Reviews written by Kimberly Pauley

Three very different girls. One bad boy that they all meet up with and who changes their lives. All three stories told in poetry that feels real, like the kind of things a teen girl might have going through her head on any given day. (Warning:...

TokyoPops publication of Sunao Yoshidas Trinity Blood in English is cause for celebration. The novels spawned both a manga series and an anime release, with all three developing rabid fans around the world. Sadly, Yoshida died before completing the series, but luckily for readers, Kentaro Yasui, a friend of his,...

Absolutely, Positively Not handles a weighty issue in a funny manner. Steven is absolutely, positively sure that hes not gay. He cant be, right? I mean, after all, he makes sure to collect magazine clippings of voluptuous girls in bikinis (pay no attention to the mens underwear catalog stashed under...

Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh is quite possibly the most inspiring books I have read in ages. Its also the first of my reviews on the Cybils Non-Fiction nominees (youll be seeing a lot of those over the next few weeks,...

Latina or Chica Lit is the new big thing nowadays, with lots of titles coming into the market. Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, gives a nod to the Latina aspect, but the ethnicity of Paski (the main character) is secondary to the rest of the story. In fact, theres a lot...

In the seventh book in the Princess Diaries series, Party Princess, Mia is in trouble (isnt she always?). As President of the Student Council, she overspent on the fancy recycling bins for the school and now she doesnt have enough money to pay for renting Alice Tully Hall for the...

Georgia is back and she has a serious dilemma. She gave Masimo (aka The Italian Stallion) an ultimatum be her one-and-only boyfriend kind-of-guy or no more of this snogging business. He said hed think about it. Ack. Then theres Dave the Laugh...

I know I love a book when, an hour after Ive finished reading it&and when I should be fast asleep in bed&Im thinking of ways the character could possibly get together with that guy. What if& I keep saying. Then I have to remind myself, Hey, its a fictional character,...

Wow, I really wasnt sure what to expect when I got Desert Blood in the mail. The cover looks like an ad for a TV show (this is on purpose, of course, youll see why in a minute)&actually, not just any TV show, but a sex-filled Latino police/crime soap opera....

Floe Ryan contracted a deadly disease when she was sixteen and died&but that isnt the end of her story. Its the beginning. Floe, you see, was vitrified (i.e. cryogenically frozen) at death and then thawed ten years later after a cure is found. In that ten years, she hasnt aged...

Olivia, or Liv, has a serious penchant for embarrassing herself, especially in front of the famous or influential. But shes hoping that wont hold her back as she spends her summer interning for an übercool TV music station&in London! Surely, some of the übercoolness shell be surrounded with will...

Not sure what a zine is? Or maybe you know and youd love to start one, but just dont know how to go about it? Whatcha Mean Whats a Zine? is the perfect place to start for both newbies and old hands. Mark Todd and Esther Pearl...

Love that Dog is a brief novel in poetry. It is the story of Jack, a young boy, who finds his own voice through poetry (even though he thinks, at first, that poetry isnt for boys). He also finds a guide and mentor in Walter Dean Myers, one of todays...

In Friends with Benefits the girls from The Nannies are back and ready for some more adventuresor are they? Lydia, ever the schemer has a plan to get rich quick by finding good nannies for rich clients. The problem? Finding good nannies. She quickly learns that you cant always judge...

Id heard so much talk about Avalon High that I figured it was high time I read it. I was a little leery after all, there are *so* many re-tellings of the King Arthur tale that its hard for one to stand out but Im very pleased with...