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- Review of Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott
When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
role in her view of the world and how she approached her life--and resulted in her expulsion from high school
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James It's early 1700s Venice at a prestigious music school for orphans, the Ospedale della Pietà.
- Review of Alias Emma (Alias Emma #1) by Ava Glass
Ava Glass is a pseudonym for Christi Daugherty, author of the YA Night School thrillers.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
university student working in a Cork bookstore, dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school
- Review of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
He explores various schools of thought about ethics and morality to consider more complex issues, including
- Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman
like the symptom of all the biggest world problems...relentless greed, disregard for the environment, hoarding
- Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
Mary Pearl is home, she’s at school, she’s home, she’s at school, she’s home.
- Review of Happy Place by Emily Henry
emphasizes that dissatisfaction with the actuality of the job is what spurs the abandonment of years of schooling
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/31/22 Edition
Nora's focused on her work, her small-town life, her kids' sports and their school play, and her longtime
- Review of How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
and Columbia premed undergrad Astrid is dating Max Martin, a sweet, nerdy boy she knew back in high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/1/22 Edition
published tomorrow, our main protagonist Astrid is dating Max Martin, a nerdy boy she knew back in high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/25/22 Edition
Friends, written before the Covid-19 pandemic, centers around a group of women, friends since medical school
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
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
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
experiences in the US—with her sister and family on weekends in inner city Chicago and her weekday life and schooling
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
In high school, Helen Zheng's life was upended by the tragic, sudden death of her sister Michelle.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/14/24 Edition
through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person aboard
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/21 Edition
reading the newest book from Naomi Novik, which showcases excellent dark humor within a deadly magical school Naomi Novik A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/15/22 Edition
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition
young so their families can gain their dowries, and where girls are frequently forced to stop attending school Adunni is living through tremendous hardships, yet she keeps her sights set on getting back into school
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
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
- 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.
- Review of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
When May's husband became ill, her son's spirit flagged in school, and her own work stress began taking
- Review of Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin
Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school
- Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
In 1937, history student Ludmila Pavlichenko is a young lady balancing school, the care of her young
- Review of The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
The magical school setting reminded me of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education, although the tone of this
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/16/22 Edition
history--including that of Black music and appropriation; decades of racial impacts on the modern public school
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
tightly knit community; A Deadly Education, the first in Naomi Novik's series about a dark, magical school 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 Toward the end of high school they begin to hesitantly connect.
- Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt
I read Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year" with my women's group.
- Review of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
years earlier she'd abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her high-school
- Review of This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
At the Lincoln Indian Training School in Minnesota, young American Indians taken from their families
- Review of The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee
the Natural History Museum, putting Boss Tweed behind bars, securing a more equitable New York public school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/9/22 Edition
Revelations by Mary Sharratt I've been reading Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
with financial pressures and relationship issues, while young Vera tries to simply make a friend at school
- Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
That is because of something called the patriarchy, which I'm sure they have not discussed in that school
- Review of Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
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.
- Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
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
- 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.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/25 Edition
folly, and redemption: a Prairie Witch who holds others' memories and secrets, a Polish farmer who hoards
- 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 Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music
young adult book This Song Could Save Your Life, main protagonist Elise doesn't fit in at her high school misfits embracing their otherness, Elise begins to see that the world outside of her claustrophobic high school
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Laurie Woolever is fresh from culinary school and realizing that she doesn't want to be a chef when she
- Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire
imagined when a cabin boy is brutally killed and the culprit turns out to be a cruel, ruthless murderer on board
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
I adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending
- Review of Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
deeply about the characters, and Crouch's scientific passages don't require you to remember your high school
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021
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.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/21 Edition
01 Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan have battled bitterly for every title, position, honor, and moment of recognition during their high school
- My Favorite Science Fiction Reads of the Year
, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child--with knowledge of another planet, a vivid nighttime school
- Review of I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman
Emily's just trying to escape the drama and pressure of her private school in Los Angeles, and she's














































