Bucket List

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
While fondly remembering hearing in the news about a girl who was a prisoner for eighteen years, I was suprised to hear she has written a book about the experience. A Stolen Life recounts the story of a young girl who was abducted at a young age and lived an intolerable situation for eighteen years. According to the reviews on this 4.5/5 star book, it is an inspiratonal and touching story.


Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles
I've always been interested in romance novels, and when I discovered the Chain Reaction series I was appealed to them instantly. When adventures Luis meets Nikki, who is high class and comes off as someone who doesn't need nor want a man in her life, they are instantly attracted to each other.

Strings Attached by Judy Blundell
Love, deceit, intrigue, and murder books have always filled my interest, and those things are exactly what happens when Kat moves to NYC. While leaving her home town in Rhode Island behind, she also leaves her stalker ex-boyfriend as well. Kit meets a man that has agreed to help make her ends meet, with a few favors. What Kat will soon find out is that the man helping her out, is also her ex-boyfriends father. I have read Judy BLundells award winning book What I saw and How I lied, and I'm hoping to enjoy this one as well.

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Beauty pagents have always seemed to be a little abhorred to me, to say in the least. By reading the summary of the Printz Award-winning book, it seems to be something I'd enjoy. Fifty beauty queen contestants are being flown to a fun trip in paradise, when the airplane crashes onto a dessert island, leaving the beauty queens with little food, little water, and practically no makeup.

Bitter End by Jennifer Brown
Being in high school, I'm sure every girl hopes to meet a boy and fall in love. When Alex meets Cole, she couldn't be happier about finding her "soulmate." Sadly, the "honeymoon" phase of the relationship comes to an end, and Cole seems to have become obsessive and controling over Alex. Alex must choose between having true love, or being herself again.

Stay by Deb Caletti
So far my bucket list of books have been filled with romance, and this one is no different. Clara's relationship with Christian is intense from the start, but it seems that devotion has soon became obession. Clara ends the relationship, and moves to what she thinks is an unknown location to Christian. This 4.5/5 star book is descibed as "breathtaking" while the tension builds up chapter after chapter.

What Happen to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen has been one of my favorite authors for a couple of years now, I can always seem to relate to something. McClean is having family issues with her mother, and has decided to live with her father. His opening of restaurants causes McClean and him to move often, and each place they go she changes personalites. She is reluctant to form any true attachments to others, until she falls for the boy next door.

Pearl by Jo Knowles
Dealing with a dysfunctional family, I can somehow relate to the craziness going on in this book. Bean and Henry have always been bestfriends, and both have the strangest mothers in town. Bean is in shock when her beloved grandfather Gus. Suddenly a host of family secrets is unleashed, and is now bringing them closer together, almost as fast as it is tearing them apart.

You Against Me by Jenny Downham
The saying has always been; if a boy hurts your sister, you hurt him. Just as; if your brother is accused of something he says he didn't do, you defend him. Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offense, things begin to get difficult. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. As reviews say this book is an "inevitable choice between new love and old allegiances," it seems that this is just the kind of romance I'm interested in reading.

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
Any relationship that comes to an end always has some kind of reason behind it, some less painful than others. Min and Ed are breaking up, and Min is writing him a letter telling him exactly why it's happening. With the letter, a box is included with meaningful items from their relationship. This book seems very relatable with an experience from my past, with its recognizable high-school moments.