Paperback Alert: How to Steal a Car

How to Steal a Car by Pete Hautman (author of Godless, National Book Award Winner) is now available in paperback! Haven't read any of his books yet but I was very much interested in his new book, The Big Crunch.

Paperback or Hardcover?

Hardcover

Paperback

Some girls act out by drinking or doing drugs. Some girls act out by sleeping with guys. Some girls act out by starving themselves or cutting themselves. Some girls act out by being a bitch to other girls.

Not Kelleigh.

Kelleigh steals cars.

In How to Steal a Car, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman takes teen readers on a thrilling, scary ride through one suburban girl's turbulent life - one car theft at a time.

Me? Hardcover–it's more interesting and different...i mean seriously? Toy cars! Definitely going to pick up one of Hautman's books. You can visit his website here at www.petehautman.com. His latest books are: The Big Crunch and Blank Confession.

Paperback Alert: The Other Side of Blue

Recently released in *paperback*, The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson has a nice cover...mostly because it doesn't have any faces or spoilers on it (in my humble opinion). I'm happy they kept the paperback the same too. Possibly make a good beach-side read for the summer?

Cyan was named after a shade of blue, her artist mother’s favorite color. The color of the sea. Since her father’s death last year, she’s felt just as mercurial and dark as her namesake, and the distance between Cyan and her mother has grown as wide as an ocean. Now they’re returning to the island of Curaçao in the Caribbean, where her father’s mysterious accident occurred, and joining them will be Kammi—who may soon become a stepsister. Haunted by the secrets of the past, Cyan will explore all the depths of her blueness this summer, discovering the light, the darkness, and the many shades in between that are within her—and within us all.

- The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson is currently on the my to-read list. You can visit Valerie's website here at www.valerieopatterson.com