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3 | Dreaming the Bear by Mimi Thebo | Somewhere between OK and I didn't like it. Very odd mix of fantasy and reality. I think the intended target age is 12 - 14 years old and our 14 year old did not finish, our 11 year old did finish it but she found it odd. She also didn't like the main character, Darcy, who recently moved from England to Montana with her... | [] | 0399557504 | 0399557504 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,492,306,144,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz | New to me author, hardcover: ages 16 and up. 17 year old Salvador has grown up in El Paso Texas, right across the river from El Paso Mexico. His birth parents were Caucasian. He was adopted at age 3 by a wonderful man, a "Father Knows Best" type who is also gay and Mexican-American. His BFF is a girl, Sam, who... | [] | 0544586506 | 0544586506 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,492,304,561,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Jimmy and Fay: A Suspense Novel (book 3 in The Jimmy Quinn Mysteries) | For any reader who has loved the 1933 epic [[ASIN:B000EHQTZO King Kong]] this will be a real treat - fast paced and fun - I loved it.<br /><br />In book 1 [[ASIN:1453270957 Jimmy the Stick: A Suspense Novel (The Jimmy Quinn Mysteries)]] Jimmy Quinn was a gunman, bootlegger, and bagman, running with mobsters the likes o... | [] | 1504036077 | 1504036077 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,492,302,735,000 | 0 | false |
5 | BUT THEN I CAME BACK by Estelle Laure | 17-year-old Eden Jones, survives an almost fatal accident and awakes in the hospital after a month in a coma. Now she feels like no one hears her or understands her. Jasmine, is in a coma at the same hospital as Eden, Joe visits Jasmine every day (they have been friends for years). Eden recognizes Jasmine as someone ... | [] | B06Y1VKNHK | B06Y1VKNHK | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,491,681,528,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life bySally Bedell Smith | This is the first biography I have read on the 20th century British royal family, I figure the truth doesn't come out until after they have died. I also was a huge admirer of Prince Charles until his marriage unraveled and everything in print led me to understand that he blew it. This incredibly in-depth book has clari... | [] | 1400067901 | 1400067901 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,491,637,927,000 | 2 | false |
4 | Grizzly Peak (Aaron's Wilderness #3) by Jonathan London | 13 year old eighth-grader Aaron, has been on 2 earlier boding trips with his dad and his desert storm buddies and their kids. Sadly it has not accomplished it's purpose. Aaron has been expelled from school for carrying a pocket knife. His mature dad can barely stand the sight of him and wants to send him a an outward b... | [] | 1943328773 | 1943328773 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,491,635,709,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray | 17 year old Noemi is a warrior on Earth's planet colony of Genesis. Earth is an ecological disaster and becoming uninhabitable. The people of Genesis fear Earth's inhabitants will immigrate to Genesis and eventually destroy Genesis the same way. The result is war which could have the same result. Abel, is like the mac... | [] | 0316394033 | 0316394033 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,491,632,189,000 | 1 | false |
5 | My Own Dear Brother by Holly Müller | This debut novel has lingered with me since I read it 4 months ago. The setting is 1944 occupied Austria in the last years of WWII. The story of 13 year old Ursula whose life and family are ripped apart by what war does to her family, the people of her town, and her beloved 14 year old brother, Anton, who revels in his... | [] | 1632865335 | 1632865335 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,488,703,328,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Totally book club worthy. | compulsively readable. I picked it up to skim the first chapter and found myself glued to the story - the last chapter lovely and an epic take down of someone who seriously had it coming. | [] | 0446699853 | 0446699853 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,487,541,910,000 | 2 | true |
4 | Liar Liar (A Helen Grace Thriller) ... M.j. Arlidge | 5 star writing totally addictive story telling that I consumed in one day. Book 4 of 7 in Detective Inspector Helen Grace thriller series of sadistic, violent and determined serial killers in the English coastal city of Southampton. DI Grace is a loner, with a childhood resulting mood swings and episodes of deep depr... | [] | 1101991356 | 1101991356 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,487,418,141,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Mercer Girls by Libbie Hawker | Pioneers from Illinois first settled in Seattle on November 13, 1851 (the first settlers had been there since 8,000 BC). Fortunes were made in the logging and lumber businesses. Between 1865 and 1869 the population grew from 350 to 1,000 people. The novel is an earnest attempt to tell the story of New England mill tow... | [] | 1503951979 | 1503951979 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,487,411,187,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Velvet Hours Alyson Richman | Addictive reading. A novel stretching from 1864 to 1940. I picked it up to read a couple chapters and ended up devouring it in a matter of hours, then spent the rest of the day searching the internet for clues as to the real people behind the author's characters who she made so vividly come to life. If I were a college... | [] | 0425266265 | 0425266265 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,487,258,145,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Forgotten Girls (A Stevens and Windermere thriller) by Owen Laukkanen | 6th in a series but no worries, or need, to read them in order; however, you will once you read one, featuring brilliant African-American FBI agent Carla Windermere and happily married (not to Carla) Kirk Stevens of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension violent-crimes task force in