Katherine Dretzke
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Review — 22 Mar 2015
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
Four Seattle high-school students are finishing up their studies, excited at what the future holds. Peter is set to go to California to play basketball, Anita is moving onto an…
Review — 22 Mar 2015
The Guy, the Girl, the Artist and His Ex by Gabrielle Williams
It’s 1986 and Picasso’s famous painting ‘Weeping Woman’ has been stolen from the walls of the NGV. The people of Victoria are torn between being angry at the theft or…
Review — 23 Feb 2015
Nightbird by Alice Hoffman
Twig lives in a small town called Sidwell with her mother and brother in a house that has belonged to their family for years. Twig’s family suffered a curse many…
Review — 28 Jan 2015
The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
Lex is a self-confessed maths geek with a dream to go to MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) where she can pursue her love of everything mathematics. But when her brother…
Review — 28 Jan 2015
I Was Here by Gayle Forman
‘I regret to inform you that I have had to take my own life’ – what a way to open a book! When Cody receives this line in an email…
Review — 25 Nov 2014
One Year in Coal Harbor by Polly Horvath
Primrose Squarp is back! The too-cute girl from Everything On a Waffle (no need to read first) is relieved to have her parents back after they were lost at sea…
Review — 11 Dec 2014
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Theodore Finch first meets Violet Markey on the ledge of the school bell tower. Violet is up there grieving for her sister, who was killed in a car accident. Theodore…
Review — 26 Oct 2014
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
Marguerite Caine’s parents are physicists who have just finished creating a small device that allows travel into different dimensions: the firebird. They have discovered that other dimensions exist and events…
Review — 29 Oct 2014
Withering-By-Sea by Judith Rossell
Stella Montgomery lives at the Hotel Majestic, a beautiful, large, white building situated on top of the cliff overlooking the town of Withering-by-Sea. She lives with her three painful aunts…
Review — 23 Sep 2014
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
Jam isn’t interested in life anymore after the death of her boyfriend, Reeve, and even though the pair only knew each other for 41 days, 26 of which they actually…