Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic) Cole St Clair is back in L.A. to make a music and to appear on a online reality show hosted by the notorious Baby North. But is that his only reason for being back? After all, Isabel Culpeper lives in L.A. too these days, and they have unfinished business to take care …
Sarah Crossan(Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Kasienka’s father has left her mother and moved to England. The mother, persuaded that she can make him change his mind, uproots Kasienka’s whole life, fitting it into a suitcase and a laundry bag, and they arrive in Coventry. Forced to live in a bedsit, Kasienka and her mother must get …
Sarah Dessen(Puffin) For Haven, it is all change that summer. Her dad, a sports newsreader, is marrying the –much younger – weather girl. Her mother is still trying to deal with the aftermath of her divorce and her newfound freedom. Ashley, her sister, is also getting married, to an extremely insipid and boring boy, much …
Karen McCombie (Scholastic) This title is Booked Up 2009’s “girly” offering. Last year we had Cathy Cassidy’s “Scarlett” and the year before the fantastic “Saffy’s Angel” by Hilary McKay.The story follows Heather, the middle child in a family. She feels out a place in her family where, according to her, everybody is fabulous in their …
