Eight Days

I love a road trip and I loved this book. Sami Stanic lives on the edge of a very thin wedge. No mother. No father. Just a reformed alcoholic grandfather, Carl, whom she fears, without her constant vigilance, will return to drinking and abandon her. It's a fulltime job to keep herself safe. That sen......more

4.5 Really touching YA book about young girl dealing with the effects of her family member's addictions. The good, the bad and the ugly are all included here. Highly recommend.......more

5/5 stars. I’ve never read a book by Teresa Toten that I didn’t love and this one was no exception. Full of heart and raw emotion this was a roller coaster of a read. So so SO well written and a book that doesn’t shy away from tough topics. Trigger warnings: drug addiction, alcoholism.......more

Such a well-written important book. It weaves in the transformation of life in Thorncliffe Park that has occurred there and in many other locales in Canada over the past 50 years into a story of personal discovery. So neatly done and obviously well-researched. All young adults in Canada should be ab......more