Tag: teen
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
My Rating 3 stars Just when it seemed impossible….I actually dislike a Chuck Palahniuk book. The book is about a song, the “culling” song and when this song is read aloud, whoever hears it dies. The main character is a journalism who is researching cases in which babies and young children have died because their […]
Posted: November 12th, 2011 under Chuck Palahniuk.
Tags: Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby, review, teen
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Where She Went by Gayle Forman
My Rating: 4 stars *Don’t read if you haven’t read the previous book* After Mia’s accident, she and Adam were on the rocks. She was accepted into Julliard and had a promising career playing the cello, and Adam’s band finally kicks it off with a hit album. Mia is off to New York and Adam […]
Posted: October 26th, 2011 under Gayle Forman.
Tags: Gayle Forman, If I Stay, review, teen, Where She Went
Comments: 1
After by Amy Efaw
My Rating: 5 stars Devon was a fifteen year old, straight-A student and her school’s soccer star with Olympic dreams and was more mature than her own mother. That is, until ‘That Night’ happened. Everything changed so quickly. The night Devon gave birth in her bathroom, in panic and desperation she threw away her baby […]
Posted: October 16th, 2011 under Amy Efaw.
Tags: After, Amy Efaw, review, teen
Comments: 5
You by Charles Benoit
My Rating: 2 stars This review is definitely going to be difficult to write, because I really didn’t get that far into the book and it was really, really confusing. Okay, so first off, this book is written in second person (hence the title “You”). I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that was […]
Posted: October 2nd, 2011 under Charles Benoit.
Tags: Charles Benoit, review, teen, You
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Hold Still by Nina LaCour
My Rating: 5 stars Ingrid didn’t leave behind much. But after she took her own life at a young age, she left her journal to her best friend, Caitlin. Now Caitlin is alone, struggling to find hope and deal with the loss of her best friend. Caitlin relives moments from the past, good and bad, […]
Posted: September 25th, 2011 under Nina LaCour.
Tags: Hold Still, Nina LaCour, review, teen
Comments: 1
You Don’t Know Me by David Klass
My Rating: 5 stars You think you know someone, but really, all you see is the exterior. We only know two things about John: his name and that he has brown eyes. We don’t know where he lives or where he goes to school. We don’t know his favorite subject…if he even has one. Nor […]
Posted: September 7th, 2011 under David Klass.
Tags: David Klass, review, teen, You Don't Know Me
Comments: 2
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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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
My Rating: 5 stars After a terrible family incident, Jacob ventures to an island just off the coast of Whales. The island, in fact, was featured in many of the stories Jacob’s grandfather used to tell him, where his grandfather had spent many years of his childhood during the war. As Jacob explores the island, […]
Posted: August 27th, 2011 under Ransom Riggs.
Tags: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs, reivew, teen
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
My Rating: 5 stars The plotline of this story follows two Will Graysons whose paths cross at a totally unexpected place. The first Will Grayson, whose name is always capitalized, just wants to blend in. He has two rules of living: 1. Don’t care too much and 2. Shut up. That is how he lives […]
Posted: August 17th, 2011 under John Green and David Levithan.
Tags: David Levithan, John Green, review, teen, Will Grayson, Will Grayson Will Grayson
Comments: 1
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
My Rating: 1 star I can easily summarize this story in a few sentences: A shepherd named Santiago sets out on a journey to find reassure in the Egyptian pyramids, which he saw in his dreams. Along the way he meets a gypsy, a man who thinks he is a king, an Englishman, and an […]
Posted: August 16th, 2011 under Paulo Coelho.
Tags: Paulo Coelho, review, Summer Reading, teen, The Alchemist
Comments: 1