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Today is the last day of August! Can you believe it?!? This summer went WAY too fast!!! To help alleviate those blues you may be feeling, here is some awesome info: Random House has begun a new YA program called First in Line! Once you join up at www.firstinlinereaders.com, as a member you will have access through monthly newsletter to behind-the-book material, author content, deletec scenes and giveaways for advance reading copies!!! Don't miss out, bibliophiles! On a separate note, are any of you fans of Sophia Kinsella and/or Sarah Dessen?!? They will be having a Google Hangout on Thursday, September 3rd - chatting about writing, their books and more!!! You can RSVP now and submit your questions via this link: https://plus.google.com/events/cqnuus9ln071ti0i1c90bj2i1f4 Have fun!!! Fight those End of Summer blues! Head back here on Wednesday for another review, as always! :)

Finding Audrey is a YA contemporary novel by Sophia Kinsella, author of the bestselling Shopaholic series. After an incident with classmates, Audrey has developed an anxiety disorder. She now rarely leaves the house and wears dark sunglasses at all times to avoid eye contact. Her family is loving, if crazy, and are working hard to help her get better – as is her kind therapist, Dr. Sarah. It’s a slow, but steady, progress. When her brother’s gaming teammate, Linus, comes over to the house she initially feels as much anxiety as she feels about anything she is not comfortable with – that is, A LOT. But soon she finds that Linus is patient with her disorder and is encouraging her to push farther into recovery than ever before. Suddenly, there is momentum. And perhaps some romantic feelings… I have never read the Shopaholic series, so I wasn’t sure what kind of writing style I was getting into at all. I have to say, all in all, I am pleasantly surprised by Finding Audrey ! ...

The Monstrumologist is a YA historical horror novel by Rick Yancey. Orphaned apprentice Will Henry lives and works with Dr. Warthrop – a man whose area of study is monstrumology, i.e. monsters. Already Will Henry has seen terrors that many men three times his age could never imagine, but when a midnight caller drags in the corpse of a young woman entangled with the carcass of an Anthropophagus, the first of his most horrific cases begins. A headless monster of extreme height and size, eyes deep in its shoulders and a mouth of razor-sharp teeth in its stomach, Anthropophagi are not supposed to exist in New Jerusalem. Yet, here one is. Will and the monstrumologist now must race against time to put a stop to these horrors before they kill again. And again. And again… The Monstrumologist is a gory, suspenseful, creepy novel that demands a strong stomach of its reader. What’s wonderful about it is that as grisly and graphic as the novel is, as it delves into a monsterific myst...

The School for Good and Evil is a middle grade fantasy novel by Soman Chainani. And oh my gosh it is sooooooooooooo good!!!!!! In the village of Gavaldon, it has become an accepted truth that once every four years two children are kidnapped – only to appear in mysteriously delivered fairytale books later on. Their faces are clearly seen in the illustrations – some the heroes, some the villains. Of course, many an adult has tried to resist such a ridiculous idea. Yet it is difficult to deny that it seems these children are being taken to be featured in new fairytales. Sophie, the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, is ready when the next four-year mark comes. She is prepared to be a princess, marry a prince and continue to wear as much as pink as she can. Her best friend, Agatha, isn’t too thrilled at the idea though. Not only does she think the idea of being whisked away to a fairytale is ridiculous – she doesn’t want to lose Sophie. With her off putting, antisocial personality...

Everything, Everything is a YA contemporary debut novel by Nicola Yoon. Madeline is allergic to the world. She never leaves her sanitized house or sees anyone besides her mom and longtime nurse Carla. She reads a lot, her books arriving in vacuum sealed packaging, and does her schooling online. Used to this life, Madeline has accepted it and enjoys it. She looks forward to her movie nights with her mom and doesn’t think about how she hasn’t met anyone new in seventeen years. Then one day a moving truck arrives next door. A boy about her age, named Olly and dressed all in black, notices her looking from her window. Their eyes meet and now she can think of hardly anything else. When they start emailing and IMing, Maddie becomes sure of one thing – things are changing. And it’s certainly going to be a disaster… Everything, Everything is a beautifully constructed story. When we first meet Maddie, she is fully uncomplaining of her life – loving her books, her mom and Carla. S...