A Light in the Attic
Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.
2,998-word summary · 13 min read
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A Flicker in the Dark
Psychologist Chloe Davis faces copycat disappearances in Baton Rouge twenty years after her father confessed to murders.
3,074-word summary · 14 min read
A Child Called It
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
2,326-word summary · 10 min read
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica.
2,121-word summary · 9 min read
The Rosie Project
Melbourne genetics professor Don Tillman launches the Wife Project to find a partner by questionnaire, then meets chaotic Rosie Jarman and agrees to help her…
2,780-word summary · 12 min read
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
On a snowy night a doctor gives away his newborn daughter and tells his wife she died.
2,154-word summary · 10 min read
The Last Song
Angry teen Ronnie spends a summer in Wilmington with her pianist father, finding first love, family repair, and loss.
2,761-word summary · 12 min read
The Duke and I
Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset fake a courtship that turns real, then face truth about children.
2,107-word summary · 9 min read
The Art of Racing in the Rain
A dying dog named Enzo retells the life of his race car driver owner Denny, from love and fatherhood to loss and a custody fight.
2,767-word summary · 12 min read
Everything I Never Told You
In 1977 Ohio, sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee is found dead in a lake, forcing her interracial family to face the secret pressures around race, school and duty that…
2,711-word summary · 12 min read
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Sidda Walker, a theater director, fights with her mother Vivi after a New York Times interview, then learns Vivi's past through the Ya-Ya scrapbook from…
2,611-word summary · 12 min read
Dear John
A soldier and a student trade letters through war until duty and waiting pull them apart.
2,138-word summary · 10 min read