Tag: YA

  • REVIEW of Crown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutherford

    REVIEW of Crown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutherford

    Nor and Zadie are twins, identical to each other in every way except for the scar on Nor’s cheek. While diving for pearls (the only resource they can trade for food and water), Nor was scraped by the lethal blood coral, surviving the incident only to retain a mysterious healing agent inside herself. Part of…

  • REVIEW of The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

    REVIEW of The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

    Rob Horton lives in a Florida motel with his father, a father who refuses to speak the name of his dead mother, a father who hit him at the funeral to stop him from crying. The school bullies beat Rob up on the bus every day, A rash on his legs makes him the target…

  • REVIEW of Pretty in Punxsutawney by Laurie Boyle Crompton

    REVIEW of Pretty in Punxsutawney by Laurie Boyle Crompton

    When Andie moves to a new town the summer of her senior year, she develops a crush on Colton, the guy who dishes out popcorn at the local movie theater. True, he doesn’t even seem to know what a meet-cute is, but then, not everyone can share her obsessive love of old films. Much to…

  • REVIEW of The Warrior Maiden (Hagenheim #9) by Melanie Dickerson

    Mulan, a half-Asian girl who can shoot arrows better than any boy, has grown up as a pariah in her village in Lithuania. When her father dies, she must take his place in the army of the local warlord to ensure that her mother is not kicked out of their house. Concealing her identity as…

  • REVIEW of The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon Wallwork

    REVIEW of The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon Wallwork

    Clara Stahlbaum has been practicing her Johann Kahler Sonata for two years. On Christmas Day she will play it at the concert hall, attract the attention of handsome pianist Johann Kahler, and finally have her happily ever after. But when a strange Nutcracker shows up on her piano, she finds herself whisked away to the…

  • REVIEW of The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy #1), by Lindsay A. Franklin

    REVIEW of The Story Peddler (The Weaver Trilogy #1), by Lindsay A. Franklin

    Tanwen has a gift–when she tells stories, magical strands come from her hands and weave the colors of the tale into a beautiful glass picture…which she can then sell to a member of the audience. Tanwen’s lifelong ambition has been to become a royal storyteller and weave her stories for the king and his court,…

  • REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

    REVIEW of The Orphan’s Wish (Hagenheim #8), by Melanie Dickerson

    Orphaned at age five in the Holy Land, Aladdin is found by a master thief and forced to steal from market goers. But when he tries to steal from a knight and gets caught, a priest takes pity on the boy, adopts him, and brings him home to the orphanage in Hagenheim. There he grows…