Others: Mixed After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. After the death of her grandfather, teenager Maya falls into depression, drugs, and crime, until her stay on a remote Chilean island helps her learn what she truly values in life. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, drug use, and violence.
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Ellen Hopkins
2014 · 546 pages · 1 review
Others: NegativeEighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question. Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when after a horrific accident, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question. The plot contains pervasive profanity, explicit sexual situations, and drug and alcohol use.
Aaron Hartzler
2013 · 403 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveIn this funny and heartfelt coming-of-age memoir, the author recalls his teenage journey to find the person he is without losing the family who loves him. The plot contains sexual situations.
Lauren Ling Brown
2024 · 384 pages · 1 review
Others: NegativeHow far would you go to belong? Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion—it’s been a decade since she graduated, and she is looking forward to seeing old faces and reminiscing about her time there. This visit is special because Maya will also be attending the graduation of her little sister, Naomi. But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Maya’s worst nightmare when she receives the news that Naomi is dead. The police are calling it an accident, but Maya suspects that there is more to the story than they are letting on. As Maya pieces together what happened in the months leading up to her sister’s death, she begins to realize how much Naomi hid from her. Despite Maya’s warnings, Naomi had joined Sterling Club, the most exclusive social club on campus—the same one Maya belonged to. And if she had to guess, Naomi was likely tapped for the secret society within it. The more Maya uncovers, the more terrified she becomes that Naomi’s decision to follow in her footsteps might have been what got her killed. Because Maya’s time at Princeton wasn’t as wonderful as she’d always made it seem—after all, her sister wasn’t the first young woman to turn up dead. Now every clue is leading Maya back to the past... and to the secret she’s kept all these years.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
2014 · 376 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveSeventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot in an elite FBI program for teens with innate crime-solving abilities, and into some harrowing situations. After barely escaping a confrontation with an unbalanced killer obsessed with her mother s murder, Cassie hopes she and the rest of the team can stick to solving cold cases from a distance. Cassie Hobbes and the other members of the Naturals program of the FBI work to solve a string of serial murders carried out by a copycat killer. The plot contains sexual situations and graphic violence. Book #2
Maya Van Wagenen
2014 · 266 pages · 1 review
Others: Positive" A touchingly honest, candidly hysterical memoir from breakout teen author Maya Van Wagenen Stuck at the bottom of the social ladder at "pretty much the lowest level of people at school who aren't paid to be here," Maya Van Wagenen decided to begin a unique social experiment: spend the school year following a 1950s popularity guide, written by former teen model Betty Cornell. Can curlers, girdles, Vaseline, and a strand of pearls help Maya on her quest to be popular? The real-life results are painful, funny, and include a wonderful and unexpected surprise-meeting and befriending Betty Cornell herself. Told with humor and grace, Maya's journey offers readers of all ages a thoroughly contemporary example of kindness and self-confidence. "-- As a social experiment, Maya spends the school year following a 1950s popularity guide written by a former teen model. Can curlers, girdles, and a strand of pearls help her quest to be popular? The plot contains mild profanity and school violence.
Katie Cotugno
2015 · 376 pages · 1 review
Others: Positive"Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer--99 days--with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for: his brother"-- Amazon.com. Molly Barlow is facing one long, hot summer with the boy whose heart she broke and the boy she broke it for--his brother. The plot contains pervasive profanity and sexual situations.
Mixedall of the bits of her in Chiloe I thought was really interesting I liked learning about a different culture, I liked the bit about sort of Chile's past and the civil wars but they kept doing flashbacks to when she was in vegas and it just felt like someone writing about gangsters who just did not know anything about gangsters.
