Simon 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 […]
Category: YA books
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 […]
Book Review: Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender
April 5, 2018Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie AlendeDisney Hyperion, 2009 ISBN: 9781423108764 Availability: New and Used Alexis, a budding photographer and anti-popular-kids activist, lives in the oldest house in town. Like all old houses, this one has a long and strange history, and some very odd things begin to happen after a photo shoot in […]
Book Review: ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley
April 3, 2018Little Brown Books Young Readers, 2008 ISBN: 9780316113571 Available: New Charlotte Usher is friendless. She wants to be noticed, but her classmates, including handsome, popular Damen Dylan, don’t know she’s alive. And then she chokes to death. Charlotte has unfinished business, though, and she ends up in Dead Ed with other teenage ghosts. She […]
Book Review: Demon Queen by Richard Lewis
March 27, 2018Simon and Schuster, 2008 ISBN: 9781416935896 Available: Pre-order (June,2008) Jesse has grown up in the foster care system, never knowing his real parents. Unfairly seized by Homeland Security, he is released to the Mindells, a foster family living in the town of Longview. As Jesse begins to settle into his new community, Honor Clarke […]
Book Review: Weregirls: Birth of the Pack by Petru Popescu
March 20, 2018Tor Teen, 2007 ISBN: 0765316412 Available: New Lily Willison and her friends Nikki, Arielle, and Grazia start up a girls’ soccer club at her school called the Weregirls. When the new girl, Andra Hewlit, senses that Lily has supernatural powers, she seeks to co-opt them and creates her own soccer club. Lily finds out […]
Sterling Publishing, 2006 ISBN: 9781402715150 Available: New This book is a good introduction for the reader getting ready to take on the intricacies of language in the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The book starts with a brief biography of the author and then leads the reader through five of Poe’s most famous short stories. […]
Candlewick Press,2006 ISBN: 0763629308 Available: New Maud Flynn is a troublemaking, unattractive, orphan: the girl most unlikely to be adopted. However, she is the perfect choice for Hyacinth Hawthorne and her elderly sisters. The charismatic Hyacinth convinces Maud to play the part of a ghostly “secret child.” The sisters, posing as psychic mediums able […]
Book Review: Blood Witch- Book Three of the Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan
February 27, 2018Penguin Group 2007 ISBN:9780142409886 Available: New and Used Morgan’s quest to learn more about her family, especially her mother, continues in Blood Witch. Now that Morgan has the Book of Shadows, she is able to read the words her mother wrote As Morgan continues to practice magick, other blood witches, threatened by her power strengthen their […]
Book Review: Coven- Book Two of the Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan
February 20, 2018Penguin Group, 2007 ISBN:9780142409879 Available: New and Used In a very short period of time, Morgan Rowland has lost her best friend, gained a boyfriend, and discovered that she is a blood witch. Does that means her parents and sister are blood witches as well, or is there more to her mystery? As Morgan uncovers […]