Teen Book Reviews


September 2012 Teen Book Reviews

Where She Went Gayle Forman In this follow-up to If I Stay, readers learn a lot about where Adam has been and who he has become in the years directly after his (ex-)girlfriend Mia woke up from a coma after an accident that killed her entire family. Adam “Wilde Man” […]


August 2012 Teen Book Reviews

The Drowned Cities Paolo Bacigalupi Mahlia’s entire history has left her in a dangerous world, caught in the middle of a never-ending war. As part Chinese Castoff and part Drowned Cities, she fits in nowhere and is accepted by no one, except for Mouse, a kid who saved her life […]


July 2012 Teen Book Reviews

With this month’s reviews, I’m highlighting the GARDEN STATE TEEN BOOK AWARDS. Maze Runner was the 2012 GSTBA Winning title in the Fiction Grade 6-8 Category, and Heist Society and Scrawl are both on the ballot for the 2013 GSTBA in the Fiction Grade 6-8 Category. The Garden State Teen […]


June 2012 Teen Book Reviews

Bitter End Jennifer Brown Alex has always felt a little bit lost.  Her mother died in a car crash when she was very young and all she really knows is that her parents didn’t have the happiest marriage and her mom was supposedly trying to escape for a more inspirational […]


May 2012 Teen Book Reviews

Psychiatric Tales : eleven graphic stories about mental illness Darryl Cunningham Darryl Cunningham is himself a sufferer of mental illness as he has had to combat depression and anxiety through many of his childhood and adult years. His time working as a health care provider and on psychiatric wards – […]


Teen Book Reviews April 2012

Newes from the Dead Mary Hooper Anne Green is dead.  All of Oxford was there to see her hanged for the crime of infanticide.  Even Anne Green knows that she’s dead. Told in alternating perspectives – that of Anne Green as well as that of the doctors examining her body […]