AKA: Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
About the Book
As children, Jennifer Harris and Cameron Quick were both social outcasts.They were also one another’s only friend.So when Cameron disappears without warning, Jennifer thinks she’s lost the only person who will ever understand her.Now in high school, Jennifer has been transformed.Known as Jenna, she’s popular, [...]

About the Book
Hey Nostradamus! follows the lives of four people affected by a high school shooting in Vancouver, Canada, and its long lasting aftermath.
First up is Cheryl Anway, a seventeen year old student, at the school, and the last victim of the gunmen.
Next, is her high school sweetheart, and secret husband, Jason. Who even eleven [...]

Peter Mcallister kicked open the door and tottered down the basement steps, looking like a box with no legs.
I’ve had the good fortune of watching this trilogy develop over the years on James’ blog. During the process of writing the books James often posted about the experience and various snippets along the way, so it [...]

My name is Elizabeth but no one’s ever called me that.
I originally got this book for Christmas, as part of a set of 15 all re-printed in the traditional Penguin style as part of their celebration range, and I have to say they look fantastic on my shelves! It was also one of [...]

Welcome to another author interview here at Bart’s Bookshelf, and this time our guest brings pirates!
Danielle Thorne, freelanced for online and print magazines from 1998 through 2001, adding reviewing and editing to her resume. 2009 will see the release of two novels: THE PRIVATEER, a 1729 historical about British privateering in the Caribbean, and TURTLE [...]

It didn’t happen, Claire told herself. It’s a bad dream, just another bad dream, you’ll wake up and it’ll be gone like fog…
In the second book of The Morganville Vampires, we kick off right from where the first book ended. With the residents of The Glass House reeling from the apparent murder of Micheal by [...]

Just when I thought my day couldn’t get any worse I saw the dead guy standing next to my locker.
Synopsis
When sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird gets Marked as a fledgling vampire she must join the House of Night school where she will train to become an adult vampire. That is, if she makes it through the Change. [...]

After a year of hunting, I finally caught up with Sarah.

The blurb on the back of this book does not do it justice, which basically makes it look like it’s all about a teenager in New York, chasing down ex-girlfriends, that could be infected with an STD.
Okay, an STD (read parasite) that turns you in [...]

There are places where kids like me go.

This was one of those bookshop finds that appeared to have everything going for it, great cover, intriguing plot, and it was nominated for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2009.
Since her mother’s death (from a drugs overdose) when she was seven, 15 year-old Jem has kept a secret. [...]

Us, Engineering A Josh**

Considering how much I enjoyed Looking for Alaska I can’t explain why it took me five months to pick, this, his second book of of my shelves.
But, this week encouraged by Dewey’s Book Reading Challenge I finally slipped it off the shelves, and settled down to read it.
Colin Singleton, a washed-up child [...]