Book Review: My Life as a Rhombus
My mouth dropped open, and suddenly, I knew. Unfortunately for Sarah, everything now made sense. I checked out My Life as a Rhombus by Varian Johnson two other times from the...
Mar 16, 2010 8 4 min read
Young Adult Lit
Book Review: Backtracked
Freedom, that's the only thing I asked for. The freedom to be myself, not the reflection of a memory. I picked up Backtracked by Pedro de Alcantara because (a) he's Brazilian...
Book Review: The Skin I’m In
That's when I made up my mind. Enough is enough. I deserve better than for people to treat me any old way they want. But saying that is one thing, making it happen is...
Book Review: The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim
In three very different stories, master storytellers Gene Yang and Derek Kirk Kim pit fantasy against reality, for good or for ill. Subtle, surprising, and entirely...
Book Review: The Complete Persepolis
Since then, this old and great civilization has been discussed mostly in connection with fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. As an Iranian who has lived more than half...
Book Review: Tangled
Luscious, I thought. That's what I'll be. Not perfect. Not flawless. Luscious. Tangled by Carolyn Mackler is the story of four teens and what happens after they take a...
Book Review: Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
My breasts are making me a mockery of a sham. They are like two sticky-out beacons attracting all the sadsacks in the universe. After reading two books about World War II, I...
Book Review: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on...
Book Review: Summer of My German Soldier
"It's truly extraordinary," he said. "Who would believe it? 'Jewish girl risks all for German solider.' Tell me, Patty Bergen--" his voice became soft, but with a trace of...