Twins Sam and Ilsa are graduating seniors throwing one of their last dinner parties at their grandmother Czarina’s swanky (but rent-controlled) apartment at the Stanwyck in Manhattan while she and their parents are out of town. The tradition for the… Read More ›
Controversial YA Topics
the girl in between
Not sure why this is a YA book because the girl from whose view the story is told seems younger. Anyway. The girl and her mother are living with the grandmother when a fight erupts between the two older women,… Read More ›
The Window
When the body of Jess’s twin sister, Anna, is found one morning on the lawn underneath her bedroom window, the family is shocked to realize she had been laying there unseen throughout the night. A member of her high school… Read More ›
Water in May
The author is a former pediatric cardiologist in New York City whose personal background and medical practice have shaped this, her first book. Mari is a 15-year-old Dominican-American living in New York City who was abandoned by her mother, has… Read More ›
Keeping the Beat
Five London teenage girls form a band, win the UK section of an international reality show competition, and fly off to California to prepare for the next round. While there, they fall prey to all the temptations you can expect… Read More ›
The List
This is another dystopian novel. Ice caps have melted and a community of survivors is existing (albeit not thriving) under the control of a strongman. Language is being ever more tightly circumscribed and The List refers to the only words… Read More ›
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