. But this spiritualist knows the true nature of Pram’s power, and what she has planned is more terrifying than any ghost.

Lauren DeStefano is beloved by critics and readers alike, and her middle grade debut is lyrical, evocative and not to be missed.

Waiting on Wednesday (34)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly bookish meme created and hosted by Jill at her blog, Breaking the Spine. The meme helps bloggers and readers spotlight some of the many upcoming releases that we are all patiently (but most likely impatiently) waiting on.

It's pretty simple to participate in Waiting on Wednesday:

• Create your own Waiting on Wednesday post that features an upcoming title (or titles)
• Be sure to credit Jill in your post
• Link up to the Linky on Jill's blog