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by: Tim BStard (December 12, 2009)  Chapter 6 Going Down Those days I fell in love with every girl that looked at me. Lord knows I was so desperate, so lonely, but too bad. Whoever said kingship was all about red wine, concubines and entertainment? Sometimes a king would even see his thrown as a burden, of course sometimes he would .. (Young Adults)

by: Dan Keller (January 11, 2009)  I just finished reading, “Teen Dream Jobs : How to find the job you really want now!" by Nora E. Coon.  I must say that I was not overly impressed with the content of the book.  As the title suggests, the book is about helping teens find jobs.  The author provides information on how to .. (Young Adults)

by: Susan Heim (December 28, 2008)  Why won't anyone sit with me at lunch? Why aren't I in the popular crowd? These are the types of questions that cause tremendous angst for middle-school girls. When I was in junior high (our term for “middle school" back in the Stone Age), there weren't many places to go for the answers to .. (Young Adults)

by: Binay Srivastava (December 16, 2008)  If emotionally charged stories portraying love, selfishness, betrayal, female foeticide, or even immortality of the soul have ever moved you to know what lies ahead, or the shape of things to come, here is a book that will tease your most fertile imagination. You could say it is a thematic .. (Young Adults)

by: Stephanie Ehmen (December 07, 2008)  Stephanie and Vaughn find themselves living in a futuristic country that has been stripped of all freedoms, as we know them, their thoughts, actions and every aspect of their society controlled by those who govern. Their lives, and the lives of those around them are void of meaning and purpose. The . (Young Adults)

by: Stephanie Ehmen (December 07, 2008)  I didn't think that book #2, The Sacrificial Wood, could be better than the first book, Call of the Tree, but it is!The story of Stephanie and Vaughn continues in The Sacrificial Wood. As Stephanie struggles under the emotional exploitation of her father, her only salvation is her new stepmother .. (Young Adults)

by: Jamie Quaranta (December 04, 2008)  Marjane Satrapi's engrossing, poignant, and sometimes hilarious “graphic memoir" Persepolis (2003) is further proof that the graphic novel itself has come a long way since the days of Superman, Batman, Hellboy, and those other superheroes we idolize in our popular culture. However, I believe .. (Young Adults)

by: Neha Kashmiri (October 12, 2008)  What would you do if your mother or father suddenly committed suicide? In today's world a teenager has to deal with looks, friends, school and family. How could you manage with a felo-de-se?"Crossing 13" is an authentic account of a thirteen-year-old survivor of a father's suicide. Carrie Stark .. (Young Adults)

by: Jamie Quaranta (October 01, 2008)  Peer pressure. Substance abuse. Broken family dynamics. Failed sexual and romantic relationships. Automobile accidents. Not knowing what to do with the rest of your life after high school. All of these are the perfect ingredients for suicide's prominent role in realistic young adult .. (Young Adults)

by: Neha Kashmiri (August 19, 2008)  Bright Sky Press (2008) ISBN 9781933979144To me, “Window Boy" was a sad, but strangely uplifting, novel in hectic times. Sam Davis is a twelve-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. His father has abandoned him; his mother is too absorbed with her new boyfriend to notice Sam most of the time. In .. (Young Adults)

by: Dennis Francis (May 29, 2008)  I actually liked the pace and visual elements in this book . There was a movie made from the screenplay by director John Schultz. I have not seen it but it is available on DVD.The book is written in a style that young boys and girls will find easy to read. My 12 year old son enjoyed it but found it . (Young Adults)

by: Kiya Sama (November 29, 2007)  "An Abundance of Katherines" is written by the award-winning author John Green (award was given to his first book ‘Looking For Alaska). This was his second published book and quite a favorite among young readers. Here is a brief synopsis:Colin Singleton is a child prodigy who has just .. (Young Adults)