Genre: Contemporary

FOUR DAYS OF YOU AND ME By Miranda Kenneally

Short and Sweet Review Four Days of You and Me follows the relationship between Lulu and Alex. It’s over the course of four years so I’m not sure why the title is four days but that’s a problem for another day. Each year their class takes a field trip and each year Lulu and Alex’s […]

KIND OF A BIG DEAL By Shannon Hale

Short and Sweet Review Josie peaked in high school, she was a great singer and she wanted to be on broadway but show biz is tough and she got turned away. Now Josie is a nanny in a state far away from New York. Josie still tries to live her high school life even though […]

DASH & LILY’S BOOK OF DARES By Rachel Cohn AND David Levithan

Short and Sweet Review It’s the holiday season and while at a bookstore Dash finds a notebook waiting for someone to accept the challenge and complete the dares inside. Lily is just trying to find the right guy and hopefully the notebook will help her succeed. These two end up leaving the notebook in different […]

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES By Mindy McGinnis

Short and Sweet Review Alex Craft is known as the girl who has a dead older sister. Alex’s sister Anna was murdered and the killer walk free and that’s when Alex learned how to kill somebody and she doesn’t feel bad about knowing this. Alex’s crime has gone unpunished but she knows she can’t be […]

NINE LIARS By Maureen Johnson

Short and Sweet Review It’s senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie and its not going well, she needs to start thinking about colleges but she’d rather not. So when her boyfriend in David who is currently in London invites Stevie and her friends to London it’s a welcome distraction. In London David introduces Stevie […]

IN THE STUDY WITH THE WRENCH By Diana Peterfreund

Short and Sweet Review We’re back at Blackbrook Academy and after headmaster boddy’s murder the group of kids that were in the Tudor house are being called the murder crew. Our six main characters are back and this time when another body is found more secrets are unveiled about our main characters and their reasons […]

SPELLS FOR LOST THINGS By Jenna Evans Welch

Short and Sweet Review Willow doesn’t feel like she belongs and she feels like the only way to find her place in the world is to travel. But things are put on hold when her mother takes her to Salem Massachusetts to settle her aunts estate, an aunt that Willow didn’t even know existed. Mason […]

THE FIRST TO DIE AT THE END By Adam Silvera

Short and Sweet Review Death-Cast is about to go live and everyone is wondering if Death-Cast can actually predict when someone is going to die. Orion has a heart condition and he signs up for death cast just so if somethings going to happen to him it won’t be unexpected. Valentino has just moved to […]

SALT AND SUGAR By Rebecca Carvalho

Short and Sweet Review Lari and Pedro’s families have bakeries across the street from each other, Lari’s family owns Salt and Pedro’s family owns Sugar. Their families have been feuding for a long time and even Lari and Pedro are “enemies.” There’s a big supermarket that has moved into town and is forcing small businesses […]