by Ally Carter Maddie and Logan are best friends who both live at the White House. Logan’s dad is the president and Maddie’s is the head of the Secret Service charged with protecting the president. At a party one night, trouble erupts and suddenly Maddie is torn away from everything she knows when her […]
By Philip Reeve This is a steam punk industrial revolution sci-fi fantasy story set in a time when the major cities of the world are individual self-contained entities that travel across the barren earth. This is a world eat world time and bigger, stronger cities chase after smaller, weaker cities and towns and devour them, […]
By Kristen Ciccarelli I would like to preface this review by stating that I read this entire book in one day. It was it was raining, it was the long weekend, and it was just that good! In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of the sky and spirit, who carried love and […]
The Sun is also a Starcovers one pivotal day in the lives of two American teenagers. Natasha, an illegal Jamaican immigrant has 12 hours before her and her family are deported. The thing is, this whole deportation thing is not Natasha’s fault! She’s lived in New York longer than she has lived in Jamaica – […]
The Poet X By Elizabeth Acevedo This book is the debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo. If you’ve ever been to a poetry slam, you’ll find yourself reading this book in the slam method, slamming your hands down in punctuation, sharing the feelings. I listened to the audio book which is read by […]
by Randy Ribay After the Shot Drops is a powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen’s mission to create a better life for his family. This is an amazing story that is told in alternating chapters in the voices of Bunny and Nasir, who have been best friends forever, but are at odds with […]
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera It is not too far into the future and the government’s new department, Death-Cast, knows when everyone will die. You don’t know exactly when or how, but when your phone rings and it’s Death-Cast calling, you know you have only got your end day to […]
Genuine Fraud by e. Lockhart is a psychological thriller following the life of Jule, a self-proclaimed vigilante super hero on the run from unlawful incarceration. The reader first encounters Jule in a five star hotel where she is being tracked down by the police. From here, the story works its way backwards through a crazy […]
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Bauxbaum Just as 16 year old Jessie begins to feel like her life is returning to normal after her mom’s death, her father announces he has remarried and sweeps her off to California to live with his new wife! Jessie’s new school is a prestigious […]
Eleanor and Park By Rainbow RowellEveryone sits on the bus, one person to a seat and nobody changes seats, nobody moves to let someone else sit down. That’s the unspoken rules of the bus. Eleanor gets on the bus that first day at her new school and knows the rules, but she also knows she has […]