YA Books Central | Alexyss | Activity https://yabookscentral.com/members/alexyssmarie3/activity/ Activity feed for Alexyss. Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:37:04 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1c76c963c24fb9bf315f852b412dcbf3 Alexyss posted an update: The Best Thing for Me Emma Ross is a hard-working, quiet girl […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7517/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:01:47 -0500 The Best Thing for Me
Emma Ross is a hard-working, quiet girl who tries to stay off the radar. Even her classmates with since grade school doesn’t know her. She knows it is best to live away from prying eyes and people who would find her…peculiar. But then suddenly someone from the “it” crowd notices her. Someone who sees how she cowers at the s…Read more

]]> 0 3b230582aefb03b7d2ddcd0ad4f70ff6 Alexyss posted an update: The Book Of Ivy What would you kill for? After a brutal […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7516/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:54:23 -0500 The Book Of Ivy
What would you kill for? After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained by marrying the daughters of the losing…Read more

]]> 0 4d1d0ea663c92a7c4c0a914b9fc7fe47 Alexyss posted an update: Now That You're Here (Duplexity #1) In a parallel universe, […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7515/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:50:24 -0500 Now That You’re Here (Duplexity #1)
In a parallel universe, the classic bad boy falls for the class science geek. One minute Danny was running from the cops, and the next, he jolted awake in an unfamiliar body—his own, but different. Somehow, he’s crossed into a parallel universe. Now his friends are his enemies, his parents are long dead, and stu…Read more

]]> 0 4e6b60087ea13925e34b1721f03c6a64 Alexyss posted an update: Top Ten Clues You're Clueless Top Five Things That Are […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7514/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:49:13 -0500 Top Ten Clues You’re Clueless
Top Five Things That Are Ruining Chloe’s Day 5) Working the 6:30 a.m. shift at GoodFoods Market 4) Crashing a cart into a customer’s car right in front of her snarky coworker Sammi 3) Trying to rock the “drowned rat” look after being caught in a snowstorm 2) Making zero progress with her crush, Tyson (see #3) 1) Bein…Read more

]]> 0 4cdb9fbba7a9dad65aace223d0b92722 Alexyss posted an update: Wicked (A Wicked Saga #1) Things are about to get Wicked in […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7513/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:47:30 -0500 Wicked (A Wicked Saga #1)
Things are about to get Wicked in New Orleans. Twenty-two year old Ivy Morgan isn’t your average college student. She, and others like her, know humans aren’t the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun… and for food. Her duty to the Order is her life. After all, four years ago, she lost everything at the hands…Read more

]]> 0 3b8c5b499278f8f1fb2129111384d8bd Alexyss posted an update: A Wicked Thing Rhiannon Thomas's dazzling debut novel is a […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7512/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:45:38 -0500 A Wicked Thing
Rhiannon Thomas’s dazzling debut novel is a spellbinding reimagining of Sleeping Beauty and what happens after happily ever after. One hundred years after falling asleep, Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince and a broken kingdom that has been dreaming of her return. All the books say that she should be living…Read more

]]> 0 1b21142d04b0ccbfe90ab2f25b672cf7 Alexyss posted an update: Hit In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7511/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:31:14 -0500 Hit
In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an indentured assassin in this sizzling dystopian thriller. No one reads the fine print. The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that we were bought out by Valor National Bank, and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky little clause hidden deep in…Read more

]]> 0 e0c437860440a0fe6ead4e8aa402f161 Alexyss posted an update: When Reason Breaks 13 Reasons Why meets the poetry of Emily […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7510/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:29:20 -0500 When Reason Breaks
13 Reasons Why meets the poetry of Emily Dickinson in this gripping debut novel perfect for fans of Sara Zarr or Jennifer Brown. Meet Elizabeth Davis and Emily Delgado. A Goth girl with an attitude problem, Elizabeth must learn to control her anger before it destroys her. Emily appears to be a smart, sweet girl, with a normal…Read more

]]> 0 a5bc548b9dc0ab4ae0b6091abcd4084d Alexyss posted an update: Liars, Inc. It all starts with one little lie… Max Cantrell h […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7509/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:27:56 -0500 Liars, Inc.
It all starts with one little lie… Max Cantrell has never been a big fan of the truth, so when the opportunity arises to sell lies to his classmates, it sounds like a good way to make a little money and liven up a boring senior year. With the help of his friends Preston and Parvati, Max starts a business providing forged permission s…Read more

]]> 0 41d60ff2bdfb13ce574a9fcb0eb7e16a Alexyss posted an update: OCD Love Story In this raw and relatable romance, Bea […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7410/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:25:48 -0500 OCD Love Story

In this raw and relatable romance, Bea learns that some things just can’t be controlled.

When Bea meets Beck, she knows instantly that he’s her kind of crazy. Sweet, strong, kinda-messed-up Beck understands her like no one else can. He makes her feel almost normal. He makes her feel like she could fall in love again.

