GreenBeanTeenQueen

The roundup of all the Cybils Winners are now posted!! I am so thrilled for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl in the YA category, Seraphina in YA Fantasy/SF, and Friends with Boys in YA Graphic Novels and Giants Beware in MG Graphic Novels. All such wonderful picks! Now to add more books to my TBR pile! Congrats to all the winners!

  Violet Eden is back in the newest volume of the Embrace series! If you love angels and paranormal romance, you need to get your hands on this series! Violet is a great character and I can't help but like her and want to read more about her. And Lincoln-he's just awesome! With kickbutt characters and lots of action, you don't want to miss out on this series.   I have a special short story in honor of Emblaze -the book releases on March 19th so hopefully this will hold you over until the release date. :) I also have a chance to win a copy of Emblaze for one lucky reader thanks to Sourcebooks Fire.     CLAUDIA – FAMILY TIES BY JESSICA SHIRVINGTON My feet tangled beneath me and I stumbled forwards, almost taking a full-on nosedive. I couldn’t believe it! I found my balance, hitched my backpack up and powered on. I was going to be late, again, and Giuseppe was going to kill me. No, worse, he was going to fire me. Last time was ‘the last time!’ he’...

I am so excited for these new Harry Potter covers!   I first heard about Kazu Kibushi illustrating new covers of Harry Potter at ALA Midwinter and I've been eagerly anticipating the news and reveal! Gorgeous right? I think the match is perfect and can't wait to see what the rest of the covers look like. What do you think? I think I might spend my afternoon staring at the new cover! :)

I love Gary Schmidt's book  Okay for Now  so I was very excited to learn that NPR had chosen it as the next Backseat Bookclub pick. ( @ NPRBackseat ) The book club will take place at the end of February and throughout the month HMH Kids (@ HMHKids ) will be tweeting favorite moments and quotes from the book and have a chance to win copies of the new paperback release-use hashtag #OK4NOW You can even submit questions to Gary Schmidt for the book club discussion on NPR's Backseat Bookclub website . What's my favorite quote? "I'm a librarian-I always know what I'm talking about."  :)

How did I not know about this?? I'm blaming it on still coming out of a 2012 book fog and entering the real non-committee world again. But how exciting is this news? Elizabeth Wein has a companion to Code Name Verity coming later this year! The book is called Rose Under Fire and it's not a sequel but a companion where Maddie makes an appearance but is a new story about a new character. I love and adore Code Name Verity and the story obviously holds a very special place in my heart. I can 't wait to read it. Who else is excited?

Rating: 4/5 Stars Genre: Contemporary Release Date: 3/5/2013 Add to Goodreads About the Book:  Everyone in Ruby's town knows that if you make a wish on your birthday and a quarter with your birthday year goes through the statue of Captain Bunning's donut, your wish will come true on Bunning Day. Ruby didn't listen to her grandmother and grandmother recently passed away. Ruby wants to know what it was her grandmother was trying to tell her. Plus Ruby's  best friend isn't speaking to her, her new friend is mad at her too, and Ruby's world is spinning out of control. Will her Bunning Day wish help her put everything straight? GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: Linda Urban is a tween queen. I've been a fan of her books since her debut with A Crooked Kind of Perfect and Ms. Urban is a master at writing tween voices. She gets right to the heart of a story-you try and not get misty when you read a Linda Urban book. In The Center of Everything Ms. Urban writes...

  If you've read my blog, you know I love audiobooks. I'm an avid audiobook listener and have been for several years now. I recently was appointed to an audiobook assignment that will have me listening to a lot of audiobooks in the next few months and it got me thinking about how I can fit all this listening in. I've spent the last year spending every free minute of my time reading physical books, it feels a bit odd to switch over to listening.   I typically listen to audiobooks in my car, but with about a 10 minute drive to work each way, that doesn't give me a lot of listening time. I also listen as I get ready each morning-I have lots of audiobooks loaded onto my phone and listen as I eat breakfast, get dressed and do my makeup each morning. I also try to listen as I get ready for bed and I love the feature on my Audible App on my phone that lets me set a timer to fall asleep listening to one of my audiobooks. Sometimes I might have to rewind a little bit to...