Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers

THE SECRET ASTRONOMERS By Jessica Walker

Short and Sweet Review Copernicus has just moved from San Francisco to a small West Virginia town after the death of her mother, and she’s trying to find her place in a world that now feels too quiet and too small. When she starts leaving diary notes in the oldest astronomy textbook in her high […]

RIGHT WHERE WE BELONG By Farrah Penn

Short and Sweet Review It’s Delaney’s final year at her boarding school Ivernia and it’s not off to a great start, her father recently passed and she doesn’t know what she wants to do with her future, to make matters worse Ivernia might be closing its doors. Delaney makes a wish hoping to save the […]

WE WON’T ALL SURVIVE By Kate Alice Marshall

Short and Sweet Review Two years ago, Mercy was able to save some lives in a mall shooting and since then she’s been hailed as a hero. But for Mercy she lives with a fragment of a bullet in her back and some guilt for not listening to her sister when she said the boy […]

THE NOTORIOUS VIRTUES By Alwyn Hamilton

Short and Sweet Review The Holtzfall family is a high ranking family and they have control over all of the money and magic in the entire country. Nora Holtzfall has it all and she knows one day she’ll be the heir, but one day comes sooner than she expects when her mother is murdered and […]

DEADSTREAM By Mar Romasco-Moore

Short and Sweet Review Ever since the car accident that took her best friend’s life, Teresa has been stuck in the house and it’s progressively gotten worse to where she won’t even leave her room. Teresa spends her time watching different people do their live streams and chatting with her streaming friends. When a popular […]

I AM THE SWARM By Hayley Chewins

Short and Sweet Review In Nell Strand’s family all of the woman have a magical gift that manifests when they turn 15. Nell doesn’t think these are gifts but more like curses. Her mother changes her age everyday, her sister bleeds music, and depending on how Nell feels different insects appear but the one that […]

SAY A LITTLE PRAYER By Jenna Voris

Short and Sweet Review A year ago Riley left the church after realizing that there’s no place for a bi person in her congregation but what really ticked her off was when Pastor Young shamed her sister Hannah for having an abortion, after that Riley was ready to go scorched earth on the church and […]

EX MARKS THE SPOT By Gloria Chao

Short and Sweet Review For her whole life it has just been Gemma and her mom against the world, so when a man shows up informing her of her grandfathers death Gemma is shocked. In her grandfather’s will she finds a clue that she thinks will lead her to her inheritance but she needs to […]

TOGETHER WE ROT By Skyla Arndt

Short and Sweet Review Wil’s mom has been missing for over a year and she knows the Clarke family had something to do with her disappearance. What complicates everything is that Elwood Clarke and Will used to be friends until Wil kept accusing his family of doing something to her mom. Elwood on the other […]