But des…Read more

]]> 0 0312f67582a8eddd4f324e4b157b759e Alexyss posted an update: Never Ending Shiv's best mate, her brother Declan, is dead. […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7409/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:25:02 -0500 Never Ending
Shiv’s best mate, her brother Declan, is dead. It’s been all over the news. Consumed by grief and guilt, she agrees to become an inpatient at the Korsakoff Clinic. There she meets Mikey. Caron. The others. They share a similar torment. And there, subjected to the clinic’s unconventional therapy, they must face what they can’t bear to…Read more

]]> 0 acafaa133f7b0063234d8f32a1ac91f0 Alexyss posted an update: Chasing Shadows Book reviews of Chasing Shadows by Swati Avasthi https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7408/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:24:28 -0500 Chasing Shadows
Book reviews of Chasing Shadows by Swati Avasthi

]]> 0 ead7be7e383da5d747d6f8f2a2a9f0af Alexyss posted an update: Wintergirls “Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the hal […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7407/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:22:32 -0500 Wintergirls
“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I am that girl. I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a de…Read more

]]> 0 b1ecc06325e1330de9eb633d22456663 Alexyss posted an update: Skin and Bones Sixteen-year-old Jack, nicknamed "Bones," […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7406/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:21:29 -0500 Skin and Bones
Sixteen-year-old Jack, nicknamed “Bones,” won’t eat. His roommate in the eating disorder ward has the opposite problem and proudly goes by the nickname “Lard.” They become friends despite Bones’s initial reluctance. When Bones meets Alice, a dangerously thin dancer who loves to break the rules, he lets his guard down even more. Soon…Read more

]]> 0 68f260e5ab9f04825e691f3bbe42d643 Alexyss posted an update: Hate List Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7405/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:19:51 -0500 Hate List
Five months ago, Valerie Leftman’s boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, but was implicated in the shootings because of the list she helped create. A list of people and things she and Nick hated. The list he used to pick his targets. Now,…Read more

]]> 0 d798cbc6595233854f2999ef9efaa1c0 Alexyss posted an update: Faking Normal Alexi Littrell hasn't told anyone what happened […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7404/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:18:25 -0500 Faking Normal
Alexi Littrell hasn’t told anyone what happened to her over the summer by her backyard pool. Instead, she hides in her closet, counts the slats in the air vent, and compulsively scratches the back of her neck, trying to make the outside hurt more than the inside does.When Bodee Lennox—”the Kool-Aid Kid”—moves in with the Lit…Read more

]]> 0 b5856d517bdf0dd53020bf7565882293 Alexyss posted an update: Breakable (Contours of The Heart) A Contours of the Heart […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7403/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:17:25 -0500 Breakable (Contours of The Heart)
A Contours of the Heart Novel As a child, Landon Lucas Maxfield believed his life was perfect and looked forward to a future filled with promise—until tragedy tore his family apart and made him doubt everything he ever believed. All he wanted was to leave the past behind. When he met Jacqueline Wallace, his d…Read more

]]> 0 0530b5675a53fd46f7b410200f66ed8c Alexyss posted an update: Love is the Drug From the author of THE SUMMER PRINCE, a […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7402/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:16:42 -0500 Love is the Drug

From the author of THE SUMMER PRINCE, a novel that's John Grisham's THE PELICAN BRIEF meets Michael Crichton's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN set at an elite Washington D.C. prep school. Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect Ivy-League future. But a chance meeting with…Read more

]]> 0 9e3294b5ea0bf02278bb0fea8a68cab5 Alexyss posted an update: Some Boys Some girls say no. Some boys don't listen. When […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7401/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:15:00 -0500 Some Boys
Some girls say no. Some boys don’t listen. When Grace meets Ian, she’s afraid. Afraid he’ll reject her like the rest of the school, liker her own family. After she accuses the town’s golden boy of rape, everyone turned against her. Ian wouldn’t be the first to call her a slut and a liar. Except Ian doesn’t reject her. He’s funny and kind…Read more

]]> 0 1fd3e0de69248160a9fd7d27381c26bb Alexyss posted an update: Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty Every little girl […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7400/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:13:56 -0500 Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty
Every little girl goes through her princess phase, whether she wants to be Snow White or Cinderella, Belle or Ariel. But then we grow up. And life is not a fairy tale. Christine Heppermann’s collection of fifty poems puts the ideals of fairy tales right beside the life of the modern teenage girl. With…Read more

]]> 0 3c251b2e9c43272c2d6e920c2c0dafb8 Alexyss posted an update: Keep Holding On Chew. Swallow. Chew. Swallow. Don't look up. […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7399/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:09:41 -0500 Keep Holding On
Chew. Swallow. Chew. Swallow. Don’t look up. Lunch is the worst, but there’s no safe place at school for Noelle. Keeping her mortifying home life a secret and trying to ignore the kids who make her life miserable are Noelle’s survival strategies. Her emotionally distant boyfriend, Matt, isn’t the one she really wants to be with.…Read more

