Buy Confessions Of The Sullivan Sisters Special $11.99 (Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Scholastic Press Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on September 15, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Every Sullivan sister has a secret that they’ve been shielding from the eyes of their family and the blue blood Baltimore society. On Christmas Day, however, their [...]

Buy Kiss It Special $8.13 (Regular price: $9.99) Publisher: Simon Pulse Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on August 11, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars With a tagline like, “A girl’s gotta do who a girl’s gotta do,”Erin Downing‘s recent 14+ release, Kiss It, left visions of Sex And The City dancing through my head. [...]

Buy Catalyst Special $6.99 (Regular price: $7.99) Publisher: Speak Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on July 14, 2010 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Have you ever been so stressed about something that you couldn’t sleep? Perhaps you spent your nights doing homework or housework or maybe you just found yourself tossing and turning all night [...]

Buy Life, After Special: $11.99 (Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Scholastic Press Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on July 7, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Many of us have been touched by an event that changes the course of our lives forever from that day forward. (I know that I have.) In Life, After, we [...]

Buy Something Wicked Special: $11.40 CAD (Regular price: $15.00 CAD) Publisher: Puffin Canada Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on June 24, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars From the author of the moving debut novel, As She Grows comes the second installment in a series of Canadian YA novels about at risk teens, entitled Something [...]

Buy As She Grows Special: $10.92 CAD (Regular price: $12.00 CAD) Publisher: Puffin Canada Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on June 15, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Snow may only be 15, but she’s had a difficult life from the very beginning. Her mother died just after she was born in an apparent drowning, [...]

Buy: Stolen Special $11.99 (Regular price: $17.99) Publisher: Chicken House & Scholastic Format: Hardcover Reviewer: Melissa on May 29, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Eyes are said to be the windows to the soul. When someone looks you in the eye, we’re taught to believe they are telling the truth, that they mean [...]

Buy Speak Special: $7.29 (Regular price: $11.29) Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Format: Paperback Reviewer: Melissa on May 22, 2010 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Has anything ever happened to you that you couldn’t tell anyone about? Perhaps you were worried that your friends or parents wouldn’t believe you. Perhaps you didn’t know how [...]

Buy Purge Publisher: Scholastic Press Format: Hardcover, paperback Author: Sarah Darer Littman Reviewer: Melissa on May 6, 2010 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars What’s the best way to celebrate International No Diet Day? In my opinion, it would be raising awareness about the dangers of dieting and eating disorders. The best way I can [...]

How would you cope if you knew your mother murdered her boyfriend and ended up leaving you to fend for yourself in the world of foster homes? Astrid’s development into an artist and woman is testament to the fact that nothing can hold you back when you fight for yourself and your place in the world.