In Case You Missed It (1)

So a long time ago I posted about books that were older but that I still wanted. A few people commented saying they'd like another post like that, but I haven't done it since. But now I am! Whoo.

This feature will be tentatively titled In Case You Missed It, but if you have a better name, please tell me. xD

[descriptions from amazon]

Ten Cents a Dance by Christine Fletcher

With her mother ill, it’s up to fifteen-year-old Ruby Jacinski to support her family. But in the 1940s, the only opportunities open to a Polish-American girl from Chicago’s poor Yards is a job in one of the meat packing plants. Through a chance meeting with a local tough, Ruby lands a job as a taxi dancer and soon becomes an expert in the art of “fishing”: working her patrons for meals, cash, clothes, even jewelry. Drawn ever deeper into the world of dance halls, jazz, and the mob, Ruby gradually realizes that the only one who can save her is herself. A mesmerizing look into a little known world and era.

---I am a huge historical fiction fan, so why have I never read this? Everyone has been RAVING about it. I really need to pick it up.



Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles

Leah Greene is dead. For Laine, knowing what really happened and the awful feeling that she is, in some way, responsible set her on a journey of painful self-discovery. Yes, she wished for this. She hated Leah that much. Hated her for all the times in the closet, when Leah made her do those things. They were just practicing, Leah said. But why did Leah choose her? Was she special, or just easy to control? And why didn’t Laine make it stop sooner? In the aftermath of the tragedy, Laine is left to explore the devastating lessons Leah taught her, find some meaning in them, and decide whether she can forgive Leah and, ultimately, herself.

---I've never heard much about this one, but WOW it sounds good. wantwantwant. The best part? It will be out in paperback very soon- on August 11!

Viking Warrior by Judson Roberts

He's the son of a chieftain and a princess—yet Halfdan was born a slave.

Now he is becoming a man and it is time for him to meet his destiny.

Though raised a slave who could only dream of freedom, young Halfdan's fate may be about to change. If freed, he may train as a Viking warrior, and come to know the glories of true brotherhood and the horrors of unspeakable evil. In the world of Vikings, a warrior's destiny is forged in the heat of battle. If the fates decree it, Hafdan may emerge as a new hero . . . a new myth . . . and perhaps a new legend.

---Vikings? Vikings? VIKINGS? How are these books not insanely popular? Who doesn't want to read about VIKINGS?


Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley

Mina Hamilton's parents want her dead. (Or undead to be precise.) They're vampires, and like it or not, Mina must decide whether to become a vampire herself. But Mina's more interested in hanging out with best friend Serena and trying to catch the eye of the too-hot-for-high-school Nathan Able than in the vampire training classes she's being forced to take. How's a girl supposed to find the perfect prom date and pass third-year French when her mom and dad are breathing down her neck--literally?

---I'm so over vampires, but I've been wanting to read this one ever since it came out. It comes out in paperback soon (August 11) so maybe I will FINALLY get it.

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This feature will not be a regular one, so I dunno when the next will be posted.

Until next time!