Tag Archive | diversity
Exchange of Heart
Exchange of Heart by Darren Groth My rating: 4 of 5 stars Munro is on exchange to Australia from Canada. We are privy to his history, but he is choosing to keep the death of his sister on the lowdown. But huge secrets like this one are hard to keep quiet – especially with the […]
Welcome to Orphancorp
Welcome To Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an extraordinary novella. Set in a not-too-distant future, the story is visceral, frightening, and all too realistic.Mirii is a survivor, a young woman on the edge of adulthood and ‘freedom’. But how free are you, really, when your whole life […]
Take Three Girls
Take Three Girls by Cath Crowley My rating: 4 of 5 stars St. Hilda’s Grammar School. Hotbed of teenage girl angst. Ady, Clem and Kate have nothing in common other than the school they attend. At first it’s hard to distinguish the individual voices of the characters. The tone and language used for each girl […]
All The Crooked Saints
All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater My rating: 5 of 5 stars Well, I don’t know what I was I expecting, but it wasn’t this. And yet, when I was given it, I loved it! Beatriz and Pete and Joachin and Daniel, and the Pilgrims, and the Soria’s, and the history, and mystery, and […]
Blossom
Blossom by Tamsin Janu My rating: 3 of 5 stars There’s lots to like about this story. Lottie is a sweetie. She’s had a lot to contend with in her life so far, and when a waif in a potato sack appears on her doorstep, Lottie knows exactly what to do – take her in […]
The Flywheel
The Flywheel by Erin Gough My rating: 4 of 5 stars This took me a while to read because I got sidetracked testing our OverDrive collection at work – let that be no reflection on how good this book is!Despite the fact that I wanted to slap Delilah for being a selfish, irritating, judgemental teenager […]
The Stars at Oktober Bend
The Stars at Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard My rating: 4 of 5 stars Alice has been twelve for a long time, ever since it happened. Alice lives with her younger/older brother, Joey, her dog, Bear, and Gram on the floodplain at Bridgewater. Their lives are hard, the town thinks them to be poor and […]
The Big HooHa
It started with this: Reintroducing myself Which generated this: In case you want to send me this email There were some pretty unhappy people on the interwebs, and Will was the crankiest. Stand up and be counted librarian and teachers!
One True Thing
One True Thing by Nicole Hayes My rating: 5 of 5 stars What do I think?I think that Nicole Hayes has done an amazing thing – she has taken a subject that many teenagers would find dry and dusty, and she’s turned it into an intriguing, heartfelt, gripping teenage relationship/ friendship/ romance, with a serving […]
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