Lillian is in her late twenties. She works at a grocery store and lives in her mother’s attic. She is unhappy, but has no inclination toward change. That is, until she receives a letter from her childhood best friend, Madison. Now married to a state senator who has his eyes on the presidency, Madison needs […]
The titular pizza girl of Jean Kyoung Frazier’s debut novel is eighteen, pregnant, and lives at home with her mother and boyfriend. She works as a delivery driver for a local greasy pizza joint. One day, a woman named Jenny calls in an order for a cheese pizza and pickles. Something in Jenny’s voice intrigues […]
At Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane McKeen is training to become an Attendant. When she graduates, she will become someone who serves the upper class with proper etiquette, but also with the skills to take down the dead who have risen on the battlefields of the Civil War. But soon more problems […]
Rachel read An Abundance of Katherines and this is what she thought… Colin has been dumped 19 times, all by girls named Katherine. Heartbroken after breakup number 19, Colin and his best friend take a road-trip and end up in Gutshot, Tennessee where they meet a girl named Lindsey. Colin and Lindsey work together to come […]
*Summer Reading List Spotlight* This title was on the 2020 Haverhill Public School’s recommended summer booklist for Grades PreK-1 and Grades 2-3. Amanda read Bear Came Along and this is what she thought… Bear and his new friends go on an adventure with the help of a river. I chose to read this picture book because I […]
The kids of Wayside School — a school 30 floors high with one classroom on each floor — must prepare for the Ultimate Test as a literal cloud of doom settles overhead. Anyone who fails the test will be sent all the way back to kindergarten. The dark cloud of doom makes the wacky students […]
Part art book, part novella, “The Electric State” by Simon Stålenhag is a fascinating and bleak look into a bizarre alternate history 90s America. Physically larger than a typical hardcover book, most pages within are dominated by wide scenic vistas of a state in decline, beset by a slow moving catastrophe only mentioned in passing by the […]
Young Minli lives with her parents nestled in a village at the base of Fruitless Mountain. Everyday her father tells her wonderous tales, and her mother sighs about how little rice is left. One day, a talkative goldfish sets Minli on an amazing journey to meet the Old Man of the Moon and change her […]
