Red Glass by Laura Resau

Sophie lives with her British mother, her Mexican step-father, and her, rather crazy, Bosnian refugee great-aunt in Arizona. Soon after the story begins, Sophie's family takes in an orphan, Pablo, whose parents died while trying to cross the desert from Mexico to the United States. After a year they find Pablo's family deep in Mexico, and decide to go there to see if Pablo wants to stay with them. With her parents unable to come, Sophie journies with Pablo, her aunt, her aunt's boyfriend, Lorenzo, and his son, Angel. It's the start of an adventure, filled with fear, wonder, and discovery.

This book is all about Sophie and the people around her, the world around her. At the beginning of the book, she's afraid of almost everything. . She's a hypocondriac and is scared to death at the thought of losing her parents. So she's invisible, staying out of everyone's way, and yet, even though she's afraid of what people think of her, she's even more afraid of being alone. This story is about Sophie finding herself and letting other people know her, too, maybe enough to fall in love.

Girlbomb

Soon after Janice's thirteenth birthday she realizes how fed up she is with her mother and her boyfriend or actually her boyfriends. She walks out of her house and is left alone in the streets of Manhattan. Finding herself at a shelter for all girls, she is traumatized by how scary these girls are. But she promised herself she would make it on her own just to prove a point to her mother. After her mother accepts that she is no longer a part of her or her little brothers life, she sends money so that Janice is able to live in a real house with other kids and go to a real school. Along the way Janice deals with many things; friends, boyfriends, school and teen issues.

Read this book to find out what happens to Janice and if she makes it to her graduating day.

Blue Bloods By Mellisa De La Cruz

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Posted by AMarie

Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning novel is based on the true story of Margaret Garner, a runaway slave who attempted to kill her four children, succeeding in murdering one. In this book, the protagonist, Sethe, also kills one of her four children in order to save the baby from slavery. The baby comes back as a ghost to haunt the house that Sethe and her daughter, Denver, live in, and after a while they tolerate the damage the ghost does. When the ghost comes back reincarnated as a nineteen-year-old woman, she will do anything to get Sethe's love.
I wouldn't recommend this book to just anyone. It has a lot of mature subjects, and also is a challenge to read. But if you're a good reader; don't mind a bunch of murder, sex and violence; and like Faulkner and the slave narrative tradition, this is the book for you! I particularly enjoyed how Morrison leaves gaps in the story for the reader to figure out. Sometimes you understand what you read 100 pages later, and sometimes you have to guess what she means.