Genre: Contemporary

THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR By Nicola Yoon

Short and Sweet Review Natasha is just 12 hours away from being deported back to Jamaica with her family, and she’ll try to do anything she can to try to stop that from happening. Daniel is an aspiring poet but thats not what his parents want and he’s trying to live up to their high […]

WITH THE FIRE ON HIGH By Elizabeth Acevedo

Short and Sweet Emoni is a high school senior who has to juggle school, work, and caring for her daughter with the support of her abuela. Emoni has a love for cooking and everything she cooks ends up amazing, but with a new culinary arts class at school Emoni isn’t sure if she even has […]

FIELD NOTES ON LOVE By Jennifer E. Smith

Short and Sweet Hugo and his girlfriend Margaret are planning to go on a train trip across the United States, but then Margaret breaks up with Hugo and though she encourages him to go on the trip without her, everything is in her name and the tickets are nontransferable. Now Hugo needs to find a […]

9 DAYS AND 9 NIGHTS By Katie Cotugno

Short and Sweet Review I knew what I was doing to myself when I decided to read this sequel to 99 Days, but I still did it. Why? Because its only a duology and it’s the end to the 99 Days series, and I just wanted to read it and be done with it. Moving […]

99 Days By Katie Cotugno

Short and Sweet Review Molly Barlow is back in Star Lake for 99 days, and all she has to do is survive the 99 days. Molly left town after her mother’s book revealed that Molly cheated on her boyfriend Patrick with his older brother Gabe. Here’s the thing everyone basically hates Molly and its one […]

THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOST THINGS By Jessica Brody

Short and Sweet Review Ali’s childhood home is going to be foreclosed on and it seems like all hope is gone until Ali’s finds out that her recently passed father has left his 1968 Firebird convertible to her. Now all Ali has to do is meet with a buyer 300 miles and sell the car […]

A QUESTION OF HOLMES By Brittany Cavallaro

Short and Sweet Charlotte and Jamie are finally in the clear, they’ve left behind Sherringford and the Moriarty family. Now they’re both looking ahead to the future and they’ve started to take  summer classes at Oxford, but once Charlotte gets to the school she learns about accidents that have plagued the theater members, now Charlotte […]

IN ANOTHER LIFE By C.C. Hunter

Short and Sweet When Chloe was three years old she was adopted and became Chloe Holden and she’s had a pretty good life. Fourteen years later Chloe’s parents are separated, she’s left her friends behind and her mother has moved them to Joyful, Texas. Now Chloe is the new girl in school and she has […]

OPPOSITE OF ALWAYS By Justin A. Reynolds

Short and Sweet Jack meets Kate at a party and they spend all night talking and learning that they have a lot in common like their love for cereal and their favorite movies. Soon Kate is meeting Jack’s friends and is winning them over. But then Kate dies, and it may seem like that would […]