With four Young Adult readers in our home, I was very excited to dig into Richelle Mead's new book series. After all, she is the author of the Vampire Diaries, a series that several of us in my home read and enjoyed. The problem with this … Continue Reading ››
I have found that nothing is more stressful to a college bound high schooler than taking the ACT. My oldest is a junior and has taken the ACT and taken practice ACT through her school and each time it's a lot of prep and stress. … Continue Reading ››
Grace may be crazy. She acts crazy. Others tell her she is crazy. She is starting to believe she is crazy. The question isn’t whether she is crazy or not but whether a reader will care enough to find out.
All Fall Down
Embassy Row 1
By Ally Carter
Scholastic … Continue Reading ››
Carina’s uncle just died of an “accident.” That wouldn’t be very suspicious except for the fact that her mother also died of an accident and they both worked for the same shadowy secret project. Lot’s of smoke, but is there fire?
Infected
By Sophie Littlefield
Delacorte Books for Young … Continue Reading ››
This is a story of an underage high schooler who learns to speak again after a terrible tragedy through intense physical contact. Read: sexual acts.
Louder than Words
by Laurie Plissner
Merit Press
December 2012
The young lady loses her whole family in a car accident, loses her … Continue Reading ››
Popularity is conditional. We’ve all seen them fall. Miranda Prospero, is one of those fallen.
Tempestuous
A Twisted Lit Novel
By Kim Askew and Amy Helmes
Merit Press
January 2013
After her social life’s tragic demise, former “IT” girl Miranda is left working the “Hot Dog Cabob” with her new … Continue Reading ››
Skye Kingston, a shy girl who hides behind her camera more often than not, is a typical teen novel protagonist. She’s gorgeous, but doesn’t know it. She’s terrified by the high school “royalty”, and even has the common crush on the hot, jock, Craig. Everything … Continue Reading ››
This is a story about a young sixteen-year-old girl named Kate Carter whom spends most of her free time sketching those around her. When asked to sketch someone in her art class by having a description read to her, she unknowingly sketches a wanted murderer … Continue Reading ››
The book, Waterfall by Lisa Bergren, is a salient story about the Bettarini sisters.
Waterfall
River of Time Series
by Lisa Bergren
David C. Cook
February 2011
Gabriella and Evangelia Bettarini have been spending their summers Italy following their Etrusian Archelogist parents for years. After the girls’ … Continue Reading ››
Who would have thought trying to kill someone would end a friendship.
Poison
by Bridget Zinn
Hyperion
March 2013
Through many twists and turns, Kyra, a potions master, is on the run from her former fiancé and palace guards because she attempted to assassinate her former best … Continue Reading ››
With four Young Adult readers in our home, I was very excited to dig into Richelle Mead's new book series. After all, she is the author of the Vampire Diaries, a series that several of us in my home read and enjoyed. The problem with this … Continue Reading ›› 
