REVIEW| NO PLACE LIKE HERE
SYNOPSIS: No Place Like Here Ashlyn Zanotti has big plans for the summer. She’s just spent a year at boarding school and can’t wait to get home. But when Ashlyn’s father is arrested for tax evasion and...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: GIRL AGAINST THE UNIVERSE
Summary: Girl Against the Universe After a car accident -- that she survives -- takes the lives of her father, brother, and uncle, Maguire feels like she's cursed.It doesn't help that she'd been...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review: STEALING HOME
Ryan is an ambitious teenager who helps her dad out with managing a minor league baseball team. But when their latest recruit, baseball prodigy Sawyer Campbell shows up, things get a bit complicated....
View ArticleREVIEW | THE UNDOING OF THISTLE TATE
The Undoing of Thistle Tate: strong young adult novel looks behind the scenes of publishing, packed with well-rounded characters and has an engaging plot. The post REVIEW | THE UNDOING OF THISTLE TATE...
View ArticleBite-Sized Review | TRULY MADLY ROYALLY
This book is SO CUTE without being eye-roll inducing. I was nervous about reading it because many reviews recommended it, but as "younger YA." I loved it! Zora's character is determined and...
View ArticleREVIEW | SPIN by Colleen Nelson
Fifteen-year-old Delilah "Dizzy" Doucette lives with her dad and brother above their record store. On the surface, they seem like the average single-parent family. But what no one else knows is that...
View Article15 Best Muslim YA Books
In most of the books I've listed below, the main characters are practicing Muslims, some even donning the hijab. Some of these books show the challenges teens face as a result of culture. Others show...
View ArticleREVIEW | GOOD ENOUGH
In Paula Yoo's Good Enough, high school senior Patti Yoon is preparing to retake the SATs after failing to make her Korean proud with her 2010 score. It doesn't help that she's also lost her...
View ArticleREVIEW | The Silence Between Us
In The Silence Between Us, Maya who is Deaf, has to move across the country to Colorado just before senior year. As if that isn't bad enough, she's moving from a hearing-impaired school to a hearing...
View ArticleREVIEW | 10 BLIND DATES
Sophie is looking forward to getting time away from her parents for the holidays. They're visiting her heavily pregnant sister over the holidays. But she's especially happy because she's looking...
View Article15 Young Adult Books to Read in the Second Half of 2020
I haven't read YA in agessss, but with so many exciting 2020 fall YA books on display, it was tough not to be tempted. I already bought one of the books on this list of 2020 fall YA books -- and have...
View ArticleReview | Now That I’ve Found You
Now That I've Found You is Kristina Forest's sophomore YA novel. This book focuses on Evie, an up and coming actress with a family in the film-making industry. Her grandmother (Gigi) is a movie star...
View ArticleReview | Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
I was a bit scared to read Jackson's Grown, because I've read both of her books and they were absorbing, but difficult to read. I was worried about getting my head into a potentially triggering plot,...
View ArticleReview | Far from Normal
Far from Normal follows Maddy, a 17-year-old from Normal, Illinois who moves to Chicago for a summer internship in aunt's sports marketing company. Away from home -- and her parents' low expectations...
View ArticleReview | Almost American Girl
Almost American Girl is Robin Ha's graphic memoir detailing her move from South Korea to Huntsville, Alabama. Robin is 14 when she and her mother leave for one of their regular visits to the US....
View ArticleReview | The Code for Love and Heartbreak
In The Code for Love and Heartbreak, Emma Woodhouse, math genius and co-president of her school's coding club creates dating app for her classmates. Emma has poor social skills and doesn't read social...
View ArticleReview | The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
I fell for The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling just for its name alone. Thankfully, the premise is equally as captivating. Anna Chiu is a high schooler who has her hands full caring for her little...
View ArticleReview | Happily Ever Afters
In Happily Ever Afters, Tessa Johnson and her family have moved into a new neighborhood, hoping for a fresh start. Tessa will be attending a high school for the arts where she can have dedicated...
View ArticleReview | Love Is a Revolution
In Love Is a Revolution, Nala Robertson is a big Black girl who lives with her cousin Imani and Imani's parents. Imani is an environmental activist with the group Inspire Harlem. When Nala attends...
View ArticleReview | Charming As a Verb
Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger's mom says he's "charming as a verb" -- and she's right! Henri's parents are Haitian immigrants. While his dad is their building's Super, his mom is studying to become a...
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