Two Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt

Back/Inside Cover:
there are two sides to every breakup.
This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They're even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation.
Then Jordan dumps Courtney-for a girl he met on the internet.
It's too late to change plans, so the road trip is on. Courtney's heart-broken, but figures she can tough it out for a few days. La la la-this is Courtney pretending not to care.
But in a strange twist, Jordan cares. A lot.
Turns out, he's got a secret or two that he's not telling Courtney. And it has everything to do with why they broke up, why they can't get back together, and how, in spite of it all, this couple is destined for each other.

My Thoughts:
This is a fantastic book! Ha! I loved every word of it. It's funny, relatable, omg, idk, I absolutely loved this book is about all that comes to mind. Wonderful!!!

Reccommendations for...:
Highschoolers, college kids feeling a little homesick for their highschool days.

Price, genre, publisher, info.:
US $9.99
CAN $11.50
Teen Fiction
Simon Pulse
http://www.simonsaysteen.com/

Ready or Not by Meg Cabot

Back/Inside Cover:
Top ten things Samantha Madison isn't ready for:
10. Spending Thanksgiving at Camp David
9. With her boyfriend, the president's son
8. Who appears to want to take their relationship to the Next Level
7. Which Sam inadvertently and shockingly announces live on MTV
6. While appearing to support the president's dubious policies on families, morals, and yes, sex
5. Juggling her new after-school job at Potomac Video
4. Even though she already has a job as teen ambassador to the UN (that she doesn't get paid for)
3. Riding the Metro and getting accosted because she's "the redheaded girl who saved the president's life," in spite of her new, semipermanent Midnight Ebony tresses
2. Experiencing total role reversal with her popular sister Lucy, who for once can't get the guy she wants
and the number-one thing Sam isn't ready for?
1. Finding out the hard way that in art class, "life drawing" means "naked people."

My Thoughts:
I loved this book! It had everything from those “Omg! That is totally my life right now!” moments to the moments when I just wanted to reach into the book, grab the character by the colar, and tell them to either work it out or move on already! The way in which Cabot wrote this is totally relatable, even if you haven’t saved the president’s life or dated his son. It’s funny, somewhat realistic, sad, basically? Amazing.

Reccommendations for...:
This would make sense to kids as young as 5th grade, but honestly? In order to relate better I'd say like 7th grade and up. That's just because the characters are all highschool and up. I mean, the youngest character is a sophomore (10th grade), so highschoolers can relate better. But hey, who am I to put an age limit on books?! Either way, enjoy :)

Price, genre, publisher, info.:
US $7.99
CAN ??
HarperCollins Publishers

Something Borrowed by Catherine Hapka

Back/Inside Cover:
She's ready to catch the bouquet, not steal the guy!

When Ava gets dumped by her boyfriend, she's pretty upset. He wasn't the love of her life or anything, but with her sister's wedding-a.k.a. the social event of the season-just two weeks away, Ava's got to save face by finding someone cute and fun to bring as her date.

With the clock ticking and no dates in sight, Ava asks her best friend if she can "borrow" her boyfriend, Jason, for the night. Ava's never been a big Jason fan, but he'll look great in a tux, and at least she'll have someone to dance with. But it doesn't take long for Ava to realize she's got him all wrong...

What do you do when Mr. Right is wrapped up in a package that belongs to your best friend?

My Thoughts:
I found this pretty funny and entertaining. Although very predictable, it was also, idk, how to word it correctly, unrealistic? I mean, the odds of this happening in real life, or at least in my world, are slim to none. But hey, if this relates to anyone out there!... way to go! ;) Anway, it was laughable (if that makes sense).

Reccommendations for...:
Middleschoolers and up. There's nothing that's anything more than suggestive and honestly? It kind of gives the idea that dating is super hard when in reality? It's only as awkward or difficult as you make it.

Price, genre, publisher, info.:
US $6.99
CAN $7.99
Romantic Comedy
Simon Pulse
http://www.simonsaysteen.com/

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Back/Inside Cover:
No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career of our pre-eminent lyric playwrit. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world.

The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes."

"The revolutionary newness of The Glass Menagerie...was in its poetic lift, but an underlying hard dramatic structure was what earned the play its right to sing poetically." -Arthur Miller

My Thoughts:
Well, to say it simply, I don't care for this play. Then again, I'm not a fan of reading plays, but, idk, the story line was a little too out there for me personally. Maybe it can relate better with other people, but as for me, I didn't connect with the characters very well and the story came across as very odd and annoying. I would hate if my mother was that controlling.

Reccommendations for...:
Idk, um, highschoolers. I think it'd be a little out there for middle schoolers to put together, but hey, if you're advanced, go for it!

Price, genre, publisher, info.:
US $10.95
CAN $13.50
Drama
New Directions
http://www.ndpublishing.com/