Chloe Miller Hansen

A couple of the other books I’ve been reading are…

Forever in Blue, The forth Summer of the Sisterhood: "Carmen, Lena, Bridget and Tibby may not be forever in blue jeans, but they do share the Traveling Pants for at least one more summer. Fans rejoin the foursome just after their freshman year in college. Carmen is attending a summer theater program in Vermont, where she unexpectedly lands a plum role and must contend with her roommate's attempts to sabotage her performance. Enrolled in a summer painting class at Rhode Island School of Design, Lena falls for a fellow student and also receives a surprise visit (his specialty) from Kostos, her former Greek beau. On an archeological dig in Turkey, Bridget finds herself attracted to a professor (who's married). And Tibby, in the most poignant story line, becomes reclusive while taking film classes at NYU, and breaks up with her devoted boyfriend, Brian, after their first sexual encounter results in a pregnancy scare. Brashares credibly recounts the emotional turmoil surrounding the girls' love, peer and family tribulations. There is just passing mention of 'the Pants' and their special powers until novel's end, when the jeans, through a rather unlikely set of circumstances, disappear in Greece — an event that bands the four friends together in a countrywide search. The series' legion followers will eagerly follow each gal through her summer of ups and downs and will again be heartened by the teens' rock-solid friendship. Ages 12-up." Publishers Weekly

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0385729367

A Story of a Girl: At the age of thirteen, Deanna's father found her in the backseat of a car with her older brother's friend, Tommy. The rumors which quickly spread around her small town and her school were horrible, but even worse was the look in her father's eyes. In the three years since the incident, Deanna's dad has given her the cold shoulder, constantly reminding her of the disappointment and embarrassment of that night.

Now sixteen, even though she has dated no one and done nothing, Deanna has been unable to shake her bad reputation. The only classmates she calls friends, Lee and Jason, are dating each other. She feels like a third wheel when they hang out - and a stab of jealousy when she sees Lee wearing Jason's shirt.

Deanna's new job at a pizza place almost offers her more than she can handle. She is surprised to find a new friend in Michael, the middle-aged manager, and even more surprised to find Tommy, her brother's old friend, as a co-worker. Deanna stays put, determined not to let Tommy's presence get the best of her.

At home, she finds reprieve from her brisk father and her nervous mother in her brother Darren, who lives in the basement with his girlfriend and their infant. Deanna secretly wants to move out with Darren, Stacy, and April, planning on contributing to their rent and bills with her modest paycheck.

During this impressionable summer, Deanna realizes that maybe, just maybe, she can stop worrying about who people think she is and become who she is meant to be. That instead of looking back, she can look forward.
http://www.amazon.com/Story-Girl-Sara-Zarr/dp/customer-reviews/0316014532

An Acquaintance With Darkness: In the aftermath of the Civil War, in Washington, D.C. in 1865, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush has been forced to not attend school, because of her once-Southern belle mother's failing health. Emily's father, who read to her the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, and lovingly nicknamed her "Miss Muffet," was tragically killed during the war. And now, Ella May, the Pigbushes' final slave woman, has left in search of the freedom granted by President Lincoln. Thus, Emily is left all alone to take care of her sick, delirious mother.

When Emily's mother has finally died, she is faced with three decisions, crucial to her future: She can live with her best friend, seventeen-year-old Annie Surratt at Mrs. Surratt's inn, where play actor and Confederate-supporter John Wilkes Booth often boards, though many caution Emily that evil is lurking amongst that house. Or she could go and work as a seamstress girl in-training, like her mother before her, with Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln's former-slave, now best friend and confidante. Or lastly, Emily can go live with her very wealthy uncle, Valentine Bransby, a prosperous, successful doctor, and quite a debonair, too; though Emily's mother's dying wish was that her daughter would promise her to never live with Uncle Valentine.

Then, suddenly, President Lincoln is tragically shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth, who is now a runaway and wanted for Lincoln's murder, along with a few other accomplices, including Annie's older brother, Johnny---who has escaped to Canada, and whom Emily has a little crush on---and Mrs. Surratt herself has been arrested and imprisoned, for "harboring a fugitive." The whole of Washington, D.C. becomes immersed in total chaos and turmoil. Guns fire. People scream. Mobs shout. Fires are started. Arrests are made. Explosions thunder. Whispered rumors of conspiracy theories abound.

Emily, wisely advised by Annie, decides to move in to Uncle Valentine's spacious estate, where she meets some very unusual---and some downright creepy---associates of her doctor-uncle's, and one handsome young returning soldier named Robert deGraaf; Robert may just be the one to cause Emily to question her faith in her "everlasting" love for Johnny Surratt. Soon Emily, horrified, uncovers a deep and dark secret of Uncle Valentine's, and she realizes that her whole world might be turned upside down all over again by Uncle Valentine's seemingly horrendous practice...

Grave robbing.


http://www.amazon.ca/Acquaintance-Darkness-Ann-Rinaldi/dp/customer-reviews/0152021973