Earlier in the year, I read Van Draanen’s Wild Bird, which is still probably one of the best novels I picked up this year. I immediately sought out more of her work, devoured The Running Dream and then…stopped posting reviews for 2 months (oops). But it’s never too late, and I want to recommend this one to y’all. I feel like it’s aimed at a slightly younger audience than Wild Bird, but that in no way diminishes it. Van Draanen tells us another story about a struggling […]

This is probably one of the best YA novels I’ve read in the last year, and I read a lot of YA. “Out here Mother Nature is my judge and jury, and no amount of objecting or redirecting or even being out of order will get me out of this. The only way to survive my sentence is to serve it.” Wren is an angry, unhappy 14 year old who fell in with the wrong crowd at a new school. Drugs, sex, alcohol, shoplifting — out […]