Genre: Realistic Fiction

{Arf: Spencer Quinn}

{Arf: Spencer Quinn}

{Synopsis} – Why would anyone break into 19 Gentilly Lane? That’s where the Gaux family lives, and everyone knows they have nothing worth stealing. More important, the house is usually guarded by Birdie Gaux’s dog, Bowser, a large and handsome fellow with a big set of sharp teeth. Now Birdie is looking worried and Bowser […]

Posted May 31, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Deep Down Popular: Phoebe Stone}

{Deep Down Popular: Phoebe Stone}

{Synopsis} – 6th-grader Jessie Lou is deeply, madly, passionately in love with Conrad Parker Smith. Too bad she’s a tomboy with only one on-again, off-again friend, and hair so short you can’t spit on it. Too bad he’s the most popular boy in their small-town school. But then Conrad hurts his leg and suddenly can’t […]

Posted April 26, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Ungifted: Gordon Korman}

{Ungifted: Gordon Korman}

{Synopsis} – The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It’s usually more like Don’t try this at home. So when the troublemaker pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he’s finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of […]

Posted April 11, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Restart: Gordon Korman}

{Restart: Gordon Korman}

{Synopsis} – Chase’s memory just went out the window. Chase doesn’t remember falling off the roof. He doesn’t remember hitting his head. He doesn’t, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He […]

Posted April 3, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Wonder: R.J. Palacio}

{Wonder: R.J. Palacio}

{Synopsis} – I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse. August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his […]

Posted January 17, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{The Memory of Light: Francisco X. Stork}

{The Memory of Light: Francisco X. Stork}

{Synopsis} – 16-year-old Vicky Cruz wakes up in a hospital’s mental ward after a failed suicide attempt. Now she must find a path to recovery – and perhaps rescue some others along the way. When Vicky Cruz wakes up in the Lakeview Hospital Mental Disorders ward, she knows one thing: After her suicide attempt, she […]

Posted January 11, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Vanilla: Billy Merrell}

{Vanilla: Billy Merrell}

{Synopsis} – A bold, groundbreaking novel about coming out, coming into your own, and coming apart. Hunter and Van become boyfriends before they’re even teenagers, and stay a couple even when adolescence intervenes. But in high school, conflict arises — mostly because Hunter is much more comfortable with the sex part of sexual identity. As […]

Posted December 6, 2017 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Motherhood is Murder: Diana Orgain}

{Motherhood is Murder: Diana Orgain}

{Synopsis} – The author of Bundle of Trouble delivers a new Maternal Instincts mystery. Nights out are hard to come by for new mommy Kate Connelly. So when Kate and her husband are invited to a dinner cruise hosted by her new mommy club, Roo & You, they jump at it. But when the president […]

Posted September 16, 2017 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Bundle of Trouble: Diana Orgain}

{Bundle of Trouble: Diana Orgain}

{Synopsis} – First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby- and bringing down a killer. Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you’re going to be up all night anyway, you might as well […]

Posted August 31, 2017 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments