Tour Schedule: The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

The Black Kids

by Christina Hammonds Reed

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young

Release Date: August 4, 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

Synopsis:

Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.

Los Angeles, 1992

Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer.

Everything changes one afternoon in April, when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death. Suddenly, Ashley’s not just one of the girls. She’s one of the black kids.

As violent protests engulf LA and the city burns, Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal. Even as her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. Even as the model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents have built starts to crumble. Even as her best friends help spread a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson.

With her world splintering around her, Ashley, along with the rest of LA, is left to question who is the us? And who is the them?

Christina Hammonds Reed holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. A native of the Los Angeles area, her work has previously appeared in the Santa Monica Review and One Teen Story. The Black Kids is her first novel.

July 29th

The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club - Welcome Post

L.M. Durand - Welcome Post

July 30th

Kait Plus Books - Guest Post

Ya It’s Lit - Review + Favourite Quotes
100 pages a day - Review

July 31st

Yours A-fiction-ately - Review + Favourite Quotes

deepireads - Review
Starlight Reads - Review + Mood Board 

August 1st

The Shelf Life Chronicles - Review

BookishEnds - Review + Playlist
Writingyouthereviewsyouneed - Review

August 2nd

Moonlight Rendezvous - Review + Favourite Quotes

literaryintersections - Review
A Bronx Latina Reads - Review

August 3rd

Books and Dice - Review + Favourite Quotes

Novelsnerd - Review
The YA Obsessed - Review

August 4th

White Rose Stories - Review + Favourite Quotes + Mood Board

Colby Wilkens - Review
Blossoms and Bullet Journal - Review and Mood Board

August 5th

Emelie's Books - Review + Favourite Quotes

Rampant_Reading - Review + watercolor costume design art
Pirouettes.And.Pages - Review + Mood Board

August 6th

Book-Keeping - Review

Lauren Marie’s Musings - Review + Favourite Quotes
Metaphors and Miscellaneous - Review + Favourite Quotes

August 7th

Books and Zebras - Review

Nay's Pink Bookshelf - Review + Dream Cast + Favourite Quotes
The Book View - Promo Post

August 8th

Library of a Book Witch - Review

Lisa Loves Literature - Review -
Chrisycat - Review + Favourites Quotes + Mood Board

August 9th

The Reading Corner for All - Review + Favourite Quotes

Stuck in the Stacks - Review

August 10th

Morgan Vega - Review + Favourite Quotes

Rajiv's Reviews - Review
Mabookyard - Review + Mood Board

August 11th

Reading Stewardess - Review + Playlist
Living My Best Book Life - Review

Evelynreads - Review

Bri's Book Nook - Review

August 12th

A Gingerly Review - Review

dinipandareads - Review + Favourite Quotes
Turnthe.paige394 - Review

August 13th

book_bound_ - Review + Favourite Quotes

fictionthoughts - Review
Trapped Inside Stories - Promo Post

August 14th

Books, Tea, Healthy Me - Review + Favourite Quotes

missmaddychats - Review
The.Magicalpages - Promo Post

August 15th

Confessions of a YA Reader - Review + Favourite Quotes

her book thoughts - Review
Feed Your Fiction Addiction - Review

August 16th

BiblioJoJo - Review

books_n_sunshine - Review + Mood Board
Lexisbookreview - Review

August 17th

Wishful Endings - Guest Post

The Reading Life - Review
Bumbleebeela - Review

August 18th

Yna the Mood Reader - Review + Favourite Quotes

onemused - Review
The Baroness of Books - Review + Favourite Quotes + Mood Board

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Tour Sign-Ups: The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

Hello FFBC team!!  We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for The Black Kids that is being released August 4th, 2020.

The tour will run from July 29th to August 18th and there will be available the following types of posts:

• Review (Limited spots)
• Interview (Limited spots)
• Guest Post (Limited spots)
• Favourite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
• Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
• Dream Cast (Blogger's Choice)
• Promotional Post

Remember that July 29th this reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick July 29th in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book through NetGalley. So make sure you are able to accept this format and/or have an NG account before signing up to this tour.

Physical copies of the book may be available for US bloggers willing to participate on our Bookstagram.

Please ensure you can accept both types of formats before signing up to this tour since we cannot ensure everyone will get a physical copy.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

The Black Kids

by Christina Hammonds Reed

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young

Release Date: August, 4th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Contemporary

Synopsis:

Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.

Los Angeles, 1992

Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer.

Everything changes one afternoon in April, when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death. Suddenly, Ashley’s not just one of the girls. She’s one of the black kids.

As violent protests engulf LA and the city burns, Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal. Even as her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. Even as the model black family façade her wealthy and prominent parents have built starts to crumble. Even as her best friends help spread a rumor that could completely derail the future of her classmate and fellow black kid, LaShawn Johnson.

With her world splintering around her, Ashley, along with the rest of LA, is left to question who is the us? And who is the them?

Christina Hammonds Reed holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. A native of the Los Angeles area, her work has previously appeared in the Santa Monica Review and One Teen Story. The Black Kids is her first novel.

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Tour Schedule: The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

The Nowhere Girls

by Amy Reed
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release Date: October 10th 2017

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Synopsis:

Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story.

