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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition

    I have a senior in high school, so I'm currently solidly on the sidelines of college application hustle college--and the dangerous potential belief that a young person's worth could feel determined by which schools She quickly realizes that her father's oblique promises that she could teach school in their new home

  • Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik

    Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which begins the story of a magical high school Getting out of school alive was meant to be the solution to all their problems. wrong, El and her friends must do the unthinkable yet again: they must find their way back into the school

  • Review of See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

    Barrett's tenacity and passion for the truth led to a journalistic coup in high school, one that exposed cheating throughout her school's crown jewel of sports, the revered, state-champion tennis team--and ensured that she was reviled by many of her peers and some in her school's administration. her first day of classes, she fears college may become a ruination on par with the end of her high school

  • Review of This House Is Not a Home by Katlia

    universally familiar and is based on real-life events: Indigenous children kidnapped and sent to residential schools It details the goings-on at an Indian Training School and the "restructuring" that cut off many American

  • Review of Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

    Emma Starling is a former natural healer whose abilities have disappeared, and she's also a recent med-school It's not that she couldn't hack medical school--she just didn't go the first day, or the second, or any oh, and she's been telling her parents about fictitious classes she's been attending at the medical school without a direction for her future, Emma discovers that her beloved but estranged best friend from high school

  • Review of This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

    love goes viral, it leads to the offer of a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her new school makes a desperate deal with a famous actor in her class: if he plays the role of her fake boyfriend at school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/21/23 Edition

    uncomfortably familiar and based on real-life events: Indigenous children kidnaped and sent to residential schools It details the goings-on at an Indian Training School and the "restructuring" that cut off American Indians

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition

    01 Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo I have a rising high school about the pressure and the unknown of it all, as well as offering tips as to how to evaluate whether a school

  • Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

    She was not allowed to attend school. At age 15, after years of excruciating systematic suffering, Young escaped to Texas, enrolled in school

  • Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    her first day of classes, she fears college may become a ruination on par with the end of her high school and Columbia premed undergrad Astrid is dating Max Martin, a sweet, nerdy boy she knew back in high school And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush It's not that she couldn't hack medical school--she just didn't go the first day, or the second, or any oh, and she's been telling her parents about fictitious classes she's been attending at the medical school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/9/23 Edition

    Her sister is back from treatment, where Micah, Lily's new friend at school, was also in treatment. When Lily explores poetry as part of a school project, she finds the healing power of art--and realizes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/24 Edition

    aspirations and the nerdy game store clerk she's fake dating in an elaborate attempt to rebirth her high school's Royally Magical Young Adult Series. 03 Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce Riley wants to bring back her school's

  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #youngadult, #fourstarbookreview 03 The Girl With All the Gifts ​ Melanie loves school ; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted Colonel Carlisle; and the others on board

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition

    I'm listening to a madcap story about a nerdy misfit who's mistaken for a drug kingpin at his high school Rachael Flanery Santa Ana is a madcap story about a misfit who's mistaken for a drug kingpin at his high school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition

    Just as she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes

  • Review of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

    Nora's focused on her work, her small-town life, her kids' sports and their school play, and her longtime lovely small-town mom, but that Nora's (and others') duties related to the looming, extremely involved school

  • Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school with But she fears she'll be killed in one of the school's daily unfortunate incidents before she can finish her of being capable of dark magic, but it's not like she's summoning her mortal flame or blowing the school feel like the page time spent on extensive explanations (of how enclaves do and don't work, how the school's I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/6/23 Edition

    Naomi Novik A Deadly Education was the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school and her friends must do the unthinkable yet again: this time they must find their way back into the school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/22/23 Edition

    about young love goes viral, it leads to a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her new school Eliza makes a deal with a famous actor in her class: if he plays the role of her fake boyfriend at school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition

    grief and loss, A Quiet Life; and I'm reading Lynn Painter's adorable rom-com about an eccentric high schooler Kirsten Bonato has suffered a loss of her own, which threw off her plans for vet school. Lynn Painter's adorable rom-com Better Than the Movies is about an eccentric high schooler coping with Liz is a hopeless romantic who has been waiting her whole high school career to be swept off her feet

