Category Archives: highly recommend
Every Day – David Levithan
A wakes up each morning in a different body. It has been this way since A’s infancy. This is the only life A has known. A is a soul, an entity, a person without a body or a permanency in … Continue reading
Through to You – Emily Hainsworth
Cam feels destroyed by the death of his girlfriend, Viv. He puts up a shrine at the accident site, recoils into himself, even further away from his friends and family. Then he sees a stranger at the accident site, shimmering … Continue reading
Blink Once – Cylin Busby
It’s hard for West to tell what’s going on . . . he knows he’s in a hospital, but no one talks directly to him and he’s aware for only brief flashes at a time. Slowly, he becomes more awake, … Continue reading
Almost Home – Joan Bauer
Almost Home is one of those stories that hooks the reader from the first page. It is a story of loss, struggle, and the strength of a family’s love that is told from the perspective of Sugar, a 12-year old … Continue reading
After Eli – Rebecca Rupp
Danny’s much-loved older brother, Eli, is killed fighting in Iraq. His mother becomes despondent and his father becomes even more gruff and distant. Danny spends one summer coming to terms with the death with the help of special friends. Eli … Continue reading
Gods and Warriors – Michelle Paver
During the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, scrappy orphan Hylas, branded an outsider and banished from the village, has kept himself and his sister alive by tending goats. The story opens with Hylas running for his life after losing his … Continue reading
Life Happens Next – Terry Trueman
This is the follow-up to the author’s January 2001 Printz Honor Award winning book, Stuck in Neutral. It helps to read the first book but this novel can easily stand on its own. I have waited twelve years for this … Continue reading
The Unquiet – Jeannine Garsee
Rinn’s bipolar disorder has wreaked havoc on her and her family. Promising to stay on her medication, Rinn and her mother seek a fresh start in her mother’s small home town in Ohio. Her new school has a ghost, an … Continue reading
UnWholly – Neal Shusterman
Spoiler alert – Please read Unwind first before reading this review. Unwind, one of my favorite dystopian thrillers, is another masterpiece by Neal Shusterman and so engrossing that I was a tad reluctant to read the sequel in fear of … Continue reading
Insignia – S.J. Kincaid
There is never a dull moment in this futuristic virtual war game thriller. Corporations rule the world and fight over rights to natural resources on Earth and the solar system. The corporations argue there is no loss of life in … Continue reading
The Long Earth – Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Long Earth is a sizzling brain stimulator full of what if scenarios and philosophical musings delivered in doses of witty banter between explorers Joshua and Lobsang. Folks on Datum Earth, our Earth, discovered the Long Earth, an infinite number … Continue reading
See You At Harry’s – Jo Knowles
We meet a busy, slightly dysfunctional family that owns a diner/ice cream restaurant called Harry’s. Told from Fern’s point of view, she is the third of four children and has never quite had all the parental attention she would like. … Continue reading
Breaking Beautiful – Jennifer Shaw Wolf
This murder mystery wrapped in teen drama hits the mark. Allie has survived an accident that apparently killed her boyfriend, Trip. It looks like she jumped out of his truck before it went over a cliff and into the ocean … Continue reading
The Hunt – Andrew Fukuda
Instead of the traditional humans turning into zombies storyline that wipes out humanity, humans are facing extinction from a vampire-ish majority that crave a diet of the few remaining true humans called hepers. The story opens with Gene, a heper doing … Continue reading
The Wicked and the Just – J. Anderson Coats
The story takes place in Wales around 1280 when King Edward I of England conquered Wales. He sealed his control of the Welsh by granting lands to loyal Englishmen and moving them into newly built town houses within castle walls. … Continue reading
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