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Review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

Cronin's debut novel explores mortality, vulnerability, surprising moments of joy and reflection, an irresistible young protagonist, and...

Review of Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott

Elliott's book for young readers offers a boy-crazy, truly funny main protagonist in Haylah Swinton. I delighted in watching her come...

Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

Teenaged April has been dealt a difficult hand in life, and watching her struggle to make her way and connect with others in Allison...

Review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

Krueger's writing is lovely, and while the adult characters sometimes feel like caricatures of evil villains, his young characters and...

Review of The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Adunni is a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and she's wonderfully dogged,...

Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books

Aren't young adult books just the best? Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. The main protagonists are...

Review of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

I loved this. Romy's soaring hopes, her vulnerability and then her growing doubts, her self-reliance and quick thinking, and the shifts...

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