TUESDAY: Wuthering High

Wuthering High (geared to teens and young adults) is the first book in the Bard Academy series. Miranda has gotten herself into huge trouble - she took her step-mother's credit card and charged up $1000 and also wrecked her dad's car. Now she's being sent to a boarding school for delinquents called Bard Academy. And if that wasn't bad enough, Miranda and her new friends start having strange and supernatural experiences that seem a lot like stories from classic literature. Great premise and clever story. Some language and scary situations make this a series for older readers.

In The Scarlet Letterman, Miranda is settling into her life at Bard after surviving her first semester. Now she is dating the campus hottie, but she can't shake thoughts of the brooding Heathcliff. While she tries to sort out her feelings, her life on campus is crumbling - accusations of plagerism, missing faculty, rumors about her activities with the entire basketball team and a monster in the woods are all making her life difficult. This volume was frustrating for me because Miranda is falsely accused of things and is railroaded by nasty backstabbers. Those sorts of books stress me out. That stress aside, this was a good story that sent me right back to the library to get the third book in the series.

In Moby Clique, Miranda's little sister is now on campus and she has become a follower of Miranda's nemesis. Miranda is set up a lot in this book, too, which is stressful, but not to the extent of the last book. There were good twists and turns in what turns out to be a great "sister" story. There's no word yet if there will be a fourth book in the series.