Selective Collective: Better Off Friends Review

Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg The Skinny: For Macallan and Levi, it was friends at first sight. Everyone says guys and girls can’t be just friends, but these two are. They hang out after school, share tons of inside jokes, their families are super close, and Levi even starts dating one of Macallan’s friends. They…

Selective Collective: Author Lauren Morrill

This month we had the opportunity to read Lauren Morrill's newest book Being Sloane Jacobs! About the book: Meet Sloane Emily Jacobs: a seriously stressed-out figure-skater from Washington, D.C., who choked during junior nationals and isn’t sure she’s ready for a comeback. What she does know is that she’d give anything to escape the mass…

Selective Collective: Page to Screen of The Promise of Amazing

This month The Selective Collective read The Promise of Amazing, Robin Constantine's debut novel! Wren Caswell is average. Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she’s not popular, but not a social misfit. Wren is the quiet, “good” girl who's always done what she's supposed to—only now in her junior year, this…

Selective Collective: Loud Awake and Lost – Round Table

Our November pick is Loud Awake and Lost by Adele Griffin. This week it's my turn to host our Round Table Discussion. LOUD. There was an accident. Ember knows at least that much. She was driving. The car was totaled. She suffered back injuries and brain trauma. But she is alive. That's the only thing…

Selective Collective: My F-It List

This month The Selective Collective read The F-It List by Julie Halpern. Alex’s father recently died in a car accident. And on the night of his funeral, her best friend Becca slept with Alex’s boyfriend. So things aren’t great. Alex steps away from her friendship with Becca and focuses on her family. But when Alex…

Please excuse me while I fangirl

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell The Skinny: Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan . . . But for Cath, being a fan is her life — and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they…