Friday, August 12, 2011 “Hunger” (Gone, #2) by Michael Grant (The summary for this book is spoiler-y for the first book in the series, “Gone”. If you’d like to view it anyway and find out more information about the book, here’s the goodreads page for it. As usual with sequel reviews, though I try to […]
Saturday, May 21, 2011 “The Devil’s Arithmetic” by Jane Yolen “Hannah is tired of hearing about the Nazis during the Holocaust, but when she opens the door for Elijah at the Passover Seder, she is transported in time to 1940s Poland, where she is captured and put in a death camp. A girl named Rivka […]
Sunday, May 29, 2011 “Everfound” (Skinjackers, #3) by Neal Shusterman The description for this book, and the summary I tried to write are very spoiler-ish if you haven’t read Everlost or Everwild. For that reason, I decided not to include a description at all. If you miss it and aren’t worried about some spoilers, here’s […]
Monday, May 2, 2011 “Moonglass” by Jessi Kirby May 3rd, 2011 “I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now, I’ve thought maybe my mother drowned in both. Anna’s life is upended when her father accepts a job transfer the summer before her junior year. It’s bad enough that […]
Friday, May 6, 2011 “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck George and Lenny are not much alike. While George is quick and intelligent, Lenny is large, with the mind of a small child. Yet they travel together, working as laborers in California vegetable fields, George protecting Lenny, and Lenny following George like a faithful […]
Friday, April 29, 2011 “The Summer I Turned Pretty” by Jenny Han “Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most […]
Saturday, March 19, 2011 “The Truth about Forever” by Sarah Dessen “Macy’s summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening […]
Monday, March 21, 2011 “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” by John Boyne “If you start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. (The this isn’t a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. Fences like this exist […]
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 “The Dark and Hollow Places” by Carrie Ryan “There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister’s face when she and Elias left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the horde as they found their way to the […]
Saturday, March 12, 2011 “Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys Release: March 22nd “Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they’ve known. Separated from […]