Who are the Nowhere Girls?

They’re everygirl. But they start with just three:

Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.

Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.

Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android.

When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.

Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.

Amy Reed was born and raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constant moving taught her to be restless and being an only child made her imagination do funny things. After a brief stint at Reed College (no relation), she moved to San Francisco and spent the next several years serving coffee and getting into trouble. She eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted nothing to do with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. Her short work has been published in journals such as Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction. Amy currently lives in Oakland with her husband and two cats, and has accepted that Northern California has replaced the Pacific Northwest as her home. She is no longer restless. Find out more at amyreedfiction.com.

BEAUTIFUL is her first novel.

October 2nd

Pink Polka Dot Books - Welcome Post

October 3rd

Vicarious Bookworm - Review + Dream Cast + Favourite Quotes
YA Obsessed - Review
Confessions of a YA Reader - Promotional Post

October 4th

Literary Meanderings - Guest Post
everywhere and nowhere - Review
Maddie.TV - Review

October 5th

Reading Wonderland - Interview
Life of a Literary Nerd - Review + Favourite Quotes
Hauntedbybooks13 - Promotional Post

October 6th

Lisa Loves Literature - Review
Books, Boys, and Blogs! - Review + Playlist + Favourite Quotes
A Dream Within A Dream - Promotional Post

October 7th

Tara's Book Addiction - Review
Never Too Many To Read  - Review + Favourite Quotes
Little Library Muse - Promotional Post

October 8th

Postcards for Ariel - Interview
Serial Bibliophile - Review + Favourite Quotes
Here's to Happy Endings - Review

October 9th

BookCrushin - Guest Post
The Mind of a Book Dragon - Review + Playlist
Teatime and Books - Promotional Post

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• US Only
• No Giveaway Accounts Please!!

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Tour Sign-Up: The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

Hello FFBC Team! We are now announcing a new tour we're hosting for The Nowhere Girls, that is being released on October 10th, 2017.

The tour will run from October 2nd to October 9th and there will be available the following types of posts:

• Review (Limited Spots)
• Interview (Only 2 Spots Available)
• Guest Posts (Limited Spots)
• Favorite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
• Dream Cast (Blogger's Choice)
• Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
• Promotional Post

Remember that October 2nd is reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick October 2nd in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book via NetGalley/Edelweiss. So make sure you have an account on that website before signing up to this tour.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

The Nowhere Girls

by Amy Reed
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release Date: October 10th 2017

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Synopsis:

Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story.

Who are the Nowhere Girls?

They’re everygirl. But they start with just three:

Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.

Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.

Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android.

When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.

Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.

Amy Reed was born and raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constant moving taught her to be restless and being an only child made her imagination do funny things. After a brief stint at Reed College (no relation), she moved to San Francisco and spent the next several years serving coffee and getting into trouble. She eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted nothing to do with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. Her short work has been published in journals such as Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction. Amy currently lives in Oakland with her husband and two cats, and has accepted that Northern California has replaced the Pacific Northwest as her home. She is no longer restless. Find out more at amyreedfiction.com.

BEAUTIFUL is her first novel.

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Tour Schedule: Unforgivable (Invincible #2) by Amy Reed

Unforgivable (Invincible #2)
by Amy Reed
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release Date: May 3rd 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Synopsis:

In this raw, gut-wrenching, and beautifully written sequel to Invincible, Marcus continues Evie’s story of their intense romance, a la Gayle Forman’s Where She Went, after saving her life only to find his life—and their relationship—falling to pieces.

Marcus knows pain. The kind that swallows you like a black hole. His brother committed suicide, his mother left him, and his dad mostly ignores him. Relief only seems to come from drugs, alcohol, and secret acts of self-destruction.

Until he met Evie. Together, they lived in the moment. They fell in love—hard—creating their own beautiful world. But they each had their own secrets, their own pain, hovering like a thick fog, suffocating them in a world too small to share.

Unforgivable takes off where Invincible left us—with Evie drowning in San Francisco Bay. Marcus finds her just in time, but her survival is not the happy ending he was hoping for. Forbidden from seeing Evie by her parents and unable to reach her, Marcus learns of a pain that might break him completely. 

Marcus spirals into an even deeper darkness and is forced by new events to face the demons of his past. The pain of losing Evie becomes tangled with the loss of his mother and brother, and he must finally face the ghosts he has been trying so desperately to outrun or risk losing Evie forever.

Amy Reed was born and raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constant moving taught her to be restless and being an only child made her imagination do funny things. After a brief stint at Reed College (no relation), she moved to San Francisco and spent the next several years serving coffee and getting into trouble. She eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted nothing to do with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. Her short work has been published in journals such as Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction. Amy currently lives in Oakland with her husband and two cats, and has accepted that Northern California has replaced the Pacific Northwest as her home. She is no longer restless. Find out more at amyreedfiction.com.

A Reading Nurse & The Unofficial Addiction Book Fan Club - Welcome Post

The Cover Contessa - Promotional Post

Here's to Happy Endings - Review

Once Upon a Twilight - Promotional Post

Take Me Away To A Great Read - Review + Favorite Quotes

Country Book Bumpkin - Review

Beatrice Learns To Read - Review

Curling Up With A Good Book - Promotional Post

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