The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh

Standalone. Little, Brown (Jan. 2015) Library
Take two sisters making it on their own: brainy twelve-year-old GiGi (short for Galileo Galilei, a name she never says out loud) and junior-high-dropout-turned-hairstylist DiDi (short for Delta Dawn). Add a million dollars in prize money from a national…

The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski

Standalone. Farrar Straus Giroux (October 2012) Library
Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere—but she couldn’t have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago F…

Black Crow White Lie by Candi Sary

Standalone. Casperian Books (2012) Author I could feel tiny stars gather in my hands... Carson Calley grew up living in Hollywood motels with his fortune-telling mother, who is full of stories about their lives together and prophesies about his future. We were Indians - Californian Indians. This pale …

Love Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl #2. Alfred A. Knopf. (August 2007) Library Dear Leo,                                                                                      I love beginnings. What better way to celebrate than to begin writing a letter to my once (and future?) boyfriend. Stargirl has moved and left everything …

The Originals by Cat Patrick

Standalone. Little, Brown and Company (May 2013) Own
A riveting new story from Cat Patrick, author of Forgotten and Revived.
17-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey Best grew up as identical triplets... until they discovered a shocking family secret. They're actually closer than sisters, they'r…

Mini Reviews: Anya's Ghost, Mudman, and Sumo

Standalone. First Second (June 2011) Library Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part...
Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who’s been dead for …

Being Henry David by Cal Armistead

Title: Being Henry David
Author: Cal Armistead
Stand Alone
Format- ebook
Publisher- Albert Whitman Teen
Release Date- March 1st, 2013
Pages- 321
Source- NetGalley

Seventeen-year-old "Hank" has found himself at Penn Station in New York City with no memory of anything --who he is, where he …

How Not to Be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler

Title: How Not to be Popular
Author: Jennifer Ziegler
Stand Alone
Format- Paperback
Publisher- Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Published- January 8th, 2008
Pages- 352
Source- Own

Maggie Dempsey is tired of moving all over the country. Her parents are second-generation hippies who uproot her every…

Torn by Stephanie Guerra

Stella Chavez has always been the good girl who never attracted attention. She is on the soccer team so she does have a jock boyfriend but other than that she's not popular but she's not a total loser too. Her mother works tirelessly to feed her and her younger brother and sister that she h…

Supernaturally by Kiersten White

Supernaturally, the sequel to Paranormalcy, continues the mishap adventures of Evie. She's living a normal life now but she isn't as happy as she thought she was. She wanted normal but there is no drama or fights everyday like her favorite show, Easton Heights. In other words it's bori…

Zero by Tom Leveen

Amanda Walsh's a.k.a. Zero's life has made a turn for the worse. Her parents are still arguing, her dad is still drinking way too much, she wasn't able to get scholarship money to go to her dream school, and her and her best friend are just not talking.

She loves the artist Salvador Da…

Addison Blakely: Confessions of a PK by Betsy St. Amant

Addison Blakely is a PK. After seeing the words PK mentioned oddly in two books I've read in the past couple of weeks I have finally discovered what it means! Yay for me! It means preacher's kid. She does everything for her father (well that's how I see it) while he's always away d…
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