Books by Jen Calonita and Complete Book Reviews
Jen Calonita, Author . Little, Brown $16.99 (297p) ISBN 978-0-316-01717-6
This novel set at a summer camp offers much of what one might expect: crushes on older counselors, cabin-mate rivalries, late-night sneak-outs and lots of bonding between campers. Counselor-in-training Sam is at a disadvantage when she first arrives
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Jen Calonita. Little, Brown/Poppy, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-09113-8
There’s plenty of drama but few surprises in this contemporary rags-to-riches story from Calonita (Reality Check), first in a four-book series. When 15-year-old orphan Izzie’s grandmother/guardian is placed in a nursing home, Izzie is whisked off to
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Jen Calonita. Sourebooks Jabberwocky, $15.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4926-0156-2
Calonita (the Belles series) blithely samples from fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and folklore in this lighthearted first book in the Fairy Tale Reform School series. Gilly is the 12-year-old daughter of a poor cobbler who lives in a boot, and she has
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Jen Calonita. Point, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-338-16115-1
Sophomores Lidia Sato, Sydney Marino, and Julianna Ramirez attend the private Bradley Academy in Florida where the Nightingales, the school’s female a cappella group, may have to disband due to a shortage of talented singers. An unexpected kiss from
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Jen Calonita. Sourcebooks, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-7282-7703-5
In a prologue that occurs in 1825 Long Island, Evelyn Terry, having witnessed a strange
man board a ship that she’s certain belongs to pirates, determines to record the event—and everything
she observes thereafter—in her journal. The primary...
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Jen Calonita. Scholastic, $8.99 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-5461-7677-0
Calonita (Charmed) presents an effervescent, heartwarming tale of four tweens named Taylor and their quest to meet their idol, Taylor Swift. Hardcore Swift fan Taylor Bennett—also known as Teffy—is dreading her first day of middle school. The newly...
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Jen Calonita, illus. by Kristen Gudsnuk. Little, Brown, $17 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-25972-9
Calonita (Flunked) targets Directioners and other boy band devotees with this effervescent first book in the V.I.P. series. Twelve-year-old Mackenzie Lowell and her two best friends live for the band Perfect Storm and are dying to see them in...
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