Addressing an Issue
Amanda Bumped According to this website the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate out of all industrialized countries. The Center for Disease Control says that one-third of teens get…
The Future of Us What if you knew about Facebook before everyone else did? In the book The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler, Josh and Emma…
Two Short Novels
The Lover’s Dictionary: A Novel Everyone knows how a dictionary is set up. A word is given, then it is defined, obviously. This is how The Lover’s Dictionary by David…
Another Trilogy Made Into a Series
City of Fallen Angels (Mortal Instruments, Book 4) I don’t know how many of you read the Maximum Ride series, but wasn’t it dumb when James Patterson kept going after…
Where She Went
Where She Went If I Stay by Gayle Forman is a novel about a girl who ends up in a coma from a car crash that killed the rest of…
How to Save a Life
How to Save a Life When you hear the title of this book, you may think of the song by the Fray. I know I did when I first looked…
Catching Up Part 2
On our way to Ohio, we stopped in Detroit the first night to split up the driving. And it was on our way to Detroit that I started To Timbuktu.…
Catching Up
For the past few days, I have been on vacation in Ohio. I know that doesn’t really sound like the ideal vacation destination, but my sister Lissy wanted to visit…
Sidekicks Aren’t Given Enough Credit
Sidekicks Usually in superhero stories, the sidekick isn’t all that important. He or she is just there to do the things that the actual hero doesn’t want to do. Take…
A Different Way to Tell a Story
Wonderstruck Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick is different in the fact that it is told in both words and pictures. Amazing pictures at that. Brian Selznick draws all the pictures in…