GREAT READS

John Green's The Fault in Our Stars is by far my favorite book of 2012. Debuting at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list, this Young Adult novel will resonate with teens and adults alike. Inspired by his experiences as a chaplain at a Children's ...

There is no shortage of adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved mysteries. Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed as everything from mild-mannered bachelor to a vagrant. However, the BBC's quirky sleeper-hit simply titled "Sherlock" brings new li...

Not every love story has a happy ending and the title of this novel makes it clear that this story will most definitely end badly. Min Green is "different" and her former boyfriend, Ed, is the epitome of the normal high school boy. Ed is the co-capta...

Wow... now this is the way to tell a fallen angel tale. That being said, I hate to lump this novel in with the other books cropping up all over, capitalizing on the bad-boy-redeemed appeal of a fallen angel paranormal romance. Daughter of Smoke and B...

Tessa is forced to leave her home in America to find her wayward brother in Victorian England. When she arrives, she quickly finds herself wrapped up in a world where monsters exist, and she could be one of them. This is the first in a trilogy preq...

"The world is dark, and light is precious." So begins the tale of Despereaux, an overly small mouse with overly large ears who has the unfortunate habit of acting too much like a human. He is especially partial to reading and his own life's tale is ...

Seventeen-year-old Lennie is experiencing the loss of her sister and the kind of emotions that would be extremely difficult to put into words, but somehow author Jandy Nelson does just that. Through lyrical language and moving images, The Sky is Ever...

Annika Truman always wins, but when her little brother gets cancer, Annika encounters an opponent that will be hard to beat. She does some research on healing through positive thinking and decides this is how she and her brother will win this battle....

At first sight, this book looked like pure chick-lit (not that it isn't fun to read chick-lit now and again), but Academy 7 is not just your average romance. Aerin is a fugitive on her father's spaceship who finds a home at the most elite school in t...

Everyone wants to fit in, to be normal. But what if being normal made you a family outcast? Tamsin's is a family of witches and each member has a special Talent. Whether it's finding any and all lost items, blinking out of existence in one place only...

I can't say enough about Neil Gaiman's latest title The Graveyard Book. On the night of his parent's brutal murder, a toddler wonders off and finds himself in a graveyard. The ghosts there take him in and vow to raise him as their own. He has other g...

Soon to be released as a feature film, The Lovely Bones is narrated from heaven by Susie Salmon, a brutally murdered fourteen-year-old girl. When Susie disappears, her family is devastated and she watches their heartache as they begin to realize that...

When Christopher Boone finds his neighbor's beloved dog, Wellington, murdered in her front yard, he will not let his "social problems" get in the way of finding out whodunit. Christopher has a form of autism which makes it difficult for him to intera...

I had no idea what the story of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas might be about when I opened the book and started reading. Yet, immediately I was flying through the pages, gripped by a terrible world seen through the eyes of an innocent, and somewhat ...

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is a witty, sometimes hilarious, story of what life is like for an intelligent girl in an elite boarding school. Frankie goes from awkward and geeky her freshman year to gorgeous with a senior boyfrien...

Mary lives in a small community in which all the members believe they are the last human beings on earth. The fences that surround the community protect its members from hordes of "Unconsecrated" who claw at them day and night trying to find a weakne...