Tag Archives: YA fiction
Book review: Wonder by R.J. Palacio (9780375899881)
I know I’m not an ordinary ten-year-old kid…I know ordinary kids don’t make other kids run away screaming in playgrounds. I know ordinary kids don’t get scared at wherever they go. My name is August, by the way, I won’t … Continue reading
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Book review: Saving June by Hannah Harrington (9780373210244)
To believe so concretely that there’s someone–something–out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle. I’ve never believed in anything the way Aunt Helen believes in God. Harper has lost her sister, June, to … Continue reading
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Book review: The Whole Story of Half a Girl by Veera Hiranandani (9780385741286)
Sonia has learned that her father has lost his job and he isn’t acting like himself. She wonders what he does in his study that makes him feel better. That’s not the only change. Now that her father has lost … Continue reading
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Book review: Any Witch Way by Annastaysia Savage (9781936564033)
Sadie felt like an outcast at school. She didn’t fit in. No one believed her when she thought her mother was still alive and had not died in a car accident. She just had this feeling… Enter her 13th birthday … Continue reading
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Book review: Running Around (And Such) by Linda Byler (9781561486885)
I am a big fan of young adult and Christian fiction and was excited about reading Ms. Byler’s debut novel. However, I found the book to be choppy and slow to get to the meaning of the book title, running … Continue reading
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Book review: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (9781416989417)
Nora is a good girl and meets the new, bad guy, Patch. Patch is mysterious and dangerous and appears to be her “guardian” angel. Enter the bad guy, Elliot. The new transfer student who may have been involved in a … Continue reading
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Book review: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (9780142407325)
Melinda has been ostrasized by her peers because she called the cops at a summer party, but no one knows the horrible secret she is hiding. “It” has devastated her life and she feels there is no one to talk … Continue reading
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Book Review: Dirty Little Angels by Chris Tusa (9781604890303)
“In my family, it was as if you had to be dead to get noticed.” Hailey has a father who has lost his job and is drinking, a mother who lost her inheritance when she married her father and has … Continue reading
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Book Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (0545123267)
A nice, poetic story about a young girl, bitten by wolves many years ago, who falls in love with a wolf/boy. Even though bitten, she does not shapeshift into a werewolf and her love needs to find out soon how … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (0060530928)
This is one of the most unusual books I have ever read. Though the first chapter was disturbing for a YA book, when you read further it is about a boy named Nobody Jones who learns about friendship, family, revenge … Continue reading
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