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Category: ‘Teen Lit

31 Aug, 2010

Review: Extraordinary

Posted by: Susan In: Teen Lit

Bibliography: Werlin, Nancy. (September 2010).  Extraordinary.  New York: Dial. ISBN: 9780803733725
Plot Summary:  Ordinary Phoebe meets extraordinary Mallory in seventh grade, and they become better than best friends, inseparable.  Years later when Phoebe meets Mallory’s brother, Ryland, she falls for him hard only slowly coming to realize that neither Mallory or Ryland are exactly what they [...]

Bibliography: Lee, Y.S. (2010). The Agency Book 2: The Body at the Tower. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN:
Plot Summary:  On her second case for the Agency, Mary Quinn finds herself in the seamy side of Victorian London, pretending to be a boy while she spies on the construction site of the clock tower of the [...]

26 Aug, 2010

Review: The Julian Game

Posted by: Susan In: Teen Lit

Bibliography: Griffin, Adele. (August 2010). The Julian Game.  New York: Putnam Juvenile ISBN: 978-0399254604
Plot Summary:  Scholarship student at an elite girls school, Raye jumps at the chance to help queen bee Ella get back at her ex-boyfriend Julian by pretending to be someone she’s not in hopes of sabotaging and embarrassing him.  She didn’t expect [...]

25 Aug, 2010

Review: Black Hole Sun

Posted by: Susan In: Teen Lit

Bibliography: Gill, David Macinnis. (August 2010). Black Hole Sun. New York: Greenwillow Books. ISBN: 978-0061673047
Plot Summary:  Durango is the chief of a small band of mercenaries who live by their own code of behavior on dystopian Mars.  Joining Durango to defend a community of miners from the cannabalistic Draeu are second in command Vienne, mercenaries [...]

Bibliography: Fantaskey, Beth. (2009).  Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.  ISBN: 978-0152063849 (hc) 978-0547259406 (pb)
Plot Summary:  Jessica Packwood is your average American teen, getting ready to start her senior year of high school.  This year will be her year, but maybe she should be careful what she wishes [...]


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