There are not enough YA books with cults in them. For serious, cults are fascinating and riveting. Losing Faith by Denise Jaden has a cult, thus making it full of win. It also has: character development, death, high school, home school, kissing and religion. Elements of appeal to me. Brie is a self-absorbed teenager, more […]
Review of What’s Your Status: A Top 8 Novel by Katie Finn + Giveaway
July 17, 2010
Giveaway: Update your status with a fun new summer accessory! U.S. Only. To Enter Write a Tweet with the hashtag #top8prom Contest Ends 8/1/10 One winner will receive: A $20 Urban Outfitters gift card and a copy of What’s Your St@tus! So, what’s What’s Your Status: A Top 8 Novel by Katie Finn about? […]
Review of Other by Karen Kincy
July 4, 2010
Have you ever felt like you were an outsider? Or maybe, different from everyone around you? I think that we all feel like that from time to time, especially growing up. Even us adults get like that. Gwen Williams, protagonist of Other by Karen Kincy, feels this way all the time. However, she has a […]
Review of The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
July 3, 2010
I don’t often read children’s books. I don’t consider YA to be children’s literature. This means I am not as well-read in a certain genre as I would like to be. Now when I say children’s lit, I don’t mean picture books. I mean the books that are in the juvenile section of the library […]
Review of Picture The Dead by Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown
May 6, 2010
Picture The Dead completely absorbed me and I did not want to set it dow
Review of Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold
March 7, 2010
Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold is a story of family. It follows Maggie Chen, an average high school girl, living an average life until one day, while going through her father’s last effects she uncovers a piece of information which sets her world spinning. Coupled with this information is the possibility that her father may […]