Penguin Group, 2007 ISBN: 9780142409862 Available: New Morgan Rowland’s life changes the day she met Cal Blair. When Cal comes to school that first day, his confidence in himself makes every girl want him and every guy want to be him. Cal’s interest, however, is in Morgan. He introduces her to Wiccan practices. Morgan finds […]
Category: YA books
Book Review: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
February 8, 2018Series title:N.A. Publishing Date: October 2007 ISBN:9780385720960 Available in:Kindle,HardCover, PaperBack,Audible,and Audio CD on Amazon. Extra-sensory gifts are not always considered gifts by those who receive them. Such is the case with eight-turning-nine year old Rose Edelstein. Her lemon-flavored birthday cake tastes like aching despair,her brother’s toast is soaked in hallow dread,and the local bake shop […]
Book Review: The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
February 1, 2018Series title:The Secret Series Publishing Date: October 2007 ISBN:9780316113694 Available in:Kindle,HardCover, PaperBack,Audible,and Audio CD on Amazon. Cass is an eleven-year old survivalist who may or may not really be named Cass. Max-Ernest is a young compulsive speaker and factoid stocker who may or may not really be named Max-Ernest. The magician? There’s much we know […]
Book Review: The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick
January 23, 2018Wendy Lamb Books, October, 2004 ISBN: 0385730551 Available: New and Used In The Book of Dead Days, Marcus Sedgwick introduces us to Boy, a teenage orphan who is the servant and apprentice to a stage magician named Valerian. Valerian is on a quest to find a book that will help him get out of a […]
Throwback Review: Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
January 2, 2018Rebound by Sagebrush, October, 1999 ISBN: 0881035122 Available: New and Used Lois Duncan presents us with a chilling Gothic nightmare in Down a Dark Hall. Kit is starting eighth grade at the very exclusive Blackwood School. It’s so exclusive there are only three other students! A local tells Kit there are rumors that the house the […]
Book Review: My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry
December 19, 2017My Grandmother Told Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman Atria Books, 2016 ISBN-13: 9781501160486 Available: Hardcover/Kindle edition/Audio Download/Compact Disc Elsa is seven, “going on eight”. Her world looks bleak: she is too mature for her age. and is bullied and friendless at school. Elsa’s parents are divorced. She lives with her mother, […]
Book Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
December 14, 2017Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2) by Seanan McGuire Tor, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0765392039 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook Down Among the Sticks and Bones is a companion novella to Seanan McGuire’s award-winning novella Every Heart a Doorway. Every Heart a Doorway explored the question of what happens after children who walk through a door to a fantasy world […]
Book Review: Demon Freaks by J.R.R.R. Hardison
December 7, 2017Demon Freaks by J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison Fiery Seas Publishing, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1-946143-16-7 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Jim Hardison’s Demon Freaks pits high schoolers on the eve of their SAT exams against wicked would-be wizards and monsters, with the fate of the world at stake. The story is written with irony and humor from the viewpoint of teenagers. The […]
Book Review: Return to the Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz
October 12, 2017Return to the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel by Melissa de la Cruz Disney Hyperion Publishing, May 2016 Last year, Melissa de la Cruz introduced us to an interesting, darker twist on the typical Disney tale in Isle of the Lost. In the Disney fairytale realm of Auradon, all the villains, along with their children, have been captured […]
Summer at East End: Double Eclipse by Melissa de la Cruz G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, 2016 ISBN-13: 978-0399173561 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Double Eclipse is the second book in Summer at East End, a YA spinoff series of Melissa de la Cruz’s adult urban fantasy series Witches of East End, which was about three sisters who […]