Shepard, Sara.
PRETTY LITTLE LIARS
New York : HarperTempest, 2006
IL YA
ISBN 0060887311

(3 booktalks)

In Rosewood, Pennsylvania where the apple trees blow in the breeze and the air smells like Chanel No.5 everything seems perfect. For Hannah, Aria, Spencer, and Emily that's not the story. In Seventh grade the unthinkable happened, the girls' Best friend Alli disappeared on the night of their traditional end of the year sleepover. Now the girls are juniors in High School, and Alli is still missing. The girls have gone their separate ways, but something seems to bring them closer. Horrifying notes about their past from a mysterious person called "A". What's weird is no one knew about their secrets except for Alli. So where is Alli? What happened to her? Who is sending these frightening notes? Find out in Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. (Emma B., student)

Booktalk #2

Have you ever had a secret so scandalous that you only tell your only best friend? For Hanna, Aria, Spencer and Emily-Alison knows all of their juicy business. Until one day she vanishes and stirs up all of their lives and all of Rosewood Day Prep School. The remaining four friends disown each other and pretend like it never happened, until Alison starts sending them text messages and emails from the grave. 'Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.'
 This book is ideal for teenage girls probably around the ages of 14-18. They relate to this because I feel they go through some of the same experiences. Read Sara Sheperd's twisted fiction "Pretty Little Liars." (Katy, kromitti@bethanywv.edu, college student)

Booktalk #3

Pretty Little Liars is an engaging story of 5 friends bonded by the secrets they know about each other. Or are they? After one friend goes missing, the friendships between the other four fall apart. Each of the girls knows something or shared an especially big secret with the missing friend, Ali. When Ali starts contacting each of the other girls their worlds slowly start to unravel. Making out with teachers, coveting your sister’s boyfriends, crushing on the new girl in school and doing everything to be pretty this book will grab you and not let go.  (Book Talk Author: Candace Skoff, The Colorado Blue Spruce Award nominee 2012)