Is It Really a Selection?

By Aijah H.

Recently I read The Selection by Kiera Cass. The Selection is the first book in her Selection series. The main character America Singer is thrown into a world of competition and danger as she and thirty-four other girls enter the Selection. The Selection is a prestigious competition for the Prince of Illéa. Prince Maxon is the heartthrob of Illéa, loved by all. Except for America. In their world, everyone lives in an eight-level caste system. The Royal family is at the top, and the lowest level being workers. America loves her life in the fifth level and wishes to stay with her secret love Aspen. Forced to put her name into the drawing for the Selection, America now has to compete for the Prince's love, but only wants to stay in for the money they pay her poor family. Eventually, a love triangle develops as America realizes Maxon is deeper than she ever thought.

Everything Everything

By Zamari R.

The novel I have reviewed is Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon she is Jamaican, grew up in New York and lives in Los Angeles.  The only other novel she has written is The Sun is also a Star, Both books were best sellers. Everything Everything falls under the genre of Young adult fiction.

Was The Girl Stolen?

By K J R.

The book I read was called Girl Stolen and it was written by April Henry. April has recently wrote a second book for Girl Stolen, called: Count All Her Bones, she has also written other books. The genre of the book Girl Stolen is young adult fiction, so I definitely wouldn't recommend this to children. The book Girl Stolen is about a girl named Cheyenne Wilder who is sixteen years old and is blind. She basically gets kidnapped, but she wasn't supposed to be, you see, it was a mistake, the man who "kidnapped" her wasn't trying to get her, he only wanted the car.

The True Story of a Douchebag

By Isabelle S.

The burn journals is actually a true story written by Brent Runyon. Brent was just a kid when this all happened, so the book makes it sound like a teenage boy is actually telling the story, which is kind of aggravating because teenage boys are so annoying and like to complain a lot about how their life is no fair.I thought at first this was going to be a good read because it was based of a true event, but I guess I was wrong. 

Loser book report

By Harrison D.

The book loser is a story of a boy named Donald Zinkoff, He is often called names like loser by his classmates for his Clumsiness, and his lack of athletic and school performance. The book shows him in his elementary and middle school years. He was usually referred to as just Zinkoff rather than his full name. He wasn't good at school and had little to no friends but he loved school and refused to miss a day. When Zinkoff enters the 3rd grade he has to have surgery to fix an upside down valve in his stomach causing him to vomit often. He had to miss the first few weeks of his 3rd grade year recovering from the surgery. During this Period he decided to try and conquer his fears of the "Furnace Monster" as he called it. As the weeks go on Zinkoff slowly makes his way to the bottom of the stairs and conquers his fear of the "Furnace Monster."

When Cheer Fades Away

By Amber L.

  I picked the book," Exit, Pursued by Bear," about cheerleading because I love cheer and I do it as a sport for high school. This book is about a girl that has been a flyer. She has also been a captain for her cheer team. This is her last year as being a captain for her team, she's a senior. She has been such a great help, everything she has got done for her team is fading away from her.

One Crazy Summer

By Rubiel O.

Rita William-Garcia's historic fiction, One Crazy Summer, is about three sisters who are on the search to look for their mother who abandoned them. Most of the story takes places in Oakland, California in the late 60's. All summer they were in California with Cecile which is their crazy mother, and they face tasks they don't usually face in Brooklyn, New York.

To The book I read this month

By Jaime K.

The book "To all the boys I've loved before" by Jenny Han is a story that follows Lara Jean as she goes through her junior year of high school. The story begins as Lara Jean's sister Margot is leaving for college in Scotland. Since their mother died long ago Margot always had a sort of mother role that Lara Jean now must take on for their youngest sister Kitty. Through all of this some trouble arise is Lara's life. When she develops a crush on a boy, she writes a letter to him to cope and get her feelings in order. She has written 5. Her troubles begin when she finds out that these letters have been sent out to all the people she wrote them for.

Brooklyn and Nico

By August R.

Lisa Schroeder wrote this book in an interesting format to tell a story. This story was told in poems between two teenagers who lost the same person but had different relationships with him, through the loss of this boy they become closer. The story also deals with paranormal activities and mental illnesses that come from losing this person.

The Long Road Ahead

By Tyler M.

Washington is a black man in 1874 fighting in the 10th cavalry. He and and other black men from the 10th cavalry are hoping on a train to fight in another battle. Wolf, a Cheyenne warrior go to fight for the other side.

Wonder

By Aaliyah O.

