ALAN’s Picks is a monthly book review column that is compiled and edited by Dr. Pam Cole of Kennesaw State University.  Be sure to check the site often to see a preview of the latest titles in YA Lit.

Reviewed this month:

Addicted to Her by Janet Nichols Lynch
Alex Van Helsing: Vampire Rising by Jason Henderson
Callie’s Rules by Naomi Zucker
The Carbon Diaries 2017 by Saci Lloyd
Epitaph Road by David Patenaude
Finally by Wendy Mass
The Karma Club by Jessica Brody
Love Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur
Never After by Dan Elconin
Spells by Aprilynne Pike
Touch by Francine Rose

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ALAN’s Picks is a monthly book review column that is compiled and edited by Dr. Pam Cole of Kennesaw State University.  Be sure to check the site often to see a preview of the latest titles in YA Lit.

Reviewed this month:

Leaving Gee’s Bend by Irene Latham
The Less-Dead by April Lurie
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin
Out of the Blue by S.L. Rottman
Pod by Stephen Wallenfels
Quaking by Kathryn Erskine
Split by Stefan Petrucha
Tangled by Carolyn Mackler

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ALAN’s Picks is a monthly book review column that is compiled and edited by Dr. Pam Cole of Kennesaw State University.  Be sure to check the site often to see a preview of the latest titles in YA Lit.

Reviewed this Month:

Back Home by Julia Keller
A Blue So Dark by Holly Schindler
A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper
Diary of a Witness by Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Doom Machine by Mark Teague
Hearts At Stake by Alyxandra Harvey
In the Paths of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
The Pillow Book of Lotus Lowenstein by Libby Schmais
Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Smells Like Dog by Suzanne Selfors

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ALAN’s Picks is a monthly book review column that is compiled and edited by Dr. Pam Cole of Kennesaw State University.  Be sure to check the site often to see a preview of the latest titles in YA Lit.

Reviewed this month:

Deadly Little Lies: A Touch Novel by Laurie Faria Stolarz
The Death-Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine McCaughrean
Dragonfly by Julia Golding
The Goodbye Season by Marian Hale
Ice by Sarah Beth Durst
Icecore by Matt Whyman
My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman
Nothing Like You by Lauren Strasnick
Possessed by Kate Cann
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz by Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri
That Doggone Calf by Bill and Carol Wallace
The Thirteenth Princess by Diane Zahler

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ALAN’s Picks is a monthly book review column edited and compiled by Dr. Pam Cole of Kennesaw State University.  Be sure to check the site regularly for the a preview of the latest titles in YA Lit.

Reviewed this month:

Candor by Pam Bachortz
David Inside Out by Lee Bantle
Girl in the Arena by Lise Haines
Juggling Fire by Joanne Bell
L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad
The Last Newspaper Boy in America by Sue Corbett
Malice by Chris Wooding
Num8ers by Rachel Ward
Prada and Prejudice by Mandy Hubbard
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Rose Sees Red by Cecil Castellucci
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

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