Quentin Jacobsen has spent almost his whole life loving his next door neighbour Margo Roth Spiegelman. There was a time when they were friends, as kids, but now the Queen Bee hardly acknowledges his existence at school. So when she shows up at his bedroom window one night, asking him for his help on an…
Tag: contemporary YA
Review: What Happens Next
Sixteen-year old Sid Murphy pretty much has everything: great friends, good grades, a supportive family, and a spot on the cheerleading team. She doesn’t have a boyfriend, but on the ski trip, meets older and handsome Dax Windsor, who seems like the perfect guy. But then something happens one night on the ski trip and…
Review: The Innocents
Sisters and best friends Alice and Charlie have never let a thing get in between them. They’ve stuck together, with their mother, when their parents got divorced and their dad left the country. But then their mother remarries a rich widower, with not only a dead wife but a dead daughter who committed suicide, everything…
Review: 40 Things I Want To Tell You
In 40 Things I Want To Tell You, Bird (real name Amy) seems to have a perfect life, warm and caring parents, amazing grades at school, a loving boyfriend, and a bright future. Bird wants to go to Oxford, and she’s lined up her whole life so that she gets what she wants. In her spare…
Review: Twenty Boy Summer
Anna and Frankie are best friends and neighbours. They’ve known each other for their whole lives and don’t keep secrets. But when Frankie proposes the idea of meeting one boy a day during their summer vacation in Zanzibar Bay, California, Anna agrees with her and doesn’t tell her that she’s already met her true love….