Genre: Realistic Fiction

{Best Friend Next Door: Carolyn Mackler}

{Best Friend Next Door: Carolyn Mackler}

{Synopsis} – Printz Honor and New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Mackler brings honesty and charm to this story of a friendship between two girls. Meet Hannah. Her name is a palindrome. Her birthday is on New Year’s. She wishes she had a cat. She’s medium height and a little awkward. Her life has NOT […]

Posted November 8, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Never Always Sometimes: Adi Alsaid}

{Never Always Sometimes: Adi Alsaid}

{Synopsis} – Never date your best friend. Always be original. Sometimes rules are meant to be broken. Best friends Dave and Julia were determined to never be cliché high school kids—the ones who sit at the same lunch table every day, dissecting the drama from homeroom and plotting their campaigns for prom king and queen. […]

Posted October 28, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Sweet Madness: Trisha Leaver& Lindsay Currie}

{Sweet Madness: Trisha Leaver& Lindsay Currie}

{Synopsis} – Seventeen-year-old Bridget Sullivan is alone in Fall River, a city that sees Irish immigrants as nothing more than a drunken drain on society. To make matters worse, she's taken employment with the city’s most peculiar and gossip-laden family—the Bordens. But Bridget can’t afford to be picky—the pay surpasses any other job Bridget could […]

Posted October 4, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{George: Alex Gino}

{George: Alex Gino}

{Synopsis} – BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, […]

Posted September 27, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Unaccompanied Minor: Hollis Gillespie}

{Unaccompanied Minor: Hollis Gillespie}

{Synopsis} – Fourteen-year-old April Mae Manning spent her life on airplanes with her flight attendant parents. When her father dies in a crash, April's mom marries a pilot who turns out to be an abusive jerk, and gets Mom confined to a psychiatric hospital. So April takes off, literally, living on airplanes, using her mother's […]

Posted August 17, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{The Search for Baby Ruby: Susan Shreve}

{The Search for Baby Ruby: Susan Shreve}

{Synopsis} – The search for a missing baby drives this heart-pounding page turner, from Edgar Award Winner Susan Shreve (LUCY FOREVER AND MISS ROSETREE, SHRINKS). It was just a few minutes. Stuck in a hotel room babysitting while the rest of her family celebrated downstairs in the hotel, Jess thought she'd try on her sister's […]

Posted August 6, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Girl in the wall: Daphne Benedis-Grab}

{Girl in the wall: Daphne Benedis-Grab}

{Synopsis} – Ariel's birthday weekend looks to be the event of the season, with a private concert by rock star Hudson Winters on the grounds of her family's east coast estate, and all of Ariel's elite prep school friends in attendance. The only person who's dreading the party is Sera, Ariel's former best friend, whose […]

Posted July 12, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Divided We Fall: C. Alexander London}

{Divided We Fall: C. Alexander London}

{Synopsis} – Man's best friend goes to war. LOYALTY ABOVE ALL ELSE. Andrew believes in the importance of loyalty. He is loyal to his family. He is loyal to his hound dog, Dash. And he is loyal to his country, the Confederate States of America. Although he's too young to join the Confederate Army, Andrew […]

Posted June 18, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments