Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void By Mary Roach W.W. Norton, 2010. 333 pgs. Nonfiction Mary Roach has a knack fo...

I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson Graywolf Press, 2010. 233 pgs. Fiction Per Petterson's Out Stealing Horses is one of my ...

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy By Gary D. Schmidt Clarion Books, 2004. 219 pgs. Young Adult When Turner Buckminster's family ...

Girl in the Arena: A novel containing intense prolonged sequences of disaster and peril By Lise Haines Bloomsbury, 2009. 324 pgs. Young Ad...

A Bride in the Bargain By Deanne Gist Bethany House, 2009. 365 pgs. Romance Joe Denton, who owns a logging company in rural Washington...

Wolves, Boys and Other Things That Might Kill Me By Kristin Chandler Viking, 2010. 371 pgs. Young Adult KJ Carson, who has been both awk...

More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Utah Women By Christy Karras Globe Pequot Press, 2010. 157 pgs. Biography Here is presented 13 short ...

The Invisible Bridge By Julie Orringer Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 602 pgs. Historical Fiction This is the story of Andras Levi, a young Hung...

The Maltese Falcon By Dashiell Hammet Vintage Books,1930. 217 pgs. Mystery Sam Spade, a no nonsense detective, takes on a case for a fem...

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Little, Brown, 2010. 323 pgs. Young Adult Fiction. On the Gulf Coast in a dystopian future, Nailer, a t...

Tantalize By Cynthia Leitich Smith Candlewick Press, 2007. 310 pgs. Young Adult Quincie Morris's life revolves around her family res...

Mockingjay By Suzanne Collins Scholastic, 2010, 398 pages, Young Adult In Suzanne Collins’ highly anticipated conclusion to The Hunger G...

Pastworld : a mystery of the near future: a novel By Ian Beck Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2009. 355 pp. Young adult fiction. In the...

They Called Themselves the K.K.K. By Susan Campbell Bartoletti Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 172 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Susan Ca...

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game By Michael Lewis W.W. Norton, 2006. 299 p. Biography More than just a blockbuster movie with an Osca...

Perfect Chemistry By Simon Elkeles Walker, 2009. 360 pgs. Fiction Alex and Brittany couldn't be more different--or so they think. A...

This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All By Marilyn Johnson Harper. 2010. 271 pgs. Nonfiction Maybe a book t...

Ten Things I Hate about Me By Randa Abdel-Fattah Orchard Books, 2009. 297 pgs. Australian teenager Jamilah doesn't want to deal with...

Life, Love and the Pursuit of Free Throws By Janette Rallison Walker, 2010. 185 pgs. Young Adult Josie and Cami have been best friends ...

Making Rounds with Oscar By David Dosa, M.D. Hyperion, 2010. 225 pgs. Non-fiction "Why can't you do this anymore? A child cou...

Sir Francis Drake By John Sugden Henry Holt Company,1990. 353 pgs. Non-fiction For those interested in world exploration, British histo...

Fever Crumb By Philip Reeve Scholastic Press, 2009. 325 pgs. Young Adult In a future London where technology from past eras is ancient a...

The Body at the Tower By Y.S. Lee Candlewick Press, 2010. 337 pgs. Young Adult In the second book in the Agency series, Mary Quinn finds...

I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (pseud.) Harper, 2010. 440 pgs. Young Adult First in the Lorien Legacies series, I am Number Four tel...

Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter By Melissa G. Moore Sweetwater Books, 2009. 241 pgs. Biography Mel...

Bruiser By Neal Shusterman HarperTeen, 2010. 328 pgs. Young Adult Fiction As the student voted “Most Likely to Get the Death Penalty”,...

Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards Knopf, 2010. 293 pgs. Young Adult Peter, a poor boy, and Celestia, ...

The Girl She Used To Be By David Cristofano Grand Central Publishing, 2009. 241 pgs. Fiction Melody Grace McCartney was six years old wh...

The Nature of Jade By Deb Caletti Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2007. 288 pgs. Young Adult Jade DeLuna is not a likely c...

I Capture the Castle By Dodie Smith Boston, Little, Brown, 1948. 343 p. Historical Fiction Managing your family is difficult under the b...