Publisher: Simon Pulse

{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
{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
{The Number 7: Jessica Lidh}

{The Number 7: Jessica Lidh}

{Synopsis} – Sixteen-year-old Louisa's antique telephone is disconnected, but that doesn't keep it from ringing. And it doesn't keep Louisa from answering. Her caller is someone with a message from beyond the grave. The mysterious caller is somehow familiar, and has a message that unravels the mysterious past of Louisa's Swedish family, including the deeply […]

Posted June 25, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Alice in Wonderland High: Rachel Shane}

{Alice in Wonderland High: Rachel Shane}

{Synopsis} – Sixteen-year-old Alice just can't find a way to be free. Her parents are environmental activists whose cringeworthy public protests might involve chaining themselves to a fence and pleading with passersby to “Save the World. Save Alice!” It’s not that Alice doesn’t believe there’s work to be done. But after a petition to start […]

Posted May 21, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{The After Girls: Leah Konen}

{The After Girls: Leah Konen}

{Synopsis} – Ella, Astrid, and Sydney were planning the perfect summer after high school graduation. But when Astrid commits suicide in a lonely cabin, the other girls' worlds are shattered. How could their best friend have done this, to herself and to them? They knew everything about Astrid. Shouldn't they have seen this coming? Couldn't […]

Posted April 9, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Who is Mackie Spence?: Lin Kaymer}

{Who is Mackie Spence?: Lin Kaymer}

{Synopsis} – A love story about a girl who comes back from a near-death experience with powers no one can explain With a strong, appealing boy narrator, Who Is Mackie Spence? is a story no boy would be ashamed to read and no girl would want to miss This ecological and mythological story is spiced […]

Posted February 28, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Twigs: Alison Ashley Formento}

{Twigs: Alison Ashley Formento}

{Synopsis} – One pint-sized girl. Ten supersized crises. And it’s high noon. They call her “Twigs,” because she’ll never hit five feet tall. Although she was born early, and a stiff breeze could knock her over, Twigs has a mighty spirit. She needs it, as life throws a whole bucket of rotten luck at her: […]

Posted January 8, 2015 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{How We Fall: Kate Brauning}

{How We Fall: Kate Brauning}

{Synopsis} – Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle's sleepy farming town, she's been flirting way too much–and with her own cousin, Marcus. Her friendship with him has turned into something she can't control, and he's the reason Jackie lost track of her best friend, Ellie, who left for…no one knows where. Now Ellie has […]

Posted November 7, 2014 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Screwed: Laurie Plissner}

{Screwed: Laurie Plissner}

{Contains Spoilers} {Synopsis} – Flattered by the attentions of Nick, the cutest guy in school, seventeen-year-old Grace Warren, captain of the math team, lets down her guard and gets pregnant the night she loses her virginity. Hopeful that Nick will drop to one knee and propose when she breaks the baby news to him, Grace […]

Posted October 1, 2014 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments