By Julie Buxbaum ** Publication Date 1 December 2020 ** 5 stars Chloe Berringer has it all. Famous mom, devoted dad, annoying sister. She lives in a big house in Beverly Hills and attends an elite private school. The only thing Chloe doesn’t have is great grades and a shoe-in to her college of choice, …
By Erin Hahn ** Publication Date 21 July 2020 ** 4 stars Luke Greenly and his twin Cullen host a popular local podcast called Grass is Greenly. The twins couldn’t be more unalike – Luke blonde and quiet, Cullen dark and flamboyantly gay. Their dad is a former punk rock superstar still madly in …
By Tiffany Rosenhan ** Publication Date 21 July 2020** 5 stars Holy moly, this is an epic YA novel. Sophia and her parents have just settled in the mountain town of Waterford, Montana. After years of moving from one place to another across the world, her parents have decided it’s time for Sophia to be …
By Estelle Laure ** Publication Date 14 July 2020 ** 4.5 stars Mayhem Brayburn was 3 years old when her mom fled their home of Santa Maria landing in Taylor, Texas. Taylor and her mom’s second husband Lyle is pretty much all Mayhem has known. Lyle is a southern charmer on the outside and an …
By Laurie Boyle Crompton ** Publication Date 11 Feb 2020 ** 3.75 stars Ricki and Lana may be cousins, but they are nothing alike. At one time inseparable, they have drifted apart over the last year and half. Ricki is still the horror movie/gore queen. Lana is now the social media starlet. When their Aunt …
By Katie Lowe ** Publication Date 08 October 2019 ** Violet has been through a tragic experience of losing her father and sister in a brutal car accident. Her mother has withdrawn from the world, unable to cope with the loss. When the opportunity arises for Violet to attend a rather exclusive girls’ school, she …
By Thomas Wheeler & Frank Miller ** Publication Date 1 October 2019 ** Many times has the story of Arthur, Lancelot and Merlin been told. Arthur is nearly always the receptor of the magical sword that makes him the one true king. This time around the sword belongs to a girl, Nimue. Nimue is a …
By Jo Treggiari ** Publication Date 24 September 2019 ** When D’s twin sister Kat dies in a plane crash, she finds it hard to piece her life back together. Spider’s brother was also in the plane crash. Spider was Kat’s best friend. D happens to see a photo of a survivor from the crash …
By Tim Wynne-Jones ** Publication Date 10 September 2019 ** Braving the outdoors to head up to his family’s camp in Northern Ontario, Nate has a mission. His friend Dodge went missing several months ago when his family decided to deliver a refrigerator to their own camp, down the road from Nate’s. In a terrible …
By C.L. Denault ** Publication Date 22 March 2019** Willow is a teenage girl with a special gift. She is what is considered a prodigy in this new dystopian world. In book two of this series, Willow is living in the Core and expected to conform to what it is to be a prodigy. But …