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- My Six Favorite Books of the Year So Far
stranger, Christy, arrives to begin coordinating the installation of electricity in the area, and he boards
- 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
- 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/25/25 Edition
financial pressures and relationship issues, while precocious Vera tries to simply make a friend at school
- Six More Books about Brave Female Spies
It's 1945, and Edith Graham is a small-town British schoolteacher who is thrilled to sign on with the British Control Commission to help get schools back up and running for the children in war-torn Germany She'll keep her cover by assisting with schools while actually trying to help locate Nazis.
- Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens
Carl Iverson at a nearby nursing home, he's eager to hear Carl's life story in order to complete a school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition
When the writer was just out of high school, she was set for a big cross-country adventure and artist's
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition
#5) by Maureen Johnson In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series, skilled amateur high 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Review of The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine #1) by Shannon Bowring
Golden boy Nate grew up to become a police officer and marry his high-school sweetheart.
- 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition
Now he's about to set off on a cross-country road trip to track down his high-school sweetheart following
- 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
- 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
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy boarding
- Review of What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
In mid-1990s rural Montana, Jane only knows the books her father gives her instead of sending her to school
- Is This the Perfect August Reading List?
Never Say by Elizabeth Strout In Strout's newest novel, we meet an irresistible new character in high school Artie Dam is a high school history teacher, father to a grown son, longtime husband to his wife, and
- Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Anabin, their high school music teacher, before them.
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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, 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, 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 Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
When, due to her promising talent and her best friend from high school (who's now a high-powered agent
- 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
- Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books
She's eager to graduate from high school and escape her small Indiana town, but the days are interminably Now everyone--Eli's angry twin sister with her attempts to freeze out Carver at school; Mars's father
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
It feels notable that her frequent missteps (disastrous high school past, misrepresentation of where
- 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
- Six More Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year
review, please check out A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping . 02 Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/27/25 Edition
But being a top student at a competitive school and having others distracted by your good looks doesn't
- Six Fantasy Novels I Loved in the Past Year
Anabin, their high school music teacher, before them. They soon realize that Mr. living up to the family's powerful name by demonstrating more powerful magic than any student in their school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition
Carl Iverson at a nearby nursing home, he's eager to hear Carl's life story in order to complete a school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/9/24 Edition
Wes's dad dies only weeks into their first semester, Wes leaves behind his D1 baseball future, his schooling
- 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
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
But a suspicious, tenacious MI5 investigator arrives at the Novises' boarding house, demanding to know
- 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
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
When his school is shut down by the Nazis, he weds a widow who seeks a husband to help her raise her Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child--with knowledge of another planet, a vivid nighttime school
- 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 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 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 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















































