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Chris Shanley-Dillman

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Chris Shanley-Dillman


Chris Shanley-Dillman

Reviews by Chris Shanley-Dillman

by Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz - Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult 12+

Colin Fischer cannot stand to be touched. He does not like the color blue. He needs index cards to recognize facial expressions. But when a gun is found in the school cafeteria, interrupting a female classmate's birthday celebration, Colin is the only for the investigation. It's up to him to prove that Wayne Connelly, the school bully and Colin's frequent tormenter, didn't bring the gun to school.

by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Young Adult 12+

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone--maybe not even herself. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of?

by Joyce Carol Oates - Fiction, Young Adult 14+

Now in their senior year, Merissa and Nadia need Tink more than they ever did before. They each have secrets they could share with no one but her, secrets that have become toxic and that threaten to unravel their friendship --- and themselves. Tink also had a secret, a big one, but no one knows what it was. And now she's gone. But sometimes the girls feel Tink, trying to tell them something.

by Patrick Carman - Dystopian, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Thriller, Young Adult 13+

Ensnared in a dangerous, ever-deepening mystery, Will Besting must lead his friends through a perilous underground trap masterminded by two devious souls at war with each other. It's a game of cat and mouse, and not everyone will be alive when it's over. Can Will outwit both Rainsford and Goring, ending their reign of fear forever?

by Gordon Korman - Children's, Fiction, Mystery

The Man With The Plan is back for another adventure. Only this time, while his parents are away for six weeks, Griffin has promised that he will behave while staying at Ben’s house. Unfortunately, an unexpected emergency explodes out of control, and Griffin has no choice but to come up with the ultimate plan to save their friend Savannah’s huge, unruly Doberman --- by entering him in a fancy dog show.

by Christopher Paul Curtis - Children's, Fiction, Historical Fiction

In 1936, the country desperately struggles through the Depression. However, 12-year-old Deza is relatively happy; she has her best friend, her treasured books, her beloved school, and her amazing family. But then her father leaves to look for work, and despite his promises, the family doesn’t hear from him for months. Then her mother loses her job as well. With no other options, the family packs up their few belongings and begin a dangerous journey in search for Deza’s dad.

by Erin Hunter - Adventure, Children's, Fantasy, Fiction

In Return to the Wild, the second Seekers arc from Erin Hunter, the three bears --- Toklo, Kallik and Lusa --- face new challenges as they begin their journey home through the wilderness and struggle to find their way with no one to guide them.

by Dan Gutman - Children's, Fiction

Coke and Pep continue their amazing cross-country journey in an RV with their parents, which will take them from Spring Green, Wisconsin, to Washington, D.C. Along the way, their mom and dad insist on stopping at all sorts of strange but interesting tourist traps, with the twins continually receiving weird encoded messages from an unknown source --- all while somebody is still trying to kill them.

by Elizabeth Scott - Dystopian, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult 14+

Grace was raised to be an Angel, a herald of death by suicide bomb. But she refuses to die for the cause, and now she’s on the run. In search of a border she may never reach, she travels among malevolent soldiers on a decrepit train crawling through the desert.