In Fifties Chix: Travel to Tomorrow, five girls -- Beverly, Mary, Judy, Ann and Maxine -- are all different teenagers from the 1950's, and have nothing in common. But when they get paired up for a future project in class, they come together a little bit. One morning Beverly, Mary, Judy, Ann, and Maxine wake... Continue Reading →
Book review: The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
Synopsis: In 1897 England, sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne has no one…except the "thing" inside her. When a young lord tries to take advantage of Finley, she fights back. And wins. But no normal Victorian girl has a darker side that makes her capable of knocking out a full-grown man with one punch…. Only Griffin King sees... Continue Reading →
We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
For Belly, it wouldn't be summer without the Fisher boys and the beach house in Cousins. And it wouldn't be one of Jenny Han's Summer books without lots of drama and angst. Readers will find everything they loved about The Summer I Turned Pretty and It Isn't Summer Without You in the third and final... Continue Reading →
Book Review: We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
For Belly, it wouldn't be summer without the Fisher boys and the beach house in Cousins. And it wouldn't be one of Jenny Han's Summer books without lots of drama and angst. Readers will find everything they loved about The Summer I Turned Pretty and It Isn't Summer Without You in the third and final... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Take one part Lord of the Flies, add in a little bit of Drop Dead Gorgeous and Miss Congeniality, with a dash of sexy pirates, and you'll have a general idea of what to expect from Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. (That is to say, you should really just expect anything and everything -- this... Continue Reading →
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Take one part Lord of the Flies, add in a little bit of Drop Dead Gorgeous and Miss Congeniality, with a dash of sexy pirates, and you'll have a general idea of what to expect from Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. (That is to say, you should really just expect anything and everything -- this... Continue Reading →
Book review: Moonglass by Jessi Kirby
Synopsis: When Anna was little, she and her mother used to search for sea glass, but since they looked at night, they called it moonglass. Now, ten years after her mother's mysterious death, her father is working as head lifeguard on the same beach where her mother grew up and her parents first met and... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates by Eva Gray
In Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates by Eva Gray, 14-year-old Louisa wants to see nature. She wants her life to be simple, where water is clean, and plants grow green. And in the future world she lives in, disaster, wars, and destruction is all there is. But when she gets an amazing opportunity to go... Continue Reading →
Review: Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates by Eva Gray
In Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates by Eva Gray, 14-year-old Louisa wants to see nature. She wants her life to be simple, where water is clean, and plants grow green. And in the future world she lives in, disaster, wars, and destruction is all there is. But when she gets an amazing opportunity to go... Continue Reading →
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley: Steph’s review
 Synopsis: Just when seventeen-year-old Cullen Witter thinks he understands everything about his small and painfully dull Arkansas town, it all disappears. . . . In the summer before Cullen's senior year, a nominally-depressed birdwatcher named John Barling thinks he spots a species of woodpecker thought to be extinct since the 1940s in Lily, Arkansas.... Continue Reading →
