Madigan Reads

Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite by Barry Deutsch Abrams 2012 This wonderful middle-grade graphic novel continues the advent...

Cleo and Layla have known each other since they were both twelve years old and have been the very best of friends. They are both girls of ...

A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn HarperTeen April 2009 First line: "If I hear one more syllable about spindles, I shall surely die...

Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing April 2011 First line: "Lance tapped t...

Outside In by Maria V. Snyder Harlequin Teen February 2011 First line: "My world changed in a heartbeat." Trella's journey...

Frozen by Robin Wasserman Simon Pulse October 2011 First line: "Lia Kahn is dead. I am Lia Kahn." Teenager Lia Kahn leads a c...

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa Harlequin Teen February 2010 First line: "Ten years ago, on my sixth birthday, my father disappeared....

Firelight by Sophie Jordan Harper Teen September 2010 First   line: "Gazing out at the quiet lake, I know the risk is worth it....

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth Balzer + Bray February 2012 First line: "The afternoon my parents died, I ...

Lucky by Rachel Vail HarperTeen May 2008 First line: "Our toaster is moody." Eighth-grader Phoebe Avery has led a char...

This Savage Song Victoria Schwab Greenwillow Books June 2016 First line: "The night Kate Harker decided to burn down the school ...

Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder Harlequin April 2010 First line: "I'm Trella. I'm a scrub." In a dystopian futu...

Shut Out  by Kody Keplinger  Poppy  September 2011 First line: "There is nothing more humiliating than being topless in the bac...

Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen Walker Childrens February 2012 First line: "No one really knows 'bout me." In this re-telling...

Peeled by Joan Bauer Putnam Juvenile May 2008 First line: "DATELINE: Banesville, NY, May 3rd. Bonnie Sue Bomgartner, Banesville...

I don't normally read very much adult fiction, but I've been trying some out lately. Here's a group of three mini-reviews from ...

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins Dutton December 2010 First line: "Here is everything I know about France: Madeline a...

Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay Delacorte Books for Young Readers August 2011 First line: "Tonight he could have come through the ...

Afterlife by Claudia Gray HarperTeen March 2011 First line: "Sunrise is coming," Balthazar said. Vampire-in-training Bia...

Bunheads by Sophie Flack Poppy October 2011 First line: "My name is Hannah Ward. Don't call me a ballerina." 19 ye...