Provo City Library Staff Reviews

Don’t Throw Rocks at His Window: Real Advice to Mend a Broken Heart By Julie C. Donaldson Deseret Book, 2011. 97 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction...

The Night Bookmobile By Audrey Niffenegger Abrams ComicArts, 2010. 40 pgs. Nonfiction One night a woman encounters a disappearing library on...

Christopher Columbus: Explorer of the New World By Robin S. Doak Compass Point Books, 2005. 112 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction If you have ever...

Losing Faith By Denise Jaden Simon Pulse, 2010. 381 pgs. Young Adult Brie's older sister Faith, who is as religious as her name implies,...

You Wish By Mandy Hubbard Razorbill, 2010. 284 pgs. Young Adult Kayla's sweet sixteen is a miserable experience, but it's just the b...

Chasing Lincoln's Killer By James L. Swanson Scholastic Press, 2009. 194 pgs. Nonfiction Working from letters, manuscripts, trial tr...

Okay for Now By Gary D. Schmidt Clarion Books, 2011. 360 pgs. Young Adult Huzzah! Fans of The Wednesday Wars will rejoice in Schmidt...

Branch Rickey by Jimmy Breslin Penguin, 2011. 146 pgs. Nonfiction. What better book to read on Opening Day 2011 than Breslin's new b...

Bitter Melon By Cara Chow Egmont USA, 2011. 309 pgs. Young Adult Chinese-American Frances is a high school senior whose mother has scrim...

Tiger’s Curse By Colleen Houck Splinter, 2011. 403 pgs. Young Adult Kelsey Hayes has just graduated from high school and is not quite su...

Fool Moon By Jim Butcher New American Library, 2001. 342 pages. Fantasy This is an interesting mash-up of two genre staples, the wizard ...

Camo Girl By Kekla Magoon Aladdin, 2011. 218 pgs . Young Adult Ella is the only African American student at her school, and she has a ...

Steel By Carrie Vaughn HarperTeen, 2011. 294 pgs. Young Adult Jill Archer is on vacation in the Bahamas with her family after a disappoi...

Queen of Water By Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango Delacorte Press, 2011. 352 pgs. Young Adult Virginia lives in poverty in a sm...

Strings Attached By Judy Blundell Scholastic Press, 2011. 310 pgs. Young Adult Following a horrible fight with her boyfriend Billy, Kit ...

Death of a Chimney Sweep: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery By M.C. Beaton Grand Central Publishing, 2011. 247 pages. Mystery In the isolated vil...

The Mermaid's Mirror By L.K. Madigan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 316 pgs. Young Adult Lena has always wanted to learn to surf, ...

Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy By Albert Marrin Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 182 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction The...

Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart By Candace Fleming Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011. 118 pgs. Young Adult Nonfict...

Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits By Jack Murnighan Three Rivers Press, 2009. 374 pages...

Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr By Garth Nix HarperCollins, 2001. 487 p. Young Adult Lirael is a daughter of the Clayr, but has not y...

Bringing Adam Home By Les Standiford Ecco, 2011. 291 pgs. Nonfiction In July 1981, Adam Walsh was kidnapped outside of a Sears store in ...

The Tenth Power By Kate Constable Arthur A. Levine Books, 2005. 306 pgs. Young Adult In this final book of the Chanters of Tremaris Tril...

Secondhand Charm By Julie Berry Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers, 2010. 342 pgs. Young Adult Evie is a small-town girl who seems to ha...

The Weird Sisters By Eleanor Brown G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2011. 320 pgs. Fiction Rosalind, Bianca, and Cordelia Andreas are the daughters ...

All in the Family: A Look-It-Up Guide to the In-laws, Outlaws, and Offspring of Mythology By Steven Otfinofski F. Watts/Scholastic, 2010. ...

The Death Instinct by Jed Rubenfeld Riverside/Penguin, 2011. 464 pgs. Fiction Well before the Oklahoma City bombings and the 9/11...

A World Without Heroes By Brandon Mull Aladdin, 2011. 446 pgs. Young Adult. In this first volume of the Beyonders series, Jason Walker d...

Anya's War By Andrea Alban Feiwel and Friends, 2011. 188 pgs. Young Adult Fourteen-year-old Anya is a Jewish girl who has recently m...

OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word By Allan A. Metcalf Oxford University Press, 2011. 210 pgs. Nonfiction OK is a quiet...