Bomb

Author	Deborah Ellis
ISBN	0888997353

For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government’s war on drugs. Diego’s adjusted to his new life. His parents are...

Author	Kathryn Reiss
ISBN	0152023992

I read this back in elementary school after my mum bought it for me at a book fair, and I read it so many times that the cover fell off. Did I replace the book? Negative...I taped the cover back on, and I still re-read it to this day.

Time Windows is the story of Miranda Browne, the quintessential city...

Author	Holly Jackson
ISBN	1405293187

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her...

Author	Sharon Waxman
ISBN	0805086536

A journey across four continents to the heart of the conflict over who should own the great works of ancient art

Why are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many Etruscan masterworks in America? For...

Author	Marjan Kamali
ISBN	0062236806

In Together Tea, Marjan Kamali’s delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter’s twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother’s years of endless matchmaking and the spreadsheets grading available Iranian-American...

Author

Lou Morgan

Young, rich and good-looking, Izzy and her friends lead seemingly perfect lives. But exams are looming and at a school like Clerkenwell, failure is not an option. Luckily, Tigs has a solution. A small pill that will make revision a breeze and help them get the results they need. Desperate to succeed,...

Author	Anna Day
ISBN	1910655678

Violet's in her element. Cosplay at the ready, she can't wait to feel part of her favorite fandom: The Gallows Dance, a mega book and movie franchise that she and her friends know EVERY WORD of (canon and fanfic included).

But at Comic Con, a freak accident transports Violet and her friends into...

Author	Sophia Bennett
ISBN	1847158250

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Mary Adams, one time scullery maid, finds herself rubbing shoulders with the high society of London and Venice as alter ego Persephone. But with an ambition to rise to the top, she must sacrifice everything and betray those she trusts...

Author	Fiona McIntosh
ISBN	1921901489

A humble soldier, known only as 'Jones', wakes in hospital with no recollection of his past. The few fleeting fragments of memory he glimpses are horrifying moments from the battlefield at Ypres. His very identity becomes a puzzle he must solve.

Then Eden Valentine comes gliding into his world,...

Author	Tracy Darnton
ISBN	1847159486

Jess has an incredible memory. She can remember every single detail of every single day since she was eleven. But Jess would rather not be remarkable and, after years of testing at the hands of a ruthless research team, she has finally managed to escape.

Just when Jess thinks that she’s managing...

Author	Patrick Hunt
ISBN	0452288770

The world's greatest archaeological finds and what they tell us about lost civilizations

Renowned archaeologist Patrick Hunt brings his top ten list of ancient archaeological discoveries to life in this concise and captivating book. The Rosetta Stone, Troy, Nineveh's Assyrian Library,...

Author	Francine Pascal
ISBN	0743408659

Just because I want to do something different I'm going to write the reviews in a Friends episode format. Enjoy!

The One Where Gaia feels Betrayed by Everybody

Gaia is pissed. She can't believe that the guy she loved, Sam Moon, is with Ella Niven, her evil foster mother who happens to...

Author

Emily Suvada

A free YA short story - what would you pay for the chance to escape?

Jun Bei, Cole, Anna, Leoben, Ziana. Five children with extraordinary potential.They don't get many visitors at the remote laboratory where they live under the eye of legendary geneticist, Lachlan Agatta. The man and woman...

Author	Francine Pascal
ISBN	0743408640

This one is actually really good - I'm not just being nostalgic. Okay the weird scene with Loki was a bit of a let down, but otherwise...

I think Ella is a great character, I have love for the woman! Although it seems unlikely that she'll be around much longer, she's just the right level of crazy jealous...

Author

Francine Pascal

This series has sent me on a HUGE emotional roller coaster ride. I read books 7, 8, and 9 in one weekend. I know what you're thinking: doesn't this person have a life? No, no I don't. This book is told in alternating view points. Gaia, obviously, but also Sam, Mary, Ed, Tom Moore, Loki, Ella, even Skizz gets...

Author	Meg Leder
ISBN	1481432109

In this ode to all the things we gain and lose and gain again, seventeen-year-old Penelope Marx curates her own mini-museum to deal with all the heartbreaks of love, friendship, and growing up.

Welcome to the Museum of Heartbreak.

Well, actually, to Penelope Marx’s personal museum....

Author	Paul Zindel
ISBN	0060757353

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When sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the...

Author	Will Hill
ISBN	1492669792

The things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade.

Before, she lived inside the fence. Before, she was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything—and Father John...