Title: Gotcha! Author: Shelley Hrdlitschka Publication Year: 2008 Pages: 259 Genre: Fiction, Young Adult Source: Borrowed from a classroom library at my school From the cover: It’s “bead season” at Slippery Rock High. This year the bead-snatching grad game called Gotcha has been banned as an official school activity because the teachers have decided to [...]

Title: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Author & Narrator: Sherman Alexie Publication Year: 2007 Pages: 288 (audio length: 4 hours 51 minutes) Genre: Fiction, Young Adult Source: Audiobook version purchased from Audible.com From the cover: Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined [...]