She’s So Dead To Us, by Kieran Scott – Book Review
Ally Ryan’s life was turned upside down when her family had to flee Orchard Hill in disgrace after her father, a wealthy and successful hedge fund manager, lost most of the money of the town’s richest families in a financial scheme gone awry. Her father further devastates the family by abandoning them shortly after they [...]
The Karma Club, by Jessica Brody – Book Review
When an article Madison writes about how great her great her boyfriend is appears in a popular teen magazine she is convinced that she, her boyfriend and her two close friends will be catapulted into popularity. However, when the the word spreads it’s her boyfriend who is able to take advantage and he immediately trades [...]
An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott – Book Review
In An Old-Fashioned Girl, by Louisa May Alcott, Polly Milton visits her wealthy cousins in the city over the holidays and stays over the course of a few months. A country girl, her mother has raised her with many simple and wholesome virtues, preparing the girl to become a woman who cares about not only [...]
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before, by David Yoo
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 [...]
My Most Excellent Year, by Steve Kluger – Book Review
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 [...]
Wait For Me, by An Na
Wait For Me , by An Na is Recommended. Supposedly Mina has everything going for her. She is an honor student on the verge of attending her senior year of college after which she plans on attending to Harvard; but is she? These are the things that she allows her mother to believe the summer [...]
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins is A Must Read. Just a note: If you plan on reading The Hunger Games skip this review for now. As the second book in The Hunger Games Trilogy begins, Katniss Everdeen has settled into the victory village, now neighbors to the still perpetually drunken Haymitch and Hunger Games partner [...]
Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell – Book Review
Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell is Highly Recommended. Ree Dolly is just sixteen years old when her father leaves and doesn’t come back. The Dollys are a tough clan, living in the Ozarks for years- some take the straight life but mostly they run outside the law and are heavily into manufacturing and dealing crystal [...]
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