Your teen or tween will probably have little difficulty setting aside disbelief, taking a seat on the adventure roller coaster with young Alex Rider, and enjoying the nonstop action! …
Knowing that my students read and love this book, I thought I should check it out. What I found disappointed me. The story is sensational, which appeals to kids. Its characters are unbelievable and fr…
Alex Rider is James Bond for teenagers. With an exciting story line, awesome gadgets, and a hero that is part fearless, part normal teen boy, Stormbreaker delivers! Boys love these…
"History is often the tale of small moments--chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence--that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produ…
I'm over 1500 pages into this series and still can't get enough! Cress is just as exciting, just as compelling as Cinder and Scarlet were. Our main characters continue to…
These are a few of my favorite things: dystopian fiction, fairy tale retellings, cyborgs, and aliens. Scarlet has them all! This exciting second installment in The Lunar Chronicles starts up…
If you have been looking for an engaging book to read, you may have just found it. Take an overly cautious single mother, her adolescent son, and a surprise male visitor over Labor Day weekend, a…
Eleanor & Park is a brilliant, believable study in opposites. Simultaneously innocent and edgy, their story is told in a way that evokes conflicting emotions--often at the same time. These sw…
More than a story within a story, this book tells a tale of a family struggling to live in a town that has been invaded by foreigners. The Burgess family has endured a lot of grief, although the reade…
Readers anticipating the release of Jennifer Nielsen's conclusion to the Ascendance Trilogy will not be disappointed in The Shadow Throne. The trilogy started with the witty dialogue and intricate plo…
Anna Quindlen is a master storyteller who writes with such whimsy that I can never pass up her new books. If you have not tried any of her books, then I would suggest you pick up any of them, but …
The Boys in the Boat tells the incredible story of nine boys from the University of Washington who rowed for gold in the 1936 Olympics. It's an inspiring story that's almost too good to be true and au…
