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Review: You Know Where to Find Me by Rachel Cohn

By Kasey | March 10, 2009 - 4:00 pm |January 10, 2017 Book Review and Content, Contemporary, Young Adult/Teen 12-18

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You Know Where to Find Me
Rachel Cohn
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published March 4, 2008

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Two cousins share a world of made up stories, dreams and long summer days until one, the perfect, beautiful one, chooses the unthinkable: to end her life. In the wake of that loss, the one left behind, Miles, must find her own way through her first summer without Laura. Friends and family rally around her to try to draw her out of her deepening isolation and depression, but their efforts often fall short and they are unable to touch the gaping wound inside of her. Miles’s story is a powerful, emotive tale … Continue reading →

The Owling by Robert Elmer

By Kasey | March 3, 2009 - 10:58 am |January 10, 2017 Book Review and Content, Christian World-View, Clean Fiction, Young Adult/Teen 12-18

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The Owling
Robert Elmer
Zondervan
Published October 12, 2008

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On her way home from the Shadowside, Oriannon’s shuttle is hijacked and forced to land on a small way station where a mysterious Owling risks his life to give her a strange stone for safekeeping. Soothed by his allegiance to Jesmet, but still puzzled over the whole thing, Oriannon agrees to keep the stone hidden. When she finally reaches home, things only continue getting more strange. Rumors of earthquakes and warped reports of what is happening to the Owling people, who live in the Shadowside, make Oriannon more and more nervous. But a bright star shines out of the dark. A new voice with an offer … Continue reading →