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Review by Krista
PEARL by Deirdre Riordan HallPaperback: 352 pagesPublisher: Skyscape (March 1, 2016)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon
Run fast and run far, unless you’re fearless. Unless you’re courageous. I’m not, but I’d like to be.
Pearl Jaeger is seventeen and homeless after drugs, poverty, and addiction unraveled the life she shared with JJ, her formerly glamorous rock star mother.
Review by Sara...
RULES FOR 50/50 CHANCES
By Kate McGovern
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 24, 2015)
Language: English
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A heartrending but ultimately uplifting debut novel about learning to accept life's uncertainties; a perfect fit for the current trend in contemporary realistic novels that confront issues about life, death, and
Review by Jackie
THE WAY I USED TO BE
By Amber Smith
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (March 22, 2016)
Language: English
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In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel shares the unforgettable story of a young woman as she struggles to find strength in the aftermath of an assault.Eden was always good at being good. Starting high
Review by Krista
The Good Sister by Jamie Kain
Hardcover, 304 pages Published October 7th 2014
by St. Martin's Griffin
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The Kinsey sisters live in an unconventional world. Their parents are former flower-children who still don’t believe in rules. Their small, Northern California town is filled with free spirits and damaged souls seeking refuge from the real world.
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Review by Leydy
NOT AFTER EVERYTHING
by Michelle LevyHardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: Dial Books (August 4, 2015)Language: EnglishAmazon | Goodreads
Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself. And Tyler lets it all go. Now he needs to dodge what his dad is offering (verbal tirades and abuse) and
Review by Leydy
THE AUGUST FIVEby Jenna HellandAge Range: 12 - 18 yearsHardcover: 320 pagesPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (November 10, 2015)Goodreads | Amazon
In a world rocked by revolt, your worst enemy can become your greatest hopeFourteen-year-old Tommy Shore lives a life of privilege: he has the finest clothing, food, and education available and servants to take care of his
Review by Valerie
THE ANATOMICAL SHAPE OF A HEARTby Jenn BennettAge Range: 12 - 18 yearsHardcover: 304 pagesPublisher: Feiwel & Friends (November 3, 2015)Amazon | Goodreads
Artist Beatrix Adams knows exactly how she's spending the summer before her senior year. Determined to follow in Da Vinci's footsteps, she's ready to tackle the one thing that will give her an advantage in a
Review by Leydy
ONEby Sarah CrossanHardcover: 400 pagesPublisher: Greenwillow Books (September 15, 2015)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon
Tippi and Grace share everything—clothes, friends . . . even their body. Writing in free verse, Sarah Crossan tells the sensitive and moving story of conjoined twin sisters, which will find fans in readers of Gayle Forman, Jodi Picoult, and Jandy Nelson.
Review by Leydy
WHAT WE SAWby Aaron HartzlerHardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: HarperTeen (September 22, 2015)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon
The party at John Doone's last Saturday night is a bit of a blur. Kate Weston can piece together most of the details: Stacey Stallard handing her shots, Ben Cody taking her keys and getting her home early. . . . But when a picture of Stacey passed out
by Paola
DUMPLIN
by Julie MurphyHardcover: 384 pagesPublisher: Balzer + Bray (September 15, 2015)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon
Dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom, Willowdean has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American-beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always
Review by Krista
FIGby Sarah Elizabeth Schantz File Size: 2115 KBPrint Length: 352 pagesPublisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (April 7, 2015) Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc Goodreads | Amazon
Love and sacrifice intertwine in this brilliant and provocative debut of rare beauty about a girl dealing with her mother’s schizophrenia and her own mental illness.
Fig’s world lies
Reviewed by Jess
ELENA VANISHINGby Elena Dunkle & Clare B. DunkleHardcover: 288 pagesPublisher: Chronicle Books (May 19, 2015)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon
Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of
Review by Paola
CHALLENGER DEEPby Neal ShustermanHardcover: 320 pagesPublisher: HarperTeen (April 21, 2015)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon
A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.
Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth:
Review by Bri
The Queen of Bright and Shiny ThingsAnn AguirrePublished: 7th April, 2015Feiwel & FriendsGenre: Contemporary, RomanceAge: Young AdultFrom: Publisher ARC
Sage Czinski is trying really hard to be perfect. If she manages it, people won’t peer beyond the surface, or ask hard questions about her past. She’s learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it’s working just fine…
by andye
I Was HereBy Gayle FormanHardcover: 288 pagesPublisher: Viking Juvenile (January 27, 2015)Language: EnglishGoodreads | Amazon
Cody and Meg were inseparable.
Two peas in a pod.
Until . . . they weren’t anymore.
When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—
Review by Andye
RITES OF PASSAGE Audiobook Rites of Passage UNABRIDGED By Joy N. Hensley Narrated By Khristine Hvam Whispersync for Voice-ready Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins Release Date: 09-09-14
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Sam McKenna has never turned down a dare. And she's not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died.
So Sam joins the first-ever class of
by Andye
WE WERE LIARS
by E. Lockhart
Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 and up
Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers
Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
Format: Unabridged
Release Date: 05-13-14
Publisher: Listening Library
Program Type: Audiobook
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A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four
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Hello, my name is Amy and I write book reviews for Reading Teen. I have been writing young adult book reviews for years. Right at this moment I've been indulging in more new adult, collage age, adult books. I will still read young adult, just because every time I do, I love it so very much. I will continue to write young adult reviews for you, however I have set aside Sundays just for my
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile; Penguin 1 edition (October 20, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525421556 ISBN-13: 978-0525421559 Hold Still 
by Nina LaCourGrade 10 Up—After losing her best friend, Ingrid, to suicide, Caitlin is completely immobilized. Unable to function, and refusing to visit a therapist, she begins the long journey to wellness alone. During this year of heart-wrenching, raw emotion, Caitlin finds Ingrid's journal, which not only reveals her descent into irreversible depression, but also serves as Caitlin's vehicle for renewed hope in the future. The book is written with honesty, revealing one's pain after the loss of a loved one. Caitlin learns, with the help of new friends and her parents, that there is life after Ingrid.—"...A new song started, and as soon as the man started singing, with this voice that was urgent and calm all at once, I froze. I stood in the middle of the dancing strangers. It was the moment where I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and make you feel so good all at once. I just stood there with my eyes closed, feeling the movement of all the people around me, the vibration of the bass rise through the floor to my throat. While something inside me broke and cam back together." - favorite quote
I LOVED this book.
