by Norah McClintock
Dooley’s life is lived in a fishbowl. Everyone — his uncle with whom he lives, his manager at the video store, the vice-principal at his school — is watching him, waiting for him to mess up again. Dooley has a past with alcohol, drugs, and something even more serious, but he’s done his [...]
Archives for March 2009
Dooley Takes the Fall
Library Loot: March 25-April 1, 2009
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Alessandra that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out [...]
Saving Francesca
by Melina Marchetta
Francesca is not exactly happy. Her mother, Mia, otherwise know as the “Queen of Limitation Placers,” has forced her to go to St. Sebastian’s, a former all-boys school with a total of only 30 girls, instead of Pius where all her friends went. Now she’s practically friendless, hanging out with a ragtag group [...]
Highway to Hell: (Maggie Quinn: Girl vs. Evil)
by Rosemary Clement-Moore
Maggie Quinn and her psychic ability are on the road. Maggie and her bff Lisa are off to South Padre Island to get material for her World’s Least Likely Spring Breaker article. Unfortunately, like many things Maggie does, her trip doesn’t exactly go as planned. Before they make it to South Padre, Maggie [...]
Library Loot: March 18-24, 2009
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Alessandra that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out [...]
Silent on the Moor
by Deanna Raybourn
If you have not yet read Silent in the Grave and Silent in the Sanctuary you might want to skip this review until you do.
Lady Julia is at it again. This time she is accompanying her sister Portia uninvited on a visit to Grimsgrave, the property that is now owned by Brisbane. When [...]
Death by Bikini
by Linda Gerber
Aphra and her father own an exclusive, secluded island resort. While Aphra loves the beauty of the island and the beaches, she misses civilization — friends, malls, fast food, movies, in general, being a teenager. She also misses her mom who did not move with Aphra and her father when they bought the [...]
Library Loot: March 11- 17, 2009
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Alessandra that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out [...]
Deadly Little Secret
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Camelia’s life is pretty ordinary until the day she almost dies. Walking across the school parking lot, she is barely missed by a careening, out-of-control car. The car only missed her because a young man saved her, pushed her out of the way in the nick of time then left before she [...]
It's the End of the World Challenge
My First Challenge! I’ve decided to join Becky of Becky’s Book Reviews’s “It’s the End of the World” challenge. The point, to read at least four apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic books by the beginning of October. This is not a genre that I particularly like but there are a lot of great teen books out there [...]
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