Provo City Library Staff Reviews

CERTAIN GIRLS : Jennifer Weiner: Atria: 2008: Fiction: 400pgs Certain Girls is the sequel to Jennifer Weiner's hit novel, Good In Bed. ...

THESE IS MY WORDS : Nancy Turner: Regan Books/ HarperCollins: Fiction: 384 p. This is the fictionalized diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 17, who ...

THE DANGEROUS DAYS OF DANIEL X : James Patterson: Little, Brown and Co.: Young Adult: 238 pgs. Daniel was born with the power to create. Hi...

UGLIES : Scott Westerfeld: Scholastic: Young Adult: 425 pgs. In Tally Youngblood's world, every sixteen-year-old has an operation to mak...

TWILIGHT : Stephenie Meyer: Little, Brown & Co.: Young Adult: 498 pgs. Bella Swan just wants to fit into her new high school, without dr...

THINGS NOT SEEN : Andrew Clements: Philomel Books: Young Adult: 251 pgs. One February morning Bobby Phillips, a Chicago resident became invi...

THE SECRET HOUR : Scott Westerfeld: Eos: Young Adult: 297 pgs. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Day has just moved from Chicago to Bixby, Oklahoma. ...

THE OUTSIDERS : S.E. Hinton: Viking: Young Adult: 188 pgs. There are only two kinds of people in Ponyboys’ world. Greasers, are poor and hav...

THE JUNIPER GAME : Sherryl Jordan: Scholastic, Inc.: Young Adult: 228 pgs. Juniper has always been interested in Medieval England, she has g...

THE GIVER : Lois Lowry: Houghton Mifflin Company: Young Adult: 180 pgs. Jonas is anxious to find out what assignment he will be given at the...

THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN : Sherman Alexie: Little, Brown & Co.: Young Adult: 230 pgs. Arnold Spirit, Jr., born wi...

Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood: A Memoir By Douglas Thayer Zarahemla Books, 2007. 186 pgs. Biography Douglas Thayer remembers the wonder of ...

TEEN, INC. : Stefan Petrucha: Walker Book: Young Adult: 244 pgs. Jaiden Beale is the first child to be raised by a corporation. NECorp, the ...

TATTOO : Jennifer Lynn Barnes: Delacorte Press: Young Adult: 260 pgs. It started out like a typical Saturday. Delia dragged Bailey, Annabell...

RUMORS : Anna Godbersen: HarperCollins: Young Adult: 423 pgs. In the sequel to Luxe, Rumors begins approximately two months after Elizabeth ...

LIFE AS WE KNEW IT : Susan Beth Pfeffer: Harcourt: Young Adult: 337 pgs. Sixteen-year-old Miranda begins her diary with accounts related to ...

LEGACY OF LIES : Elizabeth Chandler: Pocket Books: Young Adult: 182 pgs. Megan’s grandmother hasn’t wanted anything to do with her or her tw...

JUMPER : Steven Gould: TOR: Sci-Fi: 344 pgs. Davy can “jump” anywhere he wants. He is able to teleport around the world as long as he has a ...

HIDDEN TALENTS : David Lubar: Starscape: Young Adult: 213 pgs. Thirteen year-old Martin has been sent to Edgeview Alternative School, the la...

HAUNTED : Melinda Metz: Avon Books: Young Adult: 214 pgs. Rae can hear people’s thoughts. Anything touched by human hands leaves fingerprint...

FINAL THEORY ; Mark Alpert; New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008; Fiction; 356pp. No less a luminary than Douglas Preston describes this book ...

STOLEN INNOCENCE: MY STORY OF GROWING UP IN A POLYGAMOUS SECT, BECOMING A TEENAGE BRIDE, AND BREAKING FREE OF WARREN JEFFS : Elissa Wall: Wi...

GILDA JOYCE, PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR : Jennifer Allison: Sleuth/Dutton: Young Adult: 321 pgs Thirteen year old Gilda Joyce lives in Michigan wi...

GIFTS : Ursula Le Guin: Harcourt: Young Adult: 274 pgs This fantasy novel explores the culture of the Uplands and the people that dwell ther...

ENNA BURNING : Shannon Hale: Bloomsbury: Young Adult: 317 pgs Enna’s brother Leif has a secret and Enna wants to know what it is. She is sho...

24 GIRLS IN 7 DAYS : Alex Bradley: Dutton Books: Young Adult: 265 pages Ever since Jack Grammar’s sisters used to dress him up and pretend h...

AUDREY, WAIT! : Robin Benway: Razorbill: Young Adult: 313 pages Audrey’s ex-boyfriend writes a song about their break up, and when the song ...

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH : Jhumpa Lahiri: Knopf: Fiction: 333 pages Jhumpa Lahiri, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies , retu...

NEWES FROM THE DEAD : Mary Hooper: Roaring Book Press: Young Adult: 263 pages Anne Greene, a servant in 1650, awakes in total darkness unabl...

A STIR OF ECHOES : Richard Matheson: Tom Doherty Associates: Fiction: 211 pgs. Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awak...