Minnesota. A body is found in a snowdr... | [] | 0399174559 | 0399174559 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,776,596,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Scientology Murders: A Dead Detective Novel by William Heffernan | A solid police procedural, sequel to 2010’s The Dead Detective. I was completely riveted. I lived in the Clearwater, Florida area from 1990 to 2013 and the author paints a vivid and accurate picture of the land, the people and the culture. Det. Harry Doyle of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, gets mixed up in all k... | [] | 1617755354 | 1617755354 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,766,731,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Third Grade Mermaid by Peter Raymundo | for tiny tots age 6 to 8 years old. Cora the 3rd grade mermaid - I just love saying the rhyming book title out loud - lol. Cora's curriculum consist of the 4 ''S's: swimming, splashing, singing, & spelling. Guess which one has her stumped? The illustrations are brilliant - this is a total keeper! | [] | 0545918162 | 0545918162 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,763,647,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Optimists Die First Susin Nielsen | Young Adult. I a so glad I ordered this novel. 16 year-old Petula blames herself for her baby sister, Maxine’s, death two years ago. Her parents are in no better shape. Her dad is in over his head financially and also struggles with depression.Her mother's coping mechanism is to become the neighborhood cat lady with 6... | [] | 0553496905 | 0553496905 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,706,586,000 | 0 | false |
4 | which of course is horrible and embarrassing if it is you | Young Adult. Debut novel. A Cautionary tale for any teenager. Alexandria Preparatory school. 18 year old Anna is dumped by her jock basketball superstar boyfriend, Palmer, just when everyone is talking about the senior prom (serious bummer!). She herself dropped her BFFs when she started dating Palmer - so she is ALON... | [] | 110193896X | 110193896X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,705,418,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Pulitzer Prize winner Megan Marshall's biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979): A Miracle for Breakfast | Enticing, reviting, detailed telling of the famous poet of the 20th Century America who lived from 1911 to 1979. A delectable biography for everyone who enjoys the genre. Come to find out she was 3/4 Canadian and spent her very early childhood years in Nova Scotia Canada.<br /><br />Not the usual style of biography th... | [] | 0544617304 | 0544617304 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,540,934,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Old Bones Trudy by Nan Boyce | Book 2 of 2 in the Detective Sarah Alt Series. Terrific Police Procedural. A ripped from the headlines story, A southern City, Atlanta, a percieved oppressive police force, murders of black college students and a resulting riot. The characters are vivid in my mind days after finishing the novel. I enjoyed it so much I... | [] | 0399167277 | 0399167277 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,169,798,000 | 0 | false |
4 | We Are Okay by Nina LaCour | Literary fiction for ages 15 to 19. College freshman Marin is facing the Christmas holiday alone on her college campus in New York City, Right there that doesn't sound so bad. NYC at Christmas is AWESOME with so much to do and see and my college Freshman year I met new friends - it was very exciting. However Marin is f... | [] | 0525425896 | 0525425896 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,167,812,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar | Ages 9 and up. Set in the early 1960's. 11 year old Ruthie Mizrahi and her family have fled Castro’s Cuba to New York City. First she has to learn English, all is not joyful at home either her mom misses their family back in Cuba and all she knows and her father wants to live a "A Father Knows Best" life where ... | [] | 0399546448 | 0399546448 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,164,881,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Otherwise Known as Possum by Maria D. Laso | Ages 8 to 12. Beautifully told story set in Herbert Hoover depression era southern Appalachia circa 1932. Our resilient heroine is 11 year old LizBetty “Possum” Porter, her mother has died in childbirth and the new teacher, a Yankee!, wants her to attend school. Until her mother died she had been home schooled. The st... | [] | 0545927951 | 0545927951 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,158,627,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Unmade by Amy Rose Capetta | Young Adult. Book 2 of 2 in the Entangled Series.In book one (below summary) Cade comes of age and learns of her past that sends her on an epic journey. In this title Cadence 'Cade' and her family of choice set out to find her mother, and along the way locate and unite the survivors of the human race. Our teen wolfed t... | [] | 0544087372 | 0544087372 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,151,367,000 | 0 | false |
4 | When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones | A great addition to a modern history college or graduate syllabus.A memoir of one man's life in San Francisco during the upheaval of the post Vietnam era, gay liberation and the onset of the Aids crisis in the early 80's. A fascinating, sexually frank, and absorbing read for anyone. The author was a co-founder of the S... | [] | 0316315435 | 0316315435 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,144,493,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Kids of Appetite by David Arnold | Young Adult. Hackensack New Jersey the land of my people. 16 year old Bruno Victor “Vic” Bernucci III has an urn with his father's ashes and a last wish to fulfill. He also suffers a neurological disorder that paralyzes his facial muscles, his dad died 2 years ago and his mom is marrying a guy with sons who are sadis... | [] | 0451470788 | 0451470788 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,113,303,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Memory Book By Lara Avery | Young Adult. 