This book review hath not a clever title

By: Keysler Q.

The name of the book is Travel team and the main character is a young boy that is small for his age. His name Danny, he is a big fan of sports and loves to play basketball. Danny finds out there are tryouts for the travel basketball team and wants to join. What Danny does is practice till it gets to dark or until his parents tell him to come in for the night. Danny would put chairs out there and dribble through them like he was dribbling out the clock at the end of the game. This book is very inspiring for those who play sports or anyone who has goals in life.

Lockdown This Book

By Matthew R.

The book Lockdown is written by Alexander Gordon Smith. It was published on March 5, 2009. The author Alexander Gordon Smith has written many other books like the Lockdown series that contains 5 books in the series and he has also written many other series. These series include The Inventors, The Fury, and The Devil's Engine. He likes to write children's novels as well. Smith's idea for the furnace series was influenced by his younger years when he didn't hang out with really good people and he got one of his teeth knocked out at a fight. The main genre is young adult fiction and science fiction. It is a really cool book to kids about a boy named Alex and his friend Toby who rob people.

Palo Alto

By Arrianna Mohler

4/18/17

Writer James Franco always has different ideas that no one would ever imagine. In his movies and in his books he writes as well as his acting career. Palo Alto was written because it relates to his home life when he lived in Palo Alto, California. Many different events go on, many illegal events.

Palo Alto is written by James Franco, he has also written many other books quite similar to this one. Such as A California Childhood and Hollywood Dreaming: Stories, Pictures, and Poems. All James Franco's books are very intimate and powerful. Palo Alto is a short story based on James' life as a teenager growing up in Palo Alto, California. This book really reflects on the deep feelings and thoughts of a teenager growing up in the spotlight as well as getting into trouble sometimes. The story mainly talks about stuff that James has gone through and what he's seen and heard about. Many illegal acts take place as well, like teenagers drinking and smoking weed on the daily, sex with a minor, someone driving down the highway the opposite way for the thrill of it and much more. The story has many stories within itself. There are many characters that have trouble within their own life and even some that have trouble telling a certain someone how they feel. April the main character, is stuck on love. She's confused of whether she should continue seeing her soccer coach or go for the one who's truly in love with her and her age, Teddy.

Overall, I really enjoyed Palo Alto. I thought it was a great storyline and had some things people could relate to in today's world. I liked how there were many different characters and how they all had their own personal stories and issues. Eventually you figure out all the characters stories are sort of alike. Considering they are all teenagers and think their worlds are coming down on them when really it's just a little bump in the road they can easy get over. All of the characters seemed real because they had real world problems and secrets. Many teenagers today are very secretive in their lives, because if their parents knew what they were doing they'd be in hot water. This book really reflects kind of on the opposite, sometimes a lot of the characters parents are barely around and I feel that is a big problem with today's world. Lack of supervision can cause wandering minds that get into trouble.

I've always adore James Franco's work, between his films and books they are very intriguing. James has many books similar to this one based on his California childhood as well as some other books. This was definitely a good read for me, it was very realistic. I highly recommend.

This hath not a proper title

By James M.

    In his first novel published ever Kurt Vonnegut delivers a captivating 1984 esque novel about a not so far off future world in which the area has been divided into districts in order to better run production. The future world consists of powerful machines that create a society of automation. All of the menial tasks once done by the low skilled laborers have been replaced by high-speed machines.

The Strangest Book About WWII

By Jack M.

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five is a book about Billy Pilgrim and his time looping and his experience in World War II.  Billy Pilgrim's time looping takes the story to many places such as Dresden and a fictional planet called Tralfamadore. Billy was an American soldier in World War II who was in Dresden when it was attacked.  The time looping takes the story to every major moment in his life and we learn of the brutal tragedies of war from his experiences.

TBH pt 2.

By: Yonalys G.

