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May 18, 2015

This Bookreporter.com SPECIAL PREVIEW Newsletter brings you a sneak peek at the titles that are included in our Summer Reading feature.

Each title below will be featured in a Daily Contest, in which you will have a 24-hour window of opportunity to enter for your chance to win a copy of the book being featured that day. You will need to act quickly! Learn more about the feature here.

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Interview: Rachelle Dekker, author of The Choosing

May 18, 2015

A lot of older siblings want to inspire their sisters and brothers --- to teach them to be kind human beings, to go after their goals and stick up for their beliefs.

But Rachelle Dekker went above and beyond --- she wrote an entire book (and soon-to-be series) to teach her sisters that “they are worth everything.”

The result is THE CHOOSING, in which Carrington Hale’s Choosing Ceremony goes horribly awry and she’s sent to spend her life as a Lint, the lowest level of society. But rumors of rebellion rattle all of her beliefs, and, surprisingly, resonate deeply with her.

Read below to learn more about THE CHOOSING, the first book in The Seer series, as well as Rachelle’s must-have writing accessory, what it’s like to have a bestselling author for a father and how her imagination and real-life inventions aren’t as different as she once presumed.
 

May 18, 2015

Teen Boat at the Prom --- Guest Post by Illustrator John Green

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Prom is one of the most exciting times of the year, and on Teenreads, we want to celebrate with a bookish twist! We asked book and graphic novel illustrators to draw something that relates to prom  . In this post, John Green --- illustrator of the forthcoming September 2015 graphic novel TEEN BOAT!: The Race for Boatlantis written by Dave Roman --- included a sneak peek of some of the images that will actually appear in the book, which features a boy who can turn into a yacht. In the story, Teen Boat needs to win the trophy in The Orca’s Cup and a date to his school prom (hopefully his dream girl, foreign exchange student Niña Pinta Santa Maria). Below are a few images that show off the prom décor and a few of students dancing the night away.

Diane Ackerman

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

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Diane Ackerman

Betty Smith

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.

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Betty Smith, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN

Edward W. Howe

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

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Edward W. Howe

May 15, 2015

Last weekend, my mom came up with a great idea for celebrating Mother’s Day. On Saturday afternoon, we went to Peony's Envy in Bernardsville, NJ, to visit their farm that has a display garden that stretches over eight acres. I learned that there are four major types of peonies --- woodland, tree, herbaceous and intersectional --- and the blooms in these gardens begin in late April and end in early June. The flowers in bloom last week were the tree peonies; you can see one of the glorious blossoms above. Just stellar! We came back to the house and met up with Tom’s mom and had a lovely dinner. Then Sunday, the official Mother's Day, I relaxed and read/knitted while Tom and the boys opened the pool, which was crystal clear in a day or so. Cold, but clear. Also, I got some planting done, though there is a lot more of that on the horizon.

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May 15, 2015

Prom Memory --- Guest Post by Kasie West

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Oftentimes authors draw from their own experiences when writing their books. Luckily, this wasnt' the case for Kasie West, author of  the new book THE FILL-IN BOYFRIEND --- at least not for the opening scene at the prom. Below, Kasie compares and contrasts her own experience with her protagonist, Gia's. Let's just say, it seems like Kasie had a lot more fun!  

Interview: S. E. Green, author of Killer Instinct

May 15, 2015

You get all sorts of female protagonists in YA literature, whether they’re fighting to save an empire, overcoming a difficult family situation or trying to summon the guts to talk to their crush.

Lane, the protagonist of KILLER INSTINCT and KILLER WITHIN by S.E. Green, is a slightly rarer breed --- she’s obsessed with serial killers, and struggles with an urge to kill, herself. We talked to Green about her series, and she revealed the most difficult scenes to write, at which point in the writing process she determines the identity of the serial killer and the inspiration for Lane’s character.

Read below, and be sure to check out KILLER INSTINCT and KILLER WITHIN!

BRC Summer Reading

Links to http://www.bookreporter.com/features/summer-reading/summer-reading-2015.