It's Monday! What are You Reading?

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: Hopeless (Hopeless #1), by Colleen Hoover

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Listening to: Insurgent (Divergent, #2), by Veronica Roth

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Cindi is Reading: Ashes, by Ilsa J. Bick

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Waiting on Wednesday

Sooooo....what book are we waiting on here at RFYF? The follow-up to Splintered, of course!!

Unhinged:

(Splintered, Book #2)

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by A.G. Howard

Release Date: 7 January 2014

Publisher: Amulet Books

Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole. She was crowned Queen of the Red Court and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the boy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly appealing Morpheus. Now all she has to do is graduate high school. That would be easier without her mother, freshly released from an asylum, acting overly protective and suspicious. And it would be much simpler if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs. Could she leave Jeb and her parents behind again, for the sake of a man she knows has manipulated her before? Will her mother and Jeb trust her to do what’s right? Readers will swoon over the satisfying return to Howard’s bold, sensual reimagining of Carroll’s classic.    
( goodreads summary )

Merry Christmas!!

A blog is only as good as it's readers. We have been fortunate to have such wonderful follower/friends who have helped us to achieve over four thousand blog followers, 222,270 page views and most importantly, innumerable books to donate to Franklin High School in Ohio. After all, that's why we are here---to promote Teen Literacy. So today, on Christmas Day, gather your children around and read a good book to them:)

Merry Christmas and 

Happy New Year!!

It's New Year's Eve!!

Life is busy, we get it. We here at RFYF have children, grandchildren, jobs, spouses and many responsibilities so we understand. As a matter of fact, I bet we are ALL running around today cooking, primping and getting ready for a FABULOUS evening tonight. Am I right? And since we are so often busy, certain important things seem to fall by the wayside---like reading a good book to ourselves, our children, or our grandchildren. It's ok, right? We can read to them later, school teaches them to read, they can read to themselves. There is always an excuse.

Well, NO EXCUSES this year. For 2014, let's all make a concerted effort to sit and read. Stop and smell the book pages. Take a moment to pick a bouquet of words. Bring a sick friend a freshly baked story. Sing along to an audiobook. There are many ways that we can work a book, a short story, a few pages into our day. The benefits are as important as drinking three glasses of water a day and taking your daily vitamin. We grow when we read. We become better, stronger people when we learn. Our brains get a workout.

So for 2014, let's promise to READ!!! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM READ FOR YOUR FUTURE!!!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: Hopeless (Hopeless #1), by Colleen Hoover

&

Listening to: Insurgent (Divergent, #2), by Veronica Roth

......

Cindi is Reading: Ashes, by Ilsa J. Bick

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Waiting on Wednesday

Sooooo....what book are we waiting on here at RFYF? The follow-up to The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, of course!!

The Book Of Love

(The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, #2)

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by Tammar Stein

Release Date: 31 December 2013

Publisher: Harper Teen

The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers has given Lucy everything she thought she wanted. Gone is the poor, innocent girl pining away for a guy who didn’t deserve her and in her place is a fierce, fabulous Heartbreaker with glamorous sisters, an unbreakable heart, and access to magic. The only problem is this: Lucy’s floppy-haired, blues-playing best friend Tristan is in pain. And she’s powerless to help him. Or is she? It’s time for the annual Heartbreaker competition — a chance for Lucy and her sisters to win The Book of Love, an ancient tome containing centuries’ worth of Heartbreaker wisdom, and maybe, just maybe, enough magic to fix Tristan’s heart for good. Lucy will do whatever it takes; if it helps her fix her friend, she knows it’s worth it. At least she thinks she knows. As Lucy goes deeper into the world of the sisterhood, she learns that even those closest to her have unimaginable secrets, and when it comes to magic, nothing comes without a price . . .     
( goodreads summary )

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! 

Just do the following: 

• Grab your current read. 
• Open to a random page. 
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! 
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! 

              "I hate being alone with her", Aunt Nikki said. "She freaks me out."

