One of the best things about Rick Riordan’s PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS series being such a massive hit (beyond the fact that they’re just great books) is that now there are lots of other Greek mythology-based books, too. I enjoyed last year’s THE NIGHT TOURIST, based on the Orpheus myth – the story of [...]

I think this is one of the best novels on the spring list.
Ida Mae Jones needs something more than what she’s got. Her daddy died in a farming accident, but before he did, he taught her to fly his crop duster. Ida Mae dreams of going to Chicago where a special flight school won’t turn [...]

I did not want to read this book for two reasons.
1. It’s about a girl named Molly whose baseball-fiend dad is killed in a car accident. (My daughter’s name is Molly and my husband is a baseball fanatic.)
2. I really, really, really, really, really don’t like baseball and don’t usually like books that feature sports [...]

Okay. Before I talk about THE SEASON, which I very much enjoyed, I need to say something. Possibly might turn into a rant. Maybe not.
THE LUXE started it all – this Regency teen romance thing. Well, if you want to be truly factual then I think you need to acknowledge first SORCERY AND CECILIA and [...]

This book launches Harper’s new Bowen Press, so you know it was chosen very carefully. I think it’s a worthy launch title – it has a lovely feel to it. Sort of a Penderwicks feel, although not quite so lighthearted; maybe a little timeless, like Elizabeth Enright, but with a dash of the seriousness Sharon [...]

Almost-fifteen-year-old Alis has never been out of her sheltered religious community, and despite the many rules she must live under (which caused her brother to flee years before), has lived a fairly contented life. However, everything changes when her parents tell her that she must marry the village’s 40 year old minister. Alis decides that [...]

This is very much like Trixie Belden meets THE WESTING GAME. I should also tell you up front that this book is full of math and I HATE math and I enjoyed this book tremendously. I even read the math parts. In fact, it could have been mathier (tm Joss Whedon) and I don’t think [...]

Two things kept running through my head while I was reading this.
1. This is what it must be like to be inside a teenage boy’s head.
2. Teenage boys are jackasses. Hilarious, predictable, often meaning well but totally failing jackasses.
Will Carter is 14 and entering his freshman year of high school, and he is totally desperate [...]

This is really hard to describe – not in a bad way, just in a “wow, I’d really have to think before I handsold this because I wouldn’t want to get it wrong” way. It’s blurbed by Melissa Marr, and those girls are SORT of who it’s for. Sort of. I just described this to [...]

Angela’s parents have shipped her off to Hidden Oaks as a last resort. After an incident with her boyfriend at home that ended in the death of her grandfather, they were no longer willing to deal with her themselves. Hidden Oaks is a boarding school for dangerous girls – girls who have been delinquent, committed [...]