Category: Bookshelf

Cinder

A paperback copy of Cinder rests on a red poster tube. On the cover, a woman's leg in a red pump has mechanical parts showing through the skin.

My fourteen-year old has been begging me to read this one for at least a year now–and it’s spectacular. I love the world-building. Everything from Cinder’s cyborg parts to her […]

Flying in a Cage

Cover of Flying in a Cage on a cell phone. A girl floats upward into the sky, as if carried by a helium baloon.

Ivory hears music in everything–in birdsong, and wind chimes, yes, but also in the noise of traffic and the rhythm of a dishwasher. There is also music in her heart, […]

Opposite of Always

On the cover of Opposite of Always, two teens sit on a stairway--again, and again, and again, going off into the distance.

I enjoyed this fun, romantic YA, though it reminded me a bit more of Groundhog’s Day than I would prefer. (Yeah, I was never that fond of that movie.) Still, […]

Charlie Franks is A-OK

The cover of Charlie Franks is A-OK on a cell phone. A girl in overall shorts gives the OK sign.

Charlie’s not like Coco. So, when everything seems to be going wrong, she’s determined not to be a drama queen. But keeping all her frustrations inside turns out to be […]