]]> 0 9beabcd8f3cb9831682d314c85012cdb Alexyss posted an update: The Summer I Turned Pretty Belly measures her life in […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7398/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:08:46 -0500 The Summer I Turned Pretty
Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that…Read more

]]> 0 7907e85282f77c51e3aad9faf5a08f39 Alexyss posted an update: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight Who […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7397/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:07:33 -0500 The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan’s life. She’s stuck at JFK, late to her father’s second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley’s…Read more

]]> 0 3205cb68c86ab4495bd4592ada16d306 Alexyss posted an update: Hooked Thea Galehouse has always known how to take care of […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7396/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:06:18 -0500 Hooked
Thea Galehouse has always known how to take care of herself. With a flighty club-owner mom and a standoffish, recovering-alcoholic dad, Thea has made her own way in her hometown of New York, attending the prestigious and competitive Stuyvesant High School. But one chat with Will, a handsome and witty senior, and she’s a goner—completely h…Read more

]]> 0 96d31aca6b1f260b16659b1592cb5373 Alexyss posted an update: Towering At first, I merely saw his face, his hands on the […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7395/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:02:56 -0500 Towering
At first, I merely saw his face, his hands on the window ledge. Then, his whole body as he swung himself through the window. Only I could not see what he swung on.

Until, one day, I told my dream self to look down. And it was then that I saw. He had climbed on a rope. I knew without asking that the rope had been one of my own…Read more

]]> 0 bde08eafffcb7e1d34ae5bb4898e1ae7 Alexyss posted an update: 10 Things to Do Before I Die 1) Lose my virginity 2) […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7394/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:00:01 -0500 10 Things to Do Before I Die
1) Lose my virginity

2) Apologize to Rachel

3) Get back at Biff

4) Jam and party with Shakes the Clown

5) Laugh in death’s face

6) Go to Africa

7) Rob a bank

8) Tell Mark to screw himself

9) Find out why Grandpa and Dad don’t talk

10) Tell the truth

]]> 0 6106f837f76be25e042ffb6cb97fe32d Alexyss posted an update: Want to Go Private? Abby and Luke chat online. They've […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7393/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:58:46 -0500 Want to Go Private?

Abby and Luke chat online. They’ve never met. But they are going to. Soon.
Abby is starting high school–it should be exciting, so why doesn’t she care? Everyone tells her to “make an effort,” but why can’t she just be herself? Abby quickly feels like she’s losing a grip on her once-happy life. The only thing she cares…Read more

]]> 0 dea08112c012cc7cfe071c7115216165 Alexyss posted an update: You Against Me If someone hurts your sister and you're any […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7392/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:55:31 -0500 You Against Me

If someone hurts your sister and you’re any kind of man, you seek revenge.If your brother’s accused of a terrible crime but says he didn’t do it, you defend him.When Mikey’s sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie’s brother is charged with the offense, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey…Read more

]]> 0 101954f0b2901dface1f91705d662d24 Alexyss posted an update: North of Beautiful As he continued to stare, I wanted to […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7391/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:53:18 -0500 North of Beautiful
As he continued to stare, I wanted to point to my cheek and remind him, But you were the one who wanted this, remember? You’re the one who asked-and I repeat-Why not fix your face?

It’s hard not to notice Terra Cooper.

She’s tall, blond, and has an enviable body. But with one turn of her cheek, all people notice is her…Read more

]]> 0 ddac50ea43c57360cafe0c4293c26a81 Alexyss posted an update: The Future of Us It's 1996, and less than half of all […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7390/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:51:43 -0500 The Future of Us
It’s 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM. Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future. Everybody wonders what their destiny will be. Josh and…Read more

]]> 0 db0cb1428360c4dbc7dadad6a6ddb756 Alexyss posted an update: Stay With Me Fifteen-year-olds Cece and Mack didn't expect […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7389/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:48:56 -0500 Stay With Me

Fifteen-year-olds Cece and Mack didn’t expect to fall in love. She’s a sensitive A student; he’s a high school dropout. But soon they’re spending every moment together, bonding over a rescued dog, telling their secrets, making plans for the future. Everything is perfect. Until. Until. Mack makes a horrible mistake, and in just a…Read more

]]> 0 87d4f4e5f3f24227c5ad1d15ce012166 Alexyss posted an update: What I Didn't Say Getting drunk homecoming night your senior […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7388/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 02:45:36 -0500 What I Didn’t Say
Getting drunk homecoming night your senior year is never a good idea, but Jake Hayes never expected it all to end with a car crash and a t-post embedded in his throat. His biggest regret about it all? What he never said to Samantha Shay. He’s been in love with her for years and never had the guts to tell her. Now it’s too late.…Read more

]]> 0 6cae8d3e255c1224fdbc42e6087af883 Alexyss posted an update: The One The whole series was gripping. I stayed up until 4 […] https://yabookscentral.com/activity/p/7382/ Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:34:22 -0500 The One
The whole series was gripping. I stayed up until 4 in the morning just to read the first one! The Selection series is a book that is not easily forgotten. All praise to Kiera Cass.

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