This was a difficult book for me to review. I wanted to love it, like five stars, crying and kissing it's shiny cover type love. It wasn't that. But it was pretty darn good. Summary: boy's girlfriend dies and he investigates the murder with her cousin. Why do I have to summarize the book? Can't y...
Anna Jarzab, AM'07AuthorFrom our pages (Mar–Apr/13): Anna Jarzab's young adult novel follows the story of high school student Caro Mitchell, whose older sister has returned home to Chicagoland unexpectedly after eight years at the Sisters of Grace convent in Indiana. Accustomed to life as a de fa...
I brought the shoe box with me to his office, even though I had no real intention of showing it to him. My reading the letters was bad enough; I wasn’t going to put them in the hands of someone else. Still, I knew that if they weren’t burning a hole in the bottom of my backpack, I might punk out ...
She put her finger to her lips, and her eyes darted toward the living room, where Sergei and Rocko were snoring in perfect harmony. Then she set off down the hallway, pausing at the end to beckon him to follow. The door at the end of the corridor looked out of place with t...
They cordon off Empire Valley on all sides, and we had to hop on the freeway to get out. It was Saturday, so the traffic was light, and it only took us about twenty minutes to get to the Bean’s garage.“Wow,” Neily said as we got out of the car. “It’s like Beamer heaven. The gleam of the sun off t...
I ended up playing hearts with Callum, who was extremely good at it and beat me three hands out of four. Finally, I pled exhaustion and turned in for the night. Callum walked me to my room, lingering at the door.“I like it out here,” he told me. “It’s so peaceful.”“Me too,” I told him. It was suc...