I thought the book was okay. It basically the story of Julia making that pivotal decision in life whether to follow her own path or the path her parents have paved for her. During Julia's journey, she struggles with a secret her sister, Sophie has been keeping from, a rough patch with her best fr...
“Galante deftly weaves together the parallel stories of May and her teacher, while demonstrating how it’s their work together...that changes them both.” --Kirkus“Brimming with emotion and insight into adolescent rage, Galante's prose investigates the impact of loss and the importance of making am...
Reviewed by Harmony for TeensReadToo.comTwelve-year-old Hershey lives with her mom, baby sister Ella, and her mother's boyfriend, Slade. Ever since Slade moved in with them, things have gone downhill for Hershey. First, it was just little things like the Job List, but it soon progressed into him ...
Although we ran just a single length of the parking lot, my legs had stretched and strained themselves, as if waking from hibernation. In the shower afterward, I massaged them gently, to avoid charley horse cramps. Now I lean up on my tiptoes to ease the tightness behind them and then relax again...
It was the sort of stillness that had draped itself over her that last terrible night, after everything was over, as if the world around her had stopped breathing. She broke down all at once as she felt it and leaned against the thick trunk of an oak to steady herself. There was no telling how fa...
She tried to stretch an arm toward me, but the restraints made it impossible for her to move it more than a few inches. “Marin,” she whimpered. “Please, come here. Help me.” But I didn’t move. What in God’s name had just happened? Were my eyes, my ears, all of my senses deceiving me? I searched C...