Book Review: Ask Me How I Got Here by Christine Heppermann
Publisher’s description How do you define yourself? By your friends? Your family? Your boyfriend? Your grades? Your trophies? Your choices? By a single choice? From the author of the acclaimed Poisoned...
View ArticleBook Review: Anything You Want by Geoff Herbach
Publisher’s description Taco’s mom always said, “Today is the best day of your life, and tomorrow will be even better.” That was hard to believe the day she died of cancer and when Taco’s dad had to...
View Article#MHYALit Book Review: 100 Days of Cake by Shari Goldhagen
Publisher’s description Get well soon isn’t going to cut it in this quirky and poignant debut novel about a girl, her depression, an aggressive amount of baked goods, and the struggle to simply stay...
View ArticleBook Review: True Letters from a Fiction Life by Kenneth Logan
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one...
View ArticleBook Review: Draw the Line by Laurent Linn
Publisher’s description After a hate crime occurs in his small Texas town, Adrian Piper must discover his own power, decide how to use it, and know where to draw the line in this stunning debut novel...
View Article#MHYALit Book Review: Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss
Publisher’s description In a single night—graduation night—Thomas has to decide: do what everyone has always expected of him, or forge an entirely new path? Bryan Bliss’s absorbing examination of one...
View ArticleBook Review: How It Ends by Catherine Lo
Publisher’s description There are two sides to every story. It’s friends-at-first-sight for Jessie and Annie, proving the old adage that opposites attract. Shy, anxious Jessie would give anything to...
View ArticleBook Review: Run by Kody Keplinger
Publisher’s description Bo Dickinson is a girl with a wild reputation, a deadbeat dad, and a mama who’s not exactly sober most of the time. Everyone in town knows the Dickinsons are a bad lot, but Bo...
View ArticleBook Review: P.S. I Like You by Kasie West
Publisher’s description Signed, sealed, delivered… While spacing out in Chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has...
View ArticleBook Review: Whatever.: Or How Junior Year Became Totally F$@cked by S.J. Goslee
Publisher’s description It’s like the apocalypse came, only instead of nuclear bombs and zombies, Mike gets school participation, gay thoughts, and mother-effin’ cheerleaders. Junior year is about to...
View ArticleBook Review: As I Descended by Robin Talley
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one...
View ArticleBook Review: A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody
Publisher’s description When I made the wish, I just wanted a do-over. Another chance to make things right. I never, in a million years, thought it might actually come true… Sixteen-year-old Ellison...
View ArticleBook Review: The Bad Decisions Playlist by Michael Rubens
Publisher’s description Sixteen-year-old Austin is always messing up and then joking his way out of tough spots. The sudden appearance of his allegedly dead father, who happens to be the...
View ArticleBook Review: It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehldt
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one...
View Article#MHYALit Book Review: Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Publisher’s description Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow...
View ArticleBook Review: Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
Publisher’s description Joanna meets the perfect girl for her and must decide whether to break a promise that could change everything for her and her family or lose out on love in this charming young...
View ArticleBook Review: Wired Man and Other Freaks of Nature by Sashi Kaufman
Publisher’s description Ben Wireman is partially deaf and completely insecure. The only two things that make him feel normal are being a soccer goalie and hanging out with his best friend, Tyler Nuson....
View ArticleBook Review: Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard
Publisher’s description All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she’s always been. So why does everyone have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she’s trying to be a boy—that...
View ArticleKicky’s Post It Note Reviews: THE FIXES, ENTER TITLE HERE, SEVEN DAYS OF YOU,...
It’s time once again for a new installment of Kicky’s Post It Note Reviews. The Teen reads a book from her TBR pile and leaves it on my desk with her Post It Note review. It’s a very sophisticated...
View ArticleBook Review: Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity by Kristin Elizabeth...
When I’m reviewing books for professional publications, I stay quiet about them on social media. I’m always really excited once a review comes out to be able to talk about the book, finally! Here’s one...
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