            "Keep your gun on you and stay alert." p. 17

Conjured
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by Sarah Beth Durst

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: Hopeless (Hopeless #1), by Colleen Hoover

&

Listening to: Insurgent (Divergent, #2), by Veronica Roth

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Cindi is Reading: Conjured, by Sarah Beth Durst

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Waiting on Wednesday

Sooooo....what book are we waiting on here at RFYF? The follow-up to The Testing, of course!!

Independent Study

(The Testing #2)

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by Joelle Charbonneau

Release Date: 7 January 2014

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books For Children

In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of all the colonies . . . a promising leader in the effort to revitalize postwar civilization. In Independent Study, Cia is a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas—and though the government has tried to erase her memory of the brutal horrors of The Testing, Cia remembers. Her attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government’s murderous programs put her—and her loved ones—in a world of danger. But the future of the Commonwealth depends on her.     
( goodreads summary )

Best of 2013 Giveaway Hop

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! 

Just do the following: 

• Grab your current read. 
• Open to a random page. 
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! 
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! 

"My heart did a tiny jete as I stared at the detailed miniature of the Castle MacCrae I'd fallen in love with at the marketplace. How did he know?" p. 162

Doon
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by Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

This is a fun meme that allows bloggers to get an idea of what everyone else is reading and perhaps help to find our next must-read. So check out what WE are reading and tell us what YOU are reading!!

Lora is Reading: Hopeless (Hopeless #1), by Colleen Hoover

&

Listening to: Insurgent (Divergent, #2), by Veronica Roth

......

Cindi is Reading: Doon, by Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon

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Review: How I Lost You by Janet Gurtler

Summary-

There are a few things Grace Anderson knows for sure. One is that nothing will ever come between her and her best friend, Kya Kessler. They have a pact. Buds Before Studs. Sisters Before Misters. But in the summer before senior year, life throws out challenges they never expected. And suddenly the person who's always been there starts to need the favor returned. Grace and Kya are forced to question how much a best friend can forgive. And the answer is not what they expected.

 

Review-

People that like Sarah Dessen will like this book. though it may be fiction, this book has many aspects that people can relate too. like losing a best friend; someone they know who went on a downward spiral in their life; being compared to another; whether they lived in the spotlight or the shadows. This book made me step back and think of the situation my best friend and me are going through. i realized all i can do is take care of myself first.

 

Publisher-Sourcebooks Fire

Reviewers Rating: 4.5 Stars

Reviewed by~Emma (Student at Franklin High School)

Thank you to the author for the donation of this book in exchange for a honest review!

Review: The Girl's Fitness Guide: Expert Coaching for the Young Woman Who Wants to Look and Feel Her Best by Gheorghe Muresan, Nick Morar, Frank C. Hawkins (Goodreads Author), Rares Nick Morar, Frank C. Hawkins

Summary-

Filled with all the essential information needed to set up an exercise program and keep it going, this fitness and health handbook teaches young women age 12 and up how to exercise, eat right, and take care of the body. Focusing on the close interrelationship between exercise, nutrition, and body care, the components of this complete exercise program include stretching, aerobic exercise, resistance exercise, nutrition, and body care. The 7-day exercise program presented in this guide will help young women build poise and self-assurance and instill in them a lifetime of health and vitality.

 

Review-

It really help me learn how to exercise right and stay on a routine. Both my sister and I looked over the book. Anyone looking for exercises and stuff should read this book.

 

Publisher-Big Book Press, LLC

Reviewers Rating: 3.5 Stars

Reviewed by~Sierra Wells (Student at Franklin Highschool)

Thank you to the Publisher for the donation of this book to the Read for your Future book program in exchange for a honest review!

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! 

Just do the following: 

• Grab your current read. 
• Open to a random page. 
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page. 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! 
• Share the title and author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! 

"So they continued to write, and to reveal themselves to each other. Jessica, almost against her own will, began to fall more and more in love with him." p. 29

The Christmas Angel

by Jane Maas