Archive for October, 2009

Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

When high school sophomore Jessie’s long-term best friend transforms herself into a punk and goes after Jessie’s would-be boyfriend, Jessie decides to visit “the wild nerd yonder” and seek true friends among classmates who play Dungeons and Dragons.

Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl’s parents arrange for their daughters to marry “Gold Mountain men” who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when [...]

If I Stay:a novel, by Gayle Forman

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Mia is in an awful car accident – her parents are killed, her brother is critically injured. As she has her out-of-body experience she debates whether or not she should just let go and be with her parents, knowing the pain she’ll endure if she stays with the living