April 15, 2012
The Beauty of Disillusionment: Graffiti Moon, by Cath Crowley
Cath Crowley's Graffiti Moon achieves the minor miracle of capturing disillusioned teen voices in a way that not only avoids the pitfalls of many young-adult stereotypes, but also reaches a level of poeticism that is simply sublime.
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett