Sam is experiencing a rough time in her life, a time that is causing her to question her faith. She’s the daughter of a pastor, her mother has recently entered rehab after a DUI and to complicate things, a girl from her church goes missing one Sunday. Sam begins to question everything she ever believed [...]
I’d seen this book in a lot of ads in School Library Journal and I wasn’t sure what it was about. I just know it seems to go out a lot from our teen area. As I do with a lot of books I don’t know a lot about, I decided to listen to it [...]
Published April 2009 by Scholastic Press. Review copy provided by publisher. I received this book from a friend who works at Scholastic. Then later set up a video conference between Sarah Darer Littman and my teen writing group at the library. I’d wanted to read it but wasn’t sure I was ready for a heavy [...]
Published September 2009 by Scholastic Press. Review copy provided by publisher. Kelleigh is not your typical car thief. For one, she’s a girl, and two, she’s a suburban teenager. When Kelleigh and her friend are sitting outside the mall, she notices a man drop his keys without noticing. She thinks of returning the man’s keys [...]
Auden goes to live with her father, his new wife Heidi and new baby Thisby for the summer. Being an insomniac after her parents divorce, she becomes friends with another insomniac, Eli. Her friendship with Eli is complicated like many teenage girl-boy friendships. Sort of by accident, Auden starts working her stepmother’s very pink boutique. [...]