  • Review of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

    I adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending

  • My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer

    adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously eccentric high schooler Liz is a hopeless romantic who has been waiting her whole high school career to be swept off her feet love goes viral, it leads to the offer of a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her new school makes a desperate deal with a famous actor in her class: if he plays the role of her fake boyfriend at school She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James

  • Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

    It feels notable that her frequent missteps (disastrous high school past, misrepresentation of where

  • Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

    imagined when a cabin boy is brutally killed and the culprit turns out to be a cruel, ruthless murderer on board

  • Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition

    the Gallion's crew or account seems to add up, and as the two ships begin losing power, everyone on board

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition

    Last Graduate, the second in Naomi Novik's dark, brooding, funny Scholomance series about a magical school Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling In Novik's second book of the trilogy, El is determined to help her classmates escape their deadly school

  • Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair

    In Mean Baby, actress Selma Blair is candid about the alcoholism that developed in early elementary school decades-long daily reliance on drinking small amounts of alcohol--a reliance that began in early elementary school

  • Review of The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

    But her adopted son Camden is living in Colorado with his wife in a modest rental home, teaching school

  • Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    like the symptom of all the biggest world problems...relentless greed, disregard for the environment, hoarding She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can

  • Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik

    Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling this second book of the trilogy, El is determined to somehow help her classmates escape their deadly school She hasn't exactly ingratiated herself to many people at school the past few years.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/19/22 Edition

    She was not allowed to attend school. At age 15, Young escaped to Texas, enrolled in school, and made a new life for herself.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

    Delilah Bard! new characters!) books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters of Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard Delilah Bard is crossing worlds to take stock of the threats and power struggles.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/11/22 Edition

    Edinburgh society. 02 Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett Emma Starling is a natural healer and a med-school Then Emma discovers that her best friend from high school is missing.

  • Review of The Fragile Threads of Power (Threads of Power #1) by V. E. Schwab

    books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters of Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard Delilah Bard is crossing worlds to take stock of the threats and power struggles.

  • Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

    Alex dropped out of high school and into a world of shady drug dealers, cruelty, and taking desperate

  • Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys

    though My Best Friend's Exorcism has already passed lovingly hand to hand through your entire grade at school visiting Bookshop.org to support independent booksellers if you're adding to your pandemic-era book hoard

  • Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

    Tom Hazard is a high school English teacher. So when Tom begins to fall for the French teacher at school, it may renew his faith in the world and

  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school with I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and The magical school setting reminded me of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education, although the tone of this

  • Six More Short Story Collections I Loved

    For my full review, check out Girl, Woman, Other. 02 Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard In Jo Ann Beard's In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores But Beard's writing feels like long-form poetry in a way--evocative and anchored in wonderfully wrought Festival Days is lovely and sometimes surprising; it feels honest as Beard explores bitterness, confusion

  • Review of Into the Wilderness (Wilderness #1) by Sara Donati

    She quickly realizes that her father's oblique promises that she could teach school in their new home

  • Review of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

    and household ineptitude and also falls into the arms of the local woman who was after him in high school

  • Review of Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

    She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can

  • Review of A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella

    Kirsten Bonato has suffered a loss of her own, which threw off her long-standing plans for vet school

  • Review of Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

    , while Adina is an unusually perceptive child--with knowledge of another planet, a vivid nighttime school

  • Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett

    The unreliable narrator gathers friends from primary school to compare accounts of that pivotal day of

  • Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon

    It's the last day of high school, and senior nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every title, position, honor, and moment of recognition during their high school careers. Solomon's young adult novel feels authentically set in high school, yet offers appeal for anyone who

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/18/23 Edition

    Masquapaug insist that a dragon must be raised a certain way, and they send Anequs and the dragon to a school

  • Review of True Biz by Sara Nović

    Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain

  • Review of The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

    village where girls are often married off by age fourteen and are frequently made to stop attending school emotional, physical, familial, and societal hardships, yet she keeps her sights set on getting back into school

  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    Naomi Novik A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and The magical school setting reminded me of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education, although the tone of this

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