Book Review: Return to Me by Justina Chen

Tweet Reb, short for Rebecca, is looking forward to trading her home on remote Lewis Island in Washington State for the bustle of college life at Columbia. She can’t wait to escape from her stifling mother and live her own … Continue reading

Book Review and Giveaway: Dear Teen Me, edited by E. Kristin Anderson and Miranda Kenneally

Tweet When you’re in high school, it’s easy to think that you and your friends are the only ones who have challenges and everyone else has it good. It’s also easy to think of adults you admire as falling into … Continue reading

Book Review: Wildwing by Emily Whitman

Tweet Addy chafes against the strict expectations a girl of her position has in society. She attends school with girls who are much wealthier, but she is expected to acquiesce always to what they want. Her attitude often lands her … Continue reading

Book Review: The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh

Tweet Jack Perdu is a loner, a ninth-grader who is an expert on Greek classics and lives on the Yale University campus with his archeology-professor father. One winter afternoon, while he has his nose in a book, he is nearly … Continue reading

Book Review: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Tweet When my oldest daughter, Madeleine, was in fifth grade, we read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli in our mother-daughter book club. The girls all liked it, but they couldn’t really identify well with the issues brought up in the book: … Continue reading

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