Cinder

 

YA SERIES MEY

 

 

Sloppy Firsts

YA FIC MCC

When Jessica Darling’s best, and only friend Hope moves away, she suddenly finds herself thrust into the drama of the cliques she has so long fought to distance herself from.  Miserable and alone, Jessica must navigate through the ups and downs of high school while dealing with parents who don’t understand her and a vapid, wedding-obsessed sister. Armed with only her cynical perspective to get her through, Jessica’s must learn how to stand on her own two feet as she attempts to make sense of her new found feelings for Marcus Flutie, the boy responsible for Hope’s exile to Tennessee. Sloppy Firsts mixes hilarity with deep emotion to create a story that reads like an episode of MTV’s Awkward.

Paper Towns

 YA FIC GRE

Quentin “Q” Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spieglman were friends once. After a harrowing experience as young children the two drift apart. Quentin has happily spent his life blending in among the other nerds in school while Margo has fought hard to become a legend long before her 18^th birthday.  Now just days away from graduating high school, Q wakes up to find his former friend; the most popular girl in the 12^th grade standing over his bed, daring him to have an adventure.  Following a spontaneous night of exploits, Q prepares to reenter high school a changed man. With Margo by his side, everything will be different, right?

But When Margo fails to show up for school the following day, it’s like nothing ever happened. Everyone assumes that she has simply run away for 100^th time.Yet, Quentin  knows there’s something more to her abrupt disappearance and enlists his loyal friends to join him on a journey to track her down. Following a bunch of random clues left behind in the wake of her departure, Quentin sets out to discover what happened to Margo Roth Speiglman.

Is Margo Speiglman really missing? Can he find her before its too late? What if he doesn't like what he finds?

The Loners

 

YA SERIES THO

Imagine spending your time in high school not hoping to graduate, but just hoping to not be killed by your classmates.  After a devastating explosion throws McKinley High in to complete chaos. The students are infected with a virus that kills any adult who comes in contact with them. After a year of being quarantined, violent gangs over run the school and loners David and his brother continue their fight to stay alive!

Before I Fall

 

YA FIC OLI

What if you died? But then you woke up and had to repeat the day of your death over and over and over again? And everyday you knew you were going to die and nothing you did could change it? 

Meet Samantha Kingston, popular, beautiful, charmed and set to relive Friday, February 12 and the horrible crash that took her life, for a soul changing and "life" altering week. Will the outcome ever change?

 

That Summer

 

YA FIC DES

This book was not only a page tuner but it had my attention from the start. Haven, a 15 year old girl who's parents just got divorced is living a not-so-fun year. Her father, a sports broadcaster has gotten married to the weather girl. Her mother, who is now with her new friend Lydia is wearing shorts and going dancing. Her sister Ashley, a heart-breaker is finally getting married. Everything is going too fast for this 6'0" girl. There is only one person who helps Haven: Sumner, one of Ashley's ex-boyfriends. How will this summer turn out?

Reviewed by Begonia, age 13 for the Summer Reading Club: Summer of the Unread 

Matched

 

YA SERIES CON

 

How would you handle if your life was decided for you? And what if the organization deciding for you got it wrong??

 

 

I Hunt Killers

 

YA SERIES LYG

Check out this book trailer I made for I Hunt Killers. One of my new favorite books.

  

Monument 14

YA SERIES LAY

"Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not—you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.Only, if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.But the bus was barreling down our street, so I ran."

 Fourteen kids. One superstore. A million things that go wrong. 

And then be sure to check out the sequel:

 YA SERIES LAY

DAY 12

It was a lovely moment. Astrid hugging little Caroline and Henry. Luna barking and licking all the faces she could reach. Of course, we were all wearing five layers of clothing to protect our skin from the compounds. And I had on my air mask. And Chloe was off to the side, masked and layered up and lying in a drugged sleep on an inflatable mattress. But for us, in the Greenway, it was a nice moment. Seeing Astrid kiss them all over their little, dirty, freckled faces made me feel hopeful and happy. I guess seeing Astrid expressing love for them made my own feelings for her swell up. I felt like my heart would burst.
Then Astrid took in a deep breath. And I saw her nostrils flare. She inhaled too long and I knew the rage was kicking in.