伊希斯·安·默里, known by her friends as Ice or Icie, 爱的语言, 星巴克, 自以为是的t恤, 恐怖电影, 她的苹果手机, 和特里斯坦.  和她最好的朋友萝拉, Icie engages in linguistic creativity, creating Ripples—words that lose their individual identities when they swirl into new forms, adding flavor to conversation.  Freaking idiot, for example, becomes fridiot, and terrifically boring becomes borrific.  Icie’s life is flowing as smoothly as life can for a seventeen-year-old whose dad is a nuclear physicist and whose mom works for the federal government, 但是她知道, regardless of life’s banality or beauty, Psycho-style surprises can erupt. When Tristan—two weeks before prom—dumps阅读更多→

Imagine everything you’d do over if you had the chance.  Ten-year-old Odessa  Green-Light in 敖德萨再次 by Dana Reinhardt  does more than imagine do-overs.  In her attic, jumping gives her the power to make today yesterday all over again.  在早期阶段, Odessa’s magic helps her to erase humiliation, 误解, and poorly orchestrated choices, and readers will discover whether Odessa can change the things that matter most in the bewildering life of a tween.  Can she make her life resemble the online game Dreamonica, where she gets to make every decision—“how many puppies, 豪宅有多大?, even what color hair and eyes she had” (107),阅读更多→

The bond between brothers is at the heart of Michael Harmon‘s latest, 桥下.  Tate’s younger brother, Indy, is probably the best skateboarder in Spokane.  The guys in the crew, Indy, Tate, Pipe and Sid, are tight like brothers and they live to ride.  Their neighborhood is on the fringe of the seedy underbelly of the city where drugs and crime are rampant and murder happens almost every day, and just last year they lost one of their own to an overdose.  Tate’s the crew’s unofficial leader and he feels an obligation to protect his brothers as much as he can.  事实并非如此阅读更多→

Identity theft has been the top consumer complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the past twelve years in a row.  根据联邦贸易委员会, 身份盗窃, which happens when someone steals your personal information and uses it without your permission, is a serious crime that can wreak havoc with your finances, 信用记录, and reputation — and can take time, 钱, 还有解决问题的耐心. This is the topic of Anna Davies’ new book, 身份盗窃, the second installment in the Point 恐怖 series.  Davies’ novel features senior Hayley Westin, who has more awards than friends.  As a freshman, she took down her阅读更多→

“Well, that’s the thing about knots, isn’t it?. . . If you don’t know the trick, it’s a muddled predicament.  But in fact each loop of every knot is carefully placed, one end twisting right into the other in a way you might not have expected. I find them rather beautiful, really.” (5) So says the Man in the Gray Suit, who appears and reappears unexpectedly, but at just the right moments, throughout Lisa Graff’s charming tale, 一团结.  And while the man is talking about knots on the literal level, as we see in this finely crafted, intricately interlaced story of beloved阅读更多→

外星人入侵的读者们, 世界末日小说, or exhilarating action-thrillers will not be disappointed with Rick Yancey’s latest novel, 第五次浪潮.  Reminiscent of Steven King’s The Stand , of P.D. James’ futuristic political-fable novel Children of Men, or of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, Yancey’s book is super- intense and rich with nearly nonstop action.  In grand genre-blurring fashion, Yancey writes a book that is equal parts science-fiction and thriller, the first in a trilogy that promises to rival the popular  Hunger Games series. 当外星人入侵地球, their presence is felt in waves: Lights Out, 冲浪企鹅, 瘟疫, 消音器, 和第五次浪潮.  在失去动力之后阅读更多→

Have you ever wished the rich gave a small amount of their 钱 to the poor? Or even to the less unfortunate…?  Ash and Benjamin do just that in the story, 资金运行, by Jack Heath. When Ash’s mother leaves with most of the 钱, Ash and her father are struggling to make ends meet. Her father begins working multiple jobs, but the income is not enough. Trying to pay the bills each month was hard enough but when their house is burglarized  everything changes. Ash comes home from school to find that the television, 沙发上, 电脑, 电话, 她的床上, and other furniture pieces have been阅读更多→

Have you ever read a book that you just couldn’t wait to recommend to a friend? 我们很想听听! Tell us in the comments about your favorite book or (if you can’t pick a favorite) the last great book that you read. Make sure you include the title and author, 添加类型和年龄范围, 那告诉我们你为什么喜欢它!阅读更多→