18 year old high school Vermont senior, Sammie, is every parents dream. She is the class valedictorian and on the debate team, with plans to attend New York University get an economics degree and then go to Harvard law school. Everything horrifically crashes - every hope every dream. She develops a disease... | [] | 0316283746 | 0316283746 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,486,111,754,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Close to Home (A Darlington Romance) by Rachel Spangler | Fascinating look at life in a small college town. Although there is romance it is not the first thing I think of as I reflect on finishing the book. It's almost an American Tragedy saved from despair at the bottom of the ninth inning with a sacrificial fly that turns into a in the park home run. Seriously, Kelly, the C... | [] | 1612940811 | 1612940811 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,922,428,000 | 3 | false |
5 | An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock by Terry Shames | Book 6 of 6 in the Samuel Craddock Mystery Series (book #1 won a Macavity award). A prequel to the earlier novels, this one set circa 1970, bad enough are the murders of 5 black men and a racist Highway Patrol police officer who wants to frame another other black man for the hit. Young Samuel Craddock doesn't like how ... | [] | 1633882098 | 1633882098 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,856,514,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Lucky (A Detective Jack Yu Investigation) by Henry Chang | Book 5 of 5 in the A Detective Jack Yu Investigation Series. I didn't see that it was the 5th in a series but that wasn't an issue. Terrific action - I kept reading to the end to see if Jack could save Lucky from using up the last of his good fortune. The last 10 chapters I read like I was on steroids. A perfect vacat... | [] | 1616957840 | 1616957840 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,854,387,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Death Coming Up the Hill by Chris Crowe | Coming of age novel set in America 1968 with Vietnam hovering like a nightmare. The story is told in haiku, 16,592 syllables, one for each American killed in Vietnam in 1968. 17-year-old Ashe has a racist Dad and a mom in a loveless marriage after they got pregnant in 1951 I was intrigued and really liked introducing ... | [] | 054430215X | 054430215X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,829,298,000 | 1 | false |
5 | This is the Part Where You Laugh by Peter Brown Hoffmeister | Young Adult living in poverty and suffering the travails of Job.. growing up in a trailer park in Eugene, Oregon a great college town - Go Ducks! Oregon has a little bit of everything to offer. It's also 2 hours from the mountains in one direct, 3 hours from California in another direction and 90 minutes from the ocean... | [] | 0553538101 | 0553538101 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,827,593,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz | Young Adult. A sympathetic look at illegal immigration. I gotta say knowing her family is from the Philippines, a country with such a rich history with America and World War Two gave me a lot of sympathy for the family. I was mostly shattered for the daughter. The romance with the Congressman's son made this more a fai... | [] | 0373212380 | 0373212380 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,825,893,000 | 0 | false |
3 | City on Edge by Stefanie Pintoff | From the Edgar Award Winning author for "Best First Novel by an American Author". This is the 2nd Eve Rossi novel, 2015’s Hostage Taker was the first. This wasn't appealing to me (and I love police procedurals), Written like she is following a "how to write a mystery thriller by number". For example th... | [] | 042528445X | 042528445X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,824,969,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Lost Stars by Lisa Selin Davis | I am not sure who the audience is for this book. It is set in the 1980's and had zero interest, after several chapters, for our teen. I read it, it's my generation, but the story never grabbed me. Teenage Carrie has suffered more than a person should. Her beloved older sister, Ginny, has died, she exhibits her despair... | [] | 0544785061 | 0544785061 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,773,031,000 | 0 | false |
5 | If I Fix You by Abigail Johnson | Young Adult. Outstanding story of dysfunctional mothers; and a potential relationship between a 16 year old and a 21 year old.. Horrific story. Not the Mrs. Robinson part where 16 year old Jill walks in on her mom and her childhood crush (and best friend), Sean, in a sexual moment. But that her mom left the family leav... | [] | 0373212402 | 0373212402 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,736,125,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati | Young Adult novel about living with mental illness that features a smart funny 17-year-old Catherine who is cursed with bipolar disorder aka manic depression, luckily she has a mom who dearly loves her and will do everything she can to keep Catherine healthy and away from another suicide attempt. Not an easy feat as Ca... | [] | 1101938897 | 1101938897 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,521,699,000 | 1 | false |
4 | The Last True Love Story by Brendan Kiely | Young Adult and a bitter-sweet coming of age odessey. Living in Los Angeles 17 year olds Teddy Hendrix and Corrina feel adrift in many aspects of their lives. Corrina was born in Guatamala and adopted. Hendrix is crushing on Corrina, his Grandfather, Gpa, is a widowed Vietnam Vet in the Alzheimer's unit of a retiremen... | [] | 1481429884 | 1481429884 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,273,367,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick | Young Adult. From the author of 'The Silver Linings Playbook'. The prose is breathtakingly consuming. 17 year old Nanette O’Hare has her world turned upside down when she is given a cult classic novel of young rebellion ala 'On The Road' or 'Catcher in the Rye'. She now questions and balks at the privilege her family... | [] | 031637959X | 031637959X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,240,892,000 | 1 | false |
