Buy Don’t Breathe A Word by Holly Cupala Special: $8.49 (Regular price: $8.99) Publisher: Harper Teen Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on January 26, 2011 Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Joy Delamore can’t breathe. She’s suffering from asthma, from her parent’s over protectiveness, and from her boyfriend, Asher, who is smothering the girl she is [...]

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Buy Sean Griswold’s Head Special: $13.18 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Bloomsbury Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on December 20, 2011 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars After Payton comes upon a scene, which proves that the last six months were built on a lie, she refuses to speak to her parents for two weeks. The consequence [...]

Buy First Day On Earth Special: $13.53 (Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Scholastic Press Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on December 19, 2011 Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars “You think you know what I am, the kid slumped in his chair in the back row, with greasy hair, wearing all black.” This is the way begins; [...]

Buy If I Tell Special: $9.27 (Regular price: $9.99) Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on December 15, 2011 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Have you ever seen something you wish you hadn’t? Something that, if she knew, would destroy your mother? Something that felt like as much of a betrayal to you [...]

Buy But I Love Him Special: $16.49 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Flux Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on December 13, 2011 Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars Ann only met Conner one year ago, but over the course of the last 12 months everything in her life has changed. But I Love Him is the story [...]

Buy Pearl Special: $16.49 (Regular price: $16.99) Publisher: Henry Holt Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on December 8, 2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Bean (born Pearl) and her equally misfit best friend, Henry, have mothers who don’t blend in with their community. Henry’s mother, Sally, is an obese hermit, and Bean’s mother, Lexie, only [...]