Provo City Library Staff Reviews

The Scorpio Races By Maggie Stiefvater Scholastic Press, 2011. 409 pgs. Young Adult The Scorpio Races occur every November on the Island...

Everybody Sees the Ants By A.S. King Little, Brown, 2011. 282 pgs. Young Adult Fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman has been bullied by Nade...

The Future of Us By Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler Razorbill, 2011. 356 pgs. Young Adult It's 1996, and Emma Nelson has just gotten t...

The Plain Janes By Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg Minx, 2007. 176 pgs. Young Adult Comics When transfer student Jane is forced to move f...

XVI By Julia Karr Speak, 2011. 325 pgs. Young Adult In a future world, girls become sexually available at sixteen--they even have to get...

Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. 273 pgs. Mystery A disciple of the French detective...

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer By Novella Carpenter Penguin Publishing, 2010, 288 pgs, Nonfiction An entertaining tale of o...

The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff Doubleday, 2011. 304 pgs. Fiction This novel tells the story of Charlotte Gold and Jack Harrington...

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) By Mindy Kaling Crown Archetype, 2011. 222 pgs. Nonfiction Mindy Kaling is an E...

Son of Neptune By Rick Riordan Disney/Hyperion Books, 2011. 521 pgs. Young Adult After several months of enchanted sleep, Percy Jackson-...

The Allow of Law By Brandon Sanderson Tor Books, 2011. 332 pgs. Fantasy Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Sc...

Good Tidings of Great Joy By Eric D. Hunstman Deseret Book, 2011. 166 pgs. Nonfiction Huntsman takes a look at the biblical Christmas st...

I Love Him to Pieces By Evonne Tsang Graphic Universe, 2011. 123 pgs. Graphic Novel When jock Dicey and nerd Jack get paired up for a sc...

Akata Witch By Nnedi Okorafor Viking, 2011. 349 pgs. Young Adult Sunny is an albino American-born young woman of Nigerian parents and ...

Ghosts in the Fog By Samantha Seiple Scholastic, 2011. 221 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction After the Japanese army invaded Aleutian Islands ...

The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear by Seth Mnookin Simon & Schuster, 2011. 429 pgs. Nonfiction This book g...

This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman Harper, 2011. 222 pgs. Fiction The Bergamots have a comfortable life in New York City, until one d...

The Full Burn: On the Set, at the Bar, Behind the Wheel, and Over the Edge with Hollywood Stuntmen By Kevin Conley Bloomsbury, 2008. 214 p...

Liar's Moon By Elizabeth C. Bunce Arthur A. Levine Books, 2011. 356 pgs. Young Adult Digger has returned to her home city of Gerse a...

The Kid Who Climbed Everest By Bear Grylls Lyons Press, 2000, 283 pgs . Biography Bear Grylls is the host of T.V.'s Man Vs. Wild an...

The Name of the Star By Maureen Johnson G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. 372 pgs. Young Adult Rory decides to spend her senior year at a...

Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure By Cheryl & Bill Jamison William Morrow, 2008. 258 pgs. Nonfiction Cul...

Hero By Mike Lupica Philomel Books, 2010. 289 pgs. Young Adult Zach Harriman's father was the President's globe-trotting troubleshoo...

Thanksgiving: The True Story By Penny Colman Henry Holt, 2008. 149 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Although most Americans have probably learned...

The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding by Sarah Burns Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. 240 pgs. Nonfiction On April 20, 1989, an injured...

Hourglass By Myra McEntire Egmont, 2011. 390 pgs. Young Adult For several years, Emerson Cole has seen ghosts from the past, and she can...

Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived By Ralph Helfer HarperCollins, 1997. 325 pgs. Nonfiction Modoc is the joint b...

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain HarperCollins, 2000, pgs. 312. Non-fiction This is a fun boo...

Crossed By Ally Condie Dutton Books, 2011. 384 pgs. Young Adult Fiction At the end of Matched , Cassia’s world completely crumbled. Her fami...

Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and ...