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This was a really cute YA book about two teens who get caught up in the drama between their two family businesses (one much larger than the other) and discover that they may be friends (or something more) along the way. I really enjoyed both Jack and Pepper, though I thought both of their families stunk. Jack’s a little less-so than Pepper’s. Pepper’s mother was
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I suspect that reading this book now hits a lot differently than reading it when it first came out. I guess it never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different—unimagined, unprepared for, unknown. Julia and her family are enjoying a normal Saturday when strange news starts being reported. After a few days, the “what”
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Kate is a senior in high school. She’s working hard, both in school and out — keeping her grades up, working at the pharmacy, and keeping things on track at home, filling the role her dead mother would have had. Her father is a minister, and is often called away to help someone in the community, and Kate is left to make sure her brother
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This is one of those YA series that passed me by the first time around, but I’m glad I gave it a shot. This paranormal world is similar to other in that there are vampires and werewolves and demons and other magical creatures, but there are also Shadowhunters. Which are kinda like angels, but not really? All of these creatures are normally invisible to humans,
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