We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist“When I was twenty-five years old, it came to my attention that I had never had a girlfriend”–the first line of this compelling and occasionally ridiculous true story.Josh Sundquist has written a funny, awkward memoir about his dating (or not-dating) foibles, and has done so with a good […]
by Claudia Gray Marguerite Caine is an artist in a family of scientists. Her parents are physicists that invented a device to travel to parallel-universes that they call the Firebird. When Marguerite’s father is murdered, all fingers point to one of his assistants: the quiet and awkward Paul, who immediately jumps into another universe to […]
By Danielle PaigeWe’ve all heard the tales. Dorothy, a simple farm girl from Kansas and her peppy little dog Toto, are whisked away by a tornado to a magical land called Oz. There she meets a strange assortment of friends, and in a deal with the Wizard of Oz she battles the Wicked Witch of the East […]
by Bryan Lee O’Malley Have you ever wondered what would happen if you could change the past? Katie is about to find out in this new stand-alone graphic novel from best-selling cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley. Katie is a young restaurant owner who lives in an apartment above her restaurant. One night she discovers that there […]
by David Levithan’A’ is a soul who wakes up in a different body every single day. This has been happening since the day he/she was born. Every day ‘A’, who is of indeterminate gender, race and physical appearance, gets to be the person whose body he/she is inhibiting, and has access to their memories and […]
Stone in the SkyBy Cecil CastellucciHave you ever gone to the library to pick up the newest book series only to find that the first book in the series is out. Well that is what happened here but I decided to try reading the second book first and see how it went. I was not disappointed […]
100 Sideways Milesby Andrew Smith Here’s what you need to know about Finn Easton: He has one blue eye and one green eye. He lives in the shadow of his father’s cult-classic book, in which the main character bears an uncanny resemblance to Finn. He measures the world in miles instead of minutes. He plays […]
by Sarah Lynn Scheerger Gabi, a senior in high school, is an over-achiever. She volunteers, gets straight As, and has already submitted early action applications to her colleges of choice. Things are going according to plan, until a bomb scare at her school turns her life upside down. The cops are able to find the […]
Things I know about LoveBy Kate Le VannI was looking to read a little something with some romance and this popped out at me from the shelf. I was intrigued because of the premise; a young woman travels half way across the world to visit her brother after she has won a battle with Leukaemia, […]
By Sarah DessenSydney has lived her whole life in the shadow of her older brother Peyton. Everyone in her life, especially her parents, dote on him despite his continued troubles with the law. Then one night, her brother gets in real trouble when he drives drunk and hits a boy on a bike. Now Sydney […]