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
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 as [...]
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 before [...]
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 Peet Mellark. [...]
Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell
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 meth. [...]
Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins is published by Scholastic Press and is A Must Read.
Bad things have happened in the North America and the only thing left is the nation of Panem, the Capitol of 12 districts which they have subdued and now rule with an iron fist. Hunger and starvation are rampant and [...]
Sweethearts, by Sara Zarr
Sweethearts by Sara Zarr is published by Little, Brown Young Readers and is Highly Recommended.
Cameron Quick and Jennifer Harris are the best of friends. Understanding each other at the truest level and helping each other through difficult childhoods, neither needs anyone else until one day Cameron mysteriously disappears. Devastated, friendless and overweight, Jennifer does all [...]
Coming This Summer: Nerds Heart YA
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 [...]
May 2010
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