Helene Dunbar’s paranormal young adult novel explores loss and grieving in a town where people communicate with the dead. Prelude for Lost Souls delivers exactly what its title promises: a book about music and lost souls in a town full…
Book Review: Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From by Jennifer De Leon
Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From, Jennifer De Leon’s debut novel, follows Latinx teen Liliana Cruz as she transitions from a school in her diverse inner-city Boston neighborhood to a predominantly white school for an integration program known as METCO.…
Book Review: More Than Maybe by Erin Hahn
Erin Hahn pulls readers back into her compelling writing with her new young adult contemporary novel, More Than Maybe. Following the vein of You’d Be Mine, her debut novel, More Than Maybe is another contemporary romance centering music; you may…
Book Review: The Invention of Sophie Carter by Samantha Hastings
Samantha Hastings brings back the classic twin switching trope in her Victorian-era young adult romance novel, The Invention of Sophie Carter. Deviating from the mystery genre of her debut, The Last Word, Hastings opts to maintain the Victorian setting in…
Book Review: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo’s novel Clap When You Land is a poignant tale written in memory of the lives lost on American Airlines flight 587, which began as a routine flight headed from New York City to Santo Domingo but became America’s…