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- Reading level: Young Adult
- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (November 2, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316090530
- ISBN-13: 978-0316090537
Some schools have honor codes.Others have handbooks.Themis Academy has the Mockingbirds.I picked up a copy of
The Mockingbirds
at ALA this summer, and I've been trying to wait patiently for it to release. I "met" Daisy Whitney on Twitter a couple of months ago, and I think she's one of the nicest people I've ever talked to, so when she mentioned that her book was about date-rape, and that she had experience date-rape herself, I knew this was a book that was going to be important.
The story starts off in the midst of things, when Alex wakes up in a bed that isn't her own. She doesn't know how she got there, and she's not even sure what the name of the boy she's laying next to is. At first she gets angry at herself, thinking that she must have gotten too drunk and just made a stupid decision, wondering how on earth she could have done something so rash when she was a virgin who had always said "no" in the past. But with the support of her incredible friends and sister, she realizes that what actually happened to her was date-rape, and that it was wrong. Unfortunately, Alex attends Themis boarding school, where everything is perfect and no student ever does any wrong, so finding support from the "powers that be", just isn't going to happen. That's when she turns to
The Mockingbirds, a group of students that are fed up with the way injustices are dealt with, or rather
not dealt with, by the teachers, and have come up with a way to deal out a justice of their own.
So often when I talk to teens about "issue" books, especially ones that deal with rape, they appreciate what the book was about, but think that the book is really depressing, or even boring. (I know that sounds harsh, but teens are honest....that's what I love about their reviews!) The thing that makes this book (that deals with a horrible act of violence) different, is that it isn't like that at all. While Alex still deals with the trauma, the guilt, the self-hatred, and the fear of a victim of rape, she is also just the "girl-next-door." She's funny, caring, resilient, and loves the piano and her friends. Although she is deeply affected by what has happened to her, she doesn't let it become her. I think a lot of that has to do with her inner strength, and a lot also has to do with the fantastic support of her friends. When she couldn't face the hard things, they were there to face them with her. I LOVED her friends!!
I
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Simon Pulse; Original edition (July 20, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416989501
ISBN-13: 978-1416989509
Author's Web Site: http://www.caroleedean.com/
Where do I begin with this book? Is it enough for me to say, just go read it? Probably not, huh? Take Me There
was sent to us a couple of months ago, and has been sitting on my shelf ever since (while I try to tackle this never-ending TBR pile). It looked, from the cover, like a cute little fluff book. A romance that might be fun to read sometime. Let me just tell you, DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER!! (Have you heard that before?) This book was NOT fluff!
So many things happened and so many issues were tackled that I just don't know where to start or how to end. When Dylan Dawson was just six years old, his father was arrested for murder. He has grown up his entire life believing that he was worthless and had no future. Add to this the fact that he can't read or write very well, and you have a recipe for disaster. Dylan was recently released from Juvie for working at a chop shop (stealing cars and selling the parts), and has vowed to turn his life around. If not for himself, then for Jess, the girl he hopes to one day be good enough for. But trouble seems to find Dylan wherever he hides, and soon he is running from his past, from the cops, and for his life. His journey takes him to Texas, where he hopes to visit his imprisoned father and find the answers to the questions he's been asking his whole life.
Dylan takes us with him on his journey to escape his past. We travel with him and his best friend, Wade, to Texas, where we meet his convict father, his eccentric grandmother, and her very interesting pig. The story jumps from the present, to the past, where Dylan paints a picture of the life he was hoping to have with Jess, the girl he has loved since childhood. He shows us the poetry he has to fight to write because he doesn't know how to
Kendra, fifteen, hasn't felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially because she still can't remember the most important detail-- her abuser's identity. Frightened, Kendra believes someone is always watching and following her, leaving menacing messages only she understands. If she lets her guard down even for a minute, it could cost Kendra her life. To relieve the pressure, Kendra cuts; aside from her brilliantly expressive artwork, it's her only way of coping. Since her own mother is too self-absorbed to hear her cries for help, Kendra finds support in others instead: from her therapist and her art teacher, from Sandy, the close family friend who encourages her artwork, and from Meghan, the classmate who's becoming a friend and maybe more. But the truth about Kendra's abuse is just waiting to explode, with startling unforeseen consequences. Scars is the unforgettable story of one girl's frightening path to the truth.It's hard to talk about a book like this and say that I liked it. The subject is so overwhelming, that "like" just doesn't fit. It absolutely held my attention. I felt a range of emotions throughout the entire book. Anger, sadness, fear, sometimes hope, and always disbelief that anyone could go through what Kendra had to go through and survive. I can't imagine going through every day life with this kind of pain. How she could be expected to care about school, classes, etc. when she was dealing with the memory of being raped since she was two years o
I agree. I loved this book as well. There were so many things about it that made it purely it's own-- like how you mentioned that Caitlin did odd things to deal with her grief. She was completely her own just like all the other aspects in the book which made this one an incredible read. Thanks for the review!