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By Shannon Yarbrough on December 1, 2010
When Lee, a Vietnamese sixth grade student, falls in the cafeteria and drops his lunch, a beautiful green-eyed girl named Autumn helps him up when everyone else is laughing. Neither know that they will eventually change each others’ lives forever. Lee is a geek, a smart skinny boy who gets bullied a lot by a meat head named Jay.
Posted in Shannon Yarbrough, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged forever and a day, high school, high school relationships, teen bullying, teen cancer, teen dating, teen death, teen friendship, teen love, teen racism, teen sports, tommy tran |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on August 31, 2009
Have you ever been in a situation in which you have been uncomfortable? Where you don’t know what to say? Or, when faced with a new task tend to panic? If you understand any of those feelings, think how Leah Nells feels, because every minute of every day is a struggle for her to get through.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged Fiction, high school, introversion, J. M. Reep, Leah, LK Gardner-Griffie, novel, Shyness, teens, YA, young adult |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on August 13, 2009
When I saw Minnie posted for review request, I knew I wanted to review it even before I read the preview. There was just something about it that appealed to me and drew me in. In fact, I put dibs on the book before I read the preview, and then realized I had better do my homework first and find out exactly what I was getting myself into.
Posted in LK Gardner-Griffie, Mainstream/Nostalgia, Relationships/Women's Lit, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged Abortion, abusive relationships, alcohol, Ashley Lane, Christianity, cult, dating, death, divorce, domestic abuse, drinking, elderly, emotional, family, grief, heart, high school, hope, learning, LK Gardner-Griffie, loss, love, Minnie, miscarriage, murder, nursing home, teen, violence, Volunteer, Washington, welfare, wheelchair |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 22, 2008
DeGrassi Junior High, DeGrassi High, Saved by the Bell, 90210, Dawson’s Creek…the list goes on and on of irresistible melodramas which have sought to capture the essence of teen life through the years, often with a high school setting since those four years of a teenager’s life can certainly be ever changing. I know mine were. These days, our brains can’t fathom these made up tales and we wanted to hear from real people, people like us, so we handed kids a camera and told them to go film their “real” stories.
Posted in Shannon Yarbrough, Young Adult/Juvenile | Tagged chappaqua, high school, junior high, peer pressure, robert d. toonkel, teen, teen angst, teenage, teenager |
