A review (and defense) of Bennett Madison's September Girls, a sharp, funny, dark book about freaky mermaids.

Trust no one... except for Posh, who is telling you that The 5th Wave is freaking fantastic.

Cat Winters' In The Shadow of Blackbirds is a beautiful ghost story set in 1918's California. 

Erin reviews The Milk of Birds by Sylvia Whitman and is ready to hang up her hat, because nothing is ever going to make her feel like this book did.

You should really read Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park.  Trust.

Lois Lowry's classic dystopian novel The Giver has Mandy wondering why she waited so long to read it.

A review of Bette Greene's Summer of My German Soldier, a book Meghan was afraid to revisit 20 years later in case it had gotten old and fat, but was relieved to see was just as gorgeous as ever.

A review of Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys, just in time for Mardi Gras.

Alix reviews The Princess Bride by William Goldman and finds that she might love it even more than the movie.

Meet our #1 literary crushes of the year.