Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Lawn Boy Returns By Gary Paulsen Wendy Lamb Books, 2010. 101 pgs. Young Adult Having expanded his summer lawn mowing job into an ever-gr...

Lawn Boy By Gary Paulsen Wendy Lamb Books, 2007. 88 pgs. Young Adult On his 12th birthday Lawn Boy is given a lawn mower by his grandmother....

Livvie Owen Lived Here By Sarah Dooley Feiwel and Friends, 2010. 229 pgs. Young Adult Fourteen-year-old Livvie Owen, who has autism, and...

Matched By Ally Condie Dutton, 2010. 384 pgs. Young Adult Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so wh...

White Noise By Don Delillo Penguin Books, 2009 (c1984). 310 pages. Fiction. In this dark satire of American society, Jack Gladney is a ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Truth Behind the Mystique By Lawrence H. Schiffman Recorded Books, 2007. 7 CDs. Nonfiction. This series of 14 ...

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements By Sam ...

The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe . . . by Alex Kershaw Da Capo, 2010. 294 pgs. Non-Fiction This beautiful, terrible...

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean By Susan Casey Doubleday, 2010. 326 pgs. Nonfiction The ocean is hom...

Three Black Swans By Caroline B. Cooney Delacorte Press, 2010. 276 pgs. Young Adult Disturbed by something she hears on talk radio, Mi...

Behemoth By Scott Westerfeld Simon Pulse, 2010. 485 pgs. Young Adult Behemoth continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an al...

The Girl Who Chased the Moon By Sarah Addison Allen Bantam Books, 2010. 269 pgs. Fiction. Changing wallpaper and mysterious lights in th...

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky By Heidi W. Durrow Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010. 264 pgs. Fiction. Rachel identifies herself as ‘...

The Distant Hours By Kate Morton Atria Books, 2010. 564 pgs. Fiction. A letter delivered 50 years late begins a chain of events that lead Ed...

A Man's Heart By Lori Copeland Zondervan, 2010. 317 pgs. Romance Jules Matias has broken her engagement to Cruz Delgado not once but twi...

Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts By John-Roger & Peter McWilliams Prelude Press, 1991. 494 pgs. Nonfiction. This is a terrific moti...

Oh No She Didn’t: The Top 100 Style Mistakes Women Make and How to Avoid Them By Clinton Kelly Gallery Books, 2010. 201 pgs. Nonfiction ...

The Land By Mildred Taylor Phyllis Fogelman Books, 2001. 375 pgs. Young Adult Paul-Edward Logan is the son of a black former slave and h...

Standing against the Wind By Traci L. Jones Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2006. 184 pgs. Young Adult Patrice Williams is smart, shy, and pro...

Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters By Natalie Standiford Scholastic Press, 2010. 313 pgs. Young Adult Arden Louisa Norris Sullivan We...

Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle By Ingrid Betancourt Penguin. Nonfiction. 528 pgs. Imagine...

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand By Helen Simonson Random House, 2010. 358 pgs. Fiction Can a village seeped in out-moded convention give an...

Why Don’t I Do the Things I Know Are Good For Me? By BJ Gallagher Berkley Books, 2009. 253 pgs. Nonfiction We all know what we need to d...

Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment By Tal Ben-Shahar McGraw-Hill, 2007. 192 pages. Nonfiction Tal Ben-Shaha...

Raising an American Girl by Therese Maring Pleasant Company Publications. 2010. 173 pgs. Nonfiction If you are looking for practical adv...

Start Late, Finish Rich By David Bach Broadway Books, 2005. 348 pgs. Nonfiction This book is very optimistic that no matter what age you...

Star Crossed By Elizabeth C. Bunce Arthur A. Levine Books, 2010. 359 pgs. Young Adult Foiled at their latest attempt at thievery, a wo...

Lafayette and the American Revolution By Russell Freedman Holiday House, 2010. 88 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Freedman gives readers a b...

Bronx Masquerade By Nikki Grimes Dial Books, 2001. 167 pgs. Young Adult A class of students in the Bronx has been studying the Harlem Re...

Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 529 pgs. Non-fiction. Finding himself suddenly infatuated with Russia...