Just a girl and her books
THE LAKE HOUSE | Sarah Beth Durst 04.25.2023 | Harperteen Rating: 4/5 stars Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s just how she’s wired – her worst-case scenarios never actually come true. Until she arrives at an off-the-grid summer camp to find a blackened, burned husk instead of a lodge … Continue reading Book Review: The Lake House
HOLLY HORROR | Michelle Jabès Corpora 08.15.2023 | Penguin Teen Rating: 4/5 stars After her parents' painful divorce, Evie Archer hopes that moving to Ravenglass, Massachusetts, is the fresh start that her family needs. But Evie quickly realizes that her new home—known by locals as the Horror House—carries its own dark past after learning about … Continue reading Book Review: Holly Horror
IN NIGHTFALL | Suzanne Young 03.28.2023 | Delacorte Press Rating: 4/5 stars Theo and her brother, Marco, threw the biggest party of the year. And got caught. Their punishment? Leave Arizona to spend the summer with their grandmother in the rainy beachside town of Nightfall, Oregon—population 846 souls. The small town is cute, when it’s … Continue reading Book Review: In Nightfall
THE MARY SHELLEY CLUB | Goldy Moldavsky 04.13.2021 | Henry Holt & Co. Rating: 5/5 stars New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few scholarship kids, Rachel struggles to fit in, and when she gets caught up in a prank gone awry, she … Continue reading Book Review: The Mary Shelley Club
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS | Jen Wilde 05.09.2023 | Wednesday Books Rating: 4/5 stars You are cordially invited to spend one fateful night surviving an elite private school’s epic masquerade ball. As an autistic scholarship student at the prestigious Webber Academy in New York City, Waverly is used to masking to fit … Continue reading Book Review: This is the Way the World Ends
THE BLACK QUEEN | Jumata Emill 01.31.2023 | Delacorte Press Rating: 4/5 stars Nova Albright, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is dead. Murdered the night of her coronation, her body found the next morning in the old slave cemetery she spent her weekends rehabilitating. Tinsley McArthur was supposed to be queen. Not … Continue reading Book Review: The Black Queen
DEAD FLIP | Sara Farizan 08.30.2022 | Algonquin Young Readers Rating: 4/5 stars Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when … Continue reading Book Review: Dead Flip
LORD OF THE FLY FEST | Goldy Moldavsky 08.30.2022 | Henry Holt & Co. Rating: 3.5/5 stars Rafi Francisco needs something really special to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi lands … Continue reading Book Review: Lord of the Fly Fest
THE MIDNIGHT CLUB | Christopher Pike 02.01.1994 | Simon Pulse Rating: 3.5/5 stars Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midnight Club – a group of five young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and horror. One night they made … Continue reading Book Review: The Midnight Club
THE HONEYS | Ryan La Sala 08.16.2022 | PUSH Rating: 4.5/5 stars Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his sister. Mars's gender fluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions -- … Continue reading Book Review: The Honeys
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