This is the perfect graphic novel for 12-14 year olds. I mean, I had fun reading it as an adult, but it would definitely keep a young teenagers attention. The main character, Astrid is a twelve year old girl who is very typical as far as attitude, emotions and hormones go for this age. She…

Who doesn’t like Buffy the Vampire Slayer??? I mean, I enjoyed watching the series back in high school, then in college and even in my late twenties when I would get up in the middle of the night to nurse my son. Vampires, evil doers, the world possibly ending and all being saved by a…

This book had even me blushing, but once I read through it, I actually learned a lot myself and I’m a wife and mom and thirty three years old! Wow! Just goes to show that we can learn even through children’s books. This book is all about the birds and the bees…which is funny because…

This book was before its time. I mean this in a sense that it is written about two fictional girls who are lesbians in the 1980s. It seems that homosexuality is more “mainstream” now versus when I was even in high school in the 90s. There are so many books and literature that is centered…

I felt like I was reading my diary from when I was in high school when I began reading the book, Gabi, A Girl in Pieces. I am not Mexican-American, but just because my heritage isn’t the same as Gabi’s, doesn’t mean I relate any less. Written in diary/journal form, with dated entries her senior…

While attending college I did most my observations in schools that were predominantly title one and were full of children who were emigrants to America. Many lived in apartments where most emigrants lived and they even had English tutors come from Catholic Charities to help them outside of school. I was one of these tutors.…

A girl, Melinda, begins her high school career on the wrong foot. Written from her point of view and as the narrator, you aren’t quite sure why she is being casted out by her friends and everyone else at school, but you learn quick enough. She writes about things such as her classes, teachers, peers,…

This book is a must read for young adult females. My sister is a high school English teacher, and today over lunch I told her all about this book! Her mouth dropped and eyes popped as I told her some of the details in this novel due to the rawness but very realness that this…

When I checked this book on cd out from my public library, I was immediately curious about it from its title alone. Monster ended up being a fantastic book with great themes throughout the story. A young African-american boy, age 16, named Steve Harmon is in jail and is on trial for murder. The thing…