“Deep Winter: A Novel” Samuel W. Gailey
Rated 5 stars *****2014. Penguin Group. ebook. ARC. To be published February 20, 2014. When Danny was 5 years old, he fell through thin ice and was submerged for more than 10 minutes. His parents...
View Article“The Scar Boys” Len Vlahos
Rated 4 stars **** 2014. Egmont. ebook. ARC. Published January 21. Harbinger Robert Francis Jones was 8 years old when bullies tied him to a tree. The tree was struck by lightning and the resulting...
View Article“Dead Silence” Norah McClintock
Rated 4 stars **** Mike & Riel book #5. Published March 1, 2014. ARC Darby Creek Publishing. High school will never be the same. Those were Mike’s thoughts the day his best friend Sal was killed....
View Article“The Truth about Alice” Jennifer Mathieu
Rated 4 stars **** ebook. ARC. To be published June 3, 2014. Roaring Book Press. Alice’s junior year in high school went down the drain the day Brandon died. Handsome Brandon, the town’s hero...
View Article“Random” Tom Leveen
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. ebook. To be published August 12, 2014. Simon Pulse (Simon & Schuster). Tori’s life as she knew it is officially over. None of her friends want anything to do with her,...
View Article“Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass” Meg Medina
Rated 5 stars ***** 2014. Candlewick Press. 260 pp. This book won the 2014 “Pura Belpre” Author award and, once you read this powerful story, you will see why it was a wonderful choice. Don’t be turned...
View Article“Brutal Youth” Anthony Breznican
Rated 5 stars ***** ebook. 2014. Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin’s Press). Peter Davidek was an 8th grader visiting St. Michael’s high school when the unthinkable happened. A bullied student went crazy,...
View Article“This Song Will Save Your Life” Leila Sales
Rated 5 stars ***** 2013. Farrar Straus Giroux. 214 pp. (Includes “Recommended Listening” song list). Sixteen-year-old Elise Dembowski hates herself, and her life. After being ostracized by every...
View Article“Eleanor & Park” Rainbow Rowell
Rated 5 stars ***** 2013. St. Martin’s Griffin. 328 pp. It is 1986 and, in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Eleanor and Park tell their stories of love, desperation, fear, heartache and hope....
View ArticleIf I ever get out of here” Eric Gansworth
Rated 5 stars ***** 2013. Arthur A. Levine Books (Scholastic). 356 pp. (Includes “Playlist & Discography”.) It is 1975, and Lewis desperately wants to fit in with his 7th grade classmates. Tracked...
View Article“Can you see me now?” Estela Bernal
Rated 3 stars *** 2014. Piñata Books (Arte Público Press). 161 pp. Amanda’s life changed forever the day she turned thirteen. On that day, a drunk driver killed her father and her mother decided it was...
View Article“Since you’ve been gone” Mary Jennifer Payne
Rated 4 stars **** Ebook. ARC. Published February 17, 2015. Dundurn Group. Tenth grader Edie Fraser has always wanted a stable life. Ever since she was 10 years old, she and her mom have moved from...
View Article“All the Rage” Courtney Summers
Rated 5 stars ***** Ebook. ARC. St. Martin’s Griffin. Published April 14, 2015. No one believes Romy. How dare she accuse popular, well-liked, handsome Kellan of rape? Kellan’s father is the Sheriff...
View Article“House of Echoes” Brendan Duffy
Rated 5 stars ***** Ebook. ARC. Ballantine Books (Random House). Published April 14, 2015. Ben Tierney and his wife Caroline live with their baby boy and eight-year-old son Charlie in a Manhattan...
View Article“Luckiest girl alive” Jessica Knoll
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. EBook. Simon & Schuster. Published May 12, 2015. Ani FaNelli is a successful writer at the very prestigious The Women’s Magazine in New York City. She is engaged to be...
View Article“Finding Hope” Colleen Nelson
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. Ebook. To be published April 12, 2016. Dundurn. Fifteen-year-old Hope can’t express herself except through poems she scrawls on her body, the wall, scraps of paper or any handy...
View Article“Best friends through eternity” Sylvia McNicoll
Rated 3 stars *** 2015. Tundra Books. Hardcover. 182 pp. Paige is fourteen, adopted by Canadian parents shortly after she was abandoned at an orphanage in China. As a result she feels as if something...
View Article“What you left behind” Samantha Hayes
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. Ebook. DCI Lorraine Fisher #2. 2015. Crown (Random House.) Detective Inspector Lorraine Fisher planned to have a nice vacation with her sister Jo and nephew Freddie in her...
View Article“Sugar”Deirdre Riordan Hall
Rated 5 stars ***** ARC. Published June 1, 2015. Skyscape. As a little girl, Mercy’s mother caught her eating sugar out of a bag and nicknamed her “Sugar.” She and her brothers were encouraged to eat...
View Article“The boy who killed Grant Parker” Kat Spears
Rated 4 stars **** ARC. Published September 13, 2016. St. Martin’s Griffin. 305 pp. Luke Grayson hates the little town of Ashland, Tennessee where he had been sent to live by his mother after a series...
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