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In Search of Us by Ava Dellaira

This sweeping multi-generational love story introduces readers to mother-and-daughter pair Marilyn and Angie. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too.

When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder:

What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father.

7 Perfect Back-to-School Books

School’s great and so is required reading (seriously, sometimes there are GREAT books on those syllabi) but just in case you need some recommendations for your TBR stack, here’s a list of books we hope will inspire you as you get back to that daily grind of class, homework, tests, and more.

1. Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu Because every school needs more kick ass feminists.

2. In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody For the overachiever AND for those who wish they’d made a different choice.

3. The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo You’ll have to wait until September 26th for this one, but the magical tales in this book will A. Definitely help you escape from the world of homework and tests and B. 100% get you in the mood for Halloween.

4. Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary by Martha Brockenbrough It’s history AND it’s Hamilton! Very education, perfectly on theme.

5. Kissing Max Holden by Katy Upperman Romance isn’t just for the summertime, friends.

6. Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira It all started with a homework assignment...

7. Heartless by Marissa Meyer Okay, this one’s pure escapism. (But if anyone asks, it’s a prequel to Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland, which is totally academic.)

Happy first day of Spring, friend! We’re celebrating the occasion the same way we celebrate every occasion: By starting a new book!

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/14/new-ava-dellaira-book-17-years

Ava Dellaira, author of Love Letters to the Dead, announces her upcoming book 17 years, which follows a girl and her mother during their 17th year. Who else can’t wait to see what Ava has in store for this one?! 

Love Letter to the Dead Paperback Tour

Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira is a must read, and now it’s coming out in paperback. Don’t miss out! The screenplay is in the works. 

If you loved The Perks of Being a Wallflower this is your next favorite book! 

Tour Dates: 

Monday, September 28, 7 PM- A Great Good Place For Books (Oakland, CA)

Wednesday, September 30, 7 PM- Powell’s Cedar Ridge Crossing (Beaverton, OR)

Thursday, October 1, 6:30 PM- Pages (Manhattan Beach, CA)- with Stephen Chbosky and Liz Maccie

EBOOK Alert: Shadow And Bone and Love Letters To the Dead are both on sale for $2.99. Get them while you can! 

Love Letters to the Dead:

IT BEGINS AS AN ASSIGNMENT FOR ENGLISH CLASS: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more -- though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher.

She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her.

Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was -- lovely and amazing and deeply flawed -- can she begin to discover her own path.

Shadow & Bone: 

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha… and the secrets of her heart.

Today is the last day in the opening round of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2014! We've got seven books up for nomination and we would love your support!

KISS OF DECEPTION by Mary E. Pearson

CRESS by Marissa Meyer

THE WINNER'S CURSE by Marie Rutkoski

JULIA'S HOUSE FOR LOST CREATURES by Ben Hatke

THE SHADOW HERO by Gene Luen Yang

LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD by Ava Dellaira

THE TRUTH ABOUT ALICE by Jennifer Mathieu

LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD has been selected as a Goodreads Best Young Adult Novel! Vote now and enter our Goodreads giveaway!

Love Letters to the Dead on We Heart It.

We think books are better than dessert.

Our friends over at epic reads​ created this nice little flow chart of books to read if you like IF I STAY! Check out some of the MacTeenBooks titles on there!  http://www.epicreads.com/blog/25-ya-books-for-fans-of-if-i-stay/

We are hosting a giveaway on our MacKids Twitter so go there and you could win these books!! Ends this Thursday!

Love Letters to the Dead author Ava Dellaira

LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD by Ava Dellaira