(3) YA While in juvie, hardcore rocker Ritchie must keep a journal every day about the events that led to his incarceration. Seamlessly shifting between his experiences inside Progressive Progress and his prior adventures in the underground music scene, Ritchie reluctantly examines his life and the tragedies that shaped him. Like hardcore music, Beaudoin's prose focuses on rhythm with punchy, abrasive, often comedic narration.

Reviewer: Shara Hardeson

(2) YA After seventeen-year-old Nick Sole accidentally-on-purpose causes a major meat contamination incident at a processing plant, he finds himself confronted with a full-blown zombie outbreak. Beaudoin's blackly comedic tale takes zombie lore to new territory--with the outbreak's unusual origin and with its consideration of the next phase of human evolution. This satisfying read features an original voice, sly pop-culture references, and a twist ending.

Reviewer: Katie Bircher | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2012

(3) YA Teenage private eye Dalton Rev is hired to investigate the murder of one of his school's most beloved students. While searching for the truth, Rev meets a series of dubious characters, fumbles through the seedy underbelly of the school's cliques, and falls for the girl who hired him. The proliferation of detective slang creates a unique noir high school world.

Reviewer: Randy Ribay

(2) YA Illustrated by Wilfred Santiago. Goth teen Sophie Blue lost her father, possibly to evil scientists, maybe to the "other woman"; she also could be delusional. Readers proceed from chapter none to chapter twenty, take a comic-strip break, then return from twenty to none. This funhouse mélange of action-adventure, romance, and dystopian science fiction also includes social commentary about the global economy, consumerism, and bio-engineering.

Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2009

(2) YA Stan has a 165 IQ and works at a video store. He also harbors a vague plan to write a screenplay. In this funny first novel, the broad caricature of Stan's family life provides some laughs, but the full-on slapstick climax is a bit over the top. A romantic opportunity won and lost plays out believably, as does the satisfying ending.

Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2007