Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

THE SPIRITUALISTS By Kristin O’Donnell Tubb

THE SPIRITUALISTS By Kristin O’Donnell Tubb

Short and Sweet Review The Spiritualists follows Stella, a teenage psychic living in early 1900s New York who survives by performing séances and tarot readings while struggling with the guilt and grief surrounding her sister’s death. When a mysterious boy named Pax invites her to join a secret group of mystics determined to uncover the […]

SPECIALS By Scott Westerfeld

SPECIALS By Scott Westerfeld

Short and Sweet Review Specials picks up with Tally now fully transformed into one of the Specials, enhanced soldiers designed to be faster, stronger, sharper, and completely loyal to the system. No longer just an Ugly or a Pretty, Tally has become something far more dangerous, trained to keep everyone else under control while crushing any […]

CHANGE OF PLANS By Sarah Dessen

CHANGE OF PLANS By Sarah Dessen

Short and Sweet Review Finley has always built her life around her boyfriend, Colin, letting him take the lead in almost everything. But when she’s suddenly whisked away to her mom’s estranged family’s lake house, and then gets dumped, she’s left without a plan for the first time. As she spends the summer getting to […]

DROP DEAD FAMOUS By Jennifer Pearson

DROP DEAD FAMOUS By Jennifer Pearson

Short and Sweet Review Stevie’s superstar older sister is back in town to kick off her concert tour. When the concert starts and Blair doesn’t start singing people immediately realize something is wrong. Blair was murdered and Stevie is determined to figure out what happened. Blair Baker has been murdered minutes before her concert. Her […]

HEIRESS OF NOWHERE By Stacey Lee

HEIRESS OF NOWHERE By Stacey Lee

Short and Sweet Review Lucy Nowhere has lived her entire life on Orcas Island after she was mysteriously found as a baby floating ashore in a green canoe. She’s spent the last eighteen years working on the estate of the eccentric shipbuilder who took her in, helping him document the island’s plants and wildlife. But […]

PARADISE COAST By Suzanne Young

PARADISE COAST By Suzanne Young

Short and Sweet Review Paradise Coast is separated by the elites and the locals. Deep in the everglades there was a luxurious hotel that the elite would frequent until one night there was a fire and a socialite was killed and a dock worker was blamed, then the hotel was swallowed up by the wetlands […]

LOVE ME TOMORROW By Emiko Jean

LOVE ME TOMORROW By Emiko Jean

Short and Sweet Review Emma doesn’t believe in love especially after her parents divorce. When Emma visits the Tanabata festival she makes a wish to prove that love is real and that it can last. Emma begins to receive letters from her greatest love and the letters are from the future. Emma thinks she’s being […]

BETH IS DEAD By Katie Bernet

BETH IS DEAD By Katie Bernet

Short and Sweet Review Beth March is dead. Its New Years Day and Beth March has been found dead and her sisters are determined to find her murderer. Unfortunately the more the girls try to figure out what happened the more it becomes clear that each of them could have had a motive to murder […]

GIRLS WHO PLAY DEAD By Joelle Wellington

GIRLS WHO PLAY DEAD By Joelle Wellington

Short and Sweet Review Mikky Graves left his hometown of Prophets Lake to live with his mother and he didn’t plan on coming back. When his sister Kyla’s, best friend Erin is murdered he comes back for the funeral but seeing the state that Kyla is in he know’s he can’t leave and decides to […]