Teen Book Reviews


March 2012 Teen Book Reviews

Bright Young Things Anna Godbersen Cordelia Grey wants much more out of life than to be married young and stuck in her hometown of Union, Ohio with a whole bunch of babies and unfulfilled dreams.  She wants to go to New York City and be somebody.  So that plan is […]


February 2012 Reviews

Beauty Queens Libba Bray Libba Bray is either an unconquerable genius or a total loony-toon.  Either way, she’s hilarious.  Beauty Queens is a must-read, and if you can get it on audio (read by the author!), all the better.  Think: the television series Lost, the movie Miss Congeniality, thrown in […]


January 2012 Teen Book Reviews

Revolution Jennifer Donnelly Andi is from Brooklyn and because of her own depression, her severely depressed mom, and her rapidly failing academics, she’s being forced to stay with her dad in Paris for a short time while he works on some DNA research.  Andi and her dad don’t get along […]


December Teen Book Reviews

Zombies vs. Unicorns Edited by Justine Larbalestier and Holly Black Justine and Holly, the editors of this anthology, are engaged in a heated, friendly argument about which is cooler: zombies or unicorns?  Justine is all about zombies; they are obviously much, much cooler.  But Holly insists that beneath their glittery […]


November Teen Book Reviews

Delirium Lauren Oliver Love kills. It’s a good thing that there’s a cure. Lena can’t wait until her eighteenth birthday when she can undergo the government-mandated cure for Amor Deliria Nervosa, the condition that goes hand-in-hand with love. According to The Safety, Health, and Happiness Handbook (more commonly referred to […]


October Teen Book Reviews

After Amy Efaw Devon doesn’t exactly know what’s happening to her, but she knows it isn’t anything good.  She hates screwing up and she’s pretty sure that this time she screwed up big.  But she wishes that everyone would leave her alone for now so that she could deal with […]