Remember Me? by Shophie Kinsella

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian
Sophie Kinsella has a knack for creating protagonists readers cannot help but root for.  True to form, within the first few pages of her latest novel, Remember Me?, Kinsella had won me over with hapless heroine Lexi Smart.
We meet Lexi on the eve of her [...]

What I Was by Meg Rosoff

What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian

Award-winning young adult author Meg Rosoff’s first adult novel, What I Was, is a thrilling coming-of-age tale.  The 100-year-old narrator, H, takes us back to his year at St. Oswald’s, an all-male school on the eastern coast of England.  This is H’s third boarding [...]

The Ashleys: There’s a New Name in School by Melissa de la Cruz

The Ashleys: There’s a New Name in School by Melissa de la Cruz
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian
The movie “Heathers” meets “My Super Sweet 16″ in a junior high version of beautiful, rich, powerful, and deliciously mean girls. In Melissa de la Cruz’s new series, appropriately named The Ashleys, Ashley Spencer, Ashley Li, and [...]