BLOG TOUR: When We Had Summer by Jennifer Castle

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the WHEN WE HAD SUMMER by Jennifer Castle Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: WHEN WE HAD SUMMER

Author: Jennifer Castle

Pub. Date: April 25, 2023

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 336

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/WHEN-WE-HAD-SUMMER

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants meets 13 Little Blue Envelopes in this new young adult novel about a tight-knit, daring, and eclectic group of friends who dedicate every summer to completing their #SummerSistersBucketList together – that is until one of their own passes away.

Best friends Carly, Daniella, Lainie, and Penny – aka the self-proclaimed #SummerSisters – have been coming to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Park Heights ever since they could remember. And every year, the girls make a bucket list and dedicate their entire summer to completing every item on it, documenting their wacky escapades on FotoSlam for everyone to see. It’s their tradition, and as long as the Summer Sisters had each other, the rocky jetty on the shore, and their bucket list, that would never change. Right?

But then, tragedy strikes after Carly – the mastermind behind the bucket list– unexpectedly passes away. As the remaining Summer Sisters try to wrap their heads around their best friend’s death, life seems determined to throw more curveballs at the girls, threatening to split the Summer Sisters up for good. Daniella is accepted to a prestigious music academy in New York City, Lainie finds out her family is moving to Florida and leaving Ocean Park Heights for good, and Penny struggles to find her footing as she feels ready to leave childhood behind more quickly than either of her friends. What will hold them together with Carly gone and the Summer Sisters seemingly over?

Then, Daniella finds Carly’s final bucket list. And just like that, the Summer Sisters are back! But of course, things don’t always go as planned, and the girls try their hardest to navigate grief, loss, and coming-of-age woes while keeping the Summer Sisters – and Carly’s memory – alive.

 

Review: coming soon

 

About Jennifer Castle:

Jennifer Castle is the author of twelve books for children and teens, including the novels for BLAIRE WILSON, American Girl's Girl of the Year 2019. Her YA novels published by HarperCollins include THE BEGINNING OF AFTER, which was an American Library Association Best Fiction for Young Adults selection, YOU LOOK DIFFERENT IN REAL LIFE, WHAT HAPPENS NOW, and TOGETHER AT MIDNIGHT. Her four-book middle grade fantasy series from Bloomsbury USA is BUTTERFLY WISHES. She’s also the co-author of two non-fiction books, FAMOUS FRIENDS: BEST BUDS, ROCKY RELATIONSHIPS, AND AWESOMELY ODD COUPLES FROM PAST TO PRESENT and FRIENDS AND FRENEMIES: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE AWKWARD. Jennifer lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband, two daughters, and two cats/writing assistants on the edge of deep woods that are most definitely filled with magic...she just hasn't found it yet. You can visit her online at www.jennifercastle.com.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a finished copy of WHEN WE HAD SUMMER, US Only.

Ends May 6th, midnight EST.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

4/1/2023

Reads by Radus

Excerpt/IG Post/TikTok Post

 Week Two:

4/2/2023	Review Thick And Thin	Review/IG Post
4/3/2023	Mallory Books	Review/IG Post
4/4/2023	Breysreviews	IG Review
4/5/2023	YA Books Central	Excerpt/IG Post
4/6/2023	Lifestyle of Me	Review
4/7/2023	@stargirls.magical.tale	IG Review
4/8/2023	@gsreadingspree	Review/IG Post

 Week Three:

4/9/2023	Tracey Reads and Rambles	Review/IG Post
4/10/2023	100 Pages A Day	Review
4/11/2023	Kayl's Krazy Obsession	Review
4/12/2023	@thrillersandhistoricalfiction	IG Review
4/13/2023	A Blue Box Full of Books	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic
4/14/2023	Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's	Review/IG Post
4/15/2023	Two Points of Interest	Review

 Week Four:

4/16/2023	Country Mamas With Kids	Review/IG Post
4/17/2023	NeverKnotReading	IG Post
4/18/2023	@inspired.j.reads	IG Review
4/19/2023	popthebutterfly	Review/IG Post
4/20/2023	Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers	Review/IG Post
4/21/2023	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post
4/22/2023	@bookishlifeofkels	IG Post

 Week Five:

4/23/2023	Brandi Danielle Davis	Review/IG Post
4/24/2023	Author Z. Knight’s Guild	Review/IG Post
4/25/2023	Mindyourshelf	IG Review
4/26/2023	@froggyreadteach	IG Review
4/27/2023	More Books Please blog	Review/IG Post
4/28/2023	@drew_ambitious_reading	Review/IG Post
4/29/2023	Midnightbooklover	IG Review

 Week Six:

