**Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.** The Graces by Laure Eve ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Amulet Books, 2016 ISBN-13 : 978-1419721236 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook The narrator of The Graces is new to town, and ready to shed her old identity, including her name. The centers of attention at her school are the Graces, seventeen-year-old twins Thalia and Fenrin, […]
Category: YA books
TV Review: Vampire Diaries season 1
October 3, 2020Like a lot of people stuck at home, I’ve started binging all those shows I’ve been wanting to watch. I put this one off because I’m not an unbiased viewer. As a teen I was a huge LJ Smith fan. Fan activities and informal clubs led to some major life events, some friendships I still […]
Book Review: Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff
October 1, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff ( Bookshop.org | Amazon.com ) Entangled Teen, 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1640638952 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook Grace’s parents died in a car accident, leaving her no choice but to leave her home in California and unenthusiastically move to Alaska, where her uncle, now her guardian, is headmaster at […]
Book Review: Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland
September 24, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Deathless Divide (Dread Nation #2) by Justina Ireland Balzer + Bray, 2020 ISBN-13: 9780062570635 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, audiobook, MP3 CD Deathless Divide is the sequel to Dread Nation (reviewed here). The story is told through both Jane and Katherine’s points of view. After the fall of the Survivalists’ community of […]
Book Review: The Burning by Laura Bates
September 10, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* The Burning by Laura Bates Sourcebooks Fire, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1728206738 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition Reading Laura Bates’ The Burning was like a dizzying fall down a rabbit hole to hell. Anna, the main character, has moved to a new town and a new school to escape a scandal at her old […]
Book Review: Five Midnights by Ann Cardinal Davila
August 31, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Five Midnights by Ann Cardinal Davila Tor Teen, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1250296078 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, and audiobook “When the U.S. gets a cold, Puerto Rico gets pneumonia.” In the United States, the mainland tends to forget that Puerto Rico is part of the country, and many Puerto Ricans have […]
Book Review: Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner
August 27, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner Vesuvian Books, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1944109363 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Speak No Evil is an unusual book in that while it has some mild supernatural elements, is really about the often unspeakable horror of what humans do to each other. Melody is a selectively […]
Book Review: Oware Mosaic by Nzondi
August 24, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Oware Mosaic by Nzondi Omnnium Gatherum, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1949054163 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition I am always excited to see Afrofuturist writing getting positive recognition, so I was really looking forward to reading Oware Mosaic. The novel is set in Ghana in 2025, following worldwide natural disasters caused by climate change and […]
Book Review: Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
August 10, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall Viking Books for Young Readers, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1984837011 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition The legend of Lucy Gallows says that 12 year old Lucy Callow ran into the woods after an argument with her mother, and when her brother went after […]
Book Review: Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner
July 22, 2020*Cross Posted from the Circulation Desk.* Speak No Evil by Liana Gardner Vesuvian Books, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1944109363 Available: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition Speak No Evil is an unusual book in that while it has some mild supernatural elements, is really about the often unspeakable horror of what humans do to each other. Melody is a selectively […]