Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Their Fractured Light is the final installment in the Starbound Series by Kaufman and Spooner. Like its predecessors, it features a new couple in their battle against LaRoux Industries, but this time...
View ArticleEverything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
Eighteen year old Madeline Furukawa Whittier suffers from SCID, Severe Combined Immunodeficiency or what has been referred to as "bubble baby disease". She's allergic to the world around her and must...
View ArticleA Little In Love by Susan Fletcher
"We all leave something behind us. A bird in flight will lose a snow-white feather, and flowers in the hedgerows will drop their petals. And people? We leave memories. Footprints in the dust and...
View ArticlePromise the Night by Michaela MacColl
Promise the Night tells the fascinating story of Beryl Markham's childhood in East Africa. Beryl Markha was the first woman to fly solo from east to west, across the Atlantic Ocean in 1936.Markham was...
View ArticleGoodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
Goodbye Stranger is a juvenile novel focusing on friendship and growing up in the post-modern world and all the unique problems that can entail. In the Prologue readers learn that Bridget Barsamian...
View ArticleBetween Two Worlds by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Between Two Worlds is loosely based on the story of a sixteen-year-old Inuit girl known as Eqariusaq who lives with her husband, Angulluk on Greenland and her encounters with Arctic explorer, Robert...
View ArticleAn Eagle In The Snow by Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo has crafted a beautiful story within a story. Set in 1940 England during the bombing of Britain, a stranger tells a young boy and his mother how a chance encounter and the decision to...
View ArticleFriends For Life by Andrew Noriss
Francis Meredith is sitting on a bench during lunch break when he first meets Jessica. He immediately knows something's not quite right when he sees her walking across the grass in Victoria Beckham's...
View ArticleThe Anatomical Shape of A Heart by Jenn Bennet
The Anatomical Shape of A Heart is a contemporary romance that explores the themes of identity and family. Beatrix Adams lives with her mother who is an emergency room nurse at Parnassus Medical Center...
View ArticleSmall Damages by Beth Kephart
"You aren't happy," Estela says."I can't be happy," I say."Look at me, Kenzie.""I'm looking at you, Estela.""Do you know your own heart?""I don't know anything.""Go," she says, "and think. And don't...
View ArticleAfter The Dancing by Margaret I. Rostkowski
After The Dancing Days is a sensitive exploration of war and its aftermath through the eyes of a young girl.In April 1919, Annie Metcalf's father returns home from the Great War. She and her mother...
View ArticleMy Brother's Secret by Dan Smith
Dan Smith's novel explores the moral dilemma faced by a young boy who is desperate to fit into his nation's ideal of being a patriotic German.Twelve year old Karl Friedmann is a member of the Deutsches...
View ArticleSuffragette
Suffragette attempts to portray the struggle of women in Britain to obtain the right to vote. It was never meant to be an encompassing film. Instead Suffragette attempts portray the intense struggle...
View ArticleSparrow: the true story of Joan of Arc by Michael Morpurgo
Sparrow is Michael Morpurgo's superb retelling of Joan of Arc for young readers. Set in the early 1400's France, young Eloise Hardy experiences a beautiful dream that recounts Joan's heroic campaign...
View ArticleSay You Will by Eric Walters
Say You Will is a funny novel about a genius teen who struggles to fit in with his peers in high school. To that end, he undertakes a promposal despite believing he has little chance of...
View ArticleSpotlight
Spotlight is the dramatization of the investigation by group of Boston Globe reporters in 2001 that led to the expose of the cover-up by the Catholic Church in Boston of the abuse of minors.The movie...
View ArticleWill To Survive by Eric Walters
Will To Survive is the final installment in Canadian author, Eric Walters' Rule of Three trilogy about survival in a post-apocalyptic world.It has been months since the power blackout and the community...
View ArticleSalt To The Sea by Ruta Sepetys
Ruta Sepetys tells the story of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 through the voices of four young people, haunted by the terror of the war, each carrying their own secret.In a forest,...
View ArticleListen To The Moon by Michael Morpurgo
Fourteen year old Alfie Wheatcroft and his family live in Veronica Farm on the island of Bryher one of the Isles of Scilly of the coast of Cornwall. Although Alfie's mother, Mary warned him to go to...
View ArticleThese Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
It's September 16, 1890 and seventeen year old Josephine (Jo) Montford, a senior at Miss Sparkwell's School for Young Ladies is worried about the piece she's written for the school newspaper, the...
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