There is no better way to get into the festive spirit than by spending it with Dash and Lily. And in this lovely follow up to Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares, not everyone is in the Christmas spirit. The two teens have been together for a year now but the glow of new romance is …
You Know Me Well is a book about friendship, love and taking chances. Teens Mark and Kate may seem to have nothing in common. He’s a shy jock hopelessly and unrequitedly in love with his oblivious best friend. She’s an artistically driven college bound senior who is waiting for her best friend to set her up …
I’m not sure how David Levithan does it but with each book of his I read, I fall a little more in love with his writing style. The Realm of Possibility is a novel told in verse and follows twenty high school students as they navigate love, life and growing up. Each character may only have …
Title: How They Met (and Other Stories) Author: David Levithan Genre: Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Short Stories Publisher: Text Publishing Publication Date: January 2014 Pages: 256 Rating: 3.5 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): Eighteen stories, all about love, and about all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking …
Title: Two Boys Kissing Author: David Levithan Genre: Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, GLBT, Romance Publisher: Text Publishing Publication Date: August 2013 Pages: 208 Rating: 4.5 stars Synopsis (from goodreads): Seventeen-year-olds Craig and Harry are trying to set a new Guinness World Record for kissing. Around them, Ryan and Avery are falling in love, Neil and Peter are falling …
Two teenagers, each facing the prospect of facing Christmas alone in New York City, embark on a city wide scavenger hunt involving a little red moleskin notebook. Dash, alone by choice, and Lily whose parents abandoned her to have their second honeymoon in tropical paradise, both find a new friend though this bizarre game of dare and …
This is a novel where the start isn’t really the beginning. The conclusion doesn’t finish the story. But instead, this book is more like a series of snapshots into a couple’s relationship. And each snapshot has then been placed in order – not chronologically, but rather in alphabetical order. I thought it was a very …