Genre: Contemporary

WE GOT THE BEAT By Jenna Miller

Short and Sweet Review It’s Jordan’s junior year and she wants to be the editor in chief of the school newspaper, but instead she gets the job of writing about the schools volleyball team. It would be a doable job if Jordan’s former friend Mackenzie wasn’t the captain of the team. Jordan and Mackenzie used […]

THE SOMEDAY DAUGHTER By Ellen O’Clover

Short and Sweet Review Audrey St. Vrain wasn’t even born when her mother Camilla wrote the novel “Letters to My Someday Daughter” a self-help book for women. That book shot Camilla to fame and she ended up building an empire. Everyone thinks Audrey is lucky to have Camilla as a mother but Audrey has an […]

OUT OF BODY By Nia Davenport

Short and Sweet Review Megan has bounced around from friend group to friend group until she meets LC. LC is like her friend soulmate. One night Megan and LC celebrate their friend anniversary and get matching piercings and go out to a party. Things seem to be going alright until Megan wakes up the next […]

THE LIES WE TELL By Katie Zhao

Short and Sweet Review It’s Annas first year in college and she’s going to Brookings University. Anna is thinking about a lot and she’s living in the campus dorms while her parents bakery is across town and not doing so well, especially since there’s another bakery across the street. College is hard for any first […]

THE GETAWAY LIST By Emma Lord

Short and Sweet Review Riley recently graduated from high school and she feels like she doesn’t really know who she is. She’s spent the last four years trying to be a good kid for her mom but now she just feels like she’s been suppressing herself. Riley decides on a whim to go to New […]

LOVE & OLIVES By Jenna Evans Welch

Short and Sweet Review Olive who prefers to be called Liv hasn’t seen her father in 9 years, when Liv was 8 he moved to Greece in pursuit of finding Atlantis. Now at 17 Liv is trying to figure out what she wants to do with her future and out of nowhere she gets a […]

SHUT UP, THIS IS SERIOUS By Carolina Ixta

Short and Sweet Review Belén just wants to be a normal teenager and have normal experiences but in her life nothing is going right, her father left, she may not graduate, and her religious and studious friend ends up pregnant by a boy she can’t tell her parents about because they’re racist. Soon Belén starts […]

THE ATLAS OF US By Kristin Dwyer

Short and Sweet Review Atlas recently lost her dad and life hasn’t been so great. In an effort to finally try to get things back together she signs up for a community service program that focuses on rehabbing trails in the Western Sierra. The thing about this program is that her dad was also once […]

THE INHERITANCE GAMES By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Short and Sweet Review Avery doesn’t have the best financial situation going on for her. Avery plans on doing her best in school to get a scholarship to eventually go to college and do better. Things change when Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves a majority of his fortune to Avery, the thing is Avery has […]