Having a facial deformity is hard. Especially when your Auggie. A ten year old boy with a facial deformity that has made making new friends difficult for him. Auggie has been homeschooled since 5th grade. But all of a sudden his parents decide it's time for him to go to actual school. So they sign him up to go to Beecher Prep. A private middle school. The story tells about Auggie's journey in a school with new surroundings and people. Its interesting to read about because most of us are lucky enough to not have to go through getting looks and mean comments in our everyday life. But auggie has a good way of coping with it and it shows that in this book.

The Midnighter Series Strikes Again

By Nathan T.

The Midnighters: Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld is the third book in the Midnighters series. This book is about a new phenomenon about the bluetime, which is not in the lore. When our protagonists are trying to solve this Rex is trying to deal with his hybrid self. It all starts when the bluetime emerged in the morning, 14 hours before midnight. Usually the blue time, an extra hour in the day where only monsters and our heros lurk, is only supposed to come at midnight. Also, the rips or untimely bluetime are shorter than the one at midnight, and there are random. However they are not not predictable.

They Don't Know The Truth

By Mackenzie B.

If I Lie, by Corrine Jackson, is a realistic fiction book. Jackson has written a total of four books including, If I Lie, Touched, Pushed, and Ignited. If I Lie is a book about Sophie Quinn, or just Quinn to most, a teenage girl who lives in the small little town of Sweethaven, North Carolina. Everyone thinks she cheated on her boyfriend of two years….but did she really or is that just what they think?

Truly, Madly, Creepy

Truly, Madly, Creepy

By Ryan M

The book I curiously found in the library is called Truly, Madly, Deadly. It is written by Hannah Jayne, she is know for writing mysterious fiction like this one. Some of her other books are called See Jane Run, The Dare, Twisted, and The Escape.

The Gruesome Diezmo

By Ishan K.

The Diezmo is a realistic fiction narrative by Rick Bass that follows Sam Houston, who impulsively decides to join the Texas Militia searching for glory, through the doomed Mier Expedition of 1842.

Original Fake: completely original

By Christopher O.

You know when you see a movie that you don't know whether your going to like. You find it's interesting from the preview to the sneak peaks but you can't decide what it's about. You've never seen a movie quite like this before and you don't know whether it'll do bad or not. It goes in to bizzare concepts that sometimes you relate to and sometimes you don't. And when you finish watching it, you don't know exactly what it was trying to say, but that it does it well. Your glad that you saw a good movie with good acting and directing, but it's the story you could take or leave.

She Can See it in Your Eyes

By Sarah W.

When Rachel Ward wrote an award-winning short story, she did not expect it to turn into her award winning book, "Numbers." The brilliant story about a girl haunted by numbers, and a trouble maker trying to find a friend, is new to the world of literature. The trilogy, which includes The Chaos and Infinity has already sold more than half a million copies.

Twins Related to Fairy Tales?

By D.L. Buddhineni

Chris Colfer is a number one New York Times bestselling author and Golden Globe -winning actor. He has been acting for most of his life, and is best known as Kurt Hummel on the famous FOX television series ‘’Glee”. His books include the first six novels in the “Land of Stories’’ series. He has also written “Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal’’ which is a novelization based on the script he wrote for the film ‘’Struck By Lightning’’. This talented person also co - produced and starred in that movie. As you can see, Colfer has done a lot in his lifetime. But his writing career all started with ‘’The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell.’’ which is the first book in the “Land of Stories Series.’’

Is Blood Thick?

By Nolan L.

The book Blood is Thicker is just one out of the several novels in the series Bluford High. The main character in this story is a young boy named Hakeem Randall. He is stuck in a bad part of his life right now and doesn't know what to do anymore. What's happening in his life gets worse and worse  

Surviving the Wrath of the Red Planet

By: Aiden D.

Entertainment Weekly said " this book is riveting… Cast Away meets Apollo 13." They described The Martian absolutely perfectly. It was so much fun to read and was really exciting. Andy Weir wrote this book to show the challenges of a man who had been stuck on Mars and what he was forced to do with no one else by his side. It was suspenseful and overall, a terrific book.

The Midnighters; touching darkness

By Nathan T.

The Midnighters; Touching Darkness, by Scott Westerfeld, is an action, science fiction novel with a hint of drama. Like the first book the five protagonists are Jessica, Rex, Jonathan, Melissa, and Desdemona. In this book of midnighters; the five uncover darkling mysteries and secrets as well as more midnighter history. As the story progresses so does the relationships between some of the midnights, something we did not see much of in the previous book. Even though there is some "romance", Westerfield does not hesitate to start up the action; with the first full fledged fight with the darklings in chapter 4.

