The Way You Make Me Feel

The Way You Make Me Feel
Author: Maurene Goo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374304092

An NPR Best Book of 2018 A Boston Globe Best Children's Book of 2018 A We Need Diverse Books 2018 Must-Read A TAYSHAS 2019 Reading List Book A California Book Award Finalist From the author of I Believe in a Thing Called Love, a laugh-out-loud story of love, new friendships, and one unique food truck. Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad’s business. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind? With Maurene Goo's signature warmth and humor, The Way You Make Me Feel is a relatable story of falling in love and finding yourself in the places you’d never thought to look.

Somewhere Only We Know

Somewhere Only We Know
Author: Maurene Goo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374310599

A Cosmopolitan Best Young Adult Book of 2019 A Buzzfeed Pick for "YA Books You Absolutely Must Read This Spring" Sparks fly between a K pop starlet and a tabloid reporter in this heartwarming rom-com from Maurene Goo. 10:00 p.m.: Lucky is the biggest K-pop star on the scene, and she’s just performed her hit song “Heartbeat” in Hong Kong to thousands of adoring fans. She’s about to debut on The Tonight Show in America, hopefully a breakout performance for her career. But right now? She’s in her fancy hotel, trying to fall asleep but dying for a hamburger. 11:00 p.m.: Jack is sneaking into a fancy hotel, on assignment for his tabloid job that he keeps secret from his parents. On his way out of the hotel, he runs into a girl wearing slippers, a girl who is single-mindedly determined to find a hamburger. She looks kind of familiar. She’s very cute. He’s maybe curious. 12:00 a.m.: Nothing will ever be the same. With her trademark humor and voice, Maurene Goo delivers a sparkling story of taking a chance on love—and finding yourself along the way.

A Shock

A Shock
Author: Keith Ridgway
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811230864

Ever since Keith Ridgway published his landmark cult novel Hawthorn & Child, his ardent fans have yearned for more Finally, Ridgway gives us A Shock, his thrilling and unsparing, slippery and shockingly good new novel. Formed as a rondel of interlocking stories with a clutch of more or less loosely connected repeating characters, it’s at once deracinated yet potent with place, druggy yet frighteningly shot through with reality. His people appear, disappear, and reappear. They’re on the fringes of London, clinging to sanity or solvency or a story by their fingernails, consumed by emotions and anxieties in fuzzily understood situations. A deft, high-wire act, full of imprecise yet sharp dialog as well as witchy sleights of hand reminiscent of Muriel Spark, A Shock delivers a knockout punch of an ending. Perhaps Ridgway’s most breathtaking quality is his scintillating stealthiness: you can never quite put your finger on how he casts his spell—he delivers the shock of a master jewel thief (already far-off and scot-free) stealing your watch: when at some point you look down at your wrist, all you see is that in more than one way you don’t know what time it is…

I Believe in a Thing Called Love

I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Author: Maurene Goo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374304076

A Seventeen.com Best YA Books of 2017 A Publishers Weekly's Best YA Book of 2017 A New York Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens 2017 A 2018 CCBC Choices Book "Hilarious." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "Powerful messages of inclusion and acceptance.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Desi Lee believes anything is possible if you have a plan. That's how she became student body president. Varsity soccer star. And it's how she'll get into Stanford. But she's never had a boyfriend. In fact, she's a disaster at romance, a clumsy, stammering humiliation magnet whose botched attempts at flirting have become legendary with her friends. So when the hottest human specimen to have ever lived walks into her life one day, Desi finds guidance in the Korean dramas her father has been obsessively watching for years—where the hapless heroine always seems to end up in the arms of her true love by episode ten. It's a simple formula, and Desi is a quick study. Armed with her "K Drama Steps to True Love," Desi goes after the moody, elusive artist Luca Drakos—and boat rescues, love triangles, and staged car crashes ensue. But when the fun and games turn to true feels, Desi finds out that real love is about way more than just drama. A Margaret Ferguson Book

Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo

Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo
Author: Ben Costa
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0399556133

A walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel who has mysteriously retained his soul within the confines of the dungeon where he has been imprisoned departs with his sidekick, a gelatinous monster, to investigate clues about his identity in snippets of a song he hears in his dreams.

Billy Bloo Is Stuck in Goo

Billy Bloo Is Stuck in Goo
Author: Jennifer Hamburg
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 133818461X

A rollicking read-aloud with the rhyme, rhythm and repetition of such classics as I Know an Old Lady and Dr. Seuss's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. 2018 CBC Children's & Teen Choice Book Awards FinalistBilly Bloo is stuck in goo.Who will help him, tell me who?Who'll unstick him from this goo?Would you?With madcap mania,a troupe of merry volunteersattempt to rescue poor Billy Bloo,only to find themselves stuck in goo too!Oh, what to do?This spry, slapstick comedy of errorswill have you rolling with laughter(but hopefully not into any goo!).

Goo Goo Colors and The Magical Spelling Mistake

Goo Goo Colors and The Magical Spelling Mistake
Author: Zerius Zontay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2020-12-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578819969

Goo Goo Gaga loves playing with his Goo Goo Alphabets. With the help of his magic wand, the Goo Goo Alphabets make his words come to life. But when Goo Goo Gaga spells the wrong word, his magic starts to get out of hand. Can Goo Goo Gaga fix his mistake before his house turns into a zoo?

Rook Di Goo

Rook Di Goo
Author: Jenni Sauer
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734509618

Cadet Elisandra Elis is haunted by the things she's done.Fighting in Taras, El has done things that go well beyond the call of war. So when she sees a chance to run, she takes it, refusing to return and play with those demons any longer. She joins the Aderyn, the ship that's quite literally falling apart but with a crew- a pilot with an easy sense of humor, a medic with a heart of gold, and a captain who makes her feel a lot of confusing things- that causes her to question what it means to belong somewhere.But when she's faced with an opportunity to save her kingdom- and in turn the galaxy- El is caught between the planet she loves and the crew that has welcomed her as one of their own. Left to question just how much she's willing to give up for the kingdom that ultimately broke her, she must decide if throwing her life away is worth it. Or perhaps she should just keep running; thus far, that's what she's proven to be best at.It's Cinderella meets Firely, in this science fantasy retelling about the disenchanted idealist looking for her place in the galaxy.

Since You Asked--

Since You Asked--
Author: Maurene Goo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: High schools
ISBN: 9780545448215

Fifteen-year-old Holly Kim, the copyeditor for her San Diego high school's newspaper, accidentally submits a piece ripping everyone to shreds and suddenly finds herself the center of unwanted attention--but when the teacher in charge of the paper asks her to write a regular column her troubles really start.