Yet again, another book I underestimated. I loved this book. It has the basics for a teenage fiction: high school, parties, romance, but it's not like that at all. It's far from what I was expecting. A quick read. An easy read. But better. I wanted to be the characters in this book. I wanted to f...
The matriarch of the Sullivan family, known as Almighty, announces that she has been wronged by one of her six grandchildren and threatens to cut the entire family out of their inheritance. If she doesn’t get a confession from the appropriate person, then she will donate all her money to charity...
This middle grade book was a surprise. Two unexpected friends spy on their close nit neighborhood as they try to figure out who's leaving secrets in the hollow of a tree in the woods. I'm not sure if this was intentional or not, but this book reminded me so much of Hitchcock's Rear Window. The ho...
Meet sophomores Madison, Holly and Lina. When the Dating Game website that they create for class becomes a campus hit as a match-making service and forum for students' views on love, sex and dating, the three friends hope it will help them take control of their love lives too.
Is it True Love? (Circle the correct answer.) 1. You are dating an incredible boy named Stephen. He's good-looking, sexy, kind, funny, and smart. But you can't stop fantasizing about Sean, the hottest senior in school. Are you really in love with your boyfriend? Yes or No 2. You think about your ...
When three high school sophomores set up a weblog as a class project to research whether girls or boys are more sex-crazed--and to play matchmaker, their own messy love lives become even more complicated.
The Dating Game has gotten too hot to handle--at least for the school principal and parents. When a controversy erupts after exes begin rating each other, the Dating Game is banned from the school's computers. But Mads, Lina, and Holly aren't giving up without a fight.
The continuing story of three high school sophomores, Holly, Madison, and Lina, as their love lives and those of their friends take unexpected turns, assisted by the girls' matchmaking services.
Meet sophomores Madison, Holly, and Lina. When the Dating Game Web site that they create for class becomes a campus hit, they become the matchmaking masters of their school, and they hope, their lives.
THE DOORBELL KEPT ringing. Miss Maura was running around clucking like a chicken, and the house was an asylum. Every time the doorbell rang more flowers arrived. Daddy-o struggled to get into his tailcoat, and Ginger spent the day with her hair in curlers, while Takey and a playdate held a water ...
Everyone ordered pepian de pollo, a rich, spicy, dark red chicken stew, sprinkled with roasted squash and sesame seeds and served with rice and corn tortillas. “Have to try the national dish while we’re here,” Jake said, sounding more like someone’s goofy dad than a shaggy-haired hipster. Althoug...
He led her past an empty supermarket, down a winding path lined with piles of gray snow like Styrofoam, past block after block of run-down apartment towers that looked like housing projects. This part of the city had none of the beauty of downtown Leningrad — no prerevolutionary mansions, no pala...
She was waiting for her coworkers — that is, her employees, sort of, since she was the manager of this particular department — to leave. Go home already, drones! she thought. She stared at the last two research chemists left in the lab — Gerry Wentworth and Brent Beckelheimer — willing them with ...