Grades 3 – 6
This is the fourth book in the Mr. Lemoncello series and Grabenstein doesn’t disappoint! In this installment, Mr. Lemoncello goes live, nationwide, on the Kidzapalooza Television Network so that everyone can play along. To be on the show, however, kids have to audition and be accepted to play the game, using their own bodies as playing pieces. Would you have what it takes?
Ages 18+
Sisters Eliza and Sophie Roth own a Brooklyn jewelry shop together. Eliza loves joking around and putting diamond rings on her ring finger. One night she accidentally posts a photo of her wearing a diamond ring on Instagram. At first she is horrified, but then, after the sales start rolling in, that a glimpse of her life is good for business. She is then faced with a choice: does she come clean or continue with the biggest lie of her life?
Ages 18+
Rose and Bel Enright are twin sisters who couldn’t be more different. Bel feels vulnerable at her new prestigious boarding school, even with her sister by her side. She quickly falls into the wrong crowd, and begins to haze her sister, among other things, because of it. Rose turns to her dorm mother Sarah Donovan, one half of a couple who works at the school, and Bel turns to Sarah’s husband Heath, hoping he can help her out of a crisis. It seems that Heath may be taking advantage of Bel instead of helping her, though, and things get dicey. Full of twists and turns, Campbell will keep you guessing until the very end.
Ages 18+
Dawn survives a crash landing of the airplane she’s on, and her life is split in two from then on. At home is her loving husband Brian and their teenaged daughter, and in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who still has Dawn’s heart after fifteen years. The novel takes place in parallel times in the main character’s life, and she must choose between the two. Will Dawn continue on to Boston and go home to her family or fly to Egypt to reconnect with Wyatt?
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
Grades 9 – 12
Claudine Henry’s life is uprooted when her parents get divorced and her mother whisks her away to an island off the coast of Georgia for the summer right after her high school graduation. She is separated from her best friend and all that feels comfortable and familiar. This is a beautiful coming of age story about friends and first love.
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
Grades 9 – 12
Ages 18+
Eleanor is devastated when her father loses his battle with cancer, but is equally fired up and ready to act on the final piece of information she finds out before his death: he isn’t her biological father. She is determined to look up the name she was given on her father’s deathbed and have a relationship with the father she never knew she had. Gripping and thrilling, this book kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time.
Ages 18+
This book is filled with twists and turns I didn’t see coming and I couldn’t put this one down! Patrick is happily married to Stephanie, who has just had newborn twin girls. Neither of them can get a wink of sleep, but no matter, because they are happier than ever. Then Erica Voss comes into their lives and everything changes. She is Patrick’s ex-lover who he was sleeping with during the marriage to his late ex-wife Lindsay. Erica is determined to make Patrick’s life hell, and will stop at nothing to do it.
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
Grades 9 – 12
Ages 18+
Danielle Steel’s novel spans from 1928 to the 1960s, following a family for generations. Starting with Eleanor’s coming out ball, this is her marriage story and the story of her children and her children’s children. I was engrossed in it from beginning to end. This was a lovely book that all generations will enjoy!
Thanks to Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
