by Laura Resau
Every year Zeeta and her mother, Layla, move to a different country. Zeeta gets settled in, makes new friends, and Layla gets the itch. This year Layla has chosen Ecuador. Besides her one year itch, another of Layla’s other many flaws, according to Zeeta, is her taste in men. Layla goes for clowns, [...]
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Review: The Indigo Notebook
ROYAL Roundup: November
My Reviewers of Young Adult Literature (ROYAL) group met tonight to share the books we read and reviewed in the past two months. Being awesome, as usually, I did not yet read two of my assigned titles, Ash by Melinda Lo and Ghost Huntress: The Awakening by Marley Gibson. I’ll add those to the next [...]
Review: Tripping
by Heather Waldorf
Rainey is excited about her summer away on an educational tour of Western Canada called WESTEX. She and five other teens will hike, camp, and learn about survival and Canadian history for eight weeks. Rainy is looking to get away from her father and his new wife for awhile. Looking to leave the [...]
Nothing but Ghosts
by Beth Kephart
Ever since Katie’s mom died, she and her dad have been having a tough time handling their grief. Katie has pulled away from her best friends, choosing to shut them out because it is too hard to explain how she is feeling. Her father spends his time buried in work, refuses to sleep [...]
The Brothers Torres
by Coert Voorhees
Frankie looks up to his older brother Steve. Steve seems to have it all — he’s an excellent soccer player and is more than likely going to get a scholarship to college because of it, he’s smart, he’s cute, and he could get any girl he wants. Sure, Frankie and Steve’s parents seem [...]
Girlfriend Material
by Melissa Kantor
Katie’s parents have this cycle. They fight, usually over her dad’s inattentiveness and her mom’s need to be acknowledged, things become tense in the house for a couple of days, then her dad buys her mom flowers or jewelry and things go back to normal for awhile. Not this time. This time Katie’s [...]
Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen
Auden acts on impulse, maybe for the first time in her life, and decides to spend the summer with her father. She has missed him since her parents’ divorce and has visions of getting some serious quality time with him before she heads off to college in the fall. In reality, Auden ends [...]
Shine, Coconut Moon
by Neesha Meminger
The only family Samar, who goes by Sam or Sammy, has ever known is her mother. It’s Samar and her mother against the world and, for the most part, that’s been enough. Sure, Sammy sometimes gets jealous of her best friend Molly’s huge Irish family but they so often include her in their [...]
Radiant Darkness
by Emily Whitman
“Persephone. Daughter of Demeter, the harvest goddess. Kidnapped and forced to –”
Wrong! In every book of myths, the same; in every book, wrong!
…
Just once I’d like to set the record straight.
Persephone is trapped in paradise, closed off from the world by her overprotective mother Demeter. When a mysterious, dark, handsome man finds his [...]
The Secret Life of Prince Charming
by Deb Caletti
Quinn loves her dad. She knows he’s not perfect but he’s charismatic, outgoing, fun; it’s hard not to love him. One thing she can’t deny, he’s a womanizer. Quinn doesn’t even know all of the women he’s ever been with. She knows he broke her mother’s heart and left her family — mom, [...]
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