Review: The Truth of Right Now by Kara Lee Corthron
October 22, 2018
SYNOPSIS: If you could take back one thing you’ve done in your life, do you know what it would be? Lily is returning to her privileged Manhattan high school after a harrowing end to her sophomore year and it’s not pretty. She hates chemistry and her spiteful lab partner, her friends are either not speaking […]
Review: Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett
October 16, 2018
SYNOPSIS: The one guy Bailey Rydell can’t stand is actually the boy of her dreams—she just doesn’t know it yet. Classic movie fan Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online as Alex. Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives […]
Review: The Lying Woods by Ashley Elston
October 9, 2018
SYNOPSIS: Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions and drain the employees’ retirement accounts, […]
Review: Life in a Fishbowl by Len Vlahos
October 7, 2018
SYNOPSIS: Fifteen-year-old Jackie Stone is a prisoner in her own house. Everything she says and does 24/7 is being taped and broadcast to every television in America. Why? Because her dad is dying of a brain tumor and he has auctioned his life on eBay to the highest bidder: a ruthless TV reality show executive […]
Review: The Year of Living Awkwardly: Sophomore Year by Emma Chastain
October 3, 2018
SYNOPSIS: High school student Chloe Snow chronicles another year in her life while she navigates the highs and lows of family, friendship, school, and love in her diary. It’s Chloe Snow’s sophomore year of high school, and life has only grown more complicated. Last year, Chloe was the star of the musical. This year, after […]