Trapped in the Jar

By Keisha N.

For our book review, I read the book The Bell Jar which was written by Sylvia Plath. She is also the author of Ariel, The Collected Poems, Crossing the Water and and more, that's just a few book she's written. The genera of this novel is Roman à clef meaning it's real people and events that happen but with fake or other names used instead. The Bell Jar was first published under the fake name "Victoria Lucas" in 1963 and it's a  semi-autobiographical, with different names of the places and people in the book. The story starts off in the year is 1953. Esther Greenwood is a college student in Massachusetts who has just finished her year there and she has won a paid internship at Ladies Day magazine in New York City for a whole month along with eleven other college students. Jay Cee is her manager there and has high expectations for Esther. For the month in NY, Esther makes a good friend who's name is Doreen and is kind of a slacker. Her boyfriend's name is Buddy Willard. He's a Yale medical student and doesn't care for poetry and writing like Esther does. Working for Ladies Day should be the best and most exciting experience for Esther but she actually feels numb to it all. She's not sure what to do with her life after college.

Bull

By Aijah H.

Uniquely written and skillfully worded, Bull by David Elliott is a great find. This book tells the story of the Minotaur, a greek mythical creature. From his birth to his death, Bull shows the Minotaur's thoughts as well as those around him. The first section titled "Book 1", focuses on Poseidon, God of the Sea, and Pasiphae, Queen of  Crete and wife of Minos. They have an affair as Poseidon does with many women in similar myths. Minos finds out and in a fit of rage curses Poseidon and the sea. Poseidon retaliates by cursing Pasiphae's unborn child to be half bull. She names her child Asterion, but Minos and the kingdom call him the Minotaur leading Minos to hide the child's true parentage from the public. Treated as an animal, he is locked in a labyrinth made by Daedalus, the Royal Engineer. Not until after Asterion is locked away, does his half sister Ariadne find out they're related. Minos, fearing the public will find out about his connection with Asterion, sends in Theseus, a warrior and heir to the Athens throne, to slay Asterion.

Forever and Always

By E. Edes

         Jenny Han's book Forever and Always,  Lara Jean. This book is about a girl in her senior year of high school. The stress of college kicks in.  

In Honor Of Halloween

By John K.

I think the book called Just After Sunset by Stephen king is really good and the stories are interesting and here are my favorite ones. 

Boy 2 Girl is 2 Funny 4 Me

By Christopher O.

You Know that feeling of living in the moment making decisions and feeling of living in the moment. But then you realize there was a huge problem with the plan but you've already gone through with it. And now your trying your best to find a way to slip away, but more factors come in with more problems, and it's now mixed up with your big problem. And now you have this big massive poly-problem, and you know there's know way around it so you just say: Fuck it, and try to go out out with a big bang before the dust settles.

I'm Starving for the Hunger Games

By Aiden D

The Hunger Games was an action and drama book that was extremely electrifying and exciting. The book was written by Suzanne Collins, and she was inspired to write this story because of watching T.V. She was watching a live coverage of a war and switching to a show with people battling in a show and she got the idea for the amazing book called The Hunger Games.

The User Boyfriend

By Aaliyah O.

The Fill-in Boyfriend Boyfriend is an amazing book for teens. Not because many teens can relate to it but because it's about a teen girl going through a confusing break up. Gia is a senior in highschool. When she is in the parking lot about to enter prom her college boyfriend Bradley dumps her. She right away feels embarrassed to first walk into prom alone but to face her mean group of friends with no one by her side. It was hard enough to make her friends believe that she actually had a boyfriend even more a boyfriend in college.

Im running For the Maze Runner

By Ryan M.

The book I picked out is called The Maze Runner. It is the first in its series and i'm looking forward to reading the other books. They're called The Scorch trials, The death cure, The Kill Order, and The Fever Code. They were written by James Dashner. The genre of this book is science fiction.

Adventure for freedom with Huck and Jim

By: Tyler M.

Huckleberry Finn and his friend Thomas Sawyer have a good sum of money from their earlier adventure. Huckleberry then decides to go on more adventures with Jim his friend.

Ball Is Life, but not for this kid...

By Nolan L

The book Travel Team is a novel about a young boy named Danny Walker who loves the sports basketball. But there is a downside to this. Danny is too small. Danny's father Richie was a first-round draft pick for the Golden State Warriors, but Danny was unlucky and has always been the smaller kid in the group.

