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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Fancy White Trash
by Marjetta Geerling
Abby Savage’s life seems like a soap opera. See if you can keep up with this: Abby’s mother is married to a man, dubbed Guitar Guy, half her age who is also the ex-boyfriend of both of Abby’s older sisters, Shelby and Kait. Not only has Guitar Guy dated both of Abby’s sisters, [...]
Something, Maybe
by Elizabeth Scott
Hannah’s parents are so outlandish and memorable Hannah spends most of her time trying to blend in and become invisible. Hannah’s mother is Candy Madison, of candymadison.net. Her two biggest claims to fame are 1. Once being one of Jackson James’ girlfriends and 2. Appearing almost nude holding a pizza box in a [...]
Dooley Takes the Fall
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 [...]
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 [...]
Perfect Chemistry
by Simone Elkeles
Meet two seemingly very different people: Brittany Ellis, co-head of the pom squad and fabulously wealthy, and Alejandro “Alex” Fuentes, resident bad boy gang member from the “wrong” side of town. When they are paired together as chemistry partners, it’s hate at first sight. They both believe they are too different to ever [...]
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