What's New? Stacking the Shelves

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For review:

Pink & Green is the New Black by Lisa Greenwald. 263 p. Amulet Books/ Abrams, October 7, 2014. 9781419712258.

Publisher synopsis: Lucy Desberg is in eighth grade, and she’s determined to make this year perfect. Over the course of the year, though, her talents for makeup and problem-solving will be put to the test.

On the outside, things couldn’t be better: her family’s spa is doing well, and she has a boyfriend, Yamir. But Yamir’s in high school now, and Lucy’s too embarrassed to admit that he hasn’t called her in weeks. To take her mind off him, she throws herself into planning the eighth-grade masquerade, using her makeup skills to rally her classmates. But as she soon learns, ignoring a problem does not make it go away. It’s destined to pop up at the worst possible time.

Lucy’s resourcefulness will be put to the test as she grows up and starts making decisions about the type of person—and girlfriend and friend and daughter and sister—that she wants to be.

I enjoyed My Life in Pink & Green and thought I read the second installment, My Summer of Pink & Green, but apparently I have not. Must remedy that before digging into this one. Love the cover!

West of the Moon by Margie Preus. 213 p. Amulet Books/ Abrams, April, 2014. 9781417708961. 

Publisher synopsis: In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America.

After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells and curses, and a possibly magic hairbrush, they set off for America. With a mysterious companion in tow and the malevolent “goatman” in pursuit, the girls head over the Norwegian mountains, through field and forest, and in and out of folktales and dreams as they steadily make their way east of the sun and west of the moon.

I thought that Preus' Newbery Honor winning Heart of a Samurai was brilliant. I also happen to enjoy retold myths so I am really looking forward to this one. 

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