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 […]
Ten Thousand Skies Above Youby Claudia GrayIn book 2 of the Firebird Series, Claudia Gray continues the cross-dimensional adventures of Marguerite Caine as she tries to save Paul from the person she now knows to be the real enemy. Marguerite and her family are coming to terms with all that has happened in A Thousand Pieces […]
Words in Deep Blueby Cath CrowleyThis is a beautiful book made even more lovely by the fact that I listened to it as an audiobook, the Australian accent putting me right in Australia, the setting for this tale. Rachel Sweetie and Henry Jones grew up together in Gracetown until Rachel moved to Sea Ridge with […]
FeedBy M.T. Anderson Titus lives in a future where information no longer comes through a device; rather, it infiltrates the brain directly through a “feed”. Advertising and entertainment pop right into people’s heads. People can “chat” each other through the feed and often are not accustomed to speaking out loud. Titus and his friends are […]