Review of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Review of The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff

Review of The Quail Club

Sometimes, telling is the right thing to do.

Review of Breathless (Orca Soundings)

Racism rears it's ugly head

Breaking and entering helps a teen cope with divorce of his and remarriage of his mother - at what expense?

Review of Wounded #1 (The Wereling)

Two brothers travel through Venice, Florence and Italy, with these bella locales becoming a rich background for their inner journeys.

Less juicy than the Au Pairs

Scott Hudson, an ordinary guy anxious about being a freshman, somehow manages to have an extraordinary year as he tries to get Julia, the girl of his dreams to notice him by pursuing her through her extracurricular activities. Humor abounds.

A coming-of-age story told by a midwestern girl atracted to the idyllic New England boarding school life by the glossy catalogs.

Lord of the Flies, MTV style (scantily clad and gratuitous langauge and violence)

Although Doing It made this reviewer swallow and blush several times, in truth it is about as sexy as a how-to manual and more crude talk than hot action.

Prickly Victoria (aka Egg) proudly eschews mainstream fashions and pop culture and prides herself on her enigma-loner status, but when a transfer student who turns out to be her academic equal arrives and makes friendly overtures, she finds herself r

Lovely, sad heartache.

A naive loner is sucked into an inappropriate relationship with a strange older man who abuses her sexually and verbally.

This amusing memoir-style novel chronicles the proganist's early development and interest in the opposite sex. Humor ensues.

Disturbing. But good! But disturbing.

Boarding school is the scene of many firsts for Pudge - first time away from home, first love, and inevitably, first loss.

The author is much more successful in this book than in the previous in developing a character that is more than the anti-Mia.

Played breaks boundaries by opening a dialogue about sexual ethics. Suave singer and seducer Ian accepts a challenge to get a nobody girl to sleep with him in three weeks.

How do you recover a bad reputation, whether it's for unintentional murder or for giving blow jobs?

Renata’s family has moved from Sao Paolo to the United States in search of a better life. Her mother works hard cleaning houses for her “ladies,” some of whom are the mothers of Renata’s spoiled classmates. When Renata steals the spotlight fr

Michael "the Moose" Monroe has just been named MVP of the year for a season's worth of sacks, playing with heart, and scoring the winning touchdown at the Division Two championship game, but the victory is bittersweet when his a coach and m