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I Never Asked You To Understand Me By Barthe DeClements

Posted on December 9, 2021 by mondomolly

Stacy didn’t look like a reject, and I didn’t think I did either. We were just having too hard a time… I have reviewed a number of Barthe DeClements’s books over the past few years, starting with the not-quite-Lost Classic … Continue reading →

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Soaps In The Afternoon By Lavinia Harris

Posted on May 12, 2019 by mondomolly

This soap opera is no ordinary drama… So, two things: first, this is one of those especially weird attempts to market science fiction to teen girls by skipping the science part and just making goofy things happen with the explanation … Continue reading →

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When The Phone Rang By Harry Mazer

Posted on January 20, 2019 by mondomolly

How can they survive as a family when there’s nothing left to keep them together? I see Scholastic’s Point imprint and immediately think “Thriller”, possibly with some supernatural content, but a quick click on that tags shows that it also … Continue reading →

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The Christmas Killer By Patricia Windsor

Posted on December 16, 2018 by mondomolly

She’s dreaming of a dead Christmas… I didn’t think much of Patricia Windor’s Seventeen short story about a teenage girl deciding not to pursue an affair with an older man, but Christmas-themed YAs are getting to be slim pickings… The Plot: …So … Continue reading →

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Seventeen & In-Between By Barthe DeClements

Posted on March 18, 2018 by mondomolly

At seventeen, things aren’t so simple anymore… I got a number of requests for the final book in DeClements’s series featuring Elsie Edwards, as she evolves from gross 5th grade pariah to a beautiful but emotionally scarred high school student … Continue reading →

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How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues? By Barthe DeClements

Posted on August 5, 2017 by mondomolly

Will Elsie be able to accept her (beautiful!) new self? This is the first of two (sadly out-of-print) books following up on the life of Elsie Edwards from Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade, the school fatty with a horrifying mother … Continue reading →

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The Changeover By Margaret Mahy

Posted on August 6, 2014 by mondomolly

He offers her life, death or the supernatural- but the choice she makes must be her own. Regular readers know that I love the dissonance between a book’s cover art and the actual content. Clearly, Point (Scholastic) is trying to … Continue reading →

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Missing Since Monday By Ann M. Martin

Posted on January 14, 2014 by mondomolly

Maggies’s little sister was the first to disappear. Would Maggie be next? Background: Ann M. Martin got her start as an editor and house writer for Scholastic (one of her first published titles was for Scholastic’s Wildfire YA romance imprint); … Continue reading →

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Don’t Care High By Gordon Korman

Posted on September 4, 2013 by mondomolly

Back to school! Time to start the year with a good attitude cautionary tale wacky scheme! Background: Canadian writer Gordon Korman retains a cultish appeal among a certain segment of Middle Readers (the market category that falls between Juvenile and … Continue reading →

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Party Line By A. Bates

Posted on March 4, 2013 by mondomolly

1989 is the nominal endpoint of books that I plan on covering here- I always find it interesting that the relatively recent books date so much more quickly than their older counterparts. If this book had been written in the … Continue reading →

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