4/30/2023

The Book View

Review/IG Post

BLOG TOUR: I Kick & I Fly by Ruchira Gupta

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the I KICK AND I FLY by Ruchira Gupta Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: I KICK AND I FLY

Author: Ruchira Gupta

Pub. Date: April 18, 2023

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 352

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/I-KICK-AND-I-FLY

"In I Kick and I Fly, Ruchira Gupta has given young readers an irresistible story, and also one that could save lives. This book is a gift." -- Gloria Steinem

A propulsive social justice adventure by renowned activist and award-winning documentarian Ruchira Gupta, I Kick and I Fly is an inspiring, hopeful story of triumph about a girl in Bihar, India, who escapes being sold into the sex trade when a local hostel owner helps her to understand the value of her body through kung fu.

On the outskirts of the Red Light District in Bihar, India, fourteen-year-old Heera is living on borrowed time until her father sells her into the sex trade to help feed their family and repay his loans. It is, as she's been told, the fate of the women in her community to end up here. But watching her cousin, Mira Di, live this life day in and day out is hard enough. To live it feels like the worst fate imaginable. And after a run-in with a bully leads to her expulsion from school, it feels closer than ever.

But when a local hostel owner shows up at Heera's home with the money to repay her family's debt, Heera begins to learn that fate can change. Destiny can be disrupted. Heroics can be contagious.

It's at the local hostel for at risk girls that Heera is given a transformative opportunity: learning kung fu with the other girls. Through the practice of martial arts, she starts to understand that her body isn't a an object to be commodified and preyed upon, but a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her. And when Heera discovers the whereabouts of her missing friend, Rosy, through a kung fu pen pal in the US, she makes the decision to embark on a daring rescue mission to New York in an attempt to save her.

A triumphant, shocking account inspired by Ruchira Gupta's experience making the Emmy-award winning documentary, The Selling of Innocents, this is an unforgettable story of overcoming adversity by a life-long activist who has dedicated her life to creating a world where no child is bought or sold.

 

Review: coming soon

 

About Ruchira Gupta:

Ruchira Gupta has pioneered laws, policies, protocols, conventions and Best Practice approaches in the Feminist Abolitionist struggle against sex-trafficking in the UN, globally and India. Her work will be archived at Stanford Library and will be open access for students across the world to study. Her journey began as a journalist, when she made the Emmy-winning documentary, The Selling of Innocents. With the help of the documentary, she testified to the US Senate for the passage of the first Trafficking Victim Protection Act and to the UN for the passage of the UN Protocol to End Trafficking in Persons. She founded the Indian anti-sex trafficking organization, Apne Aap Women Worldwide, that supports thousands of prostituted and at risk girls in India. You can learn more about her organization here: apneaap.org

She is a visiting professor at New York University, and Distinguished Scholar at University of California, Berkley. She is the editor of a feminist journal for SAGE, Antyajaa: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change and two anthologies- River of Flesh & Other Stories and The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader. She has been presented the French Légion honneur, an Emmy, and the Clinton Global Citizen, UN NGO CSW Woman of Distinction award. She dreams of a world in which no human being is bought or sold.

Links- Instagram | All other social media- https://linktr.ee/ruchiraguptalinks

 

Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a finished copy of I KICK AND I FLY, US Only.

Ends May 6th, midnight EST.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

4/1/2023

#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog

Excerpt/IG Post

 Week Two:

4/2/2023	@gsreadingspree	Review/IG Post
4/3/2023	The Bibliophilic World	Review/IG Post
4/4/2023	@thrillersandhistoricalfiction	IG Review
4/5/2023	Lifestyle of Me	Review
4/6/2023	YA Books Central	Excerpt/IG Post
4/7/2023	Cara North	Review/IG Post
4/8/2023	Review Thick And Thin	Review/IG Post

 Week Three:

4/9/2023	Brandi Danielle Davis	IG Review/TikTok Post
4/10/2023	Country Mamas With Kids	Review/IG Post
4/11/2023	@evergirl200	IG Post
4/12/2023	Author Z. Knight’s Guild	Review/IG Post
4/13/2023	@carlysunshinebooks	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic
4/14/2023	Mythical Books	Excerpt/IG Post
4/15/2023	Jazzy Book Reviews	Excerpt/IG Post

 Week Four:

4/16/2023	Books and Kats	Excerpt
4/17/2023	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt/IG Post
4/18/2023	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
4/19/2023	Midnightbooklover	IG Review
4/20/2023	GryffindorBookishNerd	IG Review
4/21/2023	Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's	Review/IG Post
4/22/2023	The Momma Spot	Review

 Week Five:

