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Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Genre: Horror/Paranormal Release Date: 2/12/2013 Add To Goodreads About the Book: Three years ago Vanessa's sister disappeared from the New York Ballet Academy. Her sister was one of the most talented dancers there and had been cast in a lead role as a freshman. The rumor was she cracked under pressure, but Vanessa doesn't believe it. Vanessa enrolls in the school in hopes of finding out what happened to her sister. As she begins to follow in her sisters footsteps, she realizes that something strange and that dance is dangerous. GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: Dance of Shadows is a book about ballet with a horror novel twist. Dancing becomes dangerous and there's even more pressure to being the best. In some ways, this novel reminded me of a teen version of Black Swan  with paranormal elements and I think readers who are looking for just a touch of the macabre will enjoy this book. The details about ballet are excellent. It's obvious the autho...

Rating: 3/5 Stars Genre: Dystopian/Survival Release Date: 3/7/2013 Add to Goodreads About the Book: After a string of hurricanes destroys the Gulf Coast and a sickness known as Delta Fever breaks out, a wall is built and the Gulf is quarantined. Separated by blood types tribes form in Orleans and Fen is living with the O-Positives when a fight starts to break out. Fen is left with the baby of her tribe leader and she begins to run in hopes of getting the baby over the wall before her blood becomes tainted with the fever. Fen meets Daniel, who is trying to find a cure for the fever, and together they must help each other survive. GreenBeanTeenQueen Says:   Orleans is a dystopian that has a unique premise. It's set in a future where part of the US has been cut off and people have been broken up into blood type. That premise alone makes the book stand out in the crowded field of dystopian lit. Even though it has dystopian elements, I would call Orleans  more of a su...

I'm excited to welcome author Sherri L. Smith to GreenBeanTeenQueen!  Sherri L. Smith  has written several award-winning novels for young adults.  Flygirl  (2010) won the California Book Award, was a YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, and has received fourteen State Award nominations. She lives near Los Angeles. For more information, visit her website or her blog, The Middle Hundred . She can be found on Twitter  @Sherri_L_Smith .  Be sure to follow Sherri on her Orleans tour to the next stop at  I Read Banned Books . About Orleans: (From Goodreads)  After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct… but in reality, a new primitive society has been born. Fen de la Guerre is living with the O-Positive blood tribe in the Delta when they are ambushed. Left with her t...

Please welcome author Gail Gauthier to GreenBeanTeenQueen! Gail has written several books for tweens and teens and recently released her book Saving the Planet & Stuff as an ebook.  Add to Goodreads I began my reading life in one-room schoolhouses that could barely be said to have their own libraries. These days, I can sometimes be found reading on a Kindle, which means I can order library eBooks without actually having to go into a library. Seems like a big jump, doesn’t it? I want to make clear that I didn’t spend my early years in one-room schoolhouses because I am so very, very old. No, I spent most of my growing up years in Sudbury , Vermont , a town too small, at that time, to afford what even then would have been considered a “traditional” elementary school. Younger students attended Hill School, which had a cupboard filled with dark old volumes of early twentieth century children’s books. Burr Pond, for the older kids, had a bookcase filled with o...

I am so excited to be featuring the first stop on The Chronicles of Egg tour! Author Geoff Rodkey is traveling around the blogosphere to give readers a look into his series, The Chronicles of Egg . Here on GreenBeanTeenQueen, he's giving us a peek into the character of Egg. Don't forget to follow the tour and enter for your chance to win one set of signed, personalized copies of the paperback of Book One: Deadweather and Sunrise and an ARC of Book 2: New Lands . MEET EGG MASTERSON  Egbert "Egg" Masterson, the narrator and unlikely hero of Deadweather and Sunrise , has no shortage of problems. First of all, there's his name. Egbert might just be the world's worst first name, made all the more awful for the fact that his older siblings are named Venus and Adonis. Those siblings are a whole other problem. Venus and Adonis are as cruel as they are stupid--although the stupidity's actually a blessing, because if they were any more clever, they'...

Check out the Chronicles of Egg Blog Tour Rating: 3/5 Stars Genre: Historical/Adventure Release Date: 5/29/2012 Add to Goodreads About the Book: Egg lives on the island of Deadweather-and his family are the only non-pirates on the island. His siblings are always giving him a hard time and his dad is occupied with the ugly fruit plantation. When his father rushes the family away for a sudden trip to Sunrise Island, Egg isn’t sure what is going on-but he knows it’s something big. The family soon meets the rich and fancy Pembroke family and their beautiful and witty daughter Millicent. But when Egg’s family disappears in a hot air balloon accident and someone tries to push Egg off a cliff, Egg is on the run-because someone wants him dead and he’s not sure why. GreenBeanTeenQueen Says: Deadweather and Sunrise is the first in a new series, The Chronicles of Egg. The Chronicles of Egg reminds me of Lemony Snickett with pirates. And not Disney-nice pirates. Pir...

I'm thrilled to host the reveal for Lindsey Leavitt's upcoming novel, Going Vintage , out March 26th from Bloomsbury. About the Book: After Mallory discovers that her boyfriend has cheated on her with an online girlfriend, Mallory decides she's had enough of technology. She finds a list her grandmother made in the 1960s of five goals to accomplish in high school and Mallory decides she's going to try her hand at the list-and hopes it will help her get back to a simpler time and get over her ex. With a list made up of things like sew a homecoming dress (Mallory can't sew!) and run for pep club secretary (what exactly is pep club?) Mallory finds that being a teenager can be complicated, no matter what decade you're in. Sounds awesome, right? It's a wonderful that I highly recommend ( you can read my full Going Vintage review here ) And check out the trailer-you'll want to get a copy of this book when it's released!