by Addison Fleming | May 24, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Young Adult
Together, Lila and Robert have three daughters: Emma, Quinn, and Mattie. Following their divorce, Lila and Robert started new families resulting in Lila’s son, Ray, and Robert’s daughter, Sasha. Aside from the three eldest daughters, the only thing these families have...
by Howard Leighton | May 1, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Humor, Science & Technology, Young Adult
In 1987 Billy, Clark, and Alf discover the photograph publication of “the pride of our nation” (Vanna White) in the primer men’s magazine, Playboy. Thus begins the quest by the 14-year-old best friends to obtain a copy of the magazine. Billy is the...
by Brandon Sanford | Jan 27, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult
This is the story the people of the town would tell: there was an old water tower, so old it had become a danger, like an old tree ready to topple to the next storm. So the people of the town brought down that water tower like a tree, breaking its supports and letting...
by Megan Stevens | Dec 30, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult
Colleen Houck’s second installment to her best selling Reawakened series, Recreated, adds more character development, mythology, and relationship dynamics, and greatly building upon the first novel. This series follows Lily, a New York City native, who discovers that...
by Julia Gaskill | Dec 22, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Romance, Young Adult
It’s hard being both an overachiever and an outsider, but when set in one’s ways it can take a lot to break the habit. In Julia Day’s The Possibility of Somewhere, Eden Moore is used to being the top student in her class as well as being invisible. Her economic...
by Megan Stevens | Dec 20, 2016 | Action & Adventure, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Young Adult
M.P. Kozlowsky’s young adult, science fiction novel, Frost, combines fairy tale elements, a Dystopian society, robots, adventure, and survival to create a thrilling coming-of-age novel. Frost has been alienated from the rest of the world, hiding with her robot, Bunt,...