This book is a collection of six short stories by science-fiction writer Veronica Roth that focuses on brief episodes in the lives of characters in different worlds and times. As I read them, I frankly saw them more or less… Read More ›
Katherine Tegen Books
Let’s Call It A Doomsday
Ellis is a 16.5-year-old growing up in a Mormon family in Berkeley CA. She has one younger sister and a regular home life, though as with all imperfect people everywhere her parents, especially her mother, have made some missteps with… 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 ›
Heretics Anonymous
Thanks to a dad who is rapidly climbing the corporate ladder, Michael Ausman has moved four times in ten years. Once again he is starting over at a new school in a new town, this time at a private Catholic… Read More ›
The Memory Trees
A 16-year-old girl has been living with her dad and step-mom in Florida for 8 years, since the tragic death of an older sister in Vermont. Her birth mom in Vermont had a mental breakdown and was judged unsuitable to… Read More ›
Before Now
Atty is the daughter of a Haitian immigrant-turned-policeman and Native American woman who is a nurse or some kind of caregiver. They both work long hours, and she’s left to herself a lot. She is a smart girl and a… Read More ›
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