Just in time for football season–

When Jomo Rodger’s junior varsity football teammates give out goofy trophies at the end of the season, he gets the “If He Was Just a Little Bit taller, He’d Be a Big-Time Baller” award.  It’s better than the “Most Likely to be Kicked in the Ass By the Coach” award, but not by much.  And [...]

Top 8 by Katie Finn

Madison MacDonald is a typical teenager who can’t go a day without checking her “Friendverse” profile.   It’s is the first thing she checks in the morning and the last thing she looks at at night. That is until her family goes on a trip to the Galapagos Islands where she will have no access to the Internet [...]

“Monster” by Walter Dean Myers

Wrong place at the wrong time.  Bang Bang.  Everyone runs, store clerk gasping for air, choking on his own blood.
Now in a courtroom, on the stand,  everyone thinking he’s a monster.  Guilty or not guilty, is the question.  Heart beating fast, balls up his sweaty palms, wishing he could close his eyes and be gone!!!
This [...]

“Poison” By Chris Wooding

Poison is a two hundred seventy-three page novel by Chris Wooding, a highly acclaimed, award-winning author who, in my opinion, did a superb  job with this novel!
This novel’s protagonist, Poison, is a sarcastic, stubborn, but mostly determined, sixteen year old of a gloomy place called the Black Marshes in which the citizens who hide there waste [...]