The Secret Journal Of Brett Colton by Kay Lynn Mangum

This book is about a girl named Kathy Colton. her brother, Brett, died of leukemia when she was two years old. he was only seventeen. her family talks about him all the time and she can't stand it.then, on the night of her 16th birthday, her mom gives her a letter from brett.the letter leads her to a box of his old things and to a journal that was meant for her. she reads the journal bit by bit and slowly comes to know her dead brother. this all happens while she's tutoring the funny big hearted sophmore football star who rather surprisingly has about a million similarities to her own dead brother. this book combines hurt, comfort, tons of inspiration and handful of sparks and makes for the perfect read. i reccomend this book to just about anyone who can handle it. this book contains very emotional content. if you can't handle topics like cancer, death, and some religion. i don't reccomend this book.this book was so moving and touching that by the time i was done reading, i had tears streaming down my face.

Review by Rebekah age 14

Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks

Jenn's Pick!

This is a slow, gentle sort of book. It is the story of three generations of women. Sally was the sole survivor of a tragic car accident on the frozen Mistik Lake in 1981. Her oldest daughter, Odella, understands her mothers loneliness and burgeoning alcoholism, and tries to hold her family together after her mother runs away to Iceland with a filmmaker. Sally's aunt, Gloria, owns the cabin on Mistik Lake where Odella spends her summers. Gloria also has secrets but she does what she can for Sally's girls. The story is set on the shores of Mistik Lake, where everyone knows everyone, and most people are related if one goes back a generation or two.