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 How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation Simone Elkeles |
 A Summer of Silk Moths Margaret Willey |
 Ballad Maggie Stiefvater |
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What's the best way for the Twilight vampires to drink blood? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
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New Moon, the second installment of the Twilight series, hits theaters today. It features a family of teenage vampires who drink animal blood and who look down on those vampires "weak" enough to prey on humans. The film raises several questions about the l
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Coming April 2010: CHOPPY SOCKY BLUES by Ed Briant. The creator of Publishers Weekly's comic strip "Tales from the Slushpile" pens his first YA novel. To 14-year-old Jason, his movie stuntman dad is nothing but a top-ranking creep for chucking his family two years ago and Jason gave up karate in order to distance himse...lf from him. But when he meets beautiful Tinga, who's testing for her blue belt in two weeks, he finds himself lying about testing as well, and trying to steal her from his best friend. Is he more like his dad than he thought?Read More
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Jason's dad is every kid's role model—a movie stuntman with a black belt and his own karate school. But to fourteen-year-old Jason, he's a top-ranking creep for chucking his family two years ago. ...
Flux Books Just a heads up that www.fluxnow.com will be down for maintenence for just a bit this evening starting at 6pm. Back in business by 8pm!
Flux Books Can't believe Thanksgiving is a week away! Has there been some kind of CRAZY TIME WARP?
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Love the smell of old books? Where do you think it comes from? Science does its best to explain: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/scienc
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Is the smell of old books musty, slightly acidic, even grassy quantifiable or useful?
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Check out this interview with Karen Kincy, author of next summer's OTHER, as she reveals a never-before-seen excerpt from the book and dishes on the hot new cover. http://liveandbreathesmexily.blogspot.co
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Let's welcome Karen Kincy as she talks about the new cover for Other, out in 2010. (Click on the picture of the cover for all its full glory. Check out that tiny werewolf in the corner!)What was your first ...
Flux Books SO PUNK ROCK was named one of Booklist's Top Ten Religion Books for Youth 2009! Gotta love a book who gets on Booklist's Top Ten Arts Books for Youth List 2009 as well as the religion books list. It would fit right in on a "Books that Rock" list and "Books that Reference Music Your Parents Won't Know List," too! :)
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Despite his dreams of hipster rock glory, Ari Abramson's band, the Tribe, is more white bread than indie-cred. Made up of four suburban teens from a wealthy Jewish school, their Mötley Crüe is about as hardcore as SAT prep and scripture studies.
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Last day to get in your entries in to our Mad Libs-inspired contest for Simone Elkeles' new book, HOW TO RUIN YOUR BOYFRIEND'S REPUTATION!! Times runs out at 2:30pm CT. Details here --> http://www.fluxnow.com/blog_entry.php?bl
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Calling all Simone Elkeles fans! You could win some very cool prizes by participating in our brilliant contest, entitled: "How to Ruin the Author's Favorite Scene!" Clever, yes?
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Flux Books Hahaha!!! For all those Twilight fans out there who can't wait for November 20th, here is something to keep you going. FIRELIGHT! Aired on 11/7/09 on SNL (NBC Universal)
Flux Books Pssst! Wanna see the cover for the eagerly anticipated fantasy novel OTHER (Summer 2010)? Tell us what you think! ---> http://www.karenkincy.com/?p=796
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I'm so excited that I can finally share my gorgeous cover for OTHER. Thanks so much to the wonderful art department at Flux!
Flux Books Sneak peek of Winter 2010: MY SO-CALLED DEATH by Stacey Jay. Freakishly alive without a pulse, Karen Vera learns that she's a genetically undead zombie. Bummer. But even the undead have to go to high school. Available March 2010!
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One second, sophomore Karen Vera's on top of the most fabulous cheer pyramid ever. The next, she's lying on the pavement with seriously unflattering cranial damage. Freakishly alive without a pulse, Karen learns that she's a genetically undead zombie.
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Don't forget! Win a free subscription to Teen Vogue, a Flux baseball tee, free books and more in our "How to Ruin the Author's Favorite Scene" contest going on now through November 16th. Details here: http://www.fluxnow.com/blog_entry.php?bl
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Calling all Simone Elkeles fans! You could win some very cool prizes by participating in our brilliant contest, entitled: "How to Ruin the Author's Favorite Scene!" Clever, yes?
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Good morning and Happy Hump Day! Here is one of the oddest stories ever. If this could happen, then the "Senior Prank" might go the way of the dodo. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/us/11f
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Parents of those jailed are questioning what seems to them like the criminalization of age-old adolescent pranks.
