Books by E. Lockhart and Complete Book Reviews

E. Lockhart, Author . Delacorte $15.99 (244p) ISBN 978-0-385-73426-4
Smart, funny, neurotic Ruby Oliver (from The Boy Book and The Boyfriend List ) is back, still struggling with confusing boys, former friends who now shun her and, of course, panic attacks. When her shrink asks her to create a treasure map showing &#
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E. Lockhart. Delacorte, $19.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-593-48585-9
Lockhart returns for another look behind the privileged Sinclair family’s gleaming facade in this absorbing prequel to 2014’s We Were Liars. Centered on the original Liars’ mothers as teens in 1987, the story is narrated by Carrie, the eldest of the
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E. Lockhart. Delacorte, $18.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-74479-9
Lockhart returns to Alabaster Preparatory Academy—the setting for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks—to tell the story of a different character. Adrift and languorous in the summer between her junior and senior years, Adelaide Buchwald
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E. Lockhart. Delacorte, $18.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-74477-5
Lockhart blends the privileged glamour of We Were Liars with a twisty, backward-running plot that’s slick with cinematic violence. Calling to mind her own The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, she offers a shrewd critique of the roles...
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E. Lockhart. Delacorte, $17.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-74126-2
Cadence Sinclair Eastman, heiress to a fortune her grandfather amassed “doing business I never bothered to understand,” is the highly unreliable narrator of this searing story from National Book Award finalist Lockhart (The Disreputable History of...
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E. Lockhart, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-385-73206-2
Ruby Oliver's parents send her to a shrink after the 15-year-old begins experiencing panic attacks. Doctor Z asks her to list boys she "ever had the slightest little any-kind-of-anything with" and, as Ruby winds her way through the list,
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E. Lockhart, Author . Hyperion $16.99 (345p) ISBN 978-0-7868-3818-9
Big ideas are an essential part of the fun in this sparkling tour de force. Back at her elite boarding school after a summer vacation in which she has grown from duckling to swan, sophomore Frankie starts dating cool, gorgeous senior Matthew and...
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E. Lockhart, Author . Hyperion $15.99 (311p) ISBN 978-07868-3815-8
Lockhart (The Boyfriend List) sets the stage for teenage drama in her latest novel. Sarah feels like she has a “Lurking Bigness” inside, putting her out of step with the other girls in her Ohio hometown. She meets Demi at an audition for
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E. Lockhart, Author . Delacorte $15.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-385-73208-6
Ruby Oliver, the smart, neurotic heroine from The Boyfriend List , is now 16 and a junior scholarship student at Tate Prep. She's still in therapy, and still trying to cope with losing her boyfriend to her best friend—plus her new social...
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E. Lockhart, Author . Delacorte $17.99 (182p) ISBN 978-0-385-73281-9
Narrator Gretchen Yee will grab readers from the first page with her snappy commentary. Even at her Manhattan arts high school, she's a misfit. But the comic-book obsessed artist gets an unexpected chance to live as an alter ego when, for a week,
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E. Lockhart, illus. by Manuel Preitano. DC, $16.99 paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-4012-9322-2
High school junior Willow Zimmerman, who is Jewish and light-skinned, balances her time between classes, caring for her ailing mother Naomi, and protesting City Hall’s refusal to address recent anonymous “greening” attacks that have covered major...
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E. Lockhart, read by Ariadne Meyers. Listening Library, five CDs, 6.5 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-8041-6839-7
In this noir YA drama, three privileged cousins and a friend meet each summer on a private island, where they confront first love and staggering losses. Reader Meyers does an excellent job with the main character, Cadence, whose dialogue requires...
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E. Lockhart, Author, Tanya Eby Sirois, Read by , read by Tanya Eby Sirois. Brilliance Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-6680-5
Lockhart's (Dramarama ) witty novel about boarding school high jinks of a most cerebral order receives winning treatment from Sirois—her slightly nasal voice for the heroine, 16-year-old Frankie, seems in character and is somehow...
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E. Lockhart, Author, Sarah Mlynowski, Author, Lauren Myracle, Author . HarperTeen $16.99 (325p) ISBN 978-0-06-128422-9
Three deservedly popular YA authors take turns narrating this exuberant novel, which centers on a road trip. After working all summer in their small Florida town at the Waffle House (they call it the Awful Waffle), three girls strike out for the...
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E. Lockhart, Author, Mandy Siegfried, Read by , read by Mandy Siegfried. Listening Library $30 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4000-9945-0
Siegfried makes a believable 15-year-old narrator as she slips into the role of Ruby Oliver, a spirited girl struggling with identity and self-esteem after suffering the kind of social crisis that sets high schoolers reeling. Ruby's boyfriend of
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