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Tour Schedule: The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

/ Jun 27, 2020

The Black Kids

by Christina Hammonds Reed

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young

Release Date: August 4, 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

Synopsis:

Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.

Los Angeles, 1992

Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer.

Everything changes one afternoon in April, when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death. Suddenly, Ashley’s not just one of the girls. She’s one of the black kids.

As violent protests engulf LA and the city burns, Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal. Even as her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. Even as the model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents have built starts to crumble. Even as her best friends help spread a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson.

With her world splintering around her, Ashley, along with the rest of LA, is left to question who is the us? And who is the them?

Christina Hammonds Reed holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. A native of the Los Angeles area, her work has previously appeared in the Santa Monica Review and One Teen Story. The Black Kids is her first novel.

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Kait Plus Books - Guest Post

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July 31st

Yours A-fiction-ately - Review + Favourite Quotes

deepireads - Review
Starlight Reads - Review + Mood Board

August 1st

The Shelf Life Chronicles - Review

BookishEnds - Review + Playlist
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August 2nd

Moonlight Rendezvous - Review + Favourite Quotes

literaryintersections - Review
A Bronx Latina Reads - Review

August 3rd

Books and Dice - Review + Favourite Quotes

Novelsnerd - Review
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August 4th

White Rose Stories - Review + Favourite Quotes + Mood Board

Colby Wilkens - Review
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August 5th

Emelie's Books - Review + Favourite Quotes

Rampant_Reading - Review + watercolor costume design art
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August 6th

Book-Keeping - Review

Lauren Marie’s Musings - Review + Favourite Quotes
Metaphors and Miscellaneous - Review + Favourite Quotes

August 7th

Books and Zebras - Review

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The Book View - Promo Post

August 8th

Library of a Book Witch - Review

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August 9th

The Reading Corner for All - Review + Favourite Quotes

Stuck in the Stacks - Review

August 10th

Morgan Vega - Review + Favourite Quotes

Rajiv's Reviews - Review
Mabookyard - Review + Mood Board

August 11th

Reading Stewardess - Review + Playlist
Living My Best Book Life - Review

Evelynreads - Review

Bri's Book Nook - Review

August 12th

A Gingerly Review - Review

dinipandareads - Review + Favourite Quotes
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August 13th

book_bound_ - Review + Favourite Quotes

fictionthoughts - Review
Trapped Inside Stories - Promo Post

August 14th

Books, Tea, Healthy Me - Review + Favourite Quotes

missmaddychats - Review
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August 15th

Confessions of a YA Reader - Review + Favourite Quotes

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August 16th

BiblioJoJo - Review

books_n_sunshine - Review + Mood Board
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August 17th

Wishful Endings - Guest Post

The Reading Life - Review
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August 18th

Yna the Mood Reader - Review + Favourite Quotes

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Tour Sign-Ups: Some Kind of Animal by Maria Romasco Moore

/ Jun 26, 2020

Hello FFBC team!! We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for Some Kind of Animal that is being released August 4th, 2020.

The tour will run from August 4th to August 10th and there will be available the following types of posts:

Review (Limited spots)
Interviews
Guest Posts
Favourite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
Dream Cast (Blogger's Choice)
Promotional Post

Remember that August 4th this reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick August 4th in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book through NetGalley. So make sure you are able to accept this format and/or have an NG account before signing up to this tour.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

Some Kind of Animal

by Maria Romasco Moore

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Release Date: August 4th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Thriller, Mystery

Synopsis:

A story about two girls guarding a secret no one would ever believe and the desperate lengths they will go to in order to protect each other from the outside world.

Jo lives in the same town where her mother disappeared fifteen years ago. Everyone knows what happened to Jo’s mom. Now people are starting to talk about Jo. She’s barely passing her classes and falls asleep at her desk every day. She’s following in her mom’s footsteps. Jo has a secret — she has a twin sister. Her sister is not like most people. She lives in the woods, wild and free. Night after night, as often as she can manage, Jo slips out of her bedroom window and meets her sister in the woods, where together they run, fearlessly.