2 | Smash & Grab by Amy Christine Parker | Teens gone wild; Los Angeles.. Lexis is an out of control self centered rich kid.. Christian is a car thief for the Mexican cartel. There is more (300 pages more) but really why would I want my young adult reading it? I finished it and it didn't get any better. I think what bothered me the most was Christian's Mexican ... | [] | 0553533827 | 0553533827 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,237,503,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Dark Horses by Cecily von Ziegesar (author of the Gossip Girl series) | Young Adult thriller. I was hooked by the second paragraph but should have read a bit more before ordering because what started as an awesome, unique story about a teen, death and her love of horses got really weird when 17 year old Merritt's therapy horse, Red, gets deadly possessive of her. From an interview by the a... | [] | 1616955171 | 1616955171 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,092,562,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley | Young Adult Novel set in Southern California. 16 year old Solomon has a had panic disorders since he was a toddler. As a way to quell the panic triggers he is now agoraphobic and hasn't left home in 3 years - first of all, I can't even imagine dealing with this as a parent let alone being a teenager who has to deal wit... | [] | 0525428186 | 0525428186 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,091,389,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Trouble Next Door: The Carver Chronicles, Book 4 by Karen English | Book 4 of 4 in the Carver Chronicles Series. I adored books one & two in this series so was delighted to order the 4th book. The 3 previous books focus on a different child so it necessary to have read them before reading this title. This time out we have 3rd grader Calvin living next door to the school bully, Harper H... | [] | 054480127X | 054480127X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,083,972,000 | 11 | false |
2 | REVENGE OF THE GREEN BANANA by Jim Murphy | Set during the 1958/59 school year in New Jersey, 6th grader Jim and his friend are targets of their teacher Sister Angelica Rose (Jim because he is a academic slacker and Philip because he stutters) however she manages to torment every child at some point. I didn't find the humorous situations funny, I think because ... | [] | 0544786777 | 0544786777 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,079,331,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Young Adult novel set in China. 16 year old ... | Young Adult novel set in China. 16 year old Roshen leaves her small farm town and family for the city where she hopes to find employment that will bring cash to help her family. Sadly the only labor available that meets her skill set is in a sweat shop. She is also a minority ethnic group and treated poorly as such, lu... | [] | 0544699475 | 0544699475 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,058,900,000 | 0 | false |
4 | And I loved it. I guess you have to be in ... | Book 2 of 2 in the Detective Cooper Devereaux Series. Grim really really really grim. And I loved it. I guess you have to be in the mood to read a book where there are no winners. As a police procedural goes this was excellent pacing, plot and finale. I recommend reading the first book in the series because it will add... | [] | 0399594302 | 0399594302 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,485,057,638,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Flicker and Mist by Mary G. Thompson | Young Adult Fantasy. 16 year old Myra has inherited her mother’s ability to become invisible, called flickering. Not good when flickering is against the law and cause for imprisonment - for life. Myra comes from a mixed ethnic family, her father is a political leader who fell in love with a persecuted minority. His pol... | [] | 0544648404 | 0544648404 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,986,114,000 | 1 | false |
4 | Because of the Sun by Jenny Torres Sanchez | Perfect for ages 15 to 17. I am always easy prey for books set in Florida where I lived for 21 years, add in New Mexico which I have driven trough 3 times (favorite stop is Las Cruces) and I have a sure thing. The opening was gripping to me and our teen reader. 17 year old Dani's abusive parent, Ruby, is mauled to deat... | [] | 039955145X | 039955145X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,963,612,000 | 0 | false |
5 | City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson | Young Adult murder mystery set in Kenya. I raced though reading, I just had to know how 16 year old Tina aka Tiny was going to survive and thrive and uncover her mother's murder. Set over a 5 year period. Our teen also buried himself in the book until the last page. Good or ages 14 to 16. | [] | 0399547584 | 0399547584 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,961,624,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Murder, Stage Left, Nero Wolfe Mysteries written by Robert Goldsborough | Another little jewel, a gift to readers who enjoyed the writing of Rex Stout, this is the next best thing to finding an undiscovered novel by Stout.<br /><br />About the author: worked for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter & editor for 44 years. With approval from the estate of Rex Stout he published his Nero Wolfe mys... | [] | 1504041119 | 1504041119 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,961,153,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Scar Island by Dan Gemeinhart | Riveting - our teen devoured the book, An intensely satisfying story a boys reform school set in an island fortress which once was a "hospital" for the insane. A freak storm ends the brutal regime of adults who abuse the incarcerated. We learn so much about the boys as the story goes from penal colony to mayh... | [] | 1338053841 | 1338053841 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,873,667,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist | win win - I loved it and so did our teenager. The book summary tells it all. The story is told by the debut novelist with such upbeat positive emotion that the reader is swept away. I like Will so much I could read the further adventures of Will for years to come. in the middle of the book Will gets a surprise where h... | [] | 0316305359 | 0316305359 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,872,824,000 | 0 | false |