Rash makes you Itch for More

By Ishan K.

Pete Hautman is an award-winning author who has added another great book to his name. "Rash", a novel about a child living in a futuristic version of America that has been overcome by needs for personal safety. Bo Marsten lives in the United States of America in the year the 2070s. The United States has become obsessed with personal safety and has gone to great lengths to ensure that every individual is safe at all times. Even contact sports like football are now illegal and all but forgotten. Alcohol consumption and unhealthy foods like french fries are illegal now as well.

Yes! We Are Latinos

Yes! We Are Latinos

By Rubiel O.

Yes We Are Latinos is the english version of a book named Si Somos Latinos. This book is compact with short stories and poems of young latinos and latinas who live in different parts of the United States. Most of these stories and poems are based on current events in their lives. The authors Isabel Campoy and Alma Flor Ada are best known for their great children's books, novels, and poetry. They have both won many awards for their literacy work. Isabel Campoy has also written My Day from A to Z, Tales Our Abuelitas Told, and Get Up, Rick! Alma Flor Ada has also written Jordi's Star, Yours Truly Goldilocks, and The Gold Coin.

On the fence

By Amber L

     This person was being raised by her single dad and three older brothers. She can outrun every boy including her neighbors. But since she is a girl she has no idea of what it is being a girl. When she starts working to pay off tickets she finds a strange new world of makeup, dresses,skirts. She started to feel weird around girl stuff because she didn't know what girl stuff looked like.she stays outside in her backyard at night talking to her neighbor about her problems.Braden probably knows her more than anyone does.

Getting Outta There

By Mackenzie B.

    Just Visiting by Dahlia Adler is a realistic fiction book. Adler has written a total of six books including, Just Visiting, Behind the Scenes, Under the Lights, Last Will and Testament, Out on Good Behavior, and Right out of Refusal. Just Visiting is about two girls, Reagan Forrester and Victoria Reyes, who can not wait to get out of their small, middle of nowhere town of Charytan, Kansas.

Mysterious that lay inside a hole

By Akash P

Max the main character a geek and a good person, he would never steal or dude illegal or bad things or so you thought. One day he digging for fossils and make a pit into hell and out of that pit comes out a demon. This demon is not your typical demon he is a demon who eats a lot of junk food, watches too much tv and plays video games. This demon's name is Burgundy Cluttermuck and he refuses to leave the basement of Max's mom's house. Even though this demon seems lazy he will kill everyone and everything Max cares about if he doesn't listen. So he makes a promise with the demon to cure his mom if Max finds a mansion with a hot tub in it. So he teams up with a girl named Lore who knows a couple of things that are evil to find a mansion. In the end, he will not quit on his mother and find a way to save her.

How not to save a life

By Jaime K.

The book "How To Save a Life" by Sara Zarr follows two teenage girls on different paths that come together. Jill is a 17 year old in her last year of high school. Her and her mom, Robin, are grieving over the loss of Jill's father 11 months prior. Mandy is a 19 year old raised in a neglectful household and finds herself pregnant. Robin makes the decision that she does not want to give up on love. She decides to adopt a baby and finds out about Mandy through an adoption website. When Mandy moves in with them it changes everyone. Robin is excited, Jill feels as though her world is falling apart and Mandy feels at home for the first time in her life.

Ask Me

By Isabelle S.

This is the  best book I have ever read. "Ask me" written by Kimberly Pauley  makes you invested in this book more and more every single page.Kimberly Pauley grabbed my attention during the first sentence, it didn't start off like every other book with some stupid conversation or the characters telling the reader how awful their life is,ask me started off as a diary or journal entry of the psychopath who made everyone's life a living hell.

A Masterpiece by John Green

By Hayleigh F.

The Fault In Our Stars is written by John Green, along with many other intriguing novels. Other books written by John Green include Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska, and An Abundance of Katherines. This novel is a drama about a girl, named Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is diagnosed with Stage 4 Thyroid cancer. Whilst struggling to find the good in life, she meets and falls in love with Augustus Waters. Readers are then brought along their love story, with all the ups and downs.

Freak? Boy

Freak? Boy

By K J Relation

I read the book called Freakboy, By: Kristin Elizabeth Clark.  The book was about a boy named Brendan, who is starting to think that he should've been born a female. He often finds himself jealous of things that females get to have, for example; their long hair, soft skin, and dresses.

Freakboy's genre is Young Adult Fiction. The author has also written: Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity. I plan on reading that book next. The way the author wrote Freakboy was in verses, almost like poetry. I really enjoyed reading it, it was fun to read.

