Lock and Key, by Sarah Dessen
Dessen, Sarah (2008). Lock and key. NY: Viking Children’s Books. 432 pages.
Sarah Dessen’s popularity among the patrons who compete with me for YA materials at my library is evidenced by the amount of time it took me to finally get my hands on this book. It’s been pretty much a year since publication, and I’m [...]
The A-List: Hollywood Royalty: Sunset Boulevard, by Zoey Dean
Dean, Zoey (2009). Sunset Boulevard (A-List: Hollywood Royalty). NY: Poppy. 304 pages.
As you know, I’m a sucker for a series; therefore, I was super stoked when I finally found the second installment of the “A-List” spin-off series, “A-List: Hollywood Royalty,” at the library. Set in the Hollywood/Los Angeles/Beverly Hills of the “A-List” series, “Hollywood Royalty” [...]
Take a Chance on Me (Gossip Girl, The Carlyles #3), by Cecily von Ziegesar
von Ziegesar, Cecily (2009). Take a chance on me (Gossip Girl, The Carlyles #3). NY: Poppy. 256 pages.
So I’m a total sucker for the new “Gossip Girl” spin-off, “The Carlyles,” and almost get more pleasure in the mental comparison of “Carlyles” characters to “Gossip Girl” characters (there’s an equivalent “Carlyle” for every “GG” character) than [...]
Skeleton Creek, by Patrick Carman
Carman, Patrick (2009). Skeleton Creek. NY: Scholastic. 185 pages.
I was so psyched to see this at my library because I had seen Angela Kennedy (a student at Texas A and M University) talk about this book (and others) at the Children’s Literature Association conference in Charlotte this summer. The novel, the first in an interactive [...]