Title: CHAIN REACTION (Book 3 in the PERFECT CHEMISTRY series) Author: Simone Elekeles Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers Release Date: August 16, 20122 Number of Pages: 308 Source of Book: Bought the hardcover Like his brothers, Luis Fuentes is a risk taker; whether he’s scaling the Rocky Mountains or dreaming of a future as an astronaut, Luis is always… Read More
Archives for September 2012
EVE & ADAM by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate
Title: EVE & ADAM Author: Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate Publisher: Feiwel and Friends (a Macmillan imprint) Release Date: October 2, 2012 Number of Pages: 304 Source of Book: ARC from publisher at IRA Convention Sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker lives an affluent life in San Francisco with her mother, EmmaRose, a successful geneticist and owner of Spiker Biotech. Sure, Evening misses… Read More
The Sister Classroom Project
Have you heard me mention the Sister Classroom or seen me talking with Brian Wyzlic about it on twitter? Well, we launched a collaborative blog just for this project, and the first post explains how it came to fruition. You can check it out here. Not sure how often we’ll post, but when we plan something fun or our students… Read More
EVERY DAY by David Levithan
Title: EVERY DAY Author: David Levithan Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Release Date: August 28, 2012 Number of Pages: 336 Source of Book: ARC from NetGalley & publisher at ALA Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who… Read More
New Look for Heise Reads & Recommends!
With starting a new job this year and having a new attitude and outlook for my blog, I was ready for a redesign. As much as I loved the old look, I was ready for a more simple and sophisticated design. So, of course, I went back to Lori from Imagination Designs because I knew from the last time that… Read More
THE WAITING SKY by Lara Zielin
Title: THE WAITING SKY Author: Lara Zielin Publisher: Putnam Juvenile Release Date: August 2, 2012 Number of Pages: 224 Source of Book: My Awesome Sister Classroom teacher, Brian Wyzlic, bought the hardcover at her signing event in MI for me! One summer chasing tornadoes could finally change Jane’s life for the better. Seventeen-year-old Jane McAllister can’t quite admit her mother’s… Read More
Blog Tour: Author Interview with Malinda Lo-ADAPTATION
Malinda Lo author of ASH and HUNTRESS, has a new book, ADAPTATION, that came out yesterday, and today she’s stopping by on her blog tour to answer a few questions. Reese and David don’t remember what happened to them after a bird flew into their headlights on the Extraterrestrial Highway–not the resulting car accident and certainly not a bit of… Read More
MMGM: WONDER by R.J. Palacio
Title: WONDER Author: R.J. Palacio Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (a Random House imprint) Release Date: February 14, 2012 Number of Pages: 313 pages Source of Book: Bought a hardcover & got a signed copy from publisher at ALA I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse. August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a… Read More