Bibliography: Harbison, Paige. (January 31, 2012). New Girl. Buffalo, NY: Harlequin Teen. ISBN: 978-0373210428 Plot Summary: Only at Manderley Academy to please her parents, if being away from home and super hard classes were not enough, the “new girl” is faced with reminders of the girl whose place she took–Becca. She is in Becca’s room, she [...]
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Bibliography: Cohn, Rachel and David Levithan. (2010). Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers. IBSN: 978-0375866593 (hc) 978-0375859557 (pb) Plot Summary: On his own in New York for the Christmas holidays, Dash finds a red moleskine notebook in the J.D. Salinger section of the Strand bookstore. The notebook contains a challenge [...]
Bibliography: Flack, Sophie. (2011). Bunheads. New York: Little Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 978-0316126533 Plot Summary: All 19 year old Hannah has ever wanted to do with her life is dance. And she is so close to living her dream. Dancing with the prestigious Manhattan Ballet, she and her friends, all fellow dancers, eat, drink, and sleep [...]
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Bibliography: Offill, Jenny and Nancy Carpenter. (2006). 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Any More. New York: Schwartz and Wade. ISBN: 9780375835964 (hc) 9780375866012 (pbk) Plot Summary: A mischievous little girl has a lot of seemingly good ideas but they all seem to get her in trouble. Critical Analysis: Books like this one make me miss being [...]
Bibliography: Healey, Karen. (2011). The Shattering. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN: 978-0316125727 Plot Summary: Teens Keri, Janna and Sione have something in common. All had an older brother who committed suicide. Janna tells Keri she and summer fling Sione think it might have been murder, with a pattern of deaths stretching back for years. [...]
