What's your superpower?
and other book news
Today is National Superhero Day. It’s also about 47 other days including Biological Clock Day (not sure why they made that a day), Clean Comedy Day (I vote for that everyday), and National Cubicle Day (I don’t understand that one either). I have no idea how or why some of these things become national holidays. I mean I can understand one weird one because they decided everything had to have a day, but after that… it just makes no sense. But National Superhero day I can get behind. I’d love to have a ton of superpowers.
My big one right now is Time Stopper. I’ve got a yearbook deadline coming up and it’s not done. I’ve got AP tests for my students coming up and I don’t feel like I’ve reviewed enough material. I have two half finished books and not enough time to write them, and I’m still catching up on sleep from our trip to regionals so I’m behind on grading. So yeah, Time Stopper would be the superhero I’d like to be right now. What about you?
I don’t have much else going on in book news, but be sure to check out the books below. Maybe you’ll find something you love.
Lorana
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Madeline and Cooper have had bad blood since junior year. Ever since, it’s been one petty escalation after another—rumors, locker sabotage, and even a derogatory viral video. Their latest prank lands them in the principal’s office with their single parents in tow. The last thing either of them expected was for their parents to hit it off and end the meeting with a dinner date.
Horrified by the prospect of their parents falling in love, Madeline and Cooper reach a truce. They’ll reverse parent-trap the situation by pretending their feud is over and they’re in a relationship...
Dating has never exactly come easy for me.
I like soft things, quiet spaces, and routines that make sense. I do not like sand, aluminum foil, or people who snap their gum in public.
So when Dr. Thomas Culpepper, a ridiculously handsome doctor from New York, moves to my tiny Wisconsin town, romance is the last thing on my mind.
Then he walks into my studio for a simple professional headshot…
The goal was simple: win the game and don’t get attached—but Alaska had a way of complicating everything.
Helene sometimes feels invisible, but with her sister’s medical bills piling up, joining a reality survival show in the Alaskan wilderness seems like the only answer. If she wins the prize money, she can help her sister and finally prove to herself and everyone else that she has what it takes.
Theo has his own reasons for needing to win. The adventure store he’s dreamed about for years isn’t going to fund itself, and he can’t afford any distractions, especially from Helene…
He’s baseball’s biggest heartthrob, and she cleans toilets.
Drake Walker had it all – females, fame, and fortune, but none of it was real. The money could disappear, the attention could wane overnight, and all the women that surrounded him were only there for one thing – to be able to say they were dating an All-Star baseball player.
It was a pathetic, lonely life, and he was ready for a change.
Steffi was shocked to see her snooty neighbor barge into a public bathroom wearing a baseball jersey – of the team currently on the field. Now, with a plunger for a scepter, and a dustpan for a shield, the unexpected allies emerge victorious from Drake’s escape…