Can you write your life story in six words? Lots of teens have and these abbreviated memoirs have been collected in I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: six-word memoirs by teens famous & obscure edited by Smith magazine. This great collection of funny, quirky, and often sad memoirs are from teens around the world.
Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock is the third in the D.J. Schwenk series that began with Dairy Queen and The Off Season. So far D.J. has pla
yed boys football and helped her brother through a terrible accident, now she is working to get a basketball scholarship and confront her shyness on the court. And through all of this there is Brian, the rival high school's quarterback that D.J. helped train last summer. Can they be more than friends?
So I finished Leviathan over the weekend and it was AMAZING. It is set in an alternate Europe in 1914, the cusp of WWI. It centers around Alek, the Austria-Hungary prince who is on the run after his parents are assassinated, and Deryn, a Scottish girl who disguises herself as a boy to join the British navy. But these aren't the countries you know, Britain is "Darwinist" and has genetically engineered beasties that they use in place of machines. Austria-Hungary, on the other hand, is "Clanker," they use steam powered machines for everything; (check out pictures from the book to see a few examples). This is the first in a series and sets up exciting questions with lots of adventure.
I recently read two great books by new author Maggie Stiefvater, Lament: the Faerie Queen's Deception and Shiver (both supernatural romances). There are a lot of new authors writing great teen books, here are a few suggestions:
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