4/23/2023	More Books Please blog	Review/IG Post
4/24/2023	@enjoyingbooksagain	IG Review
4/25/2023	A Blue Box Full of Books	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic
4/26/2023	Breysreviews	IG Review
4/27/2023	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post
4/28/2023	@froggyreadteach	IG Review
4/29/2023	Two Points of Interest	Review

 Week Six:

4/30/2023

Books with Brandie Shanae

YouTube Review/IG Post

BLOG TOUR: A Whole Song and Dance by Sarvenaz Tash

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the A WHOLE SONG AND DANCE by Sarvenaz Tash Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About The Book:

Title: A WHOLE SONG AND DANCE

Author: Sarvenaz Tash

Pub. Date: April 4, 2023

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 304

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/A-WHOLE-SONG-AND-DANCE

Sarah Dessen meets Abigail Hing Wen in this heartwarming romantic comedy starring Nasrin Mahdavi, an Iranian-American college freshman who's a triple threat on Broadway—but who's living a double life.

It’s her first semester majoring in musical theater at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, and Nasrin spends her days prepping for auditions, sweating through dance classes, and belting her heart out for the viral streaming show she’s been cast in. But on calls with her maman and baba, she’s the golden child who put her theater dreams aside to follow in their entrepreneurial footsteps as a business major. 

At least her whole life isn’t a lie—she is taking a single business course. Except she’s kind of failing it. Nasrin needs to bring her grade up fastif she’s going to keep her parents in the dark, so she grudgingly signs up for tutoring with the infuriatingly smug and annoyingly attractive Max. And yet . . . as the semester rushes by, the sparks of anger that first flew between them start to turn into a very different kind of spark. The kind she definitely does not have time for.

Except when Nasrin’s charmingly devious cousin takes an interest in Max too, Nasrin has to figure out exactly what has been an act, and what’s for real. Can Nasrin decide what—and who—is truly worth fighting for, and find a way to step into the spotlight as her full self?

 

Review: coming soon

 

About Sarvenaz Tash:

Sarvenaz Tash is the author of The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love (an Amazon Best Book of the Year, YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant YA Readers), A Whole Song and Dance, Virtually Yours, Three Day Summer, The Mapmaker and the Ghost and the co-author of Ghosting: A Love Story and Hollywood Ending (as Tash Skilton). She was born in Tehran, Iran and grew up on Long Island, NY. She received her BFA in Film and Television from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, which means she got to spend most of college running around and making movies (it was a lot of fun). She has dabbled in all sorts of writing including screenwriting, copywriting, and professional tweeting for the likes of Bravo and MTV. Sarvenaz currently lives in Brooklyn with her family.

Website | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Tumblr | Pinterest | Goodreads | Amazon | BookBub

 

Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a finished copy of A WHOLE SONG AND DANCE, US Only.

Ends May 6th, midnight EST.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

4/1/2023

The Bibliophilic World

Review/IG Post

 Week Two:

4/2/2023	I'm Into Books	Excerpt
4/3/2023	YA Books Central	Excerpt/IG Post
4/4/2023	Lifestyle of Me	Review
4/5/2023	Reads by Radus	Excerpt/IG Post/TikTok Post
4/6/2023	@stargirls.magical.tale	IG Review
4/7/2023	Review Thick And Thin	Review/IG Post
4/8/2023	Country Mamas With Kids	Review/IG Post

 Week Three:

4/9/2023	@bookishlifeofkels	IG Post
4/10/2023	Tracey Reads and Rambles	Review/IG Post
4/11/2023	A Blue Box Full of Books	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic
4/12/2023	Kim's Book Reviews and Writing Aha's	Review/IG Post
4/13/2023	A Backwards Story	Review/IG Post
4/14/2023	The Book View	Review/IG Post
4/15/2023	pluvioreads	Review/IG Post

 Week Four:

4/16/2023	Breysreviews	IG Review
4/17/2023	popthebutterfly	Review/IG Post
4/18/2023	More Books Please blog	Review/IG Post
4/19/2023	zaineylaney	TikTok Review/IG Post
4/20/2023	Two Points of Interest	Review
4/21/2023	Brandi Danielle Davis	Review/IG Post
4/22/2023	@froggyreadteach	IG Review

 Week Five:

4/23/2023	@carlysunshinebooks	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic
4/24/2023	@lexijava	Review/IG Post
4/25/2023	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post
4/26/2023	@travelersguidetobooks	IG Review
4/27/2023	Author Z. Knight’s Guild	Review/IG Post
4/28/2023	Midnightbooklover	IG Review
4/29/2023	@My.Bookish.Mind	IG Review/TikTok Post

 Week Six:

4/30/2023

@drew_ambitious_reading

Review/IG Post