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Tag Archives: Covers
Review: Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano
Lotería by Mario Alberto Zambrano. Harper, 2013. Currently Available Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction Face Value: You can’t get the full effect from just the image here, but this is one of the most beautifully designed books I have ever seen. … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Young Adult
Tagged Child Abuse, Covers, Domestic Violence, Family, Houston, Loteria, Mexico
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Review: Past Perfect by Leila Sales
Past Perfect by Leila Sales Simon Pulse, 2011 (Currently Available) Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction Face Value: Ok, no. This is not acceptable. Publishers of Leila Sales’s books, we need to have a talk. This is great content you have going … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Young Adult
Tagged Covers, dating, Friendship, history, leila sales, Misleading book covers, relationships, Romance, Young Adult
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Guest Post: The Problem Is Not The Books
When we read Saundra Mitchell’s blog post “The Problem Is Not the Books,” we heard the beautiful sound of a slate shattering somewhere off in the distance. Saundra has graciously allowed us to re-post this piece from her blog. And … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged "boy books", Covers, Feminism, New York Times, Saundra Mitchell, ya
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Use Your Gray Matter: Covering Cover Art
This is a topic that has certainly been, ahem, covered, in a lot of places already. But since we’ve been referencing our feelings about book covers, at least briefly in all of our reviews, I wanted to start the conversation … Continue reading
Posted in Use Your Gray Matter
Tagged Body Image, Covers, Headless Girls, Marketing, Pink, Young Adult
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