James by L. Diane Wolfe

James: Circle of Friends Book Three
By: L. Diane Wolfe

Author Site: http://www.thecircleoffriends.net/ 

Author Blog: http://circleoffriendsbooks.blogspot.com/

James is a young man who is lost within himself. Growing up with an abusive father, James doesn’t let too many people into his life. In order not to think about the past, he focuses on other things diligently: school, work. But, though [...]

The Rock of Realm by Lea Schizas

The Rock of Realm
By Lea Schizas
Star Publish Books, 2005
http://leaschizaseditor.tripod.com 
Life is exceedingly normal for fourteen year old Alex Stone. She has to clean up her dogs mess, get a ride to school from old Ms. Harris who shouldn’t be allowed on the road and babysit Ms. Harris’ grandchildren after school against her will. Life could [...]

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

I started this book the other night looking for something different to read; boy is it ever! It’s a stunningly beautiful work that his harrowing but gorgeous.
Fifteen year old Daisy goes to live with her cousins in England after her fathers new wife grows tired of her. Despondant, Daisy is sad at leaving New York, [...]

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The other night, I had the pleasure of reading an old favorite all over again: The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.  
I had read it as a child and then once more years ago. But it’s always been one of those books that no bookshelf is complete without. So I keep replacing older [...]

The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket

When we last left the Baudelaire Orphans, they were fleeing from Count Olaf and entering a car with a woman in the back seat who they had never seen before. That woman was Kit Snicket. Kit Snicket, one of the many on the right side of the schism, takes them to The Hotel Dénouement. There, [...]

The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket

In the eleventh book in “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, we find the three young Baudelaire siblings in a grim bit of trouble, escaping from the nefarious Count Olaf by riding a toboggan down the Stricken Stream, hoping to find a sugar bowl before he does.
The Baudelaire siblings don’t know what is so important about [...]

The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket

The end is near. Followers of “A Series of Unfortunate Events” know that the thirteenth, and last, book of the series, titled “The End”, is out on the thirteenth day of the tenth month on the fifth day of the week. A confusing phrase which here means: Friday, October 13th, 2006.
Lovers of the series have [...]

The Anybodies by N. E. Bode

 
What would you get if you combined the wit of Lemony Snikett’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” with Harry Potter and tons of literary references? Well, hopefully something as astounding and enjoyable as N. E. Bode’s novel “The Anybodies.”
Switched at birth, Fern Drudger knows she has always been different than her two boring parents. Far [...]