Pink by Lili Wilkinson
Ava has convinced her uber-liberal parents to send her to a private school in the hopes of reinventing herself. Her current goth identity is getting old and her girlfriend Chloe is very magnetic but...
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When you’re the oldest of eight children and your mother is battling cancer, when does a teenager have time for herself? In Guadalupe Garcia McCall’s first novel, Under the Mesquite, Lupita is in high...
View ArticleChopsticks by Jessica Anthony
This is a very cool book that plays with the boundaries between novel, graphic novel and scrapbook story. It tells of the forbidden love between Glory – a piano prodigy – and Francisco – a troubled...
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The Compound by S.A. Bodeen Eli’s dad, a billionaire entrepreneur, builds a massive underground compound to save his family from nuclear disaster. Disaster strikes and Eli’s grandmother and twin...
View ArticleEve & Adam
In Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate’s, Eve and Adam, Evening (E.V.) Spiker is in a horrible car accident. She’s not at a hospital long before she is whisked away by her mother to her...
View ArticleOctober Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shephard
What You Can Do in Eighteen Hours Write a term paper Cram for a final Fly across the ocean Drive cross-country Scale a mountain Run a marathon Deliver a baby Read War and Peace Fall in love Fall out of...
View ArticlePizza, Love and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous
Are you a teen chef? Would you have what it takes to be on a reality TV cooking contest? In Kathryn Williams’ Pizza, Love and Other Stuff That Made Me Famous, Sophie Nicolaides challenges her cooking...
View ArticleIf You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
There are some things you can’t leave behind… A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare...
View ArticleCrayola’s Reading Challenge: Graphic Novel
Otomen volume 1, by Aya Kanno I finished my first reading challenge book last week! Okay, okay, it’s a graphic novel, but hey. I still finished it and now I can check that off my list. To be entirely...
View ArticleCrayola’s Reading Challenge Reviews
I’ve finished 3 more books already for the 2015 Reading Challenge! All three of these books have female authors and are set in countries other than the US, but since I’m playing Hard Mode, I can only...
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