I feel like the only reviews I write are for books I didn't like, but I guess that's because books I like I feel satisfied with, whereas the ones I'm not happy with I feel this urge to write about it, to think it over and mull over the various reasons why I didn't enjoy it. Anyway, The Infinite M...
Star Rating:I rated this book 4 stars because I have read it over and over again since I was ten. Plot Summary:Yasaman, Katie-Rose, Camilla, and Violet are four girls who meet up when they are all in 5th grade together. They all fight their own personal battles, like Camilla, often called Milla, ...
This book is about a girl named Winnie who just turned turned 14. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her two best friends, Cinnamon and Dinah. Winnie is in eighth grade and is about to graduate from junior high. She has a boyfriend named Lars who she really liked for a really long time. When it w...
Was a very good book in relation to describing the struggles in highschool concerning the aspect of physical attraction. The book shows the two sides, negative and positive, of being more developed as a woman. It is a great depiction of the way girls are treated by guys because of how they appear...
I really liked this book, even though I believe the first one was a little more interesting to me. I disliked how sassy and mean Katie-Rose was being to Natalia. I felt like she was the new Modessa. I don't think it was necessary to put the death of Stewie the way Lauren Myracle did. It was a lit...
Milla, Yasaman, Violet and Katie-Rose are in the fifth grade and are best friends. This the third book in this series and they just keep getting better. The four friends have very distinct personalities and each is given a chance to shine. Much of the stories beauty lies in the authenticity of th...
1. I can see a setup for a fifth book. For example: The author could expound on Zoe's sexuality and writing, Angela's new geek relationship and life outside sorority, and is Maddie going to go back to California for school or find somewhere closer to home? And how is her depression and how are he...
Nothing much to say about this one. Same formula as the other books in the series, although some parts felt off, much like the Flower friendships themselves. I'm still mostly just glad this series exists to expose children to diverse human beings, like the ones they will encounter every single ...
Audacious author Lauren Myracle accomplishes something of a literary miracle in her second young-adult novel, ttyl (Internet instant messaging shorthand for "talk to you later"), as she crafts an epistolary novel entirely out of IM transcripts between three high-school girls. Far from being preci...
After everything they've been through together, Angela, Maddie, and Zoe know they'll be friends till the end--but sometimes the fates (or parents) have other plans. With sophomore year and its troubles behind them, the winsome threesome is on cruise control, enjoying the well-earned perks of bein...
For about the first half of this, I was ready to give it three stars. It was a quick read, pretty okay - seemed like the typical high-school-popularity sort of novel, but with a bit more tongue-in-cheek... kind of like Mean Girls.Also, I think this book would really make for an awesome film!But t...
(Spoilers - varying from major to minor- ahead. Warning. Proceed carefully.)When a book handles a dangerous,powerful, hard subject such as coming to terms with your sexuality - and accepting it - I feel as if it should be fantastic, should make me bawl or something along the same lines. The premi...
Angela, Zoe and Maddie are finally seniors and ready for the great year they deserve. After two years of fighting, experimentation and some hilarious stories, they are prepared to enjoy the fruits of seniority - even though being top dogs at school means thinking about college, sex and even the i...
Winnie Perry is a teenager—at last! And it’s a really big deal. A ginormous deal, that, wouldn’t you know it, brings ginormous problems along with it. Winnie’s bff #1 is growing up too slowly, while her bff #2 is growing up too fast, leaving Winnie stuck in the middle. Winnie’s boyfriend, Lars, i...
DUST COATED the windows, the petunias in the flower boxes bowed their heads, and spiderwebs clotted the eaves of the porch. Once I might have marveled at the webs—how delicate they were, how intricate—but today I saw ghastly silk ropes. Nooses for sawflies and katydids and anything guileless enou...
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My best friend Joseph is finally out of the hospital, and today he’s coming back to school! Joseph had leukemia, which is a bad sickness and worse than a cold, but now he’s better. I’ve been missing him forever, but now he’ll be back in Mrs. Webber’...
My tears would be as hot as the hot Georgia sun, and I would collect them in ajar and . . . do something with them. Pour them on Amanda’s head, maybe, so her beautiful blond hair would burn to a frizzle. Only I would never do that, so fine. Instead, I kicked Bearie, my stuffed animal bear that I ...
True love can change a person’s cellular makeup, it seems to me, but it takes many leaps of faith and a whole lot of trust to get there! The novel is told from alternating points of view—first Wren’s and then Charlie’s, and so on—because it seemed like the best way to tell the story, for one thin...
She’s pretty and she smells good, and we snuggle on the sofa and watch Tom and Jerry, just the two of us. Teensy Baby Maggie is taking her nap. “So how was your day, Ty-bug?” Mom asks. We can talk and watch the cartoon, because Tom and Jerry never s...
When nothing did, she felt curiously let down. Then, four days after her encounter with the Bird Lady, she overheard her aunts talking about her. It was Tuesday morning, and Natasha was heading downstairs for breakfast. She froze. “. . . but what you don’t seem to understand is that I want what’s...