P.S. I LIKE YOU
By Kasie West
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Point (July 26, 2016)
Language: English
Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Range: 7 and up
What if the person you were falling for was a total mystery?
While Lily is spacing out in Chemistry one day, she picks up her pencil and scribbles a line from one of her favorite songs on the desk. The next day, someone else has
Anabel Unraveled by Amanda Romine Lynch
Print Length: 379 pages
Publisher: eLectio Publishing (February 2, 2015)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00T57AJFU
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Anabel Unraveled is a special book to me, because it was the
first novel that I actually finished. Before AU, I had started and stopped
books many, many times. I hit a wall. I
This review is written by Jake Canull. Jake is a New Yorker, Business management undergrad, singer-songwriter, and writer for Music & Manliness – a blog that’s focuses on identifying the characteristics and virtues of real men, and developing music inspired by manly virtues. Go check out Jake’s blog: manvaluesmusic.blogspot.com or follow Jake on twitter @jakecanull because he's pretty cool...
Reviewed by Natalie
Sleep No Moreby Aprilynne Pike
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen (April 29, 2014)
Language: English
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Charlotte Westing has a gift. She is an Oracle and has the ability to tell the future. But it doesn't do her much good. Instead of using their miraculous power, modern-day Oracles are told to fight their visions—to refrain from interfering. And
Hi everyone! I'm Emmy Laybourne, author of the MONUMENT 14 series. It’s such a pleasure to be here on Readingteen. Thanks to Amy and Austin for having me here and for helping with the blog tour! (Austin made my super-cool blog banner!) Here's a little Q and A:
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I am aching to try my hand at a high fantasy! It’s going to take a
Print Length: 270 pages
Publisher: Christian Home and Family (March 15, 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00IUMGOPU
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Dragons have been forgotten, relegated to the realm of legend and myth. But tales of horror circulate among the common people. Rumors of their attacks float on the night wind. They are a fearsome presence that haunts the
- Reading level: Young Adult
- Hardcover: 496 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers (October 12, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385737637
- ISBN-13: 978-0385737630
- Author's Website: http://www.jenniferdonnelly.com/
Summary:
Andi Alpers is a privileged teen living in New York City attending Brooklyn's most prestigious private school along with other rich, super-intelligent, highly talented kids. Their teachers told them that they were special...exceptional...
supernovas. Andi herself is a talented guitarist, a genius her teachers tell her. It was Andi's senior year and she was supposed to be preparing her senior thesis and submitting college applications. Instead, Andi is existing in a dark world that can only be called Hell. Two years prior tragedy struck Andi's family when her younger brother, Truman, was killed at 10 years old. The tragedy tore her family apart...her father, a Nobel prize winning geneticist has left the family completely, living with his pregnant girlfriend; her mother a talented still life artist is deeply depressed and spends her days painting portraits of her dead son; Andi cares for her mother while trying to just walk through life, feeling guilty, sad, lonely and hopeless relying on prescription medications to just get by.
The turning point comes when Andi's absent, detached father finds out that she is not filling out college applications (preferably Stanford) and hasn't even done the outline for her senior thesis. He checks her mother into a hospital and forces Andi to accompany him on a business trip to Paris over her winter break. He is taking her to Paris for 3 weeks and she is to use her time to put together the outline. Andi and her father live in Paris with a longtime friend who is a French Revolution historian. He has asked Andi's father to work with him in definitively identifying a heart which might have belonged to Louis-Charles, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the lost king of France. While living in the middle of French history, Andi discovers the diary of 17-year old Alex Paradis who lived in Paris in 1795 and through a series of events became the caregiver of Louis-Charles. Exploring this diary while she also explores Paris and her own life brings Andi to a discovery that is nothing short of life altering and even includes some time travel. She discovers that there are circumstances and relationships that cannot be changed but can be overcome.
My review:
It took me a while to get started on this book because my initial impression was "just another story about teenage depression" and it was slow in getting the story started. However, once I got into the story I found that it was very different. Revolution is not just a story but is also a history lesson on not only the French Revolution but also on music. This is not an easy, breezy read. There are a lot of big words, French words, French history and musical terminology. There is also graphic
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By: Andye ReadingTeen,
on 7/28/2016
Great review! I think I'd enjoy this very much.
Nice review-I really loved this book and was sad that I hadn't seen many reviews of it around the blogosphere (mine's scheduled for later this month).
I loved this book! Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time putting my thoughts into words. I'll get there, hopefully by the end of the week - the book is sitting on my desk giving me dirty looks (Hey, Alison! You read me, what's the matter, didn't you like me??)
This book is so perfect for me, which is one of the reasons that I'm glad I got a copy! I'm taking French now and have a huge interest in France (particularly the Revolution!). I cannot wait to read this!
I can't wait to read this one!!!!