About Brain Camp

“A quick and quirky graphic novel…Two misfits, Jenna and Lucas, are sent to a summer-camp-of-last-resort by their respective, exasperated parents. Despite some hate-at-first-sight, the pair, in a predictable fashion, soon start up a friendship and eventually fall for one another. Unfortunately, something funny is going on at Camp Fielding: some kids disappear while others become [...]

Letter to Readers: Brain Camp

The idea for Brain Camp came from several places. We were both horribly scarred (okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration) by our experiences in sleep-away camp. Laurence went to “space camp,” the kind inspired by NASA and designed to turn kids into the next generation of astronauts (it actually had supernatural, horror-movie-type reenactments); and Susan went [...]

Julie Ann Peters Winners!

Congratulations to this week’s winners!

Katie Grace
Annie Shove
Kara Squire

BotH Partners with American Girl Dolls!

You heard that right.  American Girl Dolls has a phenomenal program they’re launching tomorrow (Tuesday, July 13th).  It’s called Shine On Now, and its goal is to “foster a spirit of goodwill and make the world a brighter place”.  Okay, so what does that mean?
We have until July 31st to do our part in helping [...]

About By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead

ENTER TO WIN 1 of 3 copies of By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead
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Daelyn Rice is broken beyond repair, and after a string of botched suicide attempts, she’s determined to get her death right.  She starts visiting a website for “completers”— www.through-the-light .com.
While she’s on the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, [...]

Q & A with Julie Ann Peters

Welcome Julie Ann Peters to Books on the House!
BotH:
Welcome to Books on the House, Julie.  I’m really interested in hearing about what inspires you to write for the YA audience, particularly on topics that are difficult to handle.
Julie:
I think the teen years are the time in life that appeal to me most on the continuum [...]

Listen Winners!

Congratulations to this week’s winners!
Annie McAvoy
estephanya de la fuente

About LISTEN

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Three lives intersect unexpectedly in this unique, compelling story. First there’s Will, an eighteen-year-old living alone since his mother died and his drug- and alcohol-addled brother went to jail. Then there’s Kurt, a troubled fourteen-year-old loner still reeling after the death of his mother’s abusive boyfriend and from his part in it. And [...]

Letter to Readers from Nancy Coffelt

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Dear Readers,
A few years ago a couple of news stories caught my attention. One was about a former newscaster, who along with a friend had taken a dog that was tied outside a Portland grocery store. They believed that leaving a dog alone was serious neglect. The tragedy of this act was that [...]

Winners of Ten Cents a Dance

Congratulations to the winners of Ten Cents a Dance!

Betty McBroom
Ellie Lewis
Darcie Kayes