Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants #5) by Ann Brashares The summer I graduated from graduate school I listened to all four of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books. When I had moved away from my friends Tibby, Lena, Bee and Carmen became my friends. To revisit them in this book was bittersweet. [...]
The DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) by Kody Keplinger Bianca is friends with Casey and Jessica. She considers them more beautiful, outgoing and less cynical than she herself is but they are all the best of friends. One evening while they are at a the high school nightclub, Wesley, the very attractive man-slut around school [...]
The Lost Children by Carolyn Cohagan I loved this book and have recommended to quite a few people. As I was reading this book, I kept trying to compare this book to other books but it’s really unique in it’s own way. Though there were parts that reminded me a bit of Roald Dahl’s James [...]
Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan Nastasya, known as “Nasty” to her friends, is greatly disturbed when one of her close friends nearly kills a cab driver on one of their nights out partying. She’s spent the last four hundred years being a party girl and not caring about anyone. Now she’s on the run from [...]
Word After Word After Word by Patricia MacLachlan Fourth-graders Lucy and her friends lives are forever changed when Ms. Mirabel, an author, visits their class. She teaches them about how to find things to write about and other places to look for inspiration. Lucy struggles with this because she feels there is only sadness in [...]
Finally by Wendy Mass Published March 2010 by Scholastic Press. Review copy provided by publisher. Rory has been waiting years to turn 12. Every time her mother tells her she’s not old enough it’s followed by “when you’re 12″ and then Rory adds it to her “12″ list. Several of the things on the list [...]
Hold Still by Nina LaCour Caitlin is coping with the recent suicide of her best friend Ingrid. Caitlin is devastated. Then she finds Ingrid’s journal that Ingrid left in Caitlin’s room. Slowly through the journal and learning about why Ingrid felt the need to take her own life, Caitlin is able to put her own [...]
After by Amy Efaw So good! I’ve been recommending it to everyone. An excellent audiobook narrated by Rebecca Soler, who also narrated Lock & Key by Sarah Dessen. Devon was an honors high school student until the morning that everything changes. The police find a newborn baby abandoned in a trash dumpster near Devon and [...]
Numbers by Rachel Ward Published February 2010 by Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. Review copy provided by publisher. What if you knew the day that someone, everyone would die? Could you live with that secret? Jem lives with the burden of knowing everyone’s numbers. She’s known about the numbers since she was a little girl. In her [...]
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford Published October 2009 by Scholastic Press. Review copy provided by publisher. The pink cover is deceiving. There are some girls who will really like this book that won’t pick it up because of the pink cover. This is the story of Bea and Jonah. They become [...]
