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If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
What a beautiful book. I listened to this on my commute, which was possibly a bad idea because my tear ducts get a little overactive when potentially sad things are happening. Yes, this is a fairly...
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I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President, by...
Oliver Watson, Jr., is an unpopular, overweight, not very smart seventh grader. Well, at least he wants you to think that last part. In reality, he is the titular genius and also rich and powerful,...
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Death Note Vol. 1, by Tsugumi Ohba
My first manga! I’m growing up so fast! So I had to read a manga for my YA class, and I was like… hmm. I know nothing about manga, except that sometimes it becomes movies or TV shows. Conveniently, my...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
This is probably a weird book to be my first introduction to Bill Bryson, seeing as how I understand him to be more of a travel writer than a science writer. But I can’t say no to a book about science,...
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Last Exit to Normal, by Michael Harmon
Ben Campbell is having a rough life — after his dad came out of the closet three years ago, his mother ran off and left him behind with this man that Ben no longer understood. He rebelled, with the...
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Catalyst, by Laurie Halse Anderson
This was my first Laurie Halse Anderson book, and maybe I chose the wrong one, because all I’ve been told is that she’s awesome and this book was okay. Suggestions? The story: Kate is a senior who made...
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The Death of Jayson Porter, by Jaime Adoff
I absolutely did not want to read this book. I was looking through one of the lists of books from which I had to choose one for my YA class, and I saw this book, and I was like, no thank you. Kid from...
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Almost Astronauts, by Tanya Lee Stone
A book about sexism and astronauts? Count me in! Stone presents a narrative look at the 13 women who, in the 1960s, underwent the various astronaut tests taken by the Mercury 7 astronauts as part of an...
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I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This, by Jacqueline Woodson
Marie is a black girl living in southeast Ohio in a type of town people don’t often talk about – one where the rich people (relatively speaking) are black and the poor people are white. A new white...
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Hold Still, by Nina LaCour
I have to admit that the only reason I picked up this novel is because I had to read one last book for my YA class and the one I had picked was way too long. This one? Much shorter, but still...
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