When Adelice’s parents discover she has the magical weaving gift that enables women to weave the fabric of reality, they do all in their power to train her to hide it. At age sixteen, all young women in Arras are tested for their weaving abilities. If the girls pass their tests, they are swept away […]
Review | Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
2013-02-28 · by ·
Clara Wintermute is fascinated by the stringed puppet show she sees performed on a street corner. She pleads with her father to hire the small show to be the entertainment for her birthday party. Despite his concerns about the dirty, lower-class, expert puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, he consents. Clara is excited to meet the two orphaned […]
Review | Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer
2013-02-26 · by ·
Scarlet’s Grand-mère suddenly went missing and the police have abandoned the search for her. Convinced that she was kidnapped, Scarlet is desperate to follow any lead she can find as to the whereabouts of her grandma, even if it means teaming up with a mysterious and dangerous man nicknamed Wolf. Meanwhile, the ruthless Lunar Queen […]
Review | Reached by Ally Condie
2013-02-08 · by ·
Cassia thought once she found The Rising that she’d be able to be with Ky, but Cassia is back in The Society and working undercover for The Rising. When a mysterious plague starts affecting large numbers of The Society’s population, chaos ensues. I really wanted to like this book. I did. I think Condie did […]
Review | The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
2013-02-01 · by ·
Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumors in her lungs… for now. Despite the miracle, now 16, Hazel is constantly attached to an oxygen tank and keeps the tumors at bay with a continual chemical cocktail. Hazel’s mom is convinced […]
Review | Wonder by R.J. Palacio
2013-01-24 · by ·
Auggie has always been home-schooled, but his mom thinks it’s time for him to go to a ‘real’ school. Which would be fine, except that Auggie was born with severe facial deformities. Auggie is used to people looking away from him, whispering about, or staring at him when he’s not looking, but he’s just not […]
Review | Legend by Marie Lu
2013-01-22 · by ·
Description from Goodreads: What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors, the Colonies. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic’s wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic’s highest military circles. Born into […]
Review | Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
2013-01-17 · by ·
Brewster, better known by his peers as ‘Bruiser,’ has always been an outcast and recluse. It isn’t until he meets Bronte in the school library, that he starts to connect and open up to someone. Shortly after Bronte and Brewster start dating, odd things start happening to Bronte. Like the sprained ankle she gets, disappears […]
Review | The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2013-01-14 · by ·
The Newbery committee did a wonderful job in choosing this book to be their winner in 2009. The committee does not often choose fantasy/paranormal books for it’s award. But The Graveyard Book was fantastic, and definitely deserved the Newbery. Gaiman creates a world so out of the box and yet so completely believable and acceptable […]
Review | Savvy by Ingrid Law
2013-01-10 · by ·
I picked this book up because it won the Newbery Honor Award. I didn’t have a clue what it was about when I started reading page one, but it didn’t take more than a few pages for me to be laughing out loud at some of the antics of Mississippi Beaumont, AKA ‘Mibs,’ who lives […]
