Book Review: Impossible
In her dreams, at the end, Miranda loved her. Impossible by Nancy Werlin is the story of a girl who is cursed to get pregnant and go crazy at seventeen--just like her mother...
Nov 18, 2009 0 4 min read
Young Adult Lit
Diversity Roll Call: The Problem Novel
The current Diversity Roll Call addresses the problem novel as inspired by a Justine Larbalestier post. More specifically: Did you read these kinds of works when you were an...
Nostalgia: Girl Friends #1: Draw the Line
"You know, if you had told me two weeks ago that I'd be involved in a rally and have a whole new group of girl friends, I never would have believed it...I don't know whether...
Book Review: Girl Stays in the Picture
Girl Stays in the Picture by Melissa de la Cruz is about three girls with varying degrees of fame or access to fame and their adventures in Saint Tropez one summer. Devon's a...
Book Review: I Know It’s Over
I recently read I Know It's Over by C. K. Kelly Martin, and I have to say I enjoyed it a lot. I picked it up because the cover struck me. I love that the girl is in the...
February books
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta: I didn't love it as much as the friend who recommended it to me did, but I did like it quite a lot. It did take me quite a while to get...
March books
Alice on Her Way by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: This book is part of a super popular series that I have never, ever read (and, honestly, only heard of because of research for my...
trifecta of book reviews
Hell Week by Rosemary Clement-Moore: This is a sequel to Prom Nights from Hell, a book that I enjoyed very much, so I was excited to see that it seems to be an ongoing series....
Bindi Babes by Narinder Dhami (2004)
Everyone loves us. The teachers like us because we work hard, and we’re clever, polite and helpful. The other kids like us because we’re pretty and popular and funny and...