   Dark Eyes is a book filled with mystery and action. William Richter did a fine job with the details of this book. Wallis Stoneman is a young girl who was born in Russia, but adopted by a rich family in New York City. She, with the help from her friends, are on a quest to fill in the blanks from her past.

This review hath not a title

By Cath C.

William Goldman is the author of "The Princess Bride" which is a tale about love and high adventure. He has written many exciting and thrilling novels such as, The Temple of God and Soldier In The Rain. Other than books, Goldman also wrote many screenplays as another one of his hobbies.

Ball is Life

By Isaac R,

The book I read was ''When the game was ours" by Magic Johnson, Larry bird and Jackie Macmullan. I would recommend this book because it teaches you about friendship and how they pushed each other to be the best at what their doing! If I were to rate this book out of five stars it would definitely deserve four and a half stars. I would definitely recommend this book to any basketball junky like myself to read this book. The book was very inspirational.

Anotha classic by John Steinbeck

By: Rosaura R.

Let me start off by saying that this story is confusing at first but it all started to make sense. It has to do with two men, ones pretty much normal whose name is George and the other, who is Lennie has a mental disability. Both men have a dream of having a little piece of land and farming on it. Lennie since he's such a big, strong person, he grabs a mouse and starts to play with it.Then George comes and reveals that Lennie has killed the mouse. George always tells Lennie to protect himself instead of protecting others.  Lennie has a very big heart and personality but no one seems to understand how he is except George. George decides that he's better off without Lennie because he is just to much to handle. Always doing something wrong which should be expected from a person who has a mental disability.

Steinbeck succeeds because the characters he paints in your head are exact and it's truly amazing how exact it is. It's a sad story and it really puts the reader to think and ask themselves what's going to happen next. An author that makes you wonder, c'mon how much better can it get?

Book takes Queen

By Izzy L.

"Winning the game can mean losing everything", As the book the Grandmaster say's. Author David Klass is an acclaimed screenwriter and the author of many popular YA novels, He said that he wrote this novel because when he was nineteen he had been a chess player but he then gave up and only returned to it thirty years later when his two children started to play in tournaments. The character Daniel Pratzer is a freshmen and is on the chess team at his school. Daniel and his chess team have a weekend-long tournament in the big apple New York. But the tournament is not just  any one on one chess game, it's a father and son chess tournament.But Daniel told his teammates that his father can't play chess. But they just told him whatever gibberish his dad was. But Daniel doesn't know much about his Dad.But as a teen Morris was a "Grandmaster" at chess. And since after he quit he came back to face another competitor of his.

The Lovely Bones, That Look from Above

By. Kaitlyn A

The fiction novel, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold is a reading that has to be read from the beginning to end because there is so many twist and turns that take the story into a whole different direction.

The science of mysteries

By: Maxim M.

An old book but has not died is the book of Asimov's Mysteries. It was published in 1968 about 40 years from now.  The book is a collection of fourteen stories that Isaac Asimov wrote between the years of 1954 and 1967 in magazines.Isaac Asimov was born in the soviet union but moved to america to become a professor and a science fiction writer. The stories are all science fiction mystery even though he said that some are borderline.

Called For

By Brie V.

It's not like I saw this in an ad or anything. It wasn't recommended to me. I was browsing through one of my favorite bookstores and I saw it. The book was named The Call. By Peadar O'Gullin, nobody popular. The front cover drew me to it. I read the quote at the back of the book. Another author, Danielle Vega, said it was "A must-read for anyone who's been sleeping too well at night." It seemed interesting to me.

A Key to the Door

By Estefania G.

Lock and Key is a novel that is very touching and perceptive, written by Sarah Dessen. Sarah Dessen is an author that writes young adult fiction. She has written other novels like Just Listen, The Truth About Forever, Keeping the Moon, and more. Ruby waits until she turns eighteen and can finally live on her own legally. Her plan wasn't exactly how she planned it, when she had to be reunited with Cora her sister that had left for ten years.

