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Review of When We Make It
When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez Middle School, High School Dial 384 pp. g 9/21 978-0-593-32448-6 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-0-593-32449-3 $10.99 Drawing on her experience growing up in 1990s Brooklyn, debut author Velasquez paints a complex portrait of a strong-voiced teen in this compelling verse novel. Sarai, thirteen when...
Review of I Have Lost My Way
I Have Lost My Wayby Gayle FormanHigh School Viking 258 pp. g3/18 978-0-425-29077-4 $18.99A chance meeting leads to intimate connections for three struggling nineteen-year-olds in Forman’s (If I Stay, rev. 7/09; I Was Here, rev. 1/15) latest novel. Freya is an up-and-coming singer who has lost her voice, to her...
Review of The Fashion Committee
The Fashion Committee: A Novel of Art, Crime, and Applied Designby Susan JubyHigh School Viking 311 pp.5/17 978-0-451-46878-9 $18.99From the world of artsy teens in small-town British Columbia first introduced in Juby’s The Truth Commission (rev. 3/15) comes another sly, boldly narrated contemporary tale. Two public high school students —...
Review of When My Sister Started Kissing
When My Sister Started Kissingby Helen FrostIntermediate, Middle School Ferguson/Farrar 195 pp.3/17 978-0-374-30303-7 $16.99 gClaire and Abigail have few memories of their mother — she died when they were very young — but at their family’s lakeside cabin, the girls are surrounded by the poetry,...
Review of We Come Apart
We Come Apartby Brian Conaghan and Sarah CrossanHigh School Bloomsbury 312 pp. g6/17 978-1-68119-275-8 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-68119-276-5 $12.99Two troubled UK teens forge an unlikely romance in this novel in verse. Jess, a jaded tough girl, nicked some cosmetics with friends who let her take...
Review of Ask Me How I Got Here
Ask Me How I Got Hereby Christine HeppermannHigh School Greenwillow 229 pp.5/16 978-0-06-238795-0 $17.99 ge-book ed. 978-0-06-238797-4 $9.99Catholic-school sophomore Addie loves running cross-country, writing poetry, and having sex with her thoughtful, artsy new boyfriend, Nick. Then Addie gets pregnant. Her decision to have an abortion is unwavering, and she has...
Review of Flannery
Flanneryby Lisa MooreHigh School Groundwood 272 pp.5/16 978-1-55498-076-5 $16.95e-book ed. 978-1-55498-873-0 $16.95Sixteen-year-old Flannery has a lot on her plate: she can’t afford her biology textbook (in fact, her free-spirited artist mother can’t even pay the utility bill), and her best friend Amber is unhealthily obsessed with a sketchy new boyfriend....
Review of The Walls Around Us
The Walls Around Usby Nova Ren SumaHigh School Algonquin 321 pp.3/15 978-1-61620-372-6 $17.95 ge-book ed. 978-1-61620-486-0 $17.95Orianna Speerling — the so-called “Bloody Ballerina” — is just fifteen when she is convicted of murdering two rival dancers. A month after her sentence begins, all forty-two girls interned at the Aurora Hills...
Review of I Was Here
I Was Hereby Gayle FormanHigh School Viking 272 pp.1/15 978-0-451-47147-5 $18.99 gMeg Garcia is brilliant and passionate — a standout in her dead-end Washington State hometown and a constant in best friend Cody’s unstable life. But just months after escaping to college on a prestigious scholarship, Meg checks into a...
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