70% of the time, Stella is your typical teenager—going to school, hanging out with friends, and making YouTube videos. The other 30%, though, is spent in hospitals, due to her lungs. Stella has Cystic Fibrosis, and her main goal in life is to get a new pair of lungs. And, of course, make her parents happy. Will has seen . . .
A man called Ove just wants to die in peace. He's had a long life, one filled with equal parts happiness and sorrow, as most lives are. But when a boisterous, chatty family moves in next door to Ove, his daily consistencies are immediately interrupted. And it's not just Parvana and her family that won't leave Ove alone---suddenly . . .
Lilly has a lot on her plate---school, a crazy family, helping her mom sell jewelry, trying to (finally) write the entire lyrics to at least one song, trying to get the guy who probably doesn't even know her name to notice her...just to name a few. Though the hardest part of her day is probably trying to pay attention in Chemistry class. She used to ...
Sixteen-year-old Aysel wants to die, but she doesn't think she can do it alone. Via an online forum for people searching for suicide partners, Aysel finds Roman. Roman is crippled with guilt and haunted by a family tragedy, just like Aysel. So the two make a ...
Pat Peoples just got out of what he calls "the bad place," a neural-health facility. He is ready for "apart time" with his wife, Nikki, to end. He's a changed man---he is practicing being nice instead of right, he's working out to get in shape, and he's . . .
On a hot summer day, on a mountaintop in Idaho, a little girl is murdered by her mother, and that girl's sister disappears forever. The mother goes to prison as she immediately pleads guilty, and the father is left with no one. He marries a woman from his daughters' school, Ann. Ann spends the rest of her life . . .
Aza Holmes never thought she'd wind up trying to solve the Case of the Missing Billionaire, but when her best friend Daisy takes an interest in the $100,000 reward, Aza gets sucked into it. She used to know the billionaire's son, Davis, from when . . .
Jack’s whole world is Room. He was born in Room on Rug. He eats on Table. He cleans himself in Bath. He sleeps on Bed with Ma, but sometimes in Wardrobe when Old Nick comes to visit. Every day is the same for five years, until Ma asks Jack to be very . . .
The Synopsis Down in New Orleans, Stella's life isn't so bad. Her lifestyle has significantly changed, but at least she's got her Stanley. Then her older sister Blanche shows up on her doorstep and things get complicated. Though Blanche isn't the nicest, Stella is still welcoming and happy to see her. Stanley has other ideas, though…
*Certain books are easier to review differently than in my usual format — this is one of them. "I don't want tobecause boysdon't write poetry.Girls do." Jack doesn't like poetry. He can't understand why his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, keeps assigning the class poetry assignments. He doesn't even want to listen to his teacher read other peoples'…
