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Title: Keep Holding On Author: Susane Colasanti Pages: 202 Publisher: Viking Juvenile Expected Release Date: May 31, 2012 Buy: Amazon | Barns & Noble | Chapters Indigo | Book Depository  Summary: ( Goodreads ) Between Noelle’s difficult home life and the bullying she endures at school, all she wants is to get out of her small town. Noelle would give anything to be with Julian Porter. But staying with her emotionally distant boyfriend is safer. When things heat up between Noelle and Julian, she has to decide whether she can be her true self with him.                                  * Received for review from Penguin Canada Young Readers* Review:  In Susane Colasanti's new release Keep Holding on, she creates Noelle who has a difficult home life with her "mother" and she is being bullied at school c...

Title: Pandemonium (Delirium #2) Author: Lauren Oliver Pages: 375 Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: February 28, 2012 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Barns & Noble | Book Depository Source: Gifted/E-book Summary:  After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive "the cure"--an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love--but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love. Review:  In Lauren Oliver's sequel to Delirium, Pandemonium was full of surprises and the anticipation that it will want you to read the next one! I loved how the story went from Now and Then because we got to see Lena start to be stronger and why she went to New York. Alex is not in this book unfortunately. I am a huge team Alex! Through staying with the Wilds she dev...