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On my list of all time favorites, this beautifully evocative book deals with the horrors of WWII Germany in a very unusual way.  Thirteen- year old Liesl, a non-Jewish German girl, sent to live with a prickly foster mother and an accordian-playing foster father, struggles to make sense of Nazi Germany, an impossible task.  The [...]

A deeply affective coming-of-age story, Green’s book follows three very different teenagers as they make their way through a year of prep school: Miles, the intellectual; Chip, the quirky athlete; and Alaska, the beautiful yet unpredictable girl down the hall.  All three develop complicated feelings about life and each other, leading to an emotional journey that [...]

Winning isn’t everything!  After Katniss won the Hunger Games with her friend Peeta, the real trouble is about to start.  One tribute was supposed to be given, but this year is the Third Quarter Quell, where every 25 years the Hunger Games do something extraordinary.  This time around there will eb twice as many tributes, [...]

Wintergirls was a book that taught me about the danger of eating disorders.  It’s about a girl named Lia who starves herself to weigh less and a girl named Cassie who dies in a hotel room.  Cassie and Lia weren’t friends,  then one night Cassie calls Lia 33 times but Lia doesn’t answer.  Cassie’s body [...]

If I Stay is a book about the choices you make in your life.  Seventeen year old Mia has made many choices in her life and never looked back on them.  But one February morning, she gets in a car with her family and her whole life changes.  She is faced with the choice of [...]

I thought Stolen was a very good book.  I liked how you would get sucked into the book; I could hardly put it down!  One thing led to the next and you had a great plot going.  It was interesting how the witch and Isabell connected leading up to Isabell discovering who she really is.  [...]