It’s the fall of 1942 in New York City, and Iris Anderson’s life is falling apart. Her Pop has uprooted them from their comfortable place on the Upper East Side to a shabby building on the Lower East Side. And worse still, Iris has to attend public school for the first time in her life….
Tag: young adult fiction
Review: Sorcery and Cecelia
Kate and Cecelia are disheartened about not being able to spend the Season together in London, and so must console each other by writing letters. Low spirits cannot last long in the face of adventure, however, and soon the girls find themselves in the middle of an alarming plot. First Kate is nearly poisoned while…
Review: The Future of Us
It’s 1996, and Emma has just gotten her first computer, as well as an America Online CD-ROM — a loaner from her neighbor and friend-since-childhood Josh. The two haven’t spent much time together recently, not since a misunderstanding a few months before. So Josh’s willingness to lend the CD-ROM feels a bit like a peace…
Review: The Last Dragonslayer
Hereford was once a magical place, full of wizards who could control the weather and bend time to their will. But that was a long time ago. The magic is dying, and now even the most powerful spellcasters are reduced to scraping by on unclogging drains and rewiring houses. Jennifer Strange, foundling and acting operator…
Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Nothing about Karou is normal — from the top of her blue-haired head to her tattoos and fantastic sketches of monsters that may or may not be real. Her friends wonder at her imagination, but the truth is it’s all truth. Issa and Brimstone, baby teeth and wishes and locked doors. A child raised by…