“After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.”

David Levithan’s New York Times bestselling novel, ‘every day’ is an excellent novel that causes you to question your existence in the world, question what makes you who you are and what you are going to do with what you have been dealt.

‘every day’ is considered to be under the young adult genre, but the contents will resonate with all readers no matter the age. The subtitle does not leave anything out about what this novel is about stating: “Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.” This sets the story up for the amazing turn of events this plot encompasses.

Levithan’s story takes the reader not just through a love story, but a story of love of life, adventure, and most importantly, a love for who you are. The story is told from A’s point of view, who wakes up each day in a different body with a different outlook on life. The constant change of events allows the book to conquer various topics that brings up at least one situation anyone can relate to. These topics include death, love, suicide, identity, uncertainty, and just finding the best way to survive.

A is able to deal with and actually enjoy the life he is living until he met the girl that gave him a reason to break every one of his rules. Since he was unable to prevent the change from happening every night at midnight, he tries his hardest to make the love for the girl work. At one point in the latter part of the novel, Levithan’s A explains his actions as this, “This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”  He makes the choice to continue allowing the love to unfold.

Levithan’s story on love is written so brilliantly that the reader is hooked from the start with not a dull moment throughout the entire story. The voice he creates for the novel encompasses a way for the reader to fully understand that although you do not feel at ease with who you are, over time you will be able to see the real you.

With such a unique imagination, Levithan is able to yet again draw in an audience and leave them questioning the life they live, even once they have finished his novel.

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Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, announced recently that it will publish a new four-book series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, whose Shiver trilogy has more than 1.7 million books in print and whose most recent novel The Scorpio Races was just named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association.

The Raven Boys (978-0-545-42492-9, $17.99 hardcover; 978-0-545-46979-1, $17.99 e-book; 978-0-545-46593-9, $39.99 audiobook; Ages 13 and up) will be published on September 18, 2012, to be followed by three additional novels in The Raven Cycle.

Scholastic holds world rights to the series, and The Raven Boys will launch simultaneously in English September 2012 in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

“When Entertainment Weekly called Maggie Stiefvater ‘one of the finest YA novelists writing today,’ it couldn’t have been more on the mark. Maggie has an extraordinary ability to balance epic storytelling and deeply personal truths, exploring both the mythology that surrounds us and the myths we tell about ourselves. The Raven Boys is a remarkable next step in an already remarkable career,” says David Levithan, Publisher and Editorial Director, Scholastic Press.

Author Maggie Stiefvater says, “I grew up on a diet of exceptional fantasy series for children—The Dark Is Rising, The Black Cauldron, A Wrinkle in Time, The Chronicles of Narnia — and I’ve always wanted to write one of those sprawling epic sagas built from intimate moments. I sat on a draft of The Raven Boysfor a decade, but it wasn’t until I had the tools I learned from writing the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races that I knew how to do it.”

Filled with mystery, romance, and the supernatural, The Raven Boys introduces readers to Richard “Dick” Campbell Gansey, III and Blue Sargent. Gansey has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on the hunt to find Glendower, a vanished Welsh king.

Legend has it that the first person to find him will be granted a wish—either by seeing him open his eyes, or by cutting out his heart. Blue Sargent, the daughter of the town psychic in Henrietta, Virginia, has been told for as long as she can remember that if she ever kisses her true love, he will die. But she is too practical to believe in things like true love.

Her policy is to stay away from the rich boys at the prestigious Aglionby Academy. The boys there—known as Raven Boys—can only mean trouble. When Gansey and his Raven Boy friends come into her life, Blue realizes how true this is. She never thought her fortune would be a problem. But now she’s not so sure.

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