First of all, let me say the blurbs on these book jackets are nonsense. This particular book, while worthy of notice and thought, will not leave you “breathless,” nor is it “heartbreaking” or particularly “raw.” OK, thank you, I feel… Read More ›
Dysfunctional Relationships
The Goodbye Summer
Caroline is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, the only child in a loving and attentive family. Although she has dated before, she falls hard for a grocery store clerk named Jake, who is three years her senior, and she becomes embroiled in an intense… Read More ›
Love & Other Curses
Sam is about to turn 17. He lives with his father, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother in a small town in central New York. The people in his bloodline are cursed such that if they fall in love before the age… Read More ›
Two Can Keep a Secret
Twins Ellery and Ezra Corcoran are relocating temporarily to live with their grandmother in small, picture-perfect Echo Ridge, Vermont, while their mother, Sadie, completes a four-month drug rehabilitation program in California. Ellery is particularly interested in Echo Ridge because she… Read More ›
Hot Dog Girl
In the summer before her senior year, Elouise (Elle/Lou) Parker is working at an old but beloved amusement park called the Magic Castle in her small hometown. She’s not crazy about being assigned to walk around and dance in a… Read More ›
Belly Up
Once upon a time long ago and in a land far away, parents and societies recognized that youth with less-than-fully-formed brains (referenced that way in this book) needed to be protected from premature sexual activity that could sabotage their best… Read More ›
If I’m Being Honest
Living in Los Angeles with her unmarried has-been actress mom, senior Cameron Bright attends the most elite private high school on the West Coast, Beaumont Prep, courtesy of her wealthy, successful businessman dad, who heads his own company in New… Read More ›
Serious Moonlight
Birdie Lindberg is an 18-year-old girl living on Bainbridge Island, Washington, with her grandfather. Her grandmother died a few months earlier, her mother died about eight years earlier, and she never knew her father (who wasn’t married to her mother… Read More ›
Starworld
Sam(antha) is a 17-year-old girl with divorced parents. Her mother, although professionally successful, is severely OCD. Her dad has flown off to live and work in his native England, leaving Sam alone to cope with her. (He says later in… Read More ›
Earth to Charlie
Charlie is a sweet kid finishing up his freshman year in high school. His mother left long ago, telling him the aliens were coming to get her but that they would return later for him. His dad has turned into… Read More ›
