By: Chelsea SedotiThe Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett is a coming of age story with a unique voice. In a sleepy American town where nothing of interest ever happens, a young woman goes missing during a camping trip with her boyfriend. Hawthorne, a high school student who once knew the missing person, Lizzie Lovett, integrates […]
Constable & ToopBy Gareth P. Jones Sam Toop is just a kid, but he’s the son of an undertaker and has been around death all his life. Sam can also see ghosts, and London in the mid-1800s is filled with them. Sam’s a Talker, and ghosts come to him for help with their unfinished business. […]
The Night CircusBy Erin Morgenstern Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus is a spellbinding fairy tale of a novel. Jumping back and forth through time, and moving from London to Cairo to Boston to Montreal, The Night Circus makes you feel as though magic is everywhere, if you just know where to look. Hector Bowen makes […]
The World’s Greatest DetectiveBy Caroline Carlson Eleven-year-old Toby Montrose is an orphan who is continuously being shuffled around to the homes of his aunts and uncles. Eventually, all of them send Toby away. He has finally landed at the home of his Uncle Gabriel. Toby knows that if Uncle Gabriel rejects him, he’s off to […]
The Lotterys Plus One By Emma Donoghue I loved reading this book! The Lotterys are a very unusual family that leads a utopian family life. They have two moms and two dads and seven children, some of whom are biological children, some of whom are adopted. This very lucky family won the lottery and as […]
Station Eleven By Emily St. John Mandel A famous actor has a heart attack on stage as he performs King Lear; a paramedic-in-training jumps out of the audience to perform CPR; and a 7-year-old actress watches her mentor pass away. Outside the theatre, snow is falling, and a deadly flu is quickly spreading across the […]
York: The Shadow Cipher By Laura Ruby The first thing that will strike you about this book is its cover. It’s the city of New York but in an astounding alternate universe where machines transform themselves and seem almost alive; where the subway (called the Underway) goes both above and below ground and zings riders […]
Labor DayBy Joyce MaynardBeing the week of Labour Day I felt this title was appropriate. This is held in the Richmond Public Library adult collection but I believe this coming of age story is wonderful for young adult readers too.Joyce Maynard has combined a young mans coming of age story with an interesting love story; […]
by Neal ShustermanImagine a world where humanity has conquered death. There’s no more disease, hunger, poverty, ageing, or death by accident. Sounds really neat, right?Until you consider there’s also no pain. Or joy. Or any intense feelings. People sort of drift along in life, “turning the corner” (resetting to a younger physical age) every so […]
Miss EmilyBy Nuala O’Connor “Oh, chimerical, perplexing, beautiful words! I love to use the pretty ones like blades and the ugly ones to console. I use dark ones to illuminate and bright ones to mourn. And when I feel as if a tomahawk has scalped me, I know it is poetry then and I leave […]