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The Impossible Knife of Memory
I’ll start by saying I read this book from cover to cover over a 12-hour time span – I couldn’t put it down. I’m familiar with Laurie Halse Anderson, but mostly for her historical fiction works, I’ve never read Speak or Wintergirls, but I think I’m going to have to…
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Belle Epoque
Maude Pichon has high hopes when she runs away from her small village for the dazzling lights of Bohemian Paris. But she’s in for a rude awakening when she runs out of money much faster than she anticipated and begins looking for work. She is answers an advertisement in the newspaper…
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2014 Youth Media Awards
I was going to take a break today from my blog to reflect on my conference experience and decide what I wanted to share, but I couldn’t miss this HUGE event that happened this morning…. the Youth Media Awards were announced! Now, for many of my friends, this epic event…
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Midwinterblood
Seven short stories are intertwined across time in this spectacular novel about the ultimate sacrifice for love. The story begins with Eric, a journalist who travels to the mysterious Blessed Island to try and learn the secrets and confront the rumors of the island. But as he learns more about…
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All the Truth That’s In Me
All the Truth That’s In Me is a story of mystery, intrigue, and suspense, but not in the way I was expecting. Judith returns home after missing from her small town for four years. When she returns, she is unable to speak and her story remains a mystery that only…
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Paper Covers Rock
Paper Covers Rock written by Jenny Hubbard reminded me of another book I read called The Tragedy Paper by Elizabeth LeBan. It has a similar feel with a male main character at a boarding school where secrets are being kept about a horrible situation that has occurred. Without giving too…
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Hostage Three
Hostage Three by Nick Lake is a thrilling story of human survival in an unexpected situation. Amy is almost 18, still grieves for her mother, detests her new stepmother and has no desire to spend the next 12 months on a yacht sailing around the world with her father and…
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The Raven Boys
I finally had the chance to read Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys and I want to start the second book right away. I picked up The Raven Boys for a few reasons, it’s something I’ve been meant to read for awhile now and when I picked it up I was…
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Fallout
Fallout by Todd Strasser is written during a time in America’s history that children in today’s world know little about. Although America has been at war (officially and unofficially) for almost as long as many of these kids have been alive, this war is very different from the Cold War happening…
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The President Has Been Shot!: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Every time I read an informational text, I am always surprised at how interesting and accessible they have become in the past few years. Informational texts used to be dry books filled with pages of text that was uninteresting and not enjoyable to read, but now, all that has changed…