Sixteen-year-old Susan Thomas finds herself starting high school in a totally new locale, having been relocated by her parents from India to Saudi Arabia to Canada. Her physician father has set up Susan and her mother in their new apartment… Read More ›
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The Dead Queens Club
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 ›
Unclaimed Baggage
Three teenagers end up working together at an Unclaimed Baggage store in small-town Huntsville, Alabama: (1) Doris, an experienced staffer who hires the other two as new employees, and who is something of a social misfit because she is liberal… Read More ›
Freak ‘n’ Gorgeous
Sixteen-year-old Konrad Wolnik is your normal-looking high school sophomore who has recently broken up with his hot girlfriend of seven months, Sara. He wakes up one morning the victim of an Inexplicable Development, a rare chromosomal event that transforms him… Read More ›
A Lite Too Bright
As the grandson (and third-generation namesake) of the author of A WORLD AWAY, a book supposedly so widely respected that it is read in high schools everywhere, Arthur Louis Pullman finds himself in an unhappy place. His girlfriend has given… Read More ›
Tyler Johnson Was Here
Marvin Johnson and his fraternal twin Tyler are about to graduate from Sojourner Truth High School in Sterling Point, Alabama. With a dad unjustly imprisoned for the past nine years (with ten more to go) and a mom working hard to barely… Read More ›
The Geography of Lost Things
Graduating senior Ali Collins has a full-ride scholarship to UC-Davis waiting for her acceptance letter to be sent, but, stuck at the bottom of her backpack, it is already past due. She can’t make herself mail it. Instead, she spends… Read More ›
Venators: Magic Unleashed
I’m going to preface this review with a complaint I have about YA fantasy fiction in general and about its authors specifically. Why do you have to announce a book as the “first of a series” before you even know… Read More ›
Dear Evan Hansen
Senior Evan Hansen is starting his last year at school with a broken arm gotten from falling a great distance out of a tree while working his summer job as an assistant park ranger. Not that anyone will notice, because… Read More ›
Words We Don’t Say
Joel Higgins is a high school junior who lost his best friend Andy to cancer. He struggles with loss but also guilt that he began to shirk off visiting Andy in his last days. While he is surrounded by parents… Read More ›
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