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Articles by Katrina Leno
Persephone's Curse Book Review
age 13+ Imaginative NYC fantasy of sisters, magic, ghost romance. Parents need to know that Persephone's Curse by Katrina Leno is a tale of sister magic set in present-day New York City, featuring four sibs living in the brownstone their ancestors built—and the boy who's lived there since before they were born, who's also a ghost.
The Lost & Found Book Review
age 13+ Online friends hatch plan to meet in sweet but bland tale. Parents need to know that The Lost & Found is a combination online-relationship, road trip, and trauma-survivor story. There's a touch of magic to the story, as the two find more than they bargained for when they hit the road. Though the story deals with internet friendships, driving to meet strangers, and trauma survivors, the content is mild.
Summer of Salt Book Review
age 14+ Sweet but overly quirky mix of magic, mystery, heavy themes. Parents need to know that Summer of Salt is a coming-of-age story that blends magical realism, mystery, and romance. It's told from the perspective of 17-year-old Georgina, who struggles with living up to her family's magical legacy and the anxiety of leaving home -- not to mention dealing with the ups and downs of being one of the only out lesbians on the tiny island where she's lived her whole life.
5 Things Books and Umbrellas Have in Common
I’ve always loved books. And I’ve always loved umbrellas. So naturally, I wrote a book about umbrellas. During the writing and editing process, I looked up a lot of facts about umbrellas: I memorized the names of their different parts, I looked into the history of the materials used to produce them, and I tried to identify what it is I’ve always admired about them.
Five Summer Reads Perfect for Star Gazers
I’ve always been in love with stars. It’s why my young adult novel, Sometime in Summer, spends so much time looking up, and it’s why I find myself drawn to stories that do the same. Imagine exploring the cosmos from your couch, floating through asteroid fields while wearing your pajamas. Whether set on Earth or floating somewhere above it, based in our world or set in a fantasyland, the following books all left me feeling a little less alone in the vast expanse of space.
THE UMBRELLA MAKER'S SON
A boy finds himself in peril when he investigates the constant rain plaguing his city. The city of Roan endures rain daily: 47 types in all, from a gentle wib to a life-threatening blanderwheel. Eleven-year-old Oscar Buckle is an umbrella maker’s son, which should come in handy. But business isn’t exactly booming; people prefer the shoddy but inexpensive umbrellas manufactured by Brawn Industries over Bilius Buckle’s durable but pricey creations.
Five Summer Reads for Star Gazers
I’ve always been in love with stars. In fact, my first tattoo was a star (with an embarrassing placement I shall not share with you). I got it to remind myself that in moments of extreme anxiety or depression, my problems were but small things compared to those giant burning balls above me. It was supposed to both ground me and also elevate me, to remind me to look up every now and then, to take a moment and contemplate my place in a galaxy so much bigger than I could possibly imagine.
Books on Our Radar: We Made It All Up by Margot Harrison
Crushed on by Christy Jane, on July 6, 2022, in Books On Our Radar, New Releases / 0 Comments Books on Our Radar: We Made It All Up by Margot Harrison Secretive town. Memory loss. Popularity. Murder. Hi yes, sign me up! With a title like We Made It All Up, how could I not be interested?
Cover Crush: The Killing Code by Ellie Marney
I first heard of Australian author Ellie Marney with her Every Sherlockian series and came to love her through her historical crime thriller, . She’s back this year with another historical thriller, The Killing Code, a sapphic story set during WWII. Ellie has had some GIFTS for covers and The Killing Code is no exceptions.
4 Spooky YA Books to Read Under the Covers
The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn’t luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha.
Horrid by mynameistran on DeviantArt
I recently finished the book cover for Katrina Leno's "Horrid," which is set to release on September 2020 by Little, Brown and Company. It's a contemporary horror novel that explores the darker sides of mental illness, rage, and grief. The story follows Jane North-Robinson as she moves back to her mother's dilapidated, old childhood home in Maine. In hopes for a fresh start, what she ends up finding are hardship, family secrets, and a locked "storage room" not meant for storage at all.
YOU MUST NOT MISS
A depressed New England teen writes her perfect world into reality and uses it to exact revenge. Sixteen-year-old Margaret “Magpie” Lewis’ father left soon after she caught him having sex with her mother’s sister. Since then, Magpie’s older sister, Eryn, a college senior, has stopped communicating with her, and her mother’s drinking has gotten much worse. In addition, her ex–best friend, Allison, has shunned her and branded her as a slut after a horrid encounter with Allison’s boyfriend, Brandon.
Lee Littlewood: Reads With a Sprinkle of Sand and Underwater Magic
Here are some of the best new summer reads for middle-grade and teen readers: In The Turning, Aran is a selkie who lives on the open sea with his clan. He has never quite fully belonged, though, as he was born without a selkie skin and is stuck in human form. So he can’t move powerfully through the sea like the seals his family members transform into, and he may never get his pelt.
SUMMER OF SALT by Katrina Leno
On a small island called By-the-Sea, two young women discover their magical powers and resilience. Seventeen-year-old white girl Georgina Fernweh and her twin sister, Mary, have one more summer at home helping their widowed mother, Penelope, at their family’s inn before they leave for college. Every year, bird enthusiasts flock to By-the-Sea for the arrival of Annabella’s Woodpecker, dubbed the world’s rarest bird and discovered and named by a distant Fernweh foremother about 300 years ago.
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