3 | The Leaving Season by Cat Jordan | best for ages 15 to 18 — 17 year old Meredith aka "Middie" Daniels and her boyfriend, Nate, are separated when Nate graduates - his plan is to take a year of volunteer work and return for Middie so they can go to college together. Middie has never thought much Nate's slacker best friend Lee but he becomes her r... | [] | 0062351370 | 0062351370 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,815,434,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Little White Lies by Brianna Baker | best for ages 15 to 17. I ordered the book based solely on the cover which looked intriguing. Now that I have read the blurb I can see that the character flaws in the 2 main characters would have prevented me from picking it up to read. Seventeen-year-old honors student Coretta White’s blog 'Little White Lies' is a hit... | [] | 1616955155 | 1616955155 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,814,319,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Flip the Bird by Kym Brunner | Best for ages 13 - 14. Fourteen year old Mercer has a real stick in the mud grump of a dad with a totally cool occupation, he is master falconer at his family’s raptor rehabilitation center. Mercer meets Lucy, her family belong to HALT, fanatical animal-rights activists, that look down at interaction between humans an... | [] | 0544800850 | 0544800850 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,813,869,000 | 1 | false |
5 | The Friendship Experiment ... Erin Teagan | best for ages 9 - 11. Maddie is in sixth grade public school while her BFF is in private school, her grandfather has just died from Alzheimer's, and her sister has a recurrence of a genetic blood disorder. I totally get her methodical survival tool of writing in her note book things like "How to Survive Lunch at a... | [] | 0544636228 | 0544636228 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,812,974,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Shattered Blue by Lauren Bird Horowitz | YA fantasy novel, Book 1 of 3 in the Light series.<br /><br />Set in Monteray California finds have a tougher time being in love, for one thing he is Fae (a truly illegal immigrant) a mythical being or legendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternat... | [] | 1503949974 | 1503949974 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,780,376,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Veil (Fianna Trilogy) by Megan Chance Book 3 | Book 3 of 3 in the Fianna Trilogy Series. At first glance book one looks like the plot from the movie Titanic where 1874 New York City replaces the cruise ship. Then it goes out the limb adding ancient Celtic warriors awakening to free Ireland from harsh British rule of 200 years that resulted in starvation to death of... | [] | 1503945723 | 1503945723 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,779,745,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Revenge, Ice Cream, and Other Things Best Served Cold (A Broken Hearts & Revenge Novel) by Katie Finn | Book 2 of 3 in the Broken Hearts & Revenge Series. If Mean Girls was a reality show. Loathsome 16-year-olds summering and simmering on the Hamptons in an unbelievable plot, acting like spy vs spy from poor behavior dating back to when they last met at age 11.Take a look at the below summary for book one before you go a... | [] | 1250045258 | 1250045258 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,776,050,000 | 1 | false |
3 | A few months on a luxury cruise liner--how bad can it be | Young Adult apocalyptic horror (think murderous children and babies being killed). They almost lost me at a guy named Shy. Shy is the main character's name. Every time I read it, it took me out of the book *sigh*<br /><br />Book #1 - [[ASIN:0385741219 The Living]] Shy takes the summer job to make some money. A few mon... | [] | 0385741227 | 0385741227 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,775,199,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Hero Complex: A Keaton School Novel by Margaux Froley | Book 2 of 2 in the Keaton School Series. Very Nancy Drew I think this would appeal to 12 and 13 year olds. I enjoyed Devon's relationship with her grandfather and the reveal at the end was fun. It might be a little childish for the 15/16 year old reader.<br /><br />Book #1 - [[ASIN:1616951273 Escape Theory (Keaton Scho... | [] | 1616953209 | 1616953209 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,773,928,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Snitch (The Bea Catcher Chronicles) byOlivia Samms | Book 2 in a two book series. Really good potential but fell flat for me, the teenager in the house thought the dialogue didn't sound like a teenagers. The main character, and her BFF Chris, are 18 years old working with Sergeant Dan Daniels on a gang-related murder.<br /><br />Book # 1 [[ASIN:147781650X Sketchy (The B... | [] | 1477847235 | 1477847235 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,768,921,000 | 0 | false |
3 | THOSE GIRLS by Lauren Saft | Three 16 going on 17 best friends each tell their own stories. It delivered on what I bought it for, the inner thought of girls growing into women. I just don't remember sex being so pivotal when I was a junior in High School - I would be wary of my 16 year old reading this with out discussing the events in the book wi... | [] | 0316403660 | 0316403660 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,767,957,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Glory (The Dust Chronicles) byMaureen McGowan | Book 3 of 3 in the Dust Chronicles Series (the adult in me wanted to add "one person's story of using Pledge in her quest for a clean home').<br /><br />Book 1 [[ASIN:1612183670 Deviants (The Dust Chronicles)]] - In Glory's world, different means deviant—and dead. In a post-apocalyptic world, where the earth is bur... | [] | 1477847979 | 1477847979 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,732,893,000 | 0 | false |
