Tag: Jennifer Brown
Perfect Escape by Jennifer Brown
My rating: 5 stars Kendra has always felt overshadowed by her brother’s OCD. Her family’s life was always centered around Grayson, while he was always focused on carefully coordinated routines. The only way Kendra could creep out from under her brother’s shadow is to be perfect – which she had down to an art, until […]
Posted: July 23rd, 2013 under Jennifer Brown.
Tags: Bitter End, Hate List, Jennifer Brown, Perfect Escape, review, teen, YA, Young adult
Comments: 1
“Bad Books”
Besides a dog, a book can be man’s best friend. Books provide an escape from reality, a break from our thoughts and our everyday lives. We read books to our children, before we go to bed, during lunch breaks and on the beach. But what is the purpose of a book? What makes a book […]
Posted: February 24th, 2012 under "Bad Books".
Tags: Bad Books, Harry Potter, Hate List, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Jennifer Brown, Ned Vizzini, opinion, Suzanne Collins, teen, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games Trilogy
Comments: 1
Top Events of 2011
1) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Midnight Premiere: I had been waiting for this movie for four years, and it was so fantastic to finally be able to see it. I love going to midnight premieres, especially the ones for Harry Potter and seeing everyone wearing Potter shirts and dressing up as […]
Posted: January 7th, 2012 under 2011.
Tags: 2011, American Horror Story, Chuck Palahniuk, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Honda Civic Tour, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jennifer Brown, Panic! at the Disco Fall Tour, The Pink Sweater
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Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
My Rating: 5 stars On March 6th, 2007, the lives of the students of Sterling High school in New Hampshire were changed forever. One second, it was only a school day like any other. Nothing bad ever happens in Sterling. Blink and everything has changed. It only took Peter Houghton nineteen minutes to enter his […]
Posted: December 14th, 2011 under Jodi Picoult.
Tags: Hate List, Jennifer Brown, Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, review, teen
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Summer Reading
Since I have survived my first few days and the first Monday of my sophomore year, I thought now would be a good time to discuss summer reading. I’d have to say my two favorite authors this summer were definitely Chuck Palahniuk and Jennifer Brown. I suggest Chuck Palahniuk to anyone who asks for books […]
Posted: September 13th, 2011 under Summer Reading.
Tags: Bitter End, Chuck Palahniuk, Climbing the Stairs, Fight Club, Hate List, Invisible Monsters, Jennifer Brown, Padma Venkatraman, Paulo Coelho, Summer Reading, The Alchemist
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Bitter End by Jennifer Brown
My Rating: 5 stars Alex doesn’t know how her mother died, and her father refuses to discuss what happened. Alex’s dream is to visit Colorado, where her mother was headed on the night she died, with her two childhood best friends, Zack and Bethany. Just when everything seems to be going as usual, a new […]
Posted: August 30th, 2011 under Jennifer Brown.
Tags: Bitter End, Hate List, Jennifer Brown, review, teen
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Hate List by Jennifer Brown
My Rating: 5 stars At the end of her junior year, May 2nd to be exact, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, Nick Levil, opened fire in the school cafeteria. At first, Valerie was considered to be part of the crime because of the list. The “Hate List”. The list Valerie made with Nick, at first just a […]
Posted: August 1st, 2011 under Jennifer Brown.
Tags: Hate List, Jennifer Brown, review, teen
Comments: 2