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THE TESTING, The Sequel

The hottest spring teen dystopian title, one that our YA GalleyChat group has been buzzing about for months, The Testing (HMH) hit shelves on Tuesday, with this terrific tagline, “Its not enough to pass the test, you have to survive it.”

Days before, at Book Expo America, booksellers and librarians not only met the author in the HMH booth, but grabbed copies of the sequel, Independent Study, arriving in January.

UPDATE: Deadline announces that Paramount has bought the film rights

The trailer gives a good sense of the story:

This entry was posted on Friday, June 7th, 2013 at 7:33 am and is filed under 2014/15 -- Winter/Spring, Childrens and YA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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Book Trailer of the Week–The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau - Teen Blog Says:
June 15th, 2013 at 10:18 am
[…] week’s book trailer of the week is for The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau. Deadline just announced that Paramount has acquired the rights to turn The Testing into a movie. The book hit shelves at […]