Annie Marck of Cleveland (Ohio) meets Henry of Lancaster (Indiana) at a summer Overachievers Camp. He nicknames her “Cleves” and they quickly bond as best friends. Their quirky friendship deepens during the second summer’s Overachievers Camp, after which Anne’s family… Read More ›
Month: February 2019
Orphan Monster Spy
Sarah is the teenage daughter of a beautiful German Jewess whose husband? boyfriend? made himself scarce years earlier. As their situation in Nazi Germany becomes ever more precarious, the mother dissolves into an alcoholic, depressed mess. She rallies finally for… Read More ›
The Similars
Emmeline Chance is so anxious about returning from California to Vermont to her highly prestigious and select private high school that she relies heavily on the “pharmas” her therapist has given her to dull her pain after the suicide of… Read More ›
Dry
This is the first book I have read, I believe, by the writing Shustermans. It is an excellent tale and apparently is already being made into a movie. Set in the present, the good folks of already water-starved California are… Read More ›
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