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Tag: novel

The Sky Is Mine: The Brutal, Heartbreaking Path to Recovery

Posted on Apr 27, 2020Apr 25, 2020 by Joshua Flores

Izzie is slipping, falling, unable to stand back up on her own two feet. She feels alone, isolated, her words unable to be heard by Jacob, by her mother, and especially by her best friend, Grace. The Sky Is Mine by Amy Beashel is a harrowing and painful look at the violent, tragic experiences of […]

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The End and Other Beginnings: A New Beginning for Veronica Roth

Posted on Nov 26, 2019Nov 25, 2019 by Joshua Flores

First there was the world of Divergent, full of romance and breath-taking risks. And then came Carve the Mark, a fantastical, re-imagined world. Now, Veronica Roth introduces readers into various new worlds in her anthology The End and Other Beginnings. With disturbing and moving accounts of the effects of technology and life in the future, […]

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We Hunt the Flame: An Explosive New YA Fantasy

Posted on Oct 15, 2019Oct 14, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Zafira takes risks—risks that could destroy her and her cause. Nasir is a killer, death the only language that flows naturally. We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal is a fast-paced, explosive YA fantasy that challenges gender roles and the means one will take to survive. In the same vein as An Ember in the […]

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Something Like Gravity: A Refreshing LGBTQ Romance

Posted on Aug 10, 2019Aug 9, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Chris is on the verge of exploding, living with his aunt because he is too much of a burden for his parents. Maia is struggling with the unexplained death of her sister. When Chris moves into his aunt’s small town, everything feels uncertain, except when he finally begins to open up to Maia, the girl […]

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Hope and Other Punchlines: A Tragic Yet Often Humorous Take on Teen Grief

Posted on Jun 19, 2019Sep 22, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Abbi has lived trying to hide from her fame. Having been captured in a photo that everyone seems to be obsessed about, Abbi just wants to live a normal life—one where she is not known as the girl in the 9/11 photograph. When she begins working at a summer camp, she thinks her time known […]

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How to Make Friends with the Dark: A Dismal, Moving, and Challenging Glimpse at Loss

Posted on Apr 25, 2019Jun 18, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Tiger’s life is cast into the shadows, her heart full of grief. Tiger and her mother have relied on one another to survive the absence of Tiger’s father and their financial worries — their bond stronger than most mothers and daughters’. But when tragedy strikes, Tiger is left alone, strangled by guilt and destitute. Just […]

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The Hummingbird Dagger: A Dark Descent into Lost Memories

Posted on Apr 22, 2019Sep 22, 2019 by Joshua Flores

Fragmented memories. Blood. A blade. And then darkness. The Hummingbird Dagger provides the intrigue of Sherlock Holmes and the eerie and sinister atmosphere of Stalking Jack the Ripper. With both a mysterious backstory and plenty of suspense, The Hummingbird Dagger by Cindy Anstey is a thriller that teen audiences are certain to enjoy. Violence, lies, […]

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Strange Days: A Quirky yet Enthralling Teen Sci-Fi Story

Posted on Dec 3, 2018Dec 3, 2018 by Joshua Flores

Alex’s life is about to unravel. His family dynamics are complicated at best, the men in his family have begun dying at young ages without explanation, and a series of unexplained disappearances have appeared around the world, supposedly due to aliens. In Constantine Singer’s Strange Days, readers are brought into a dangerous world full of […]

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Baby Teeth: The Next ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’

Posted on Sep 5, 2018Sep 5, 2018 by Joshua Flores

What if you woke up one morning and realized you gave birth to a monster? Zoje Stage questions the fundamentals of parenting and mother-daughter relationships in Baby Teeth, a horrifying and addictive story about a mother’s journey to understand her seemingly sinister daughter. With constant twists and an intriguing perspective from both Suzette and her […]

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