Category Archives: Young Adult Reads

Flat-Out Love (Flat-Out Love #1) by Jessica Park ★★★★

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Sophie Callahan

Flat-Out Love is a warm and witty novel of family love and dysfunction, deep heartache and raw vulnerability, with a bit of mystery and one whopping, knock-you-to-your-knees romance. It’s not what you know – or when you see – that … Continue reading →

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Making Faces, by Amy Harmon ✰✰✰✰✰+

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Sophie Callahan

  ✰✰✰✰✰+ Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. … Continue reading →

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Almost, by Anne Eliot ✰✰✰✰✰

Posted on August 4, 2013 by Sophie Callahan

✰✰✰✰✰ At a freshman party she doesn’t remember, Jess Jordan was almost raped. …Almost. Very nearly. Not quite. Three years later, Jess has managed to make everyone believe she’s better. Over it. Because she is. …Almost. Very nearly. Not quite. … Continue reading →

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Bully (Fall Away #1), by Penelope Douglas ✰✰✰✰✰

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Sophie Callahan

✰✰✰✰✰ My name is Tate. He doesn’t call me that, though. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all. We’re neighbors, and once, we were best friends. But then, one summer, he turned … Continue reading →

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Collision Course, by S.C. Stephens ✰✰✰✰✰

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Sophie Callahan

✰✰✰✰✰ Lucas had it all – popularity, a devoted girlfriend, a brotherly best friend, and a loving mother who would do anything for him. His life was right on course to be a successful and fulfilling one, until the crash … Continue reading →

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Light in the Shadows (Find You in the Dark #2) by A. Meredith Walters ✰✰✰✰✰

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Sophie Callahan

✰✰✰✰✰ How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over? Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on … Continue reading →

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Plastic Hearts (Hearts #1) by Lisa De Jong ✰✰✰✰✰

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Sophie Callahan

✰✰✰✰✰ My life has always been safe. I like it that way. I grew up in a fake society where plastic hearts rule. If our hearts are made of plastic, they can never be broken. My parents have expectations and … Continue reading →

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‘Wilson Mooney Eighteen at Last’ (Wilson Mooney #2) by Gretchen de la O ✰✰✰✰✰

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Sophie Callahan

✰✰✰✰✰ Chained by unfortunate timing and restricted by society’s expectations, every choice Wilson and Max make becomes pivotal to their future together. Eager to take their relationship to the next level, Wilson returns to Aspen with Max to celebrate her … Continue reading →

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‘Wilson Mooney: Almost Eighteen’ (Wilson Mooney #1) by Gretchen de la O ✰✰✰✰✰

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Sophie Callahan

✰✰✰✰✰ Abandoned by her mother at the vulnerable age of eight; only to be shipped off to a boarding school in Northern California by her grandparents, Wilson Mooney, is one girl who knows what it’s like to have to grow … Continue reading →

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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ✰✰✰

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Sophie Callahan

✰✰✰ Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs… for now.  Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends … Continue reading →

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