3 | Crystal Fire byJordan Dane | Book 2 of 2 in a series [[ASIN:0373210760 Indigo Awakening (The Hunted)]] and picks up where book #1 ended.<br /><br />Book #1 "Because of what you are, the Believers will hunt you down. Voices told Lucas Darby to run. Voices no one else can hear. He's warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let... | [] | 0373210930 | 0373210930 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,732,121,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Door That Led to Where bySally Gardner | A delicious British young adult fantasy thriller mystery. My 15 year old was over the moon in a positive review.<br /><br />17 year old AJ Flynn has not done well in the GCSE exams (comparable to SATs in the US). AJ is very comfortable in his own company and doesn't feel the need to hang out in a large group of his pee... | [] | 0399549978 | 0399549978 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,729,971,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon | A National Book Award-nominated novel, the story focuses on a day in the life of two New York City teenagers and alternates the point of view we get to see their feelings about each other, their families, friends, neighborhoods, their world. Daniel, the son of Korean shop owners, is having an interview for a slot at Ya... | [] | 0553496689 | 0553496689 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,727,517,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Utopia by Thomas More (Author), China Miéville (Introduction), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor) | A novel from the 16th century that had me asking so many questions when done that I spent the next few months reading about the author Sir Thomas More was a Catholic in England, a lawyer, philosopher, and statesman to Henry VIII, beheaded by Henry because he did not support replacing the Pope with Henry as head of the ... | [] | 1784787604 | 1784787604 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,484,711,958,000 | 0 | false |
4 | I super impressive list of American super achievers of the last ... | I super impressive list of American super achievers of the last 40 years. Nothing in depth rather a collection of reflections and storytelling, kinda like a really good issue of Reader's Digest. I put a star next to the stories that I have read and enjoyed so far.<br /><br />*Madeleine Albright<br />*Dave Barry<br />*T... | [] | 1682610004 | 1682610004 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,481,099,791,000 | 0 | false |
4 | THE RAINS by Gregg Hurwitz | An asteroid lands in a rural farming community in America turning anyone 18 years old and older into a violent unthinking monsters (the science behind that one was iffy). I bought it by the cover alone - little knowing it was a alien apocalypse horror story. I also thought, based on the cloudy cover, that rain would fi... | [] | 0765382679 | 0765382679 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,481,040,300,000 | 0 | false |
3 | The Last Time We Were Us ... Leah Konen | The cover graphics was the best thing about the book. The synopsis tells the whole story and there isn't much more. Liz is not appealing, in fact no one is everyone is a self absorbed narcissist. The most interesting part for our 14 year old was the story behind Jason's incarceration and learning the full story. | [] | 0062402471 | 0062402471 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,480,175,180,000 | 0 | false |
5 | conclusion Ashes (The Seeds of America Trilogy) ... Laurie Halse Anderson | A trilogy, stretching from 1776 New York City to brutal Valley Forge winter of 1777-1778 to the final battle of the American revolution at Yorktown in 1781, that should be required Middle School reading. Ashes is set in summer 1781, three years after book 2. I don't want to give any of the huge plot points away - my hi... | [] | 1416961461 | 1416961461 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,480,172,570,000 | 1 | false |
2 | The Word for Yes by Claire Needell | Date rape and 3 sisters. This book had tremendous potential but lacked character development to carry it and the denoument wasn't as poerful or resolute as the subject matter and the sisters needed to make them real.<br />Jan, has left for college.<br />Erika, the beautiful, brilliant introvert.<br />Melanie, the extro... | [] | 0062360493 | 0062360493 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,480,170,824,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Girl in Pieces Kathleen Glasgow | what a downer. King Lear downer. 17 year old Charlotte, her father/gone(suicide), her BFF/gone(coma), her mother kicked her to the streets (living on the streets is one horror after another), she copes by compulsively cutting herself, going so far in her depression to attempt suicide. She flees Minnesota for Arizona wh... | [] | 1101934719 | 1101934719 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,480,150,632,000 | 0 | false |
2 | ‘Labyrinth Lost’ by Zoraida Córdova | animal sacrificing paranormal (witch) bisexual love story set in Brooklyn New York.Frankly I bought it based on the cover alone as I figured it would have huge appeal for a 14 year old boy. Alejandra aka Alex doesn't like being one in a long line of witches, in fact she is the el supremo of witches. Nova, is also a wi... | [] | 1492620947 | 1492620947 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,480,148,185,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Not If I See You First ... Eric Lindstrom | 17 year old Parker has her mother and her eyesight stolen from her in a car crash, and to top it off her father has just died from a drug overdose. She escapes going on a downward spiral of depression and uses a prickly demeanor as a defense. Her BFF Sarah is a rock. Her aunt and her cousin move in to make a family as ... | [] | 0316259853 | 0316259853 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,480,145,992,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Glitter by Aprilynne Pike | What an imagination! Set 100 years from now. A corporation has purchased the French palace of Versailles (built in 1682 12 miles south east of Paris) as compensation for saving the world. It now serves as the court of the company's management and they live in lavish opulent style of Louis the XIV.<br /><br />Harkening... | [] | 1101933704 | 1101933704 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,480,144,629,000 | 0 | false |
