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Evil?, by Timothy Carter Flux – August 1, 2009 – Hardcover – 264 pages Source: My personal collection Stuart and his family have moved to a small town after the shooting death of his father. His mother thinks that she will be able to keep her family safe from violence in the sheltered, religious town. [...]
LOST vs. ROWAN THE STRANGE The Nerds Heart YA Tournament seeks to find and recognize the finest in Young Adult Literature in underrepresented categories. All books selected to compete in this tournament fit into at least one and sometimes more of the following: Person(s) of Color (POC), GLBT, Disability/Mental Illness, Religious Lifestyle, Lower Socioeconomic Status. To follow the tournament [...]
Rowan the Strange, by Julie Hearn Oxford University Press – April 2010– Hardcover – 352 pages Source: Purchased for my personal collection Rowan the Strange is set in 1939, just on the eve of England entering the fighting in World War II. Everyday brings fear of bombs and warfare and all live on the edge- [...]
Lost, by Jacqueline Davies Marshall Cavendish Corp – April 1, 2009 – Hardcover – 242 pages Source: Purchased for my personal collection Sixteen-year-old Essie Rosenfeld has had a hard life growing up on New York’s Lower East Side in the early 1900′s. Her father dies when she is just ten, and her mother never really [...]
Albert Kim starts the summer after his sophomore year of high school as someone who has given up on having any kind of social life for the rest of high school. Bad experiences in the past and moving to a new town when he had finally established himself in the social hierarchy of the old [...]
vs. Aren’t you excited? Today I am about to advance a book to the final round of the Nerds Heart YA Tournament. I’m a little bit surprised with the outcome. I read the first book and had only just started the second, and I clearly thought that book number two might be the winner. I [...]
My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins and Fenway Park, by Steve Kluger is Recommended. In the 11th grade, friends TC, Augie and Alejandra are in Ms. LaFontaine’s English class when they are assigned to do a project detailing their “Most Excellent Year”. Each one of them decides on the 9th grade [...]
I just finished reading The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. I polished it off in one sitting, and it was excellent, but it’s not a little book by any means. This book is all over the place as are many others, so what about all the great lesser known YA reads? Renay, from YA Fabulous [...]
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