by Pam Withers | Jul 5, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (5/5) A high-adrenaline story of what it really means to man up. Seventeen-year-old Ren Adams feels lucky to be living with his brother, Levi, and Levi’s girlfriend, Ellie ― a welcome escape from his mother and her fundamentalist husband. Ren finally feels...
by Pam Withers | Jul 5, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Thirteen-year-old Vincent has a very special talent: He can jump into paintings and move around inside them. When the painting The Thunderstorm by an old Dutch painter is stolen from a London mansion, Vincent decides to track it down. During his...
by Pam Withers | Jul 5, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Regent Academy had a long and storied history in the small town of Winslow, Vermont. But so does the vast forest that surrounds its campus. While the school is known for molding teens into world leaders, its past is far more nefarious–and even...
by Pam Withers | Jul 5, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) The company “Locked In Escape Rooms” is offering prize money for whoever can successfully escape the room. Four very different teenagers answer the call. But as the game begins, the room turns out to be stranger than expected, and they suspect...
by Pam Withers | May 3, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) Kate doesn’t want to spend one minute in the “Hicksville” her mother moved them to. Zach, the boy who lives next door, tries to befriend Kate even though she ignores him. Then they find the crevasse on her grandfather’s property and the skeletons...
by Pam Withers | May 3, 2024 | 2024 and 2025 book reviews
☆☆☆☆☆ ★★★★★ (4/5) A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin’s murder.Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to...
