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Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Friday, March 7, 2014

Review: The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

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Tags: young adult, dystopian, sci-fi, LGBT, POC, art Summary The lush city of Palmares Três shimmers with tech and tradition, with screa...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Review: The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

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Tags: young adult, contemporary, PTSD, romance Summary Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high schoo...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Review: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

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Tags: young adult, contemporary, suicide, murder, bullying Summary Today is Leonard Peacock's birthday. It is also the day he hides ...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

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Tags: YA, paranormal, vampires, romance Summary Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined m...
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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Review: Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

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Code Name Verity review Tags: young adult, middle grade, historical fiction, World War II, pilots, concentration camps, poetry Summary ...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

Review: Vessel by Sarah Beth Durst

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Tags: young adult, fantasy, magic, desert, POC Summary Liyana has trained her entire life to be the vessel of a goddess. She will dance ...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Review: Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier

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Shadowfell, Book 2 Book 1: Shadowfell review Tags: young adult, middle grade, fantasy, magic Summary With an accelerated timeline, N...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Review: Some Quiet Place by Kelsey Sutton

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Tags: young adult, supernatural, abuse Summary Elizabeth Caldwell doesn’t feel emotions . . . she sees them. Longing, Shame, and Courage...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Review: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

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Lunar Chronicles, Book 2 Book 1: Cinder review Tags: young adult, sci-fi/fantasy/dystopian, France, retelling Summary Scarlet Benoi...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Review: Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith

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Tags: young adult, contemporary, grief, music, piano, mental illness Summary When a strange caller informs young pianist Kiri Byrd he h...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

Review: Yellowcake by Margo Lanagan

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Tags: young adult, fantasy, short story collection Summary Yellowcake brings together ten short stories from the extraordinarily talent...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Review: Truth or Dare by Jacqueline Green

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Truth or Dare, Book 1 Tags: YA, contemporary, mystery, suspense, thriller, betrayal Summary Echo Bay is a picture-perfect oceanside to...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Review: Art Girls Are Easy by Julie Klausner

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Tags: young adult, contemporary, summer camp, art, friendship, sex Summary Fifteen-year-old Indigo Hamlisch is an art prodigy looking fo...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Review: Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta

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Lumatere Chronicles, Book 3 Book 1: Finnikin of the Rock Book 2: Froi of the Exiles review Tags: YA, fantasy Summary Princess Quint...
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Monday, April 1, 2013

Review: This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith

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Tags: YA, contemporary, romance, small towns Summary G emails E by accident and the two strike up a never-ending interaction that both...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Review: A Corner of White by Jaclyn Moriarty

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The Colors of Madeleine, Book 1 Tags: young adult, Aussie YA, England, alternate worlds, epistolary, he-said/she-said Summary 14-yea...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Review: The Diviners by Libba Bray

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The Diviners, Book 1 Tags: young adult, historical, paranormal, 1920s Summary Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old h...
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Friday, March 15, 2013

Review: Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Book 2 Tags: YA, fantasy, angels, demons, love, war Review …And here, my interest in this series comes t...
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Friday, March 8, 2013

Review: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

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Tags: YA, historical fiction, New Orleans, 1950s, prostitution Summary At the turn of the second half of the twentieth century, Josie ...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Review: The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth

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Tags: YA, LGBT Summary Cameron Post’s parents died in a car accident the day she kissed a girl. That, and Cameron’s conservative Monta...
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