Free books: Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
In Leah's Wake (2011)
“A contemporary view of our mores and a family in peril”“In Leah’s Wake” was written by Terri Giuliano Long; a first novel for Ms. Long and one she self published. Ms. Long was born in Dover Delaware in 1957 and lectures at Boston College where she teaches creative and non-fiction writing.The nov...
My Wattpad Love (2012)
This book is... Is just... Wow. Okay, I read it in a day, I literally refused to put it down.I know, without even looking, there will be reviews saying 'the quality of language used was mediocre' or 'it was boringly written', but frankly who says you have to use long words to make a story good?Be...
The False Friend (2010)
I listened to the audio book and might have preferred to read this instead. This is a great story about a woman in her early thirties trying to come to grips with a traumatic incident that occurred during her early adolescence. The book is very interesting psychologically for the exploration of b...
Böse Freundin (2000)
I finished this audiobook, even though I didn't care for the author's reading (her voice is better suited to read YA books) nor the characters, because I kept hoping for a brilliant denouement à la Gone Girl or even the first book I read by Goldberg, Bee Season. But in the end, we are left with ...
Spodek (2013)
William Heller or Lowboy as he calls himself, is sixteen, schizophrenic, maybe dangerous. He allegedly shoved a girlfriend before the subway. The cops from the NYPD are after him, along with his mother. But Lowboy has a much worse problem: since he has broken out of the asylum, the world strives ...
Meine Wildnis (2011)
Two stars. It was okay.The beginning, I really didn't like. I didn't like it because, for me, it was rather boring. The main character felt attenuated and unconscious. The controlling/strict father offered no pattern or rhythm, and the text felt like it was largely made up as it went along, drift...
I am J (2011)
I cannot imagine the struggle of living in a body that you just don't belong in. I will never know the extent of self-loathing that transgender people face, when they despise the parts that make them look like something they've never fitted in with. This is the story of J, born in a female body h...
Girl Child (2000)
The last time I felt this particular way about a book was when I read Dorothy Allison's, Bastard Out of Carolina. I'm not quite sure how I stumbled upon buying Girlchild, but I do know that I did so because I thought I might be able to use excerpts from it for a forthcoming workshop I'm teaching ...
American Dervish (2012)
Argh. I got this out of the library and returned it TWICE without finishing it. I left the country for a month and it haunted me. So I checked it out a third time and finished it. I HATED the treatment of women, the blind memorization of the Quran, the men in the Mosque. It is a powerful boo...
Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story (2013)
In Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story by Ally Carter does a great job of creating a mysterious and heart racing book. When terrorist come and try to keep the party guest as hostages,the two main characters,Macey McHenry and W.W.Hale come together and save the guest of the party. Ally carte...
Il peso (2012)
Heft is the heartbreaking story of two lonely, damaged, people who fail to grasp their one chance of attaining happiness. It is also the story of an eighteen year old boy who must find his way through the morass of tragedy that lies in the wake of that unhappiness. Arthur Opp's lonely existence h...
Maya's Notebook (2013)
بالمصادفة وقعت عيني على هذه الرواية وجذب انتباهي غلافها الغريب ومنذ إن بدأت قرأتها لم استطيع التوقف ايزابيل الليندي اسلوبها رائع جداً واعتقد انها مارح تكون الرواية الاخيرة الي رح اقرأها الها معاناة مايا في الرواية متاكدة اي شخص عاشها معها وتأثر بِ تفاصيلها This novel is incredibly different from ...
Marcelo in the Real World (2009)
REQUIRED: MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLDThis book tells the story of Marcelo, a 17-year-old, Latino-American boy with Aspergers Syndrome. He is high functioning, but evidence of AS is still apparent. His "special interest" is religion, and he constantly studies and references all different kinds. He a...
Marcelo ve skutečném světě (2012)
CATEGORY: REQUIRED READINGThis book follows life of Marcelo, a young boy presumed to be slightly autistic, as he enters the world of law at his father's firm. He learns, as he works in the mailroom about life and love and appropriate behavior, and ultimately, is faced with a series of choices tha...
The Shock of the Fall (2013)
Šok z pádu je veľmi emocionálna kniha. Mattove pocity, interakcia s okolím, prítomnosť jeho zosnulého brata a opis toho, aký vplyv má na celú rodinu schizofrénia mladého človeka (človeka, ktorý sa nechcel so svojim bratom rozlúčiť ani po smrti) zaručujú, že dielo budete čítať ako na ihlách, s vre...