Julia's Picks

Miss Julia from Oberlin Regional Library's Favorite Reads.

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Book cover for "Carry on"
Star rating for Carry on
Series:
Simon Snow volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all...
Book cover for "Daughter of smoke & bone"
Star rating for Daughter of smoke & bone
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known. Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague,...
Book cover for "Finding balance"
Star rating for Finding balance
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Teenage cancer survivors Mari and Jase have flirted for years at Camp Chemo, but when she transfers to his high school their different approaches to their history cause trouble.
Book cover for "This time it's real"
Star rating for This time it's real
Author:
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's entirely fictional essay about meeting her perfect boyfriend goes viral at her international school in Beijing, she has to make a deal with the handsome and charming Caz Song to play the part--but when the relationship starts to feel real all her career plans are suddenly threatened.