2 | Tell Us Something True ... Dana Reinhardt | Penny breaks up with 17 year old River. This got a starred review from Publisher's Weekly so I could be wrong about the 2 star review - also our teen thought it was hilarious funny what a complete train-wreck River is. This reader comes to the realization that River is a pathological lair (thus the title) and a stalke... | [] | 0385742592 | 0385742592 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,480,063,046,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Summer of Supernovas By: Darcy Woods | This was a fun, lighthearted, and well written story that wasn't a turnoff as a mushy romance. I was wondering if our young man in high school would enjoy reading about girls now that he is of a dating age. He enjoyed it. 17 year old Wilamena's mother died when she was 6 years old. Her mom was into astrology and Wil ... | [] | 0553537040 | 0553537040 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,479,886,797,000 | 0 | false |
4 | Dreamfire ( book 1 in the Dream Walker fantasy trilogy) byKit Alloway | 17 Joshlyn 'Josh' Weaver and her family can enter dreams.She is so good that she is already training Will in her craft. Resolving nightmares to ease the slumber of someone sounds wonderful, but it is fraught with danger. One error can be fatal to the dreamer or bring the dreamscape into the world which would be so much... | [] | 1250063663 | 1250063663 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,479,801,470,000 | 0 | false |
4 | BLACKBIRD by Anna Carey | Intense thriller that doesn't completely satisfy. Thank goodness I ordered the 2nd book in the series [[ASIN:006229976X Deadfall (Blackbird)]] to be able to read it after finishing Blackbird, because the the two books should have been one book. Having read 1924's The Most Dangerous Game when I was in High School I cou... | [] | 0062299735 | 0062299735 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,478,231,643,000 | 0 | false |
4 | What You Break (#2 in the Gus Murphy series) by Reed Farrel Coleman | I got hooked with the first Gus Murphy novel [[ASIN:039917303X Where It Hurts (A Gus Murphy Novel)]] and vividly remember it 11 months later (see summary at the bottom of the review). This starts off after the end of the first novel and begins and ends wonderfully, in between I didn't find the story as compelling and ... | [] | 0399173048 | 0399173048 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,478,007,032,000 | 0 | false |
4 | THE BODIES WE WEAR by Jeyn Roberts | 16 year old Faye has been on a vendetta since she was 11 years and was given a toxic drug, 'Heaven's Dream' aka HEAM, that made her an addict and devoured her best friend. Now she lives for revenge. I'll date myself here by saying that the novel made me flashback to the Charles Bronson movie Death Wish from the 1970's... | [] | 0385754124 | 0385754124 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,478,003,487,000 | 0 | false |
5 | High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glenn Frankel | Take this review with a grain of salt because this book combines both my life long love of movies and my degree in political science. I was completely hooked by the end of the first chapter, which centered on Gary Cooper from his youth in 1913 Montana to the evolution of sound in motion pictures.<br /><br />The well to... | [] | 1620409488 | 1620409488 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,477,972,671,000 | 6 | false |
4 | THE SECRET HORSES OF BRIAR HILL by Megan Shepherd | World War Two tragedy where 12 year old Emmaline is in a hospital in England, struggling to survive the potentially lethal case of tuberculous, where she sees winged horses in the hospital’s mirrors. In the hospital garden she sees a winged horse, a mare, that looks like it was injured when it left the mirror. She wi... | [] | 1101939753 | 1101939753 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,477,920,359,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 by Esther Crain | The book jacket is so gorgeous I didn't want to touch it and I just admired it for a day. The inside is just as compelling and has absorbed me over the last month. Granted, I am an information junkie and grew up in norther New Jersey so NYC has always been a home away from home. This is no fluffy coffee-table book, onc... | [] | 0316353663 | 0316353663 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,477,623,693,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Hercufleas by Sam Gayton | With a title like that, how could I pass it up. Frankly, our whole family loved it. I let the 9 year old and the 11 year old read it first - than I read it to the little ones.<br /><br />"A flea with aspirations to heroism joins forces with a girl determined to defeat a giant" - needless to say they loved the ... | [] | 0544636201 | 0544636201 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,477,585,310,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Pope Francis: The Story of the Holy Father by Marie Duhamel | 45,000-copy announced first printing. The author Marie Duhamel has been a journalist for Radio Vatican since 2007. She previously worked for Radio France and RAI 3. She speaks French, Italian, and English. This is an amzing gift for anyone who has a high regard for Pope Francis, any Argentinian, any Italian (his parent... | [] | 0316317756 | 0316317756 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,477,584,132,000 | 2 | false |
3 | The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe, Elizabeth Clark Wessel (Translator) | An experienced writer but a disappointing storyteller. I found it long and drawn out. All first person narration multiple narrators which makes it difficult to know who is speaking, The transitions are non-existent. Everyone is depressed and I can't distinguish one personality from another. The crime GRUESOME (a woman ... | [] | 0425284328 | 0425284328 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,476,076,575,000 | 4 | false |
