Book Reviews by LRusi
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"It was Angela's idea to look in the box. She said we needed to look inside to find my singing voice." Jennifer Day lost her voice the day her sister Beth committed suicide. No one knows why, just that after the day she fainted on the beach she was different. Jennifer is determined to piece the puzzle that was her sister's life together to find out why. Jennifer and her best friend Angela discover a cardboard box full of the last things her sister had with her. Did Beth really see angels that day at the beach like their Nana claims?

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Mimi Shapiro is running. Running away from a disturbing first year at NYU to a small and creepy town in Nowhere, Canada. She hopes that while there for the summer, she can get her first screen play written, while coming to turns with what happened to her in the previous year. Though nothing can stay perfect for long. When arriving at her father's deserted old summer house she finds that someone else is living there too. Her long lost half brother, a half brother that has been having his own problems, as of lately.

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Post Grad opens up on the eve before Ryden Malby's college graduation, where Ryden and her best friend, Adam, are playing a typical game of "Who would you rather be?" Ryden is anything but nervous about her upcoming graduation, since she has an amazing, if she must say so herself, plan for the future. First, do a great job in high school. Then, get a fantastic scholarship so she doesn't bankrupt her parents. Next, don't do anything appalling to lose said scholarship.

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All Meg has ever wanted to do was get away. Get away from everything that makes her life the insane thing it is: her high school, her overprotective parents, and her annoying in-the-middle-of-nowhere town. To show her feeling for this, she does everything a teen in her town isn't expected to do: dye her hair blue, ride a motorcycle, do drugs, and hook up with random guys. Though, one day she just goes way too far. She is caught hooking up with her boyfriend on a train track where two teenagers were killed 8 years ago, while her friends, Tiffany and Brian, were a few steps away.

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The Mother-Daughter Book Club is comprised of four girls; 
Emma, Megan, Jess and Cassie; and their mothers. Well, all 
except for Jess's mother, who's off in NY acting on a soap 
opera. The club was started by the mothers, and the girls 
aren't particularly happy with having to hang out with each 
other. Megan would rather be spending time with her popular 
friends; Cassie would rather be playing hockey; Jess would 
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My Most Excellent Year tells the story of three students- now seniors- most excellent year (their freshman year) and how their lives all changed for the better. First, there's T.C.( Anthony), who's obsessed with all things related to baseball, his best friend Augie, and Alejeandra, the girl he's in love with, but who doesn't return his feelings. Augie loves all things that have to do with Broadway and his best friend T.C. Also, everyone knows Augie's gay, but he just hasn't realized his true feelings yet. Lastly, there is Alejeandra.