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WANDERLOVE By: Kristen Hubbard
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Bria Sandoval has just packed herself up and signed up for a guided tour of Central America where she hopes to recommit to her art work, be independent, and enjoy some no-strings-attached hookups. Only there's one problem, Bria signed up for the wrong tour. Instead of having a Central American adventure she finds herself stuck snapping bad photos with a bunch of middle-aged tourists. So when Bria meets
Rowan and his sister starling, she decides to ditch her group and join them as they travel off the beaten path. Bria is a good girl trying to be bad, Rowan a bad boy trying to be good. Both seek to leave their selves behind and this trip will be the best way to do just that. But they can't run from their pasts forever, and Bria soon realizes if she ever wants to break free she will have to start looking back. Delacorte $17.99 Ages 14 and up Reviewed by Maggie.
CROSS MY HEART By: Sasha Gould
Laura della Scala has spent the last four years of her life in a convent bored to tears, but when Laura learns that her older sister, Beatrice, has drowned, her life gets just a little bit more interesting. Given no time to grieve, Laura is removed form the convent and ordered to marry her sister's fiance, a disgusting old man named Vincenzo. In a state of panic Laura betrays a very powerful man to earn her way into the
Segreta, a secret society of women who help young girls like Laura. It seems as though Laura's prayers have been answered as the Segreta put an end to her engagement. Soon, however, Laura begins to suspect that something sinister is happening int he Segreta, something that might be connected to her sister's death. $17.99 Delacorte Ages 12 and up. Reviewed by Maggie
THE JADE NOTEBOOK By: Laura Resau
Zeeta and her flighty mom, Layla, have been traveling the globe for years. They have lived in so many beautiful places, but, for Zeeta, no place has been closer to paradise then Mazunte, Mexico. Form the beautiful jade waters to the rich local culture Mazunte has everything the Zeeta has ever wanted in a home. But the longer Zeeta stays in this paradise, the more she realizes that everything is not as its seems. Creatures howl int he jungle, sharks glide near the beaches, and the locals claim that a terrible curse haunts Zeeta's home. Soon enough Zeeta realizes that paradise has a dark side and it's turning her life upside down. Ages 10 and up $16.99 Reviewed by Maggie.
SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE By: Kate Dale
Seventeen-year-old Rosie's mother, Trudie, has just passed away from Huntington's disease, and Rosie is convinced that she has inherited the crippling illness. So Rosie goes to get tested, only to discover that Trudie isn't her real mother. Rosie was swapped at birth for a sickly baby who was certain to die. Completely devastated by the news, she decides to join her ex-boyfriend on his gap year travels, while she tries to find her birth parents. but nothing goes as planned. Rosie discovers that her family has even more secrets then she thought, and she is left with an agonizing decision, one with heartbreaking consequences. Ages 14 and up. Delacorte $17.99 Reviewed by Maggie age 17.
STARTERS By: Lissa Price
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When the Spore Wars came only children and the very old were left alive, for they were the only ones vaccinated. So Callie and her little brother Tyler were left on their own, with new laws preventing her from working and living in abandoned buildings. Tyler is really ill and Callie has to make some money. Their is an alternative, not one that she want to take, but she doesn't seem to have a choice. So Callie goes to Prime Destination. Here she will have a chip put in her brain so that an Elder can rent her body. All she has to do is rent her body out three times and she will get enough money so they won't have to live on the streets anymore. But then weird things begin to happen and she can't go back to Prime, someone says they would kill her if that happened. What will she do?
A great novel that keeps you wondering until the last page. $17.99 Ages 12 on up. Delacorte Press
KATE AND PIPPIN By: Martin Springett
This is a true story of two unlikely companions. Kate, a great dane and Pippin a motherless fawn. When Isobel brings a fawn home that lost his mother, Kate takes to being Pippins mother. She cuddles her and lets her follow everywhere. When she is finally strong enough to go outside she disappears into the woods. What happens is remarkable.
I read this book to my four year old grandson and then followed up with a youtube visit to see them together. Aidan loved the book and was fascinated by the story. Ages 4 up. $16.99 Henry Holt
MAY B. By: Caroline Starr Rose
May B. is sent to help at a homestead fifteen miles from home. Her pa promises it is only till Christmas. May B. is to work for these newlyweds, cook, clean and help out with a homesick bride. But when the bride runs off and her husband follows, May is left on her own. Soon she realizes that no one is coming back. She is in a sod house in the middle of nowhere. It will be five months before her father comes to fetch her. Told in prose, you feel like you are in the sod house with May B. hoping that she will have enough food to make it till Christmas. Ages 9-12 Schwartz and Wade $15.99
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