Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine is the 2010 National Book Award winner in the Young People’s Literature Category. It is one of the best books I have read for a long time.
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Carter Finally Gets It is one of the funniest books I've read in some time. The story is about a 14 year old boy and his struggles through his freshman year of high school.
Matched is the first book in a young adult dystopian trilogy. The main character is seventeen-year-old Cassia who lives in a Society where all choices are made for you. You do not have to worry what you will eat, what your profession will be or even when you die.
A good, old-fashioned style murder mystery, Angel with Two Faces is set in mid-1930s Cornwall, England.
Despite its awkward title, pie makers or anyone with nostalgia for southern food should love Southern Pies. It is essentially a collection of recipes culled from both old family cookbo
When Jonell Richardson McLain falls in love with a diamond necklace far outside her price range, she gets the brilliant idea to gather a group of women who, with combined purchasing power, can share the $32,000 necklace.
This is an extraordinary story about an extraordinary man. In May 1943, an Army Air Forces Bomber crashed into the Pacific. One of three survivors was Lieutenant Louis Zamperini. Louis had been an incorrigible child until as a teenager his efforts were channeled into running. His talent and prodigious effort took him to the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
In the last couple weeks, there's been some odd Internet buzz to the effect that Warner Bros. and CBS are trying to turn Stephen King's The Stand into a feature film.