Tag: homosexuality

Review: Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

I gave in and put my name on the waiting list at the library for this one.  I’d just been hearing so much about it, and it really does sound like my type of story from the synopsis.  I was pretty excited when it finally came in for me to check out two days before […]

Posted June 25, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Proxy (Proxy #1) by Alex London

First thanks to Penguin Young Readers and Netgalley for allowing me to read an e-galley of this book.  This is a dystopian type of thriller, one for boys, with the main characters being boys.  However, and though I have no problem with it, something that might be an issue for some people is that the […]

Posted June 20, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

To start off, I have to admit that I’d heard not so good things about Going Bovine from librarians in my school district. Of course I follow authors on Twitter who say good things about it. So conflicting reviews, and the fact that so far the books haven’t sounded like something I really wanted to […]

Posted June 8, 2011 by Lisa Mandina in / 3 Comments