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BookTalk “Anyone who’s had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It’s all about Before and After.” (6, ePub ed.) So begins this tale of After. Laurel Meisner and her once-friend-turned-bad-boy neighbor David ditch their respective families plans to grab ice cream after a seder dinner. David claimed calculus homework with a friend. [...] 
August 11th, 2011 | Tags: coming of age, Death, family, grief, high school, jennifer castle, realistic fiction, relationships, the beginning of after, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 6 comments  Beach Week Book Three! This one is all about spending summers at a beach house and finding yourself old enough for that first love. Told in retrospectives of Belly’s past summers you’ll get to know her and why this summer is so very important…Enjoy the sun, sand, and the love… BookTalk Isabel, a.k.a. Belly, [...]
June 30th, 2011 | Tags: beach, beach read, cancer, divorce, family, first love, friendship, Jenny Han, realistic fiction, relationships, Series, summer read, The Summer I Turned Pretty Series, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | 3 comments Beach Week Book 2 I loved this book. The beach setting is so well done you’ll taste the salty air. A perfect read surrounded by sun and sand or your couch…’cause you’ll feel like you’re there… BookTalk “I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I’ve thought [...]
June 28th, 2011 | Tags: beach, Book Review, book talk, booktalk, chick lit, family, friendship, Jessi Kirby, Moonglass, realistic fiction, Suicide, summer read, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment Review I’m in the minority. You should probably read Please Ignore Vera Dietz…Everyone else thinks you should…But I didn’t love it. I’m not going to booktalk it. I am disappointed. I could possibly be the only person on the internet brave enough to say so. Please Ignore Vera Dietz is a Printz Award Honor book. I had [...]
May 23rd, 2011 | Tags: A. S. King, Book Review, Death, family, Please Ignore Vera Dietz, Printz Award, problem novel, realistic fiction, YA Fiction | Category: Review, YA Lit | Leave a comment BookTalk What if you did it?…Could you have done it?…This can’t be happening to you…You get good grades, like, really good grades, 4.15 GPA good grades…And you’re the star of the soccer team, like, a super star. You’ve been playing varsity goalie since your freshman year. People stop you in the halls to congratulate you…people [...]
April 29th, 2011 | Tags: booktalk, problem novel, realistic fiction, teen pregnancy, YA Fiction | Category: BookTalks, YA Lit | Leave a comment |
                
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