Tag: 2011

Girls Don’t Fly by Kristen Chandler

Myra is used to keeping her feet firmly on the ground. She’s got four younger brothers, overworked parents, and a pregnant older sister, and if Myra wasn’t there to take care of everyone, they’d probably fall apart. But when her boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her, Myra feels like she’s lost her footing. Suddenly she’s doing things she never would’ve a few months earlier: quitting her job, […]

October 13, 2011 / 0 Comments

Lit Fuse by Mike McPheters

Two children of Pakistani immigrants, Delisha and Lufti Ahmed, have been conditioned by Al Qaeda to despise America as an infidel nation. They, along with five other sibling pairs, have been raised as potential suicide bombers with targets to major US cities in hopes to be exalted into Allah’s presence in the hereafter. Everything changes when they encounter two young Mormon missionaries. Read excerpt   […]

October 13, 2011 / 0 Comments

Tris & Izzie by Mette Ivie Harrison

“I don’t want him to love me because of a potion,” she said. Izzie loves Mark, and why shouldn’t she? As the captain of the basketball team, he is kind and loving and he’s everything she’s ever wanted in a boyfriend. Her BFF loves . . . somebody, but she won’t say who. So when a hot new guy, Tristan, shows up at school, who […]

October 12, 2011 / 0 Comments
Maze Runner: The Death Cure by James Dashner

Maze Runner: The Death Cure by James Dashner

Thomas knows that Wicked can’t be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they’ve collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It’s up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test. What Wicked […]

October 11, 2011 / 0 Comments
The Shaken Earth by Toni Sorenson

The Shaken Earth by Toni Sorenson

Fragile, twelve-year-old Yolisha is afraid thinking about her first ride on a brightly painted tap-tap. The city is much farther than she has ever been from her small village of Makak, but Yolisha must go. Tomorrow she has an appointment in Port-au-Prince with the doctor who understands her special illness. But she is terrified that she might lose the grasp of her mother’s hand on […]

October 10, 2011 / 0 Comments

Huber Hill and the Dead Man’s Treasure by B.K. Bostick

Huber Hill wishes he could exchange lives with somebody—anybody! He endures each day of junior high, tormented by his long-time adversary, Scott McCormick. And at home, his parents bicker endlessly. His only escape from all the madness is Grandpa Nick. But tragedy strikes when Grandpa Nick dies, and Huber Hill is devastated… until he opens a mysterious box left behind just for him. An old […]

October 8, 2011 / 0 Comments

All I Got for Christmas by Rebecca Shelley

Oh No! Principal Green says Santa can’t come to the school Christmas party. Monkey needs a plan to get Santa to come. Too bad Monkey’s ideas get him on Santa’s Naughty List. It looks like all he’ll get for Christmas is a bucket of coal. But when a blizzard knocks out the power lines and buries the roads, it’s up to Monkey and the Smartboys […]

October 8, 2011 / 0 Comments
Samara by Andrea Pearson

Samara by Andrea Pearson

Young Adult Romance Novella. 102 pages. Print, e-Book. When Samara Oldroyd takes a break from her somewhat insane family to browse a music store, she meets the funniest, most attractive and awesome guy ever. A phone call interrupts their conversation, and she has to leave before she can find out anything about him—what his name is, where he’s from, and why his smile is so […]

October 7, 2011 / 0 Comments

The Next Door Boys by Jolene B. Perry

Leigh Tressman has been known as a lot of things – the girl who sings, the girl who sews, Jaron’s little sister, and last year, the girl with cancer. With her body still recovering from the cancer treatments, she’s determined to be independent and convinces her parents to let her follow her overprotective brother, Jaron, to BYU. With an ever expanding line of young men […]

October 7, 2011 / 1 Comment

Variant by Robison Wells

Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive. Where breaking the rules equals death. But […]

October 6, 2011 / 2 Comments