Category: Teen / Young Adult
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Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls is about two teenagers and best friends who suffer from anorexia and bulimia. It’s by Laurie Halse Anderson, who also wrote Speak. Lia and Cassie vowed years ago to the be the skinniest girls in school, and even competed with one another for the title. One day, Cassie is…
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Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Just Listen came out in 2006 and is the seventh YA novel by Sarah Dessen. I rarely read YA anymore, but Dessen’s writing style is classic and fun. She writes really well. I’ll usually grab her titles when I see them around. In Just Listen, Annabel Greene starts the new…
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
This #1 New York Times Bestseller by Ransom Riggs is absolutely enchanting. The back-cover synopsis didn’t prepare me for the lovely story that unfolds during the first half of this novel. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is the first installment of a 7-book series. For years, teenage Jacob Portman…
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Chosen by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Chosen is book #3 in the House of Night vampyre series by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. If you’re reading this review, you’ve probably already read books #1 and #2 and I don’t have to offer too much backstory! Chosen picks up shortly after the ending of Betrayed. It’s Christmas…
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Betrayed by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Betrayed is book #2 in the House of Night series by P.C. Cast and her daughter Kristin. This is a great series so far, and I’m already excited to read the next one. Betrayed picks up just weeks later from the ending of Marked. By this point, vampyre fledgling Zoey…
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Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Marked is the first novel in the House of Night series by P.C. Cast and her daughter, Kristin Cast. As a die-hard, lifelong fan of The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith (the original series), I’ve never really enjoyed other teen vampire series. But I found the first few books in…
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Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz
“If you loved The Vampire Diaries, you should read Melissa de la Cruz’s Blue Bloods.” That’s what this Buzzfeed article says, so I got Blue Bloods to see what all the fuss was about. My final verdict? It reads more like Gossip Girl, if you ask me. The star of…
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Someone At the Door by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Between the ages of 9 and 12, I read all the books by Richie Tankersley Cusick, R.L. Stine, and Christopher Pike. Their style is so spooky and edgy, and those books were like nothing else back then (I was born in 1980). After that phase, I moved on to reading…
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Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
I typically don’t read YA books anymore, but I’m still in possession of a few Sarah Dessen books, and they’re pretty good. In Someone Like you, Halley and Scarlett have been best friends their entire lives. They’re juniors in high school now. When Scarlett’s boyfriend Michael Sherwood—the sexiest, most coveted…