The Book: Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins
A Note: I don’t usually fangirl and I don’t usually buy books the day they are released. I did both in this time around and I’m oh, so glad. Because I love the Hunger Games series and I want you to read it too, I want to give you this [...]
After doing my flashback on Forever Angels last week, it got me thinking about how I really did have a thing for sad, twisty books when I was middle school aged. I’m not really sure why. I had a pretty normal family life, didn’t know a ton of people who had died, [...]
The Book: Looking for Alaska, by John Green
The Story: This is a pretty basic YA novel: Miles is kind of quirky. His particular quirk is that he loves to know people’s last words before they die. He has about a zillion that he’s memorized and he reads tons of biographies so that he can collect [...]
Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Greene
Writing about The Savior a couple of days ago got me thinking about some of my first exposures to the Holocaust. I read this when I was probably a little bit too young. I know that some high school teachers assign this book, but I’m pretty sure I [...]
Homecoming, by Cynthia Voight
Before I tell you about this book, let me say that finding the cover that I remember it having (the pinkish one that I posted up there) was a giant pain. I even re-bought this book recently at the goodwill and it had this cover, but the one that I found every [...]
The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
So, I loved this book when I was growing up. I read it when I was pretty young and saw the movie and thought that it was all pretty great. Then, in maybe 6th or 7th grade (I really have no idea) we read it as a class and I learned [...]
The Book: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
The Story: Nick sees his ex-girlfriend (who he is still pretty much in love with) in a bar with another guy and impulsively asks the girl closest to him to be his girlfriend for five minutes to show his ex-girlfriend that he’s over [...]
The Book: Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher
The Story: The narrator of this book is a teenage boy named Clay. He gets home from school one day to find a package. Turns out, it’s full of tapes from a girl named Hannah who had killed herself just last week. As the tapes begin, she says [...]
The Book: Liar, by Justine Larbalestier
The Story: This book opens with Micah confessing that she is a pathological liar, but that she promises not to lie to us.
In the past, she has told outrageous lies to everyone in her life. She told her classmates that she was a boy… then that her dad was a [...]
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Ann Brashares
This book came out when I was a sophomore, maybe a junior in high school. I can remember being at the bookstore with my best friend and us both getting a copy. We totally fell in love with it and read it over and over. As the [...]