Siobhan Vivian – Cannonball Read 17

Field Hockey+ Varsity Blues + Dazed and Confused + Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian

May 24, 2020 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Found this one mentioned in an article in my BookPages at my library, back when we could go to libraries regularly and grab magazines others had touched without much worry. Remember those days? Wow. The article pitched this one as an all-nighter adventure of a women’s high school field hockey team. I didn’t play field hockey,but I did play lacrosse. It seemed like a fun romp through memory lane. Teams love hijinks! I think on a psychological level team hijinks help us understand the strength […]

Just say no to girl on girl crime

August 15, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

Natalie Stirling wants her senior year to be perfect. She wants to be elected student council president and feels the weight of responsibility on her shoulders to do the best job possible. She also believes herself to be feminist and supportive of her fellow female schoolmates, but when a group of freshman girls, led by Spencer Biddle, a girl Natalie once used to babysit, starts running around, encouraging senior guys to sleep with them, Natalie’s carefully laid plans for the school year start to unravel. […]

The List

January 25, 2017 by Ealbrecht 1 Comment

Every year in September, at Mount Washington High School, a list is created listing eight girls, two from each grade. One girl in each grade is named the Prettiest, and the other is named the Ugliest. No one knows who creates the list. We begin with the morning the list is hung all around the school. Many freshman are unaware of what the list is. This list is always released at the beginning of Homecoming Week. The senior who is listed as the prettiest, is almost […]

Sometimes YA needs to be read by young adults only

July 12, 2016 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

This was one of those teenage wish-fulfillment books that tried to be more than that, and sort of succeeded, but…not really. “But when the rain first began to fall, we didn’t see the bigger picture…When it started, the only thing I cared about was kissing Jessie Ford.” The town of Aberdeen has been sinking for years, ever since the old mill shut down and the population began to drop. But after a record season of storms, and the discovery that the town shouldn’t have been built on such low […]

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