3.5 stars.This isn't normally something I'd pick up, but I needed something light, well-paced, and different from my usual fare. This book satisfied all three needs.The story isn't the most realistic in execution, but it's entertaining nonetheless. I enjoyed the concept of using the internet to c...
Gray is one of the Lucky Seven, the group every girl at Fielding Academy wants to belong to. But those inside this enchanted circle know it's less about feeling accepted in the group and more about making sure the other girls don't turn on you. Of the Seven, Gray is the quietest, the most vulnera...
Eleven-year-old Ben is not close to his older stepbrother Dustin. Ben's always had an easy relationship with Dustin's dad, Lyle, while Dustin prefers to remain outside touching distance. When Dustin is in a diving accident, Ben faces his long-absent mother and confronts Dustin, the elusive figure...
Irene Meets Starla or Drifter Meets Rebel------------------------------Irene is not your normal teenager. You see she has plan to open her own hair style shop in the big city. It's going to take the fashion world by storm and it's going to be called Heroine Hair styles. All the famous female hair...
From the first moment of their meeting, Delia Blaine is fascinated by Amandine, who never fails to astonish with her bold, thrilling antics. As the games Amandine invents and the lies she tells become cruel and disturbing, Delia begins to fear her new friend. But breaking away from Amandine comes...
Life isn't easy for vegetarian vampires trying to blend in with regular people in a new city. The Livingstone kids are fruit bat hybrids who have left Old World dangers, and immortality, behind for a "normal" life in New York City. But normal doesn't necessarily mean easy, especially with linger...
Claire and Luna are thrilled to visit an ancient castle in Scotland with their five-star-witch grandmother, Grandy. But this is no ordinary vacation. The three witches are on a mission: to rid Glenn Bly castle of the terrifying ghost that haunts it. The situation at Glenn Bly is more complicated ...
Dandelion L. Finzimer, mejor conocida como Danny es una adolescente que vive con su madre, pues a su papá lo recuerda muy poco. Lo único que tiene de él, es una vieja fotografía y algunos regalos que le envió años atrás, por lo demás, es un completo desconocido.Su madre, es actriz, trabaja en la ...
This is an important book. It's the kind of book you'll want to read every once and a while throughout your life. It's appropriate for middle school all the way up through wherever it is life takes you from there. The voice is perfect, the story is moving and uplifting. From dealing with loss to ...
Ms. Griffin wrote an interesting and gritty story. It dealt with childhood abuse by comparing the experience of the Kindle boys to the Patriots in the American Revolution. While I wished some more of the story questions had been answered in the book and it was faster paced I think she did a good ...
News of unrest in the area around the army base where Lane lives, and her knowledge of the painful secrets her family is keeping, are making Lane more anxious than ever. She must find the courage to confront her family's past.
4 starsWitch Twins is book one of the series. It is pretty good story aimed at older elementry age or higher. The twins look a like but are way different. They try to help and sometimes they try to use witch craft but they are newer witches and get into trouble. Claire and Luna's dad is getting r...
Outside my comfort zoneI must be a masochist because Adele Griffin keeps kicking me in the gut and I keep coming back for more. I mean this as a compliment. Her books make me feel on a gut-wrenchingly real level. Don’t be deceived by the tiny page counts: Adele knows how to make every single word...
The secret was that she was jealous of Melody Malady. The reason Luna was jealous was because she thought it was too-too-too extra-lucky for a girl her very own age to star in a weekly television show and have a perfect singing voice and olive-green, almond-shaped eyes. Luna was not even sure if ...
Have you seen Isa?”Connie, holding a basket, was about to head downstairs to the laundry room. Her shark eyes looked suspicious. “Latht I knew, thee wath playing out in the rain without a raincoat. But what’th wrong with you? You look pale ath death.”By the view from the kitchen windows, no Isa. ...
Every detail. Natalya listened, frog-eyed, chewing her nails, as I described how Ella and I had used Elizabeth to snare Julian. I told her about the party at Meri’s, Julian’s black eye, my apology, Ella’s midnight ultimatum phone call, the Avenue Cheese catering prank, and, finally, where I’d bee...
I was the oldest of three children, and spent my early childhood as a “military brat,” moving between bases in North Carolina, California, Panama, and Rhode Island. I returned to Pennsylvania for high school, and then attended college at the University of Pennsylvania. After earning a bachelor of...
I ran it. I wanted to see it again. I cut around back; the symbol was far away, that dry splash on the bottom of the wall. The silvery, fallen-down A—the same one I’d jotted on my hand, on the Halloween scrap paper, those first early days back from Addington, and the same one that was at the Linc...
She is instantly on guard. “Hey you.” “Hey you back.” Palmer pops an air kiss as she springs past. “You look sleepy. Am I interrupting important senior business? Reading Us Weekly? Drying your pedicure?” “I wish. I just got in.” She’d had to call a taxi from the train station. What was it—six-thi...