eBook Review: The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette (The Time-Traveling Fashionista #2) by Bianca Turetsky

          Title: The Time-Traveling Fashionista at the Palace of Marie Antoinette
          Author: Bianca Turetsky; Illustrator: Sandra Suy
          Publisher: Poppy
          Edition: II/eBook English Version
          Published: September 2012
          Page: 272
          ISBN: 978-0-316-20295-4
          Genre: Teenage Life, Young-Adult Fiction, Fashion

Synopsis: What if a beautiful dress could take you back in time? Louise Lambert's best friend's thirteenth birthday party is fast approaching, so of course the most important question on her mind is, "What am I going to wear?!" Slipping on an exquisite robin's egg blue gown during another visit to the mysterious Traveling Fashionista Vintage Sale, Louise finds herself back in time once again, swept up in the glory of palace life, fancy parties, and enormous hair as a member of the court of France's most infamous queen, Marie Antoinette. But between cute commoner boys and glamorous trips to Paris, life in the palace isn't all cake and couture. Can Louise keep her cool-and her head!-as races against the clock to get home?

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eBook Review: Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

         Title: Saving Francesca
         Author: Melina Marchetta
         Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
         Edition: II/eBook English Version
         Published: May 2006
         Page: 243
         ISBN: 9780375829833
         Genre: Teenage Life, Fiction, Family, Romance

Synopsis: Francesca is stuck at St. Sebastian's boys' school that pretends it's coed by giving the girls their own bathroom. Her only female companions are an ultra-feminist, a rumored slut, and an impossibly dorky accordion player. The boys are no better, from Thomas, who specializes in musical burping, to Will, the perpetually frowning, smug moron that Francesca can't seem to stop thinking about.
Then there's Francesca's mother, who always thinks she knows what's best for Francesca-until she is suddenly stricken with acute depression, leaving Francesca lost, alone, and without an inkling of who she really is. Simultaneously humorous, poignant, and impossible to put down, this is the story of a girl who must summon the strength to save her family, her social life, and-hardest of all-herself.

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Book Review: The Selection (The Selection #1) By Kiera Cass

Judul: The Selection
Pengarang: Kiera Cass
Penerjemah: Nina Setyowati
Penerbit: Bentang Belia
Edisi: II/ Bahasa Indonesia
Diterbitkan pada: Agustus 2012
Jumlah Halaman: 432
ISBN: 978-6-029-39743-7
Genre: Fiksi remaja, romansa, cinta

Sinopsis: Semua gadis di sini menginginkannya, kecuali aku. Semua gadis di sini ingin merebut hatinya, kecuali aku. Semua gadis di sini ingin berdiri di sana sebagai putri raja, kecuali aku. Yang kuinginkan hanyalah hidup bersama Aspen, pujaan hatiku, cinta pertamaku. Jika bukan demi keluargaku, aku tak mungkin mau melakukannya. Demi Tuhan, aku tidak mau ikut Seleksi konyol itu, memperebutkan seorang pangeran bodoh di dalam istana sana. Mereka menjanjikan berbagai hal yang menyilaukan bagi kami kasta bawah. Harta, tahta, dan kehidupan yang lebih dari layak. Tapi, apa mereka punya cinta? Apa pangeran Maxon nanti akan bersikap baik? Bagaimana dengan Aspen? Kenapa Aspen justru ikut memaksaku?

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eBook Review: Just One Day by Gayle Forman

         Title: Just One Day
         Author: Gayle Forman
         Publisher: Penguin Group
         Edition: I/eBook English Version
         Published: January 2013
         Page: 300
         ISBN: 978-1-101-59274-8
         Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Traveling

Synopsis:

When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.

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eBook Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Synopsis:

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Grave Digger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. 

So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up and closed down.

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eBook Review: Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

Synopsis: When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years for Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.

As food runs low and the days go from boiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable.

But the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors—one welcome, and the other decidedly less so—brings both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.

With Shannon Hale's lyrical language, this forgotten but classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm is reimagined and reset on the central Asian steppes; it is a completely unique retelling filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.

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