Book Review: Veronica Roth’s Divergent
Society is divided into factions dedicated to a virtue. Beatrice/Tris must choose between family or brutal testing, true friends, and how romance fits into her new life.
Category: Target Audience
Book Review: Chris Crutcher’s Period 8
Telling the truth can cause problems, and not minor ones. And as Paulie discovers, finding the truth can be even more problematic. Period 8 is supposed to be that one period in high school where the truth can shine, a safe haven. Only what Paulie and Hannah (his ex-girlfriend, unfortunately) and his other classmates don’t know is that the ultimate bully, the ultimate liar, is in their midst.
Book Review: Patti Wheeler & Keith Hemstreet’s Botswana
On safari in Botswana, Gannon and Wyatt rescue a lioness and her cubs from a poacher, discovering the dangerous animals are not the elephants, rhinos, cape buffalos, leopards, and lions.
Book Review: Michelle Gagnon’s Don’t Turn Around
Sixteen-year-old Noa has been a victim of the system ever since her parents died. Now living off the grid and trusting no one, she uses her hacking skills to stay anonymous and alone. But when she wakes up on a table in a warehouse with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side.
Book Review: Soman Chainani’s The School for Good and Evil
For two hundred years, a pair of students are kidnapped, and the good Sophie and villainous Agatha, best friends, are the latest to discover where all the lost children go. It’s a reversal of their expectations with Sophie forced to learn Uglification, Death Curses, and Henchmen Training while Agatha is pushed into classes in Princess Etiquette and Animal Communication. Is it a mistake or is it the first clue?
Book Review: Patricia Polacco’s Pink and Say
A picture book about the Civil War, and how a young black soldier rescues a white soldier, opening young readers’ eyes to the injustices of slavery and the senselessness of war.
Book Review: Rachel Caine’s Fall of Night
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Fall of Nightby Rachel Caine urban fantasy in Hardcover edition that was published by New American Library (NAL) on May 7, 2013 and has 352 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Undone, Unknown, Ghost Town, Rachel Caine, Bite Club, Dark and Stormy Knights, Devil’s Bargain, Devil’s Due, Last Breath, Unseen, Hex Appeal, Unbroken, Black Dawn, Working Stiff, Two Weeks’ Notice, Bitter Blood, Kiss of Death, Daylighters, Kicking It, Prince of Shadows, Ink and Bone, Paper and Fire, Ash and Quill, Killman Creek, Honor Among Thieves, Smoke and Iron, Honor Bound, Honor LostFourteenth in the Morganville Vampires urban fantasy series for Young Adults in which Claire goes off to college — out of Morganville, gasp! My Take Damn, it was a good story, but I’m still disappointed with the ending. I had visions of Claire experiencing life at MIT for a few years. And I was so happy that Shane was heading there, okay, it was behind Claire’s back, […]
Book Review: Joyce Hansen’s I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
A poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.
Book Review: Patricia Polacco’s The Keeping Quilt
Patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family, and the memory quilt created from old familyt clothes, including Anna, Uncle Vladimir, Aunt Havalah , and Aunt Natasha.
Book Review: Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Inferno
A new threat to humanity has risen, now that Nick has his driver’s license. But sixteen isn’t what he thought, as Nick is neck deep in enemies out to get him.