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- Great young adult reads
 The Dashwood Sisters’ Secrets of Love- Rosie
Rushton
ISBN# 078685137-6
The three Dashwood sisters have always lived in Holly House,
a large mansion that has been in the family for generations. Their dad, Max,
left a year before to go live with ‘the cow’, Pandora, who lives on organic
food and white apartments. He pays all of the bills and the girls and their
mother believe everything is going fine, until the day they get a call saying
he’s dying in the hospital. After that, Ellie, Abby, Georgie, and their mother
learn that Max was deeply in debt and left Holly House to Pandora. All the
girls have left is a few sculptures their dad sculpted years before and pictures
of the times when everything was fine. They move out to a little cottage in
a sleepy town and try to manage as best they can. However, the sisters begin
to fall in love, and things get more and more complicated than they ever anticipated.
This novel was written well and I liked the modern twist it
had to Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, a novel I read before and
really enjoyed. The parallels it had to Sense and Sensibility were done
very well and I liked reading it.
 Bittersweet Sixteen- Carrie Karasyov
and Jill Karagman
ISBN# 978-0-06-077844-6
Laura Finnegan goes to an exclusive school with rich kids, except she’s
not rich. Even though she can’t buy expensive clothes and have fancy dinners
every night she still is best friends with Whitney Blake, who can do all of
those things. They’ve been friends since forever and nothing could have changed
that- until Sophie Mitchum shows up from the west coast. At first Whitney and
Laura are suspicious that Sophie is trying to take over Whitney’s limelight
at the school, but they become close friends with her. However, as the date
for Whitney’s and Sophie’s sixteenth birthday parties arrives, it gets pretty
intense and Laura is pulled apart by all of the confusion. Soon Whitney and
Sophie force Laura to take sides and she decides she’s had enough.
Bittersweet Sixteen was a fun book to read. After reading
it, I had a strong desire not to have a big sixteenth birthday party like Sophie
and Whitney did. The novel had some sad parts in it but it was also very funny.
 Invitation Only- A Private novel by
Kate Brian
ISBN# 978-1-4169-1874-5
This is the second novel in the Private series, so don’t read this
if you haven’t read the first one.
Reed broke about a thousand rules and committed
some things she never thought she would do to become a Billings Girl. The girls
in Billings have wealth, jealousy, and the right to get in to some very exclusive
parties. The Legacy is coming up and the Billings Girls, all except Reed of
course, have the invitation to go. It’s one of, if not the, biggest parties
of the year and Reed has to go. Her boyfriend, Thomas, who is now missing,
is rumored that he will be there and wouldn’t miss it, and so Reed has to find
a way to get in. As if that doesn’t put enough stress on her, she also is forced
to snoop around some of her roomates’ rooms to find out some things. If she
doesn’t, pictures of Reed doing some unmentionable things will be shown to the
school and she will definitely be expelled.
This book was so good and I couldn’t put it down. This series is only
getting better. I strongly recommend this series. It’s sort of like the Clique,
except juicier and more intense.
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