In this book, two teenage girls were besties until about the age of eight, when they were caught “playing doctor” and banned from seeing each other. The REAL reason, however, that the families busted up their social contact is later… Read More ›
Month: June 2018
Aftermath
What becomes of the families of school shooters once judgments are passed and the perpetrators are either dead or convicted and imprisoned? What happens when innocent family members end up sharing blame for the event? Can families be faulted… Read More ›
Kill All Happies
New high school graduates Vic, Fletch, and Slick have been best friends since kindergarten and constitute a tight clique they call the Cuddle Huddle (though they are friends with others also and have divergent gifts and interests). They live in… Read More ›
Light Years
Teenage Luisa (aka Lu) is a talented, brilliant girl with a peculiar inherited faculty of experiencing smells and colors when she is feeling strong emotion. (She has other “gifts” which emerge in the course of the book.) She applies for… Read More ›
Love Double Dutch!
Brooklyn NY 7th-grader MaKayla is into Double Dutch, competition jump-roping with two ropes. Just when her team qualifies to go to the national competition, her parents’ marriage threatens to fall apart and she is sent with her younger brother to… Read More ›
Into the Hurricane
Eli is a young man whose troubled older sister Celeste committed suicide by throwing herself off a lighthouse. Eli was unable to stop her, and when he got to her broken body and found her still alive, instead of staying… Read More ›
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
This is an excellent book I would not hesitate to recommend to anyone or put on any library shelf. Lucy is a 12-year-old girl who is being raised by her single grandmother. Her mom died of cancer when Lucy was… Read More ›
The Last Thing You Said
In a Minnesota resort town two sets of brother-sister duos are lifelong, great friends. One of the girls dies suddenly from an undiagnosed heart ailment. Over the next year both sets of parents and the remaining three teenagers struggle to… Read More ›
My So-Called Bollywood Life
Winnie and Raj have been devoted to each other for three-and-a-half years, ever since starting high school together in Princeton, NJ. Because Winnie’s parents consulted a pandit who prophesied that she would find her soulmate before her eighteenth birthday and… Read More ›
Rosie Girl
(This review contains a critical spoiler.) Two high school senior girls are best friends. You might think from their physical closeness they are gay, but this is vague and turns out not to be the case. Rosie was close to… Read More ›
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