Praise for The Year of Secret Assignments "Who can resist Moriarty's biting humor?" - Kirkus Reviews "This energetic novel reveals the author's keen understanding of teen dynamics and invites audience members to read between the lines to discover what makes each character tick. What starts out as a simple letter exchange soon leads to secret missions, false alarms, lock picking, mistaken identities, and an all-out war between the schools-not to mention some really excellent kissing. The Ashbury-Brookfield pen pal program is designed to bring together the two rival schools in a spirit of harmony and "the Joy of the Envelope." But when Cassie, Lydia, and Emily send their first letters to Matthew, Charlie, and Sebastian, things don't go quite as planned. In this epistolary novel, three Aussie private school girls enter a pen pal program that leads to friendship, love, mischief, mystery, and revenge.
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Searching to make sense of the popular idea of the ‘crazy artist’, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. Suffering from (but enjoying) extreme mania, and terrified that medication would cause her to lose creativity, she began a long struggle over many years to find mental stability while retaining her creativity. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. ‘ Marbles isn’t just a great story it’s proof that artists don’t have to be tortured to be brilliant.’ – Entertainment Weekly ‘An unflinching and frequently unforgiving narrative of what it means to have bipolar disorder’ – John Crace, Guardian Washington Post’s Top 10 Graphic Novels 2012 But Sophie proves to be nothing like the vision of angelic domesticity Max was expecting. 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The Chase by Elle Kennedy is about a wealthy college student, Summer Heyward-Di Laurentis, and her life living with her crush, Colin Fitzgerald. This month we have a two-for-one deal with a book review and read-alikes list both by Elaina S., age 15. By now I hope you’ve read our previous By Teens, For Teens blog posts and are starting to look forward to them! This series is all teen-created content and makes it that much more awesome (IMHO). In theory, that is an accurate assumption the story of Beren and Lúthien is told often – hinted at throughout The Lord of the Rings and expanded upon in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, as well as in The Book of Lost Tales Part II and The Lays of Beleriand. I won’t bore you with the extent of my Tolkien library, suffice to say that it is extensive and absurd.īut even I was taken aback when I heard that they would be publishing Beren and Lúthien, for surely that story had already been told, yes? Ever since the release of The Fellowship of the Ring in cinemas back in 2001, which was immediately followed by a week-long plunge through The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, I have been an avid and obsessive fan of Tolkien. One of the great joys of my life is reading anything (and everything) by (and about) J.R.R. |