Damnation Books, 2010 ISBN: 9781615720798 Available: Used and New Written from the viewpoint of the main character, Nightwalkers tells the story of a teenage boy who has lost his parents and is living with an aunt he dislikes. Loneliness surrounds him and practically consumes him. He finds some relief from this sad life by going out into […]
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The Waking: Dreams of the Dead by Thomas Randall Bloomsbury, 2009 Available: Paperback ISBN: 978-1599905853 Kara Harper and her father have finally realized their life-long dream of starting a new life in Japan. Looking out at the peaceful blue of Miyazu Bay, photographing Ama-no- Hashidate, the Bridge to Heaven, Kara thinks it’s the most beautiful […]
Book Review: Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck
July 3, 2018Dial, October 28, 2010 ISBN: 978-0803734548 Available: New In 1973, when Richard Peck was just starting out as a writer, Robert Cormier’s book The Chocolate War, in which a student seized control of his high school from adult authority figures and brutally bullied his peers, changed YA literature forever. Three Quarters Dead is Peck’s contemporary response to […]
Viking Juvenile, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-0670011599 Available: New In the introduction to A Girl, a Ghost, and the Hollywood Hills, the author explains that her intent is to portray a “Hamlet-inspired ghost story unlike any other”, and there are obvious similarities. Holly has gone off to the East Coast at the start of her freshman year […]
Razorbill, 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1595142917 Available: New The Evil Within is the second book in the Possessions series, of which I have not read the first; however, after completing this one, I’ll be picking up the first book and all that follow it. Nancy Holder has created an incredibly spooky tale full of scorned lovers, murders, attempted […]
Book Review: Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate
June 19, 2018The fact that I’m just now writing reviews after almost 2 years since I promised my mom I would, just shows I’m either lazy or the world’s #1 procrastinator. Seven Ways We Lie is a teen fiction written by Riley Redgate. It follows seven teens; Olivia and Kat Scott, Juniper Kipling, Claire Lombardi, Matt Jackson, […]
Welcome to the Apocalypse, Book One: Pandora by D. L. Richardson CreateSpace, 2016 ISBN: 9781370736201 Available: Paperback, eBook(Kindle, Smashwords) Want to get away from it all but don’t have the time? Want to experience an apocalypse firsthand? Want to be a hero and save people from zombies or aliens? Then welcome to the apocalypse! […]
Book Review: Sleepless by Thomas Fahy
April 24, 2018Simon & Schuster, 2009 ISBN: 9781416959014 Availability: New and Used After a trip to New Orleans, the students of Saint Opportuna High begin to have nightmares: horrible nightmares about killing people. The only problem is that they aren’t just nightmares. After several nights, the students wake up to realize that they actually have killed […]
Book Review: Devoured by Amanda Marrone
April 17, 2018Simon Pulse, 2009 ISBN: 9781416978909 Availability: September 2009 Megan just wants to make sure that her new boyfriend, Ryan, stays out of the clutches of his smitten best friend, Samantha. That’s why she’s working for the summer at the Land of Enchantment, an amusement park filled with fairy tale princesses. But when the ghost […]
Book Review: Monster’s Proof by Richard Lewis
April 10, 2018Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4169-3591-9 Available: New Ten year old Darby Ell is brilliant at mathematics, but not so good at being liked. Intrigued by the “thingamabob conjecture” his aunt Ludy discovered just before she went bananas, he becomes obsessed with proving it. As he works on it, the […]