Speakby Laurie Halse Anderson Pages: 224My rating: **** The first ten lies they tell you in high school.“Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say.”From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, …
All The Lovely Bad Onesby Mary Downing Hahn Pages: 192My rating: C+Source: Purchased A creepy Vermont inn. A brother an sister with a propensity for making trouble. A group of unruly young spirits. Can Travis and Corey solve the mystery of the Lovely Bad Ones before the inn goes under and they get sent back home and …
The Romeo and Juliet Codeby Phoebe Stone Pages: 304My rating: B+ Goodreads synopsis: Phoebe Stone, author of the sleeper hit DEEP DOWN POPULAR, is back with a middle-grade code-breaking mystery full of romance and excitement. Think CHASING VERMEER meets THE SECRET GARDEN! Felicity’s glamorous parents have a secret. When they leave her with distant relatives in Maine, Felicity …
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)by Tahereh Mafi Pages: 338My rating: A-Source: Purchased Her touch is powerful. Her touch is forbidden. Her touch is fatal, and she has no idea why. In Juliette’s world, everything is controlled. The food they eat, the places they live. Even Juliette’s own life is not her own any more. That is, until …
Matched (Matched, #1)by Ally Condie Pages: 396My rating: A Goodreads synopsis: Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander’s face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . …
The Plain Truthby Jodi Picoult Pages: 405My rating: ***** The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn’s mother, took the child’s life. When …