Posts Tagged ‘Delacourte’

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

October 16, 2009

going bovineSummary:  Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob’s (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.

Delacourte

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Girl to the Core, by Stacey Goldblatt

August 3, 2009

girl to the coreSummary:  Fifteen-year-old Molly gains support from her extended Irish American family and enlightenment in Girl Corps philosophy and activities as she deals with a cheating boyfriend and overbearing best friend.

Delacourte

It’s Not You, It’s Me, by Kerry Hoffmann

July 16, 2009

its not you its meSummary:  Follows sixteen-year-old Zoë through the first thirty-one days after Henry, her boyfriend of six months, breaks up with her, as she moves from being obsessed with getting back together to finding herself again.

Delacourte

Monster Variations, by Daniel Kraus

July 10, 2009

monster variationsSummary:  On his way to State University, nineteen-year-old James runs into a former friend and is immersed in memories from the year they were twelve and learned that monsters exist in the world–and within themselves.

Delacourte

Shadowed Summer, by Saundra Mitchell

July 9, 2009

shadowed summerSummary:  In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen-year-old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance.

Delacourte

The Diamonds, by Ted Michael

June 26, 2009

diamondsSummary:  At Long Islands’s private Bennington School, the Diamonds rule supreme. They’re the girls all the boys want to date and all the girls want to be. And fortunately for Marni, she’s right in the middle of them.  But then Marni gets a little too close to Clarissa’s ex-boyfriend, Anderson.  Wrong move. The Diamonds don’t touch each other’s exes. And just like that, Marni is jettisoned from Diamond to lower than Cubic Zirconia.  But Marni isn’t about to take her ouster lying down. She has dirt on the Diamonds, and she’s not about to go down without a fight.

Delacourte

The Sweet Life of Stella Madison, by Lara Zeises

June 25, 2009

sweet life of stella madisonSummary:  Seventeen-year-old Stella struggles with the separation of her renowned chef parents, writing a food column for the local paper even though she is a junk food addict, and having a boyfriend but being attracted to another.

Delacourte

The Treasure Map of Boys by E. Lockhart

April 28, 2009

treasure-map-of-boys_140Summary: A Seattle sixteen-year-old juggles therapy, running a school bake sale, coping with her performance artist mother, growing distant from an old friend, and conflicting feelings about her ex-boyfriend and potential new boyfriends.

244 pages, Delacourte

Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson

April 21, 2009

kisses-and-lies-readSummary: Orphaned British teenager Scarlett Wakefield postpones her romance with the handsome son of the school groundskeeper in order to travel to Scotland with her American sidekick, Taylor, in search of clues to the murder of a boy who dropped dead after kissing Scarlett.

309 pages, Delacourte

ABC’s of Kissing Boys by Tina Ferraro

April 17, 2009

abcs-of-kissing-boys-readSummary: When sixteen-year-old Parker Stanhope takes kissing lessons from the freshman across the street as part of her plan to get on the varsity soccer team, a relationship blossoms that threatens her popularity at school and must be kept secret from their feuding fathers.

215 pages, Delacourte


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