Blog Tour: Review: Rotten + Giveaway!

Hello and Welcome! Title: Rotten Series: Stand-Alone Genre: Young Adult-Contemporary Author: Michael Northrop Publisher: Scholastic Press Release Date: April 1, 2013 Book: ARC sent by author     A troubled teen. A rescued Rottweiler. An unlikely friendship. Jimmer “JD” Dobbs is back in town after spending the summer “upstate.” No one believes his story about visiting his aunt, and it’s pretty clear that he has something to hide. It’s also pretty clear that his mom made a new friend while he was away—a rescued Rottweiler that JD immediately renames Johnny Rotten (yes, after that guy in the Sex Pistols). Both tough but damaged, JD and Johnny slowly learn to trust each other, but their newfound bond is threatened...

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Blog Tour: Rotten + Giveaway

Hello and welcome! I’m happy to announce that I am hosting this blog tour!  Check out the dates: Week One: March 11: Books With Bite Tour Kickoff  March 12: (empty spot) March 13: Supernatural Snark March 14: Candace’s Book Blog March 15:  YA Romantics Week Two: March 18:  Books and Things  March 19: Good Choice Reading March 20:  A Book Lovers Review  March 21: GadetsNBooks  March 22: Book Loving Mom  Week Three: March 25: Cari’s Book Blog  March 26: Alli’s World  March 27:  Ren’s Rambles  March 28:  Fic Talk Blog  March 29: The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia  Week Four: April 1st (Release Day): Books With Bite  “A troubled teen. A rescued Rottweiler. An unlikely friendship.Jimmer “JD” Dobbs is back in town after spending the...

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Review: Gentlemen

Title: GentlemenSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult- Thriller/Mystery Author: Michael Northrop Publisher: Push Scholastic Release Date: April 15, 2009 Book: Bought “Micheal, Tommy, Mixer, and Bones aren’t just from the wrong side of the tracks–they’re from the wrong side of everything. Except for Mr. Haberman, their remedial English teacher, no one at their high school takes them seriously. Haberman calls them “gentlemen,” but everyone else ignores them–or, in Bones’s case, is dead afraid of them. When one of their close-knit group goes missing, the clues all seem to point in one direction: to Mr. Haberman”  Gentlemen is a book of wide proportions that you must open your mind in order to see outside the box. The...

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