I can’t help myself. Since discovering free-verse novels, I am completely in love with the genre. Despite the fact that the subject matter of Because I Am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas is one that literally makes you sick to your stomach, it’s one that I’m glad to have read.
Anke’s home is not one of love. [...]
Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson is the sequel to Locomotion but when I read it I had no idea. It can be read entirely on its own, I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. But I’ll say this, Peace, Locomotion was so touching that I now have Locomotion on hold at the library and [...]
Identical by Ellen Hopkins has just about everything you can think of. Dysfunctional family. Check. Extra marital affairs. Check. Sexual abuse, drug abuse, cutting, bulimia, pot, drinking, inappropriate relations with a schoolteacher. Check, check, check, check, check, and check. Identical is the first book that I’ve read by Ellen Hopkins and wow, I’ve never seen [...]
I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder is a paranormal romance. Paranormal romance? I didn’t even know that was a genre.
Fifteen year old Ava has just helped bury her boyfriend Jackson. As if that isn’t hard enough, she thinks that his death is her fault. She has a hard time letting go. Her [...]
T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte is a free verse novel for about the age nine to twelve reading level that takes us inside the Holocaust but from a different perspective that we don’t see very often. That of life for a deaf child.
Although life is silent for Paula Becker she’s happy in her home with [...]
