I’ve been wanting to read this book for a long time. Last week, amid my Christmas book-buying frenzy, I picked up Nancy Werlin’s Impossible as a gift to myself, and what a gift it was.Lucy, the 17-year-old main character, is fighting a centuries-old family curse based on the impossible tasks in the folk song "Scarborough [...]
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NEED by Carrie Jones
NEED by Carrie Jones is one of those books that sneaks up on you. It starts off firmly grounded in the real world, with teens so real you can almost smell them sweating after cross-country practice, a setting so vivid you can feel the winter wind blow, and the very real teen drama that defines [...]
The Hunger Games
I already posted a book review today, but our phone just rang. It was my mom, home from Thanksgiving dinner at our house, calling to discuss the book that my 12-year-old son and I convinced her to read while she was here. "How’d you like it?" I asked her."It was awful," she said. "Wonderful but [...]
What I Saw and How I Lied
When the National Book Award finalists for young people’s literature were announced a few weeks ago, there were only two titles on the list that I hadn’t already read and loved — and one of them walked away with the medal. While the turkey was cooking yesterday, I dug into Judy Blundell’s What I Saw and [...]