The Secret Society of the Pink Crystal Ball

Author

Ulli Lust

Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense,...

Author

Monique Polak

A pampered child used to having her own way, Anneke Van Raalte lives outside Amsterdam, where her father is a cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper. Though Anneke's family is Jewish, her religion means little to her. Anneke's life changes in 1942 when the Nazis invade Holland, and she and her family...

Author	Sarah Dessen
ISBN	0670785601

Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough.

Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker...

Author	Marietta D. Moskin
ISBN	0735102252

I gave this book five star because it was one of my favorite books when I was in middle/high school. It was the catalyst for me reading everything I could find at the time about the Holocaust. Looking back on it with the knowledge gained over the years, I have to say it sounds very unrealistic--Rosemarie...

Author	Kate Saunders
ISBN	0312369611

When Jane is invited to spend her summer vacation with her new—but admittedly odd—friend, Staffa, it feels like a dazzling daydream. Jane is lured by the promise of beautiful gowns as delicate as cobwebs, fancy parties as elegant as castle balls, and more fun than she can possibly imagine.  

But...