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Gym Candy
Mick Johnson doesn't want to be the best running back of all time...at least not at first. It's his father, who had a short-lived stint...

Suzanne Severns
Dec 6, 20201 min read


The Poet X
Xiomara "X" Barista is a budding young poet who wants more than anything to join her school's Spoken Word Club. She writes constantly and...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 30, 20201 min read


We Are Okay
It's winter break of Marin's first year at college in New York City. All the other students have gone home, but Marin has no home to go...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 17, 20201 min read


When You Were Everything
Cleo and Layla have been best friends for years, but when Layla becomes close to girls in the school’s chorus which she hopes to join,...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 15, 20201 min read


The Giver of Stars
In this historical fiction title, the author depicts rural Kentucky during the Great Depression when the Works Progress Administration...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 9, 20201 min read


His Hideous Heart
His Hideous Heart is a collection of thirteen tales by popular young adult authors based on works by Edgar Allan Poe. For instance,...

Suzanne Severns
Nov 1, 20201 min read


A Room Away from the Wolves
After being continuously harassed by her stepsisters, Bina runs away to the city, determined to stay at the same all-girls boarding house...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 25, 20201 min read


A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
In this prequel to The Hunger Games, author Suzanne Collins tells the story of Panem a few years after the war. Coriolanus Snow, whose...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 18, 20201 min read


The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury, one of my favorite writers, certainly has a way with words! I don't think there's any writer as adept at capturing the...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 13, 20201 min read


Lantern's Ember
Jack is an immortal "lantern" in New England. He's skeletal and carries his spirit around in a pumpkin as he guards a portal to the...

Suzanne Severns
Oct 6, 20201 min read


A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
When Pippa Fitz-Amobi started her AP Capstone project, all she wanted to do was show that there was a possibility that Sal Singh did not...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 27, 20201 min read


Wilder Girls
Ever since the Tox broke out at the Raxter School for Girls on Raxter Island, its students and teachers have become sick and deformed in...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 20, 20201 min read


A Court of Thorns and Roses
Feyre didn't realize that the large wolf she killed in the woods while hunting was actually a fairy, creatures that had once enslaved...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 15, 20201 min read


Field Notes on Love
Hugo Wilkinson is the youngest of the Surrey Sextuplets. He and his siblings are about to start college locally thanks to a scholarship...

Suzanne Severns
Sep 7, 20201 min read


The Lost Kingdom
The year is 866 A.D., a brutal time in England as Viking raiders pillage practically every city in the hopes of taking over the fertile...

Suzanne Severns
Aug 31, 20201 min read


The Marsh King's Daughter
Helena was born in a shack in the isolated wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It is only when she's twelve that she learns her...

Suzanne Severns
Jun 23, 20201 min read


Little Monsters
When Kacey moves in with her father’s family due to irreconcilable differences with her mother, she’s worried that she’ll never fit in....

Suzanne Severns
Jun 23, 20201 min read


The Way You Make Me Feel
Clara Shin loves a good joke, but her and her friends' prank at the prom, an homage to Stephen King's novel Carrie, causes a fire, and...

Suzanne Severns
May 15, 20201 min read


Little Fires Everywhere
Shaker Heights is a meticulously planned suburb, from the Norway Maple at the front of each house to the types of house materials that...

Suzanne Severns
May 5, 20201 min read


Monday's Not Coming
When Claudia's best friend Monday doesn't show up for the first week of school, Claudia begins to worry. She and Monday have always been...

Suzanne Severns
May 1, 20201 min read
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