Filled with heart and hope, Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley is an exquisite story about mental health, love and friendship, and the things that keep us connected. Sixteen-year-old Solomon is agoraphobic. He hasn’t left the house in three years, which is fine by him. Ambitious Lisa desperately wants to get into the second-best... Continue Reading →
A carefully crafted and beautifully written debut novel, The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood is a magical, mathematical equation for love and life. This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like... Continue Reading →
The perfect book to kick off the summer reading season, The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson is filled with emotional depth and heart, as well as humor, romance, and endearing characters. Andie had it all planned out. When you are a politician’s daughter who’s pretty much raised yourself, you learn everything can be planned or... Continue Reading →
Your favorite DC super heroes (and villains) pack the halls of a unique high school in Lisa Yee's Wonder Woman at Super Hero High, an imaginative new take on these beloved comic book characters. This groundbreaking new middle grade series follows DC Comics' most iconic female Super Heroes and Super-Villains . . . as high... Continue Reading →
A breathtaking and intoxicating conclusion to the saga of Sharzad and Khalid, The Rose & the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh is the stunning sequel to The Wrath & the Dawn that readers have been waiting for. I am surrounded on all sides by a desert. A guest, in a prison of sand and sun. My... Continue Reading →
The perfect book to get you ready for summer -- or for reading poolside/in a hammock/lounging on a picnic blanket/etc. -- arrives in the form of Two Summers by Aimee Friedman. With a Sliding Doors-esque premise, Two Summers follows the aptly named Summer through two possibilities for a summer that will change her life. ONE... Continue Reading →
Lush and poetic, A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry blends magic realism with an intense murder-mystery thriller in this hypnotic and beautifully written debut. Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl--Isabel, the one the señoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous plants... Continue Reading →
Today, we're continuing our week-long celebration of the release of Reckoning by Veronica Wolff, the final book in THE WATCHERS series. Be sure to keep reading after today's review for your chance to win one of Veronica's books! Veronica Wolff's addictive and seductive vampire saga comes to a thrilling conclusion with Reckoning, the long-anticipated fifth... Continue Reading →
Rich with atmosphere, Burning by Danielle Rollins is a creepy and page-turning thriller about inner darkness and the power of redemption. After three years in juvie, Angela Davis is just a few months shy of release, and she'll finally be free from the hole that is Brunesfield Correctional Facility. Then Jessica arrives. Only ten years... Continue Reading →
A story about love, hope, and courage set during one of history's darkest days, Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse is an intricate and exquisite exploration of what brings people together. The missing girl is Jewish. I need you to find her before the Nazis do. Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring... Continue Reading →
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