by yadude-admin | Jul 4, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He also likes avoiding people his own age. Jake has read about kids like himself in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink...
by yadude-admin | Jul 4, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Author Kate Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for...
by yadude-admin | Jul 4, 2025 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Harry is making food for the unhoused in his grandmother’s food truck when he meets and befriends Stanley, an excellent cook and teacher with only two possessions: a recipe binder and a grumpy dog named Waffles. Then Stanley turns up dead, his...
by yadude-admin | Jul 4, 2025 | featured authors, archive authors
“Teenagers appreciate humor more than most jaded adults do.” — Alan Orloff Posted July 4, 2025 Alan Orloff is an award-winning mystery, horror and thriller author whose 13 novels include two for young adults, his latest being Driving the Bugmobile (2025, Level...
