“Whether she liked it or not, Paloma Marquez was in Mexico City for a whole month.” In this enchanting middle grade mystery, we follow 12-year-old Paloma Marquez and her professor mother to Mexico City as she is involved in a research fellowship for the summer. Paloma is a vibrant, smart, fun character who at first […]
Love and Others Words by Christina Lauren
May 18, 2018 by ·
Christina Lauren’s Love and Other Words is one of the best books I have read this year. I was so moved, so enamored, and so taken by this story of long lost love, hope and forgiveness.
Don’t Forget Me by Victoria Stevens
May 18, 2018 by ·
Seventeen-year-old Hazel Clarke is no stranger to heartbreaks, and being sent to live with a father she’s never met is the latest in a string of them. Even the beauty of eastern Australia isn’t enough to take her mind off her mother and the life she had to leave behind in England. But when Hazel […]
Ghost Boys by: Jewell Parker Rhodes
May 12, 2018 by ·
“Only the living can make the world better.” A 12 year-old-boy is shot in the park by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real one. The boy is named Jerome and he is black. Now in the after-life, Jerome sees that devastation and hatred his death has caused his community. It […]
Fatal Throne by Candace Fleming
May 11, 2018 by ·
A fascinating collection of stories written by some of the best writers we have in YA today as they tell the tales of King Henry VIII’s six wives. Each queen is compelling and her story is told in a unique and captivating voice, with a rebuttal from King Henry written by National Book Award Winner […]
The Good Luck Sister by Jill Shalvis
May 9, 2018 by ·
After a difficult few years, Tilly Adams is ready for life to start going right. Though she has a case of first-day nerves teaching art at the local community college, she knows it isn’t anything a few snuggles from her rescue puppy won’t cure. Until she sees Dylan Scott again, her one-time BFF and […]
THE HARPER EFFECT by: Taryn Bashford
May 8, 2018 by ·
Title: THE HARPER EFFECT Author: Taryn Bashford Pub. Date: May 15, 2018 Publisher: Sky Pony Press Formats: Hardcover, eBook Pages: 408 Find it: Amazon, B&N, TBD, Goodreads Sixteen-year-old Harper was once a rising star on the tennis court–until her coach dropped her for being “mentally weak.” Without tennis, who is she? Her confidence at an all-time low, she secretly turns to her childhood friend, next-door […]
My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan
May 8, 2018 by ·
American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was thirteen: Study at Oxford. At 24, she’s finally made it to England on a Rhodes Scholarship when she’s offered an unbelievable position in a rising political star’s presidential campaign. With the promise that she’ll work remotely and return to DC […]
Tiffany Sly Lives Here Now by Dana L. Davis
May 1, 2018 by ·
“I’ve got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth …” Tiffany Sly’s life is about to change in a big way. She has just lost her mother to cancer and is about to be pulled away from the only life she has ever known. She is set […]
SUMMER IN A CORNISH COVE by Kate Ryder
April 17, 2018 by ·
Kate Ryder has worked in a number of industries including publishing, mainly as a proof-reader/copy editor and writer for a national newspaper, magazines and publishing houses. A member of the New Writers Scheme with the Romantic Novelists Association, in 2013 she published her debut novel, ‘The Forgotten Promise’, a timeslip romance and mysterious ghost story, […]
