Molly returns to Star Lake for 99 days of summer, the summer before college. She’s back to the place where she broke the heart of her first love, Patrick, with his brother, Gabe. Returning to this small town after this scandal is hard enough- but since her mother wrote a best-selling book based on this […]
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I listened to Jason Reynolds‘ debut book When I Was the Greatest earlier this year and was eager to dive into his next book The Boy in the Black Suit. In The Boy in the Black Suit we meet Brooklynite Matt Miller on his first day back at high school following his mother’s death. This […]
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I’m a big fan of Cynthia Hand’s Unearthly series and I was excited to check out her first contemporary novel. The Last Time We Say Goodbye is a beautiful, heart-wrenching book about a girl who lost her brother to suicide, and is now haunted by guilt and her brother’s spirit. This emotionally devastating book tore […]
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Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet at the top of the school bell tower, both intending to jump. Violet is lost after the death of her sister, and Finch struggles with an undiagnosed mood disorder. Finch saves Violet, though the school assumes it’s the other way around since that behavior is not out of the […]
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With A.S. King’s books you know you’re going to get something off the beaten path, something with a little magical realism to it and something offbeat. Like her latest book Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. When drinking beer one night, Glory and her friend Ella impulsively drink the remains of a petrified bat and […]
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I’m closing out the year by catching up on some “best of the year” books that I missed when they first came out. One of the most acclaimed YA books of the year is Jandy Nelsons‘ second novel I’ll Give You the Sun. I am a big fan of Nelsons’ first book The Sky is […]
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