HFSI BOOK BLOG

01

We were liars    E. Lockhart

Call #: F LOCKHART

Location: HS Of Fashion

 

In her fifteenth summer at her family's place on an island off the coast of Massachusetts, Cadence Sinclair suffers a head injury that leaves her with migraines and memory loss. Two year later she and her cousins Mirren and Johnny, as well as Gat Patil, a family friend, try to piece together her memories from the last two years in order to solve a family mystery dealing with the Sinclair family fortune.

 

02

Fangirl    Rowell, Rainbow

Call #: F ROWELL 

Location: H S OF FASHION

 

Feeling cast off when her twin sister outgrows their shared love for a favorite celebrity, Cath, a dedicated fan-fiction writer, struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father.

 

03

Hold me closer : the Tiny Cooper story : a musical in novel form (or, a novel in musical form) David Levithan

Call #:F Levithan

Location:H S of Fashion

 

"Larger-than-life Tiny Cooper finally gets to tell his story, from his fabulous birth and childhood to his quest for true love and his infamous parade of ex-boyfriends, in the form of a musical he wrote"--Provided by publisher.

 

04

The walls around us     Nova Ren Suma

Call #: F SUMA

Location:H S OF FASHION

 

Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.

 

05

We all looked up     Tommy Wallach

Call #: F Wallach

Location:H S of Fashion

 

The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.

06

Anything could happen    Will Walton

Call #:F Walton

Location:H S of Fashion

 

"Tretch Farm lives in a very small town where everybody's in everybody else's business. Which makes it hard for him to be in love with his best friend, Matt Gooby. Matt has two gay dads, but isn't all that gay himself . . . which doesn't stop Tretch from loving him anyway. Things get even more complicated when a girl falls for Tretch, and Tretch doesn't know how to put her off without revealing everything to everyone. Meanwhile, his family is facing some challenges of its own, and it's going to take Tretch coming out and coming to peace with his situation for his life to move forward."

07

 

The Alex crow    Andrew Smith

Call #: F SMITH

Location:H S OF FASHION

 

The story of Ariel, a Middle Eastern refugee who lives with an adoptive family in Sunday, West Virginia, is juxtaposed against those of a schizophrenic bomber, the diaries of a failed arctic expedition from the late nineteenth century, and a depressed, bionic reincarnated crow.

08

Gabi, a girl in pieces   Isabel Quintero

Call #: F QUINTERO

Location:H S OF FASHION

 

Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

 

09

None of the above

 I. W. Gregorio.

 Call #:F GREGORIO

 Location:H S OF FASHION

 

Homecoming queen Kristin Lattimer has a hard enough time dealing with her body, but her visit to the doctor reveals a difficult truth, Kristin is intersex, which means that though she looks like a girl, she has male chromosomes, not to mention boy "parts" and after her diagnosis is leaked to the whole school, her identity is thrown into question.

 

10

Tear you apart     Sarah Cross.

Call #:F CROSS

Location:H S OF FASHION

 

"Teenager Viv, who is constantly escaping her "Snow White" fairy-tale curse, meets the prince who is supposed to save her, but cannot fall out of love with the young man destined to kill her"--.