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CBR11 Bingo: Travel

Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller

September 6, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

The writing in this book is very simple, but that makes the extremely powerful story it’s telling feel much more accessible. Despite the rather adult nature of the topic, it feels like it’s written to a slightly younger audience than most of the YA fiction I read. Which is good, in my opinion. This is the kind of book both girls and boys should be able to read and understand before they reach high school. “Thirty minutes feels like forever when you’re standing in a […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: badkittyuno, cbr11bingo, Sharon Biggs Waller

badkittyuno's CBR11 Review No:172 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: badkittyuno, cbr11bingo, Sharon Biggs Waller ·
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This Book Made Me Cry on the Bus

Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller

May 21, 2019 by MrsLangdonAlger 3 Comments

I am really bad at crying, and books almost NEVER make me cry. Off the top of my head, the only books I can remember ever making me cry are Little Women, His Dark Materials (specifically the underworld scenes), The Return of the King, and A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. I’ll cry at movies and TV, but it’s hard for a book to make me cry. And to be fair, when I read this book, I was at the tail end of […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Sharon Biggs Waller

MrsLangdonAlger's CBR11 Review No:11 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Sharon Biggs Waller ·
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