Genre: Young Adult Swim Season is the fast-paced, drama driven story of Olympic hopeful Aerin Keane, starting senior year in her third high school and trying NOT to win. But can she hide her natural talent and competitive streak? Especially when a 50,000-dollar scholarship is on the line? Link to buy book Read an interview with this author … [Read more...]
FEATURED BOOK: The War of the Stories: Adventures in another dimension for young adult by Galia Koplis
Genre: young adult, Adventure The story of stories. Find how stories fight other stories. We all have stories. Throughout our life, we move from one story to another. We have different stories in the childhood, fairy tales for kids and paranormal fantasy magic. Teens have different stories and so as adults. These young adult fantasy stories fight each other. Why do our stories fight? … [Read more...]
Gift Guide: Success Before Sex by Sharnice A. Jones
Targeted Age Group:: 12 - 17 Category: YA - Literature & Fiction About Success Before Sex: It's About Priorities, Not Perfection As honest as it is easy read, "Success Before Sex" is written by a teenager, for a young teenage audience. Sex can be difficult for teenagers to openly talk about with adults, leaving high risk for misinformation and misunderstanding. "Success Before Sex" is a suitable tool for starting a dialogue on this sensitive subject. The young author details her … [Read more...]
Melody Madson – May It Please the Court? by Jodie Toohey
Weeks pass before Melody finally gets her big break when senior partner at Lazlo, Marshdon and Brown assigns her first real case. Melody’s relationship with her best friend, Jewel, becomes strained as her friendship with another associate, Maggie, advances and she develops romantic feelings for her boss’ son, Eric. Her feelings for Eric deepen, her relationship with Jewel sours, the key medical record in her case is lost, and Melody feels her life is crumbling. After working the entire … [Read more...]
FEATURED BOOK: True Colors by Krysten Lindsay Hager
Insert Book Cover Link from BookStoreGenre: YA, middle grade, children's Landry gets pushed into trying out for the American Ingénue reality show modeling competition with her two best friends. She doesn’t think she stands a chance, but she advances to the next level in the competition and her friends ignore her when they get cut. Enter the gorgeous Devon, who also makes the first cut and includes Landry in her clique. Devon becomes the perfect best friend, but can their friendship … [Read more...]
FEATURED BOOK: SOUL FIRE by Nancy Allan
Genre: Young Adult - Literature & Fiction In a heartbeat, a single mistake can alter everything . . . and suddenly you realize . . . life will never ever be the same. Popular Ashla Cameron can do no wrong until the day she makes a devastating mistake. Instantly, she lands in the crosshairs of angry students. Classmates and friends shun her. School bullies hone in on her, and she is targeted by the nefarious Mako Zelter. Her three friends stand strong to protect her, but things spiral … [Read more...]
Memoirs of an Ordinary Girl: The Middle-ish Ages by Terri Klaes Harper @DrewHotchner
Set in the time while the ‘80s were fading into the ‘90s and the poofiness of hair and shoulder pads was soon to deflate, this coming of age story retells the experiences of Drew Hotchner, an “extraordinarily ordinary” girl, through her possibly wiser and more honest adult self. Drew struggles not only with the unavoidable awkwardness of being in middle school, but also with having to start over again her entire social world after experiencing the culture shock of moving across the country from … [Read more...]
Flower in the Hills by Norma Jean Lutz @BeANovelist
Latina Harmen knew she was going to hate Missouri. “There’s nothing in Missouri!” she had told her father when he announced they were to spend the summer there. And now she knew she had been one hundred and ten percent right. Latina had taken for granted that she would be spending another happy summer vacation with her friends at Periwinkle Cove on the East Coast. After all, her family had spent summers there as long as she could remember. Now, in the summer before her senior year, she … [Read more...]
Because of the Moon by C.J. Cutayne
If you liked The Cat's Table or The Casual Vacancy then this is the book for you. "Obedience is for dogs,” spouts Jay; an out of control thirteen year old. Arrested for being at a chop shop, Jay can either go to juvenile detention or move to the poor Indian reservation his mother shunned fourteen years ago where his estranged grandfather will oversee Jay’s penance. Jay's latest prank,'rat day', may have to happen without him. Thirteen year old graffiti artist Jay Roberts is caught in a … [Read more...]
Heartland by Warren Bull
Sixteen-year-old TOM ALLEN’s life is imploding. His father banished Tom from his life; Tom’s stepfather is entirely too interested in commenting on Tom’s behavior. What makes it worse is that his stepfather’s comments are usually right on target. Then Tom’s beloved grandma suffers a stroke, which leaves his mother emotionally distant. Meanwhile his older sister is too sophisticated to worry about his concerns. When Tom reads an old family memoir from his grandma’s cedar chest he becomes … [Read more...]
