Book Reviews
Brendan and Neal Shusterman.Neal Shusterman's novel Challenger Deep (HarperTeen, 14 years and up) is a swirling, surrealistic look inside the mind of one teen, Caden, who is struggling with mental illness. Chapters narrated by Caden alternate between a bizarre shipboard setting and the world we know, all viewed through the...
Adolescence is a time of self-discovery — and of deciding how much of that self to reveal to others. These new YA books explore themes of honesty and dishonesty, secret selves and public personas.When compiling the book Things I'll Never Say: Stories About Our Secret Selves, editor Ann Angel asked...
Roller Girlby Victoria Jamieson; illus. by the authorIntermediate, Middle School Dial 240 pp.3/15 978-0-8037-4016-7 $12.99When Astrid’s best friend Nicole starts harping on ballet, fashion, and dating, Astrid is left behind (read: not interested). She’s behind on the roller derby track, too, where she’s signed up for summer boot camp even...
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...
Tales of Bunjitsu Bunnyby John Himmelman; illus. by the authorPrimary Holt 128 pp.10/14 978-0-8050-9970-6 $13.99e-book ed. 978-0-8050-9972-0 $9.49Young rabbit Isabel is known as Bunjitsu Bunny for her proficiency in martial arts class. Himmelman’s thirteen short, generously illustrated chapters relate Isabel’s adventures as she demonstrates that “bunjitsu is not just about...
Paper Thingsby Jennifer Richard JacobsonIntermediate, Middle School Candlewick 378 pp.2/15 978-0-7636-6323-0 $16.99 gBefore her death four years earlier, Ari and Gage’s mother had urged them to “stay together always.” Now it has been two months since nineteen-year-old Gage and eleven-year-old Ari left their overbearing guardian’s home to strike out on...
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...
Conspiracy theory or everyday life? These new YA novels — three thrillers and one dark comedy — star teen protagonists finding their places in worlds manipulated by not-so-scrupulous corporations.Walter Dean Myers's posthumously published On a Clear Day takes place in 2035. The Central Eight (C-8) companies rule everything, enriching themselves...
The War That Saved My Lifeby Kimberly Brubaker BradleyIntermediate Dial 316 pp.1/15 978-0-8037-4081-5 $16.99 ge-book ed. 978-1-101-63780-7 $10.99Ten-year-old Ada has suffered almost unimaginable deprivation and abuse due to an unrepaired clubfoot: she has never been outside her squalid London flat; she’s hit, underfed, belittled, and locked inside a dark cupboard...
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