
Title: Counterfeit Son
Author: Elaine Marie Alphin
Genre: YA Thriller
Number of Pages: 192
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
TW: Pedophilia, Child Abduction, Child Murder

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Title: Counterfeit Son
Author: Elaine Marie Alphin
Genre: YA Thriller
Number of Pages: 192
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
TW: Pedophilia, Child Abduction, Child Murder
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Title: King of the Screwups
Author: K.L. Going
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 320
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: If You Come Softly
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Genre: YA Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 192
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: The Children Are Watching
Author(s): Laird Koenig & Peter L. Dixon
Genre: Classic Fiction
Number of Pages: 157
Rating: C
Recommended?: No
***Warning: Spoilers Ahead***
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Title: Diary
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Genre: Psychological Fiction
Number of Pages: 262
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
Title: Tune it Out
Author: Jamie Sumner
Genre: Middle Grade Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages: 288
Rating: B+
Recommended?: Yes
Title: Aiding and Abetting
Author: Muriel Spark
Genre: Literary Fiction
Number of Pages: 176
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Six Degrees of Seperation
Author: John Guare
Genre: Plays
Number of Pages: 120
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
I’ve never seen the film adaptation of this starring Will Smith, but after reading the play it’s definitely something I’d like to check out in the future. Six Degrees of Separation is an odd play about class and privilege, with an unsettling tone and very unlikable characters. It starts out with a young gay black man who’s an extremely skilled con artist insinuating himself in the lives of a rich white couple, and how his deceit and people’s reactions to his behavior set off a chain of peculiar events.
The young grifter, Paul, preys on his entitled victims’ racially biased perceptions of the ‘well-spoken educated black man’ and something about his ruthless opportunism appeals to them and arouses their sympathies even as he callously ruins lives. The nature of this play is misanthropic and somewhat satiric, and it’s strength lies in character motives that are both perplexing and often fascinating.
Title: One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
Author: Sonya Sones
Genre: Young Adult/Books in Verse
Number of Pages: 268
Rating: B-
Recommended?: Yes
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Title: Ghachar Ghochar
Author: Vivek Shanbhag
Genre: Literary Fiction
Number of Pages: 118
Rating: B
Recommended?: Yes
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