When Jo’s twin attacks a boy from town, the people in town assume it must have been Jo. Now Jo has to decide whether to tell the world about her sister or to run. SOME KIND OF ANIMAL is an accessible, feminist thriller that digs into themes of sisterhood, family, and friendship.

Maria Romasco Moore is the author of Ghostographs, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. Her first novel, Some Kind of Animal, will be out in 2020. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Lightspeed, DIAGRAM, Hobart, Interfictions, Kaleidotrope, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and the anthology Women Destroy Science Fiction.

She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and has an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She teaches writing at Columbus College of Art and Design.

Tour Sign-Ups: Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar

/ Jun 25, 2020

Hello FFBC team!! We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for Star Daughter that is being released August 11th, 2020.

The reviews only tour will run from August 5th to August 11th and there will be available the following types of posts:

Review (Limited spots)
Favourite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
Dream Cast (Blogger's Choice)
Promotional Post

Remember that August 5th this reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick August 5th in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book through NetGalley. So make sure you are able to accept this format and/or have an NG account before signing up to this tour.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

Star Daughter

by Shveta Thakrar

Publisher: HarperTeen

Release Date: August 11th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Synopsis:

This gorgeously imagined YA debut blends shades of Neil Gaiman's Stardust and a breathtaking landscape of Hindu mythology into a radiant contemporary fantasy.

The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Pretending to be "normal." But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs a full star's help to heal him. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago.

Sheetal's quest to save her father will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her family's champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens--and win, or risk never returning to Earth at all.

Brimming with celestial intrigue, this sparkling YA debut is perfect for fans of Roshani Chokshi and Laini Taylor.

Shveta Thakrar is a part-time nagini and full-time believer in magic. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies including Enchanted Living, Uncanny Magazine, A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, and Toil & Trouble. Her debut young adult fantasy novel, Star Daughter, is forthcoming from HarperTeen on August 11, 2020. When not spinning stories about spider silk and shadows, magic and marauders, and courageous girls illuminated by dancing rainbow flames, Shveta crafts, devours books, daydreams, travels, bakes, and occasionally even plays her harp.

Tour Schedule: Splinters of Scarlet by Emily Bain Murphy

/ Jun 24, 2020

Splinters of Scarlet

by Emily Bain Murphy

Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers

Release Date: July 21st 2020

Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction

Synopsis:

Enchantée meets Downton Abbey in this atmospheric YA historical fantasy set in nineteenth-century Denmark, where secrets can kill and magic is a deadly gift.

For Marit Olsen, magic is all about strategy: it flows freely through her blood, but every use leaves behind a deadly, ice-like build-up within her veins called the Firn. Marit knows how dangerous it is to let too much Firn build up—after all, it killed her sister—and she has vowed never to use her thread magic. But when Eve, a fellow orphan whom Marit views like a little sister, is adopted by the wealthy Helene Vestergaard, Marit will do anything to stay by Eve’s side. She decides to risk the Firn and uses magic to secure a job as a seamstress in the Vestergaard household.

But Marit has a second, hidden agenda: her father died while working in the Vestergaards’ jewel mines—and it might not have been an accident. The closer Marit gets to the truth about the Vestergaard family, the more she realizes she and everyone she’s come to love are in danger. When she finds herself in the middle of a treacherous deception that goes all the way up to the king of Denmark, magic may be the only thing that can save her—if it doesn’t kill her first.

Emily Bain Murphy was born in Indiana and raised in Hong Kong and Japan. She graduated from Tufts University and has also called Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California home.

Murphy is the author of The Disappearances, which was a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, an ALAN Pick, and shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Book Prize. Splinters of Scarlet, Murphy’s second YA historical fantasy, will be published in 2020.

Murphy is represented by Peter Knapp at Park & Fine Literary and Media. She currently lives in the St. Louis area with her husband and two children. Follow her online on Twitter @EBain and on Instagram @emilybainmurphy.