With this author's novels, they have helped trans, and cis people. For many she has changed their lives, for the better. She is also the founder of the Ocean Beach Poets Society. She is also an advocate for human kindness, and from what I've heard she tries to stay off social media.

I don't have anything negative to say about this book. I enjoyed it a lot, it made me think a lot too, not so much about me, but about the struggles that these types of kids go through. It just really puts a different perspective on things, I have never truly seen a book like this, so it was really interesting.

Altogether I think everyone should read this book, simply because it makes someone think. If you read this book I cannot guarantee you'll love, but I would guarantee it might make you think more. So DEFINITELY read this book!

​Don’t Let Your Anger Take Control Of You

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By: D.L. B.

Spellbound by Anna Dale, is a mysterious book that takes you on an magical adventure. Thirteen year old Athene and her little brother Zach, get caught up in quite an adventure due to Athene not being to control her anger. It’s summer vacation, so Athene and her family decide to go out of town to meet up with some family. Athene is very disappointed about this vacation because she would much rather want to hang out with her friends, instead of spending the summer with her family in some random town. Her biggest problem, is that she has to spend it with her annoying brother Zach.

I Wish I Could Read "More Than This"

I Wish I Could Read "More Than This"

By: Sarah W

Patrick Ness's fifth novel, "More Than This", is a fantastic piece of literature. A mix between a dystopian and science-fiction novel, Ness really stepped it up with this one. Patrick Ness, aged 46, is British-American author, and can be found on patrickness.com.

The chilling, Yet lovely Bones

By Sarah G

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a novel about a 14 year old girl named Susie Salmon. It was a cold snowy day when Susie was taking a shortcut through the cornfield home from school. Her weird neighbor,Mr.Harvey, was calling her name and she went to see him. He was creeping her out as soon as she saw him. He began to ask her questions about herself and then told her he was building a little fort for all the kids is the neighborhood. When her asked her if she wanted to see it she said no I to go home because it was getting dark out. Eventually she went down to check it out and he made her sit down and have a drink. He was being strange and she felt uncomfortable. When she told him she had to leave he wouldn't let her. The author, Alice Sebold also wrote other books to go along with Lovely Bones including The Looking Glass, and Lovely Bones.Picador.

The Maze Jogger

By Hayleigh F.

"The Scorch Trials" is the second book in The Maze Runner Series, written by James Dashner. The other books included in this series are "The Maze Runner", "The Death Cure", "The Kill Order", and "The Fever Code". This book is an amazing science fiction novel that includes a lot of action and events that leave you wanting to read more.

The Selection

By Aijah H.

    Recently I read The Selection by Kiera Cass. The Selection is the first book in her Selection series. The main character America Singer is thrown into a world of competition and danger as she and thirty four other girls enter the Selection. The Selection is a prestigious competition for the Prince of Illéa. Prince Maxon is the heartthrob of Illéa, loved by all. Except for America. In their world everyone lives in an eight level caste system. The Royal family being at the top, and the lowest level being workers. America loves her life in the fifth level, and wishes to stay with her secret love Aspen. Forced to put her name into the drawing for the Selection, America now has to compete for the Prince's love, but only wants to stay in for the money they pay her poor family. Eventually a love triangle develops as America realizes Maxon is deeper than she ever thought.

People who Roam in the Dark

by Nathan T.

The Midnighters: the secret hour, by Scott Westerfeld, is a action drama story about Jessica Day, and her newly met friends. Jessica is from Chicago, Illinois but she recently moved to the small town of Bixby, Oklahoma. The book starts off with a 2nd person view of Rex Greene, a student at bixby high. We meet his friends Dess and Melissa early on in the book. Jessica ends up "befriending" Rex, Dess, and Melissa. Jessica and her new friends are midnighters, people who are able to live in the 25th hour of the day when everything else is frozen. The 25th hour is the secret hour where an ancient species hides away, this species are known as the Darklings.

What's Everything About

By E. E.

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon is about a girl who's got a life different than others. She's got a strict diet, and a strict schedule. Her only friend is her nurse. She has a rare disease SCID. Or as Madeline the main character calls it Baby Bubble Disease. The only people she socializes with are her mom and her nurse. She meets a boy and everything changes. Olly, he's the new neighbor, she talks to him though texting, emails, and messages written on their windows with markers. She opens up to him. She wants to leave the house, which isn't good for her, she could die. She wants to explore the world, but will she?