The Returning by Christine Hinwood was a curious book. Stylistically, she deliberately uses truncated prose to create the setting and mood of the story. Hinwood jumps, seemingly randomly, from chara…
Catch and Release is definitely unique in its subject matter. One of the main characters in this novel is named Odd, which is an apt description of this book. There were many times I …
Mrs. Pollifax is one of those characters that jumps off the page in living color and allows the reader a refreshing escape from the mundane spy novel.
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax is definitely an …
As a coming of age novel, this book has some really beautiful moments. The protagonist is a deep thinker, and he makes a lot of connections between what is going on in the world and his own life. It’s…
Make no mistake, Science Fair by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson is pretty silly stuff and all about fun. Levitating frogs, countries with a shortage of vowels, and car chases in Weinerm…
Baz is desperate to get to X-Isle—the only place in his drowned world where there is enough food. Or so the rumors say, anyway. Once he makes it there, X-Isle is nothing at all like Baz imagined it wo…
One man became a millionaire at the wrong time. His daughters pay the worst price. How can a family heal and allow love into their home? It might take an angel to fix things, but what would an angel s…
Everyone knows you are mean to the guy you have a crush on. In Prank Wars, Madeleine sets out to prank a boy in her chemistry class at Brigham Young University. All the girls in her apartment become…
Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley is the 2012 Micheal L. Printz Award Winner. Two seemingly unrelated stories, both in content and style, are brought together in this tale of brothers, wood…
Considered by many to be the Great American Novel, The Great Gatsby is a story of deception, betrayal, and loss. Fitzgerald is indeed a master of words. The story is narrated by Nick Carrowa…
Lost in the River of Grass brings a new meaning to the word ‘field trip’. How many of us haven’t imagined that we’re lost in some backwoods-y place somewhere and left to survive? …
Nouri is a Shiite who has just lost his favorite uncle to one of the many martyr bombings. The martyr was a Sunni. Nouri’s cousin, Talib, is half Sunni. Now Nour…
