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Book Review: Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Book Reviews, Confession of a Murder Suspect, James Patterson
|The Angel family is not your typical family. Not even your typical millionaire family. Michael and Maud Angel are the parents of four children. The oldest, a famous football player who can’t stand his mom and dad, two younger sons, one who can play the piano better than Mozart, and the other whose biggest hero […]
“Addie and I were born into the same body, our souls’ ghostly fingers entwined before we gasped our very first breath.” – Kat Zhang, What’s Left of Me In pregnancy there is a phenomenon known as vanishing twin syndrome; sometimes a pregnancy starts out with twins and one of the other twins simply seems to […]
Book Review: The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
Book Reviews, Dystopian, Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules, Vampires
|So I am starting a new list, 10 MORE books you should read if you are a Buffy fan. And the first book that goes on that list you ask? The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa. (You can read the original list of Buffy related reads here.) At this point, I am only interested in […]
Book Review: Origin by Jessica Khoury
Book Reviews, Immortality, Jessica Khoury, Origin, Science Fiction
|The jungle hides a girl who cannot die (front cover blurb) The Fountain of Youth. The Holy Grail. It seems like we are always on the quest for immortality. But what if scientists had found the answer in a simple flower found deep in the rainforest? In Origin by Jessica Khoury, they have – but […]
Book Review: Gravity by Melissa West
Book Reviews, Dystopian, Gravity, Melissa West, Science Fiction
|“President Cartier is the smallest of the five, so petite she looks almost like a child in an adult’s chair. Her brown hair curls in perfect waves, just like Lawrence’s. Her olive skin shows her age, creasing in fine lines across her face, the heaviest lines around her eyes. To her right sits Alaster Krane, the European president, known for […]
Book Review: The Curiositites: a collection of stories by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton and Brenna Yovanoff
Book Reviews, Brenna Yovanoff, Collection Development, Curiosities, Maggie Stiefvater, Magic, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Short Stories, Tessa Gratton, Zombies
|A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. A world where fires never go out (with references to ice cream.) Are you curious? The Curiosities began as a writing experiment between three friends, popular YA Lit […]
Book Review: Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl (reviewed by Christie G)
Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Redemption, Book Reviews, Fantasy, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
|“I had an open mind, at least by Gatlin’s standards. I mean, I’d heard all the theories. I had sat through more than my share of Sunday school classes. And after my mom’s accident, Marian told me about a Buddhism class she took at Duke taught by a guy named Buddha Bob, who said paradise was a teardrop inside a teardrop […]
Book Review: Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow
Book Reviews, Censorship, Cory Doctorow, Cybils, Internet, Pirate Cinema, Teen Issues
|I’d thought he was angry, and he was, a bit, but when I looked into those eyes, I saw that what I had mistaken for anger was really terror. He was even more scared that I was. Scared that without the net, his job was gone. Scared that without the net, Mum couldn’t sign on every […]
Book Review: Uncool, a Girl’s Guide to Misfitting In by Erin Elisabeth Conley
Adolescent Development, Book Reviews, Girl Power, Teen Issues, Teen Nonfiction, Uncool, Zest Books
|The Unrules: Be kind to your fellow misfits. Believe that black is a color suitable for any occasion, worthy of even being added to the rainbow. Think. Be. Think and be different. Throw caution to the wind. Take chances with fashion, hobbies, hopes, and dreams. Be OK with wearing things that your mother, grandmother, or […]
Book Review: Queer- The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke
Book Reviews, GLBTQ, Kathy Belge, Marke Bieschke, Teen Issues, Zest Books
|My Big Gay Revelation For me, the signs were probably there from the start. I was the kind of little kid who played dress-up in his mom’s clothes, ran around singing show tunes at the top of his voice, and pretend-flirted with other boys. (My parents even have pictures of me kissing one of my […]
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