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Laurie Halse Anderson’s latest novel for young adults, Wintergirls, due out in March 2009, is the haunting, gut-wrenching story of 18 year old Lia who is losing her battle with the demons of anorexia.   Her estranged best friend Cassie has died suddenly, and Lia is lost in a world of her own making as she is failing to cope with her family life, school, and Cassie’s death. Lia’s relationships with everyone around her – mother, father, stepmother, sister, therapist, guy she meets at hotel where Cassie died – take the back seat to the ghosts that plague her. Their appeals to her to eat, to save herself, fall on ears thatRead More →

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In Timothy Mason’s first novel, The Last Synapsid, we visit Faith, Colorado. It’s a quiet town, but this spring, a mysterious creature is lurking on the mountain.  What is it, and what does it want? Only Rob and his best friend, Phoebe, are brave enough to investigate.  What they find is the Last Synapsid—a squat, drooly creature that looks like a dinosaur crossed with a wienerdog—that claims to need Rob and Phoebe’s help. Having wandered into a time snag from his own era, 30 million years before the dinosaurs, “Sid” is chasing a violent carnivore called a gorgonopsid. The Gorgon refuses to return to his properRead More →

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Gaby Triana’s latest novel, The Temptress Four, is a light and flirty cruise through the last days of high school.  Four longtime girlfriends, Fiona, Killian, Alma & Yoli have been fast friends all through school and on the day after high school graduation they embark on a week-long Caribbean cruise to celebrate their past, enjoy their present, and seal their friendship for the future. Just before leaving, however, they have a spooky Tarot card reading full of warnings about strife, storms and the premonition that one of them won’t be coming home. Typical conventions of high school girl novels abound, and while an enjoyable read,Read More →