Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2002(reprint) ISBN: 0689836023 Available: New and Used Branwell Zamborska hasn’t spoken since his baby sister Nikki stopped breathing. Accused of shaking the baby into a coma, he is struck completely mute, unable to speak even in his own defense. Only one person knows him well enough to find a […]
Category: YA books
Book Review: The Twisted Window by Lois Duncan
January 30, 2019Publisher: Laurel Leaf; Reissue edition (September 1, 1988) ISBN: 0440201845 Available: New and Used Appearances are deceiving in The Twisted Window. Brad has been following Tracy- he needs her to help rescue his sister, who was kidnapped by his stepfather. Tracy is grieving and angry, looking for someone to save. Offering her services as a […]
Book Review: Angelmonster by Veronica Bennett
January 28, 2019Candlewick, May, 2006 ISBN: 0763629944 . Available: New “What manner of ungodly baby kills its creator?” Even at sixteen, Mary Shelley’s nightmares force her to face this question. Angelmonster takes us into the mind and heart of the author of Frankenstein, in the entwined stories of her tragic love affair and marriage to the tormented poet Percy […]
Book Review: A Fate Totally Worse Than Death by Paul Fleischman
January 25, 2019Candlewick; (Reprint edition) April, 2004 ISBN: 0763621897 Available: New and Used A combination of teen horror spoof, mystery, and a little legit horror mixes it up in this offering from Newbery award winning author Paul Fleischman. When blond Norwegian Helga comes to town, the boys of Cliffside High are automatically drawn to her, causing […]
Book Review: Are You In The House Alone? by Richard Peck
January 18, 2019Puffin, April , 2000 ISBN: 0141306939 Available: New and Used This is probably the first young adult novel to deal frankly with rape and its aftermath. Gail, a high school junior living in a charming New England town, is getting obscene notes and phone calls. She doesn’t want to think about it, her best […]
Book Review: Underworld by Catherine Macphail
January 14, 2019Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books, July, 2005 ISBN: 1582349975 Pages: 250 Underworld looks on its cover that this some sort of underground monster horror book, however the true terror is more about what happens when a group of students trapped in a series of caves with no adults. Before going into the caves the students are told […]
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds Atheneum, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1481438254 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Fifteen-year-old Will’s brother Shawn has just been shot and killed by a member of a local gang. Will knows the rules: don’t cry, don’t snitch, and if someone you love gets killed, find the person who killed them and […]
Book Review: The Lost Saint by Bree DeSpain
January 7, 2019EgmontUSA; Reprint edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-1606842355 Available: New and Used The Lost Saint is the second book in Bree Despain’s YA werewolf series. It is the sequel to The Dark Divine, and takes place ten months after the events that close Despain’s previous book. The book tells the story of Grace Divine, who is in a relationship […]
Book Review: Red by Kait Nolan
January 4, 2019Amazon Digital Services, 2011 ASIN: B005HB8PN6 Available: Kindle and Nook The women in Elodie’s family have all been cursed with lycanthropy that surfaces during their sixteenth year, and all of them have met violent ends after giving birth to a child, always a girl. At seventeen, Elodie has managed to avoid anything that might rouse […]
Book Review: Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
December 31, 2018Scholastic Press, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0545259088 Available: New Hardcover and Kindle Forever is the third book in the popular series The Wolves of Mercy Falls. Of the three books, Forever is the longest and the least focused of the three. The beginning, though, is completely baffling. It’s told from the point of view of a female werewolf, Shelby, in wolf […]