3 | Who Watcheth (the 9th Irene Huss Investigation novel) by Helene Tursten, Marlaine Delargy (Translator) | Helene Tursten is a very reliable author of Swedish police procedurals and an expert at sketching characters quickly and memorably. The sporadic first person narratives of the serial killer are off putting, unsettling, and did nothing for the story. And why must the main character, Irene Huss, be a victim too? I found ... | [] | 1616954043 | 1616954043 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,476,071,170,000 | 1 | false |
3 | Pilgrimage: My Search for the Real Pope Francis by Mark K. Shriver. | Reads like a New York Times Magazine cover piece, very factual and received a starred review from Publisher's weekly. I am practicing Catholic and a huge admirer of our current pope (while I refer to his predecessor as he-who-shall-not-be-named). The author did a terrific job of sharing his tremendous amount of researc... | [] | 0812998022 | 0812998022 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,985,594,000 | 4 | false |
5 | Book 2 in a terrific mystery with a lot of humor (see the summary ... | Book 2 in a terrific mystery with a lot of humor (see the summary below to bring you up to speed). Widow Bella Jordan and her 5 year old son Max are temporarily living in Lily Dale, NY (a town primarily consisting of "Spiritualists and Freethinkers" founded in 1906 to "further the science, philosophy, & rel... | [] | 1629537721 | 1629537721 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,983,254,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Kierkegaard: A Single Life by Stephen Backhouse | Kierkegaard was just a name to me before I ordered this book. Since I finished it I have had to read everything I could on this fascinating person.<br />[[ASIN:0679431306 Fear and Trembling and The Book on Adler (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)]]<br />[[ASIN:0140445773 Either/Or: A Fragment of Life... | [] | 0310520886 | 0310520886 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,977,060,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Isabella for Real by Margie Palatini | Our 10 year old loved this book. The humor and suspense, the story and the characters were a wonderful mix - she already asked us if the author has any other books.<br /><br />11 year old Isabella is growing up in NJ (trust me she is one lucky girl) when her school life and her home life collide her fabrications she to... | [] | 0544148460 | 0544148460 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,815,385,000 | 0 | false |
4 | The Scourge By: Jennifer A. Nielsen Age Range: 10 - 13 | A compelling story, our 10 year old and I both loved the ending. The story is told by Ani who is thrown into a concentration camp because she is a minority and those in power would rather not have them anywhere but interned, for life. Ani is going to make a fight for freedom - you go girl! I loved the characters of De... | [] | 0545682452 | 0545682452 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,478,323,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Gathering (Shadow House, Book 1) By Dan Poblocki Age Range: 12 - 15 | Horror story for the young. Well the cover totally creeps me out (lol!). Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi (names straight out of the 1960's *grin*). Larkspur House has lured them inside, now they're trapped. Only clues to the house's secrets scattered all over the grounds will get them out alive. The kids all have... | [] | 0545925509 | 0545925509 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,476,419,000 | 0 | false |
5 | Frostblood by Elly Blake for readsers age 14 and up | 17 year old Ruby is a Fireblood in a world run by Frostbloods determined to wipe out the firebloods. Her mother is murdered. A rebel force of Frostbloods want her to join them to kill the Frostblood king. Instead Ruby is captured by the Frostbloods to become a gladiator of sorts. Lots of action, lots of world buildin... | [] | 0316273252 | 0316273252 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,473,740,000 | 1 | false |
5 | Girl on a Plane by Miriam Moss Age Range: 12 - 17 years | Currently the #1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Middle Eastern Historical Fiction. fictionalized story of a 1970 hijacking the author lived through when she was a teen. In the novel, 15 year old Anna is flying to boarding school in England from the Persian Gulf country of Bahrain where her father's job is. The Popul... | [] | 0544783999 | 0544783999 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,470,977,000 | 0 | false |
4 | THE SECRET LIFE OF LINCOLN JONES by Wendelin Van Draanen Age Range: 9 - 11 | I ordered this for our 9 year old. Lincoln Jones is an 11 year old sixth grader. When he was 10 he and his mother had to run away from their familiy in the American southern states to escape her abusive boyfriend. They live in poverty with a roof over their head and not such good comes into their lives. Of course the b... | [] | 1101940409 | 1101940409 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,449,968,000 | 0 | false |
4 | CLOUDWISH by Fiona Wood Age Range: 14 - 16 | Ordered this for our 14 year old young man. I loved the aspects of the stories. A second generation Australian whose mother was an immigrant from Vietnam. 16 year old Vân Uoc is the kind of girl you want your kids to hang out with. I loved it. Our teen liked it too, of course he didn't mention the romance but did say t... | [] | 0316242128 | 0316242128 | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,449,195,000 | 0 | false |
5 | The Call by Peadar O'Guilin | 6 star horror and violence, 6 star depressing. I will never be the type to 'enjoy'reading about the abuse of children so if I had known the graphic nature of the story I would have taken a pass and I certainly did not pass this on to our teenager. It's really too bad as the writing and world building were excellent. Fa... | [] | 133804561X | 133804561X | AFWVN52MRBWOTIK7UGXBWGOY4HBA | 1,475,130,227,000 | 0 | false |
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