What if I told you George Washington was not the first president of the United States? "Impossible!"  "How can that be?" "History is wrong?!" Well, almost wrong.  George Washington was the first president...

Fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is killed when her bike collides with an oncoming taxi.  However, Liz wakes up moments later on a boat named the SS Nile, feeling perfectly alive.  At first she believes this...

Isabel (Belly) Conklin is ready for summer.  Since she and her brother Steven were little, they would travel with their mother to Cousins Beach, where they reunited with long-time family friend Susannah...

Mia Winchell may seem like a normal 13-year-old girl, but she has been harboring a secret her entire life.  Mia has synesthesia, a condition in which sounds, words, tastes, and numbers appear in colors...

What makes The Book Thief a truly amazing novel is the fact that it is narrated by Death.  And frankly, Death needs a vacation.  Death has travelled the world, collecting the souls of those departed,...

In the novel After, by Francine Prose, after nearby Pleasant Valley High School experienced a fatal gun shooting, which was later compared to the Columbine shooting, student Tom Bishop began noticing some...

Who deserves to get into the Ivy League? More importantly, how do you outsmart the Ivy League? In Hacking Harvard by Robin Wasserman, Eric Roth faces this ultimate moral dilemma as he attempts to beat...

Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has a knack for creating alternate storylines. In his latest novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Grahame-Smith reconstructs the life of...

Author Libba Bray’s striking yet distinctive metamorphosis from the Victorian-era Gemma Doyle Trilogy introduces readers to an entirely new character: Cameron…and boy, does he have a story to...

In this fascinating novel by Erik Larson, a magical yet terrifying tale is told, one that involves the bustling streets of Chicago, Illinois during the 1893 World Fair. First held in London in 1851,...