In the novel Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow, Charlie is a teen who is struggling with abuse and self–harm. She finds herself in a mental hospital where she is working towards recovery. She eventually gets released from the hospital expecting to go home with her mother but instead her mothers gets her money and…
YOUth Review: Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter and Lee Child
Cleaning the Gold, authored by thriller writers Karin Slaughter and Lee Child, is a novella that brings together a story and brings their most famous characters along for the ride. Will Trent, a special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, goes undercover at Fort Knox to investigate a decades-old cold case murder — and…
YOUth Review: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
In a small, working-class Chicago neighborhood, the bright, chaotic Padavano family encounter William, who’s welcomed warmly. William finally feels like he’s found a place to call home, while suddenly his troubles start to rise from a difficult past. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano is a drama and historical fiction that presents family ups and downs…
YOUth Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
In Matt Haig's The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds that everything in her life is falling apart and going sideways. She ends up killing herself. But she hasn't died just yet. Instead, she finds herself at the Midnight Library. It's the library between life and death. Here she goes through different experiences, and all the…
YOUth Review: And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyn Saucier
Tom and Charlie are two men that are determined to live out the rest of their lives on their own terms and away from the outside world. Abruptly, their peace is disturbed by a photographer who photographed survivors of the catastrophic fires as she was looking for a famous survivor, Ted Boychuck. She arrives and…
YOUth Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt follows the lives of three main characters: Tova Sullivan, Cameron, and Marcellus, who just so happens to be an octopus. In this book, Tova had lost her son many years prior and her husband not long ago. She works in an aquarium where her best friend just so…
YOUth Review: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
Mr. Mercedes is a crime thriller that follows a retired detective trying to stop a killer who once got away with mass murder. This book pulls you in, not because of the over-the-top action but because of the unsettling atmosphere. What I loved about this book is how two genres blend to create an overwhelming…
YOUth Review: A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Reading “A Certain Hunger” by Chelsea G. Summers is not so simple. It’s one of those books that leaves you constantly wondering why? The first thing that caught my attention was the character and narrator of the book, Dorothy, a highly intelligent and attractive woman in her 50s who is also a food critic. However…
YOUth Review: Wedding Crasher by Geronimo Stilton
Wedding Crasher by Geronimo Stilton is a funny and interesting adventure set in the world of a casual mouse journalist. Geronimo gets invited to a ‘fancy’ wedding, but things don't go as planned. Molly Mozzarella, dirty water, foul-smelling garbage, itching, cold rooms, unfed guests, and so much more! There are loads of surprises, mysteries, and…
YOUth Review: Get Into Gear, Stilton! by Geronimo Stilton
Get Into Gear, Stilton! by Geronimo Stilton is another very adventure-filled book in the life of a casual, famous mouse journalist. He's going out of his usual routine and down to the tracks. From the visit from the mayor of the town to getting a driving license, to discovering a secret base? And a stolen…
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