{Synopsis} – Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to […]
Month: May 2012
{ttyl: Lauren Myracle}
{Synopsis} – Audacious author Lauren Myracle accomplishes something of a literary miracle in her second young-adult novel, ttyl (Internet instant messaging shorthand for “talk to you later”), as she crafts an epistolary novel entirely out of IM transcripts between three high-school girls. Far from being precious, the format proves perfect for accurately capturing the sweet […]
{City of Bones: Cassandra Clare}
{Synopsis} – When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the […]
{The Lying Game: Sara Shepard}
{Synopsis} – I had a life anyone would kill for. Then someone did. The worst part of being dead is that there's nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It's enough to kill a girl all over again. But I'm about to get something no one else does–an […]
{What Janie Found: Caroline B Cooney}
{Synopsis} – Janie’s two families appear to have made peace. Life seems almost normal. She’s even decided to speak to her former boyfriend, Reeve, again. But then Janie’s Connecticut father suffers a sudden stroke, and this tragedy leaves her mother reeling. Janie must step in to manage family finances and to support her mother emotionally. […]
{The Voice on the Radio: Caroline B Cooney}
{Synopsis} – The Voice on the Radio, now in paperback, is the highly anticipated companion to The Face on the Milk Carton and Whatever Happened to Janie?, by best selling author Caroline B. Cooney: Janie's life finally seems to be settling down. But she really misses Reeve Shields, her boyfriend who is away at college. […]
{Whatever Happened to Janie: Caroline B Cooney}
{Synopsis} – No one ever paid attention to the faces of missing children on milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the little girl who had been taken twelve years ago, she recognized that little girl–it was herself. The mystery of the kidnapping is unraveled, but the nightmare is not over. […]
{The Face on the Milk Carton: Caroline B Cooney}
{Synopsis} – No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar – a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve […]