In Virtuosity by Jessica Martinez, Carmen Bianchi, is a seventeen-year-old violin virtuoso carrying the weight of a Grammy award-winning career and the failed dreams of her musician mother into the fiercest competition of…
In You Are My Only by Beth Kephart, Emmy Rane is a young mother whose child is stolen from her backyard one sunny afternoon. Poor, confused and devastated by the loss of “Baby”, Emmy is ill-equipped to deal…
Frances and her brother Daniel are scholarship students at the prestigious Pettengill School. Both have gladly escaped their deteriorating home life with their broken father, crotchety grandmother and memories of their absentee mother,…
Catching Fire, by Suzanne Collins. Just a note: If you plan on reading The Hunger Games skip this review for now. As the second book in The Hunger Games Trilogy begins, Katniss Everdeen has…
Minli is a little girl living with her parents in a small hut near Fruitless Mountain. She wonder why Fruitless Mountain is so barren and desolate, and enjoys the wonderful stories that her…
The Invasion by K.A. Applegate is the first book in the Animorphs series. Scholastic began reissuing this popular set of books back in May of this year. They have even spawned a television series.…