by Megan Stevens | May 11, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Young Adult
Simon Mason’s sequel to the Running Girl, Kid Alone, features Garvie Smith, a high school student who has a high I.Q. and photographic memory, but is easily uninterested, bored, and lazy when it comes to school. In the sequel, Garvie is caught up in another mystery, a...
by Megan Stevens | Apr 27, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Young Adult
Adriana Mather’s sequel to How to Hang a Witch is just as riveting as its predecessor, taking place in modern day Salem, while combining history, mystery, suspense, paranormal elements, and magic. Mather’s sequel, Haunting the Deep, takes place months after the events...
by Howard Leighton | Mar 29, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Education, Parenting & Families, Tweens, Young Adult
A Pakistani immigrant, a naturalized citizen of this country, a lawyer and a Gold Star father has written this book about the significance and importance of our Constitution. This is a small book, but one with a clear and articulate review and explanation of the...
by Brandon Sanford | Feb 28, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels, Portland Publishers, Young Adult
Have you ever wanted to have aliens sweep you away to compete on an intergalactic cooking show, while developing a sweet romance and dodging your rival’s plots to end your existence? In Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster, Peony has secured an...
by Barbara Cothern | Feb 21, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Sponsored, Young Adult
The presumed suicide of seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Gray shocks the residents of her town. Not that they really knew her; no one really knew Elizabeth. She lived with her mother in a house and they mostly kept to themselves. The only people who really knew Elizabeth...
by Barbara Cothern | Feb 2, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, NW Author, Portland Publishers, Young Adult
Seventeen-year-old Meri Miller is way past ready to leave her tiny town of Soldotna, Alaska. She’s not sure what she wants to do but she knows she wants to do it elsewhere. All Meri wants to do is spend her senior year applying to colleges, hanging out with her best...
