(A huge thank you to the awesome bloggers at Bewitched Bookworms, from whom I won a free copy of this book as part of their “Enter the Fall Clearing” giveaway!) Megan Rosenberg is used to new places and new schools, and to never feeling quite at home in either; but inexplicably, the small town in…
Tag: young adult fiction
Review: The Alchemyst
All twin siblings Sophie and Josh wanted to do was find summer jobs to earn money to buy a car. But when an evil-looking man and his creepy grey henchmen blow up the bookstore where Josh works, the 15-year-olds come face-to-face with a world they never knew existed. Nick Fleming, the bookstore’s owner, is not…
Divergent, by Veronica Roth [Giveaway!]
From the publisher: “In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue — Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen year-olds must select the faction to…
Review: Getting the Girl, by Markus Zusak
Genre: Fiction, YA Publication Date: 2001 Cameron Wolfe is used to living in his brother Rube’s shadow. And why wouldn’t he be? Where Rube is attractive, charming, and gets all the girls, Cameron is skinny and silent, and spends most of his time in his own head. He dreams of “getting” a girl, but the…
Review: Shadowed Summer, by Saundra Mitchell
Author: Saundra Mitchell Genre: YA Fiction, Paranormal/Supernatural Publication Date: 2010 Best friends Iris and Collette have spent their entire lives in the tiny town of Ondine, Louisiana. Nothing ever happens there, and even less happens during the summer. So the girls have spent each of the previous 13 summers making magic. They’ve even written down…