Jennifer Hubert's Blog, page 28

Mush: Sled Dogs With Issues by Glenn Eichler & Joe Infurnari

Dogs have always been known as man's best friend, but maybe they're more like men (and women) than we thought! That's the premise of this hilarious graphic novel that reads like a canine version of The Office by Glenn Eichler, a current writer on the Cobert Report and former producer of one of my fav [...]

Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

It's already hard enough for Russian American Anya to fit in at her preppy private school with a last name no one can pronounce ("Borzakovskaya"), a clueless mom and a booty that makes her regulation plaid skit a bit too snug. But after she takes a tumble down an abandoned well and discovers the skeleton [...]

Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King

Let's be clear: Lucky Linderman is NOT lucky. First of all, he's named after his grandfather, a Vietnam POW who's presumed dead. Also, because of an ill-worded homework survey intended to liven up the social studies curriculum ("If you were going to commit suicide, what method would you choose?") he's on wrist-slashing watch by the [...]

A Web of Air by Philip Reeve

It's been two years since Fever Crumb fled post-apocalyptic London and the Order of Engineers after finding out she had some dubious memories rolling around in her head that weren't hers. But don't let's spoil that story, which starts here. In this second volume of the Fever Crumb series, Fever has taken a job with [...]

Habibi by Craig Thompson

One of my favorite books of all time is Craig Thompson's transcendent adolescent love story Blankets. I feel as though I have preached the gospel of that gorgeous graphic novel to thousands of friends, colleagues and students–probably until they were sick of hearing about it! Thompson's latest opus is also about love, a fervent love [...]

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

Future Project Runway contestant Lola Nolan has a pretty sweet life. She lives in a mint green Victorian house with two dads who adore her in the swank Castro district of San Francisco. She has her sewing machine, a lovable dog named Heavens to Betsy and an older rock star boyfriend named Max who makes [...]

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Bad luck seems to be dogging Mara Dyer wherever she goes. First, she loses her best friend, boyfriend and his sister in a freak building collapse that she alone survives. Then, after her family moves to Miami to help Mara's post-traumatic stress over the accident, she attracts the unwanted attention of her new school's alpha [...]

Orcs: Forged for War by Stan Nicholls and Joe Flood

Oh, poor orcs. That Tolkien sure sealed their reputation as some of the biggest baddies of all time. But what if orcs aren't actually that awful? What if they've just been…misunderstood all these years? Stan Nicholls has created a world called Maras-Dantia where warlike orcs may crack a few skulls and slice off a few [...]

Pearl by Jo Knowles

Pearl aka Bean, has never felt close to her mother Lexie, who had Bean when she was a teenager. Grandpa Gus has always been the one to take her fishing, teach her how to cook and tell her stories about her grandmother, who died before Bean was born. All her mother does is work, argue [...]

The Monstrumologist: Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey

"We are hunters all. We are, all of us, monstrumologists." The third book in the crazy good and wonderfully gruesome Monstrumologist series takes plucky young protagonist Will Henry to a far darker place than ever before, and this time it's not the monsters outside he fears so much as the monster within. After receiving a [...]