All About "coming of age"
Book Review: Tangerine
Multilayered novel about teens and their family relationships.
Read MoreBook Review: Speak
High school should be the best time of Melinda's life. Instead, freshman year is a nightmare, as Melinda finds herself rejected by her friends, cut off from her parents, and unable to reveal a terrible secret. Melinda's slow healing process is a realistic and compelling one, and readers will cheer for the strength she finally finds.
Read MoreBook Review: Shiva's Fire
Introduce American kids to India's complex system
Read MoreBook Review: Give a Boy a Gun
This is one very disturbing book.
Read MoreBook Review: I Want to Live
Some parents may not like the focus on disease and death
Read MoreReview: If You Only Knew
Zoe's always been friends with everyone, boys and girls. Now that she's in seventh grade, though, the rules are changing, and Zoe's torn between potential best friends and boyfriends. As much a character study as a novel, this book provides a sensitive portrayal of an average seventh grader, whose minor problems Rachel Vail treats sincerely and seriously.
Read MoreBook Review: Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Sympathetic but realistic portrait of a child with ADHD.
Read MoreBook Review: The Janitor's Boy
Brilliantly gets to the heart of a father-son relationship.
Read MoreBook Review: The Devil Wears Prada
Recent college graduate Andrea Sachs lands a job as assistant to editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly at fashion's top-notch Runway magazine. Though she knows nothing about fashion, she hears that this is a stepping stone to any job in the publishing world.
She endures verbal abuse, running mundane errands for Miranda, party planning, babysitting, and along the way feels very sorry for herself. Her friend Lily and boyfriend Alex are slipping away from her as she starts to become more entrenched in the fashion world.
She ends up flying with Miranda to Paris for fashion week only to learn of Lily's near death, alcohol-induced accident. When confronted by Miranda, Andrea finally gives it to her and leaves Paris and the job.
She ends up connecting with a editor of a magazine who is a former Miranda assistant, but more importantly learns a valuable coming-of-age lesson.
Read MoreBook Review: Pretty Little Liars #1
Cliquey girl series' start shows off bad behavior.
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