Review: A Tragic Kind of Wonderful by Eric Lindstrom
September 23, 2016
SYNOPSIS: In the vein of It’s Kind of a Funny Story and All the Bright Places, comes a captivating, immersive exploration of life with mental illness. For sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to keep everyone at arm’s […]
Review/Blog Tour/Giveaway: Going Geek by Charlotte Huang
September 18, 2016
SYNOPSIS: A girl forced out of her comfort zone finds that being true to herself is the best way to live her life, in this second novel from the author of For the Record. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Skylar Hoffman’s senior year at her preppy East Coast boarding school should have been […]
Review: Just Friends by Monica Murphy
September 13, 2016
SYNOPSIS: It’s the end of summer. Just before I start senior year with my two best friends in the whole world. Dustin and Emily are everything to me. We’ve been inseparable since middle school, and when we’re together, nothing can go wrong. But things aren’t always what they seem. Em’s turned into a drunken mess […]
Audio Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
September 5, 2016
SYNOPSIS: Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley, who are mean to him and make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs. (Dudley, however, has two bedrooms, one to sleep in and one for all his toys and games.) Then Harry starts […]
Review: Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
August 21, 2016
SYNOPSIS: Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teen.” But no one’s taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom’s death, she’s been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and […]