Abby Petree

YA Book Reviewer/Writer

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Abby Petree has been writing for the Young Folks’ Books section for the past two years, but she’s been overanalyzing everything she reads and watches since day one. Seriously, don’t even bring up Beauty and the Beast. Outside of this website, she teaches 6th grade English in Northern California and works as a freelance writer and social media manager on the side.

Book Review: One of Us is Next by Karen McManus

A game of school-wide Truth or Dare turns deadly in One of Us is Next, the highly anticipated sequel to Karen McManus’s One of Us is Lying. It’s been a year and a half since we left Bayview High, and…

Book Review: The Conference of the Birds by Ransom Riggs

Once again, Ransom Riggs delivers on rich world-building and unexpected suspense in The Conference of the Birds, the latest addition to the Miss Peregrine’s series.  Diving back into this series always feels like coming home for me. It just gives…

Looking Back on Gillian Armstrong’s Little Women

With Christmas and a new adaptation of Little Women a day away, the nostalgia is starting to set in. I can’t help but remember long winters when I was a little kid, curling with my blanket and watching this movie…

Book Review: Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins

If you love addictive rom-coms with two swoon worthy love interests, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things by Jacqueline Firkins is the book for you. I have a weakness for both Jane Austen retellings and To All the Boys I’ve…

Book Review: The Weight of a Soul by Elizabeth Tammi

Did you just see Frozen II and are looking for another story of sisterly love to fill that empty void in your heart? Elizabeth Tammi’s The Weight of a Soul might be just the book you’re looking to read. The…

Book Review: The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

“All you have and all you are will rot away to nothing. You will be nothing. You are nothing.” All your hopes and dreams for a book filled with agonizing romance and pain-filled choices will be answered in the stunning…

Book Review: Every Stolen Breath by Kimberly Gabriel

Your heart rate will race and your emotions will soar when you read Kimberly Gabriel’s new YA thriller Every Stolen Breath. I know that I could barely put it down, despite all the papers I had to write and classes…