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Teen Non-Fiction Reviews: (View All)
- We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction
- Author: Nic Sheff
- User Rating: 4
- Review: YA Bio Sheff N
Dimmie Zeigler 4 stars
This is a continuation of the story of Nic Sheff that was started with his father's book, My Beautiful Boy. Nic has had a life-long struggle with drug addiction and these books are hard to read. The fact the he has survived and is truly on the road to recovery is inspiring and gives hopes to the millions of those who share addictions. 
- Guys Write for Guys Read
- Author: Jon Scieszka
- User Rating: 4
- Review: TCL Call #: YA 810.8 Guys
D-4.8 stars
Wow. Pretty much every great male author in young adult and children's literature writing directly to boys, about what it's like to be a boy. I'm not a boy and I loved it. Some of the short stories are about these authors' personal experiences as boys or young men. They are real and touching and funny. I'm talking funny. Like stories about crushing on the high-school math teacher, being horrible at sports, getting called a girl. Mostly stories about humiliation, but they're honest and REAL (mostly).
If you are a boy, you need to check out this book.
If you don't really love reading, you need to check out this book.
If you breathe air, you need to check out this book. -
Teen Fiction Reviews:(View All)
- The Infects
- Author: Sean Beaudoin
- User Rating: 3
- Review: TCL Call number: YA BEAUDOIN S
Stephanie’s rating: 3.5 stars
It's 2013...zombies, zombie-apocalypse, zombieland, zombie babies?...of all the movies and science fiction books published you'd think we'd seen it and heard it all. Ehh...Sean Beaudoin says otherwise. "The Infects" is 17 year olds perspective on the flesh-eating uprising. Note this kid may have been the one that started the pandemic…and it may have started with chickens :/ In any case, Nero (the protagonist) and his degenerate posse find themselves in the thick of it. He needs to make it home and save his sister, but how when at one end there is a deranged high school football team gorging on anything that has a beating heart, and on the other side the lackadaisical cheerleaders are chomping away with their pom-poms still in choreographed action. To make it a bit more dramatic the kid is in love! How is this all possible?! Can he make it out alive, save his sister, and save the to-be girlfriend all in one day?! -
- Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
- Author: Beth Revis
- User Rating: 4
- Review: TCL Call#: YA Revis B
Madeleine - 4 stars
This was an interesting read. Totally dissimilar to anything else I've picked up in Teen Fiction recently. I loved the inability to anticipate what was going to happen.
Did not like:
That she called her mom Mom but her dad Daddy. Really? Was quite off putting. And creepy.
That there's a potential rape scene. That's OK. What's not is that the author makes a point of describing how one particular guy is giving Amy the creeps, then we have the potential rape, and then that guy falls off the radar. As in is literally never mentioned again. Huh? -