A New Start

By Josh K.

Magical Kingdom for Sale-Sold! Is the story of Ben Holiday, a very successful trial lawyer from Chicago. Holiday is mourning the tragic death of his wife and unborn child when he stumbles upon an add in an upscale Christmas catalog offering one "Magical Kingdom" for 1 million dollars. At first he is unsure on whether to accept the offer, but after realizing he wanted to start a new life. He receives a medallion and is transported to the magical kingdom of Landover. Ben learns that Landover has not had a proper king in close to 20 years, and it is slowly killing the land of its magic.

Pills That Kill

By Kayla L.

Shrink Rap is a somewhat well written novel by an author named Robert B. Parker. Mr. Parker has published and written over 20 books, such as Promised Land, God Save the Child, and Early Autumn. The piece of literary work that I chose to read was Shrink Rap and it would be classified under the genre of mystery and thriller. The story begins with two women who are friends, they are both divorced which ties into the overall plot. One women has a stalker ex-husband who is still interested in getting the last say in everything. With the author adding chilling details and stories, Shrink Rap is a must read for those who love a thrill that isn't that bad.

Star Wars meets Monty Python!

By Dan D

Tell me dear hitchhiker, did you bring a towel with you?  According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy you should. A book written by Douglas Adams (author of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series, deeper meaning of life, and Dirk gently's holistic detective agency.) of the sci-fi genre that perfectly balances dark nihilistic humor and sci-fi adventure and wonder. Follow Arthur, a perfectly normal human being if not a tad slow as he's brought by his new friend ford (an alien stuck on earth, trying to get back to Betelgeuse 5  on a trip across the galaxy after the destruction of earth. Just know that nothing will make sense, friendships will be forged and tested, and most importantly of all bring your copy of the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and of course a towel!

Review (Who wrote this? Where is the title of this review?)

Rasco and the Rats book, A review on Racso which is a 1986 sequel to the popular book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats that is written by Jane Leslie Conly. In the book In Racso has a community in Thorn Valley, where they are completely isolated from humanity. So the youngest son of Mrs. Frisby is Timothy Frisby, travels from his family's home to Thorn Valley.

Rasco is from bad rats and he has trouble in life with the town rats. Then when Timothy is on his trip he meets Racso at Thorn Valley. They were like two different rats. Then in Thorn Valley is suddenly threatened when humans begin planning to build a dam there, flooding the entire area. Racso, Timothy, and the entire rat colony must observe and sabotage the dam construction before the valley is underwater. That mostly is in the Sequel of the Rasco and the Rats.


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Absolutely Positively Not Bad

By Theodore R.

Over the past couple of weeks I have read Absolutely Positively Not by David LaRochelle. This book is a fictional comedy while at the same time being somewhat dramatic. It is about a young man who is trying to prove to everybody and himself that he is not gay.

All Eyes on Him

By Colby M.

               Lexington High School student-athlete Terrell Jamerson is the best high school basketball player in America. The agents, shoe companies, college coaches, and other representatives are all over him. In Foul Trouble, New York Times Bestselling sports novelist, John Feinstein, tells the realistic fiction tale of how tough life can be with the spotlight shining bright.

The End of the World as We Know It

By Owen L.

         World War Z is an entertaining novel that raises questions about future events as the plot progresses. Max Brooks plays the protagonist who is a United Nations Post War Commissioner. This novel looks back at previous events but communicates it in real-time as survivors of the great Zombie War tell their story.

No Lies Here

By Rose M.

Julie Anne Peters is able to make a captivating novel combining comedy, grief, and mystery all in one book. Lies my Girlfriend Told me held many surprises throughout the book.

Bucket Lists & Cancer

By Mitzy D.

Julie Halpern, an author of many young adult novels, wrote the fiction story "The F*ck It List". While dealing with her father's death in a car accident and with the fact that her best friend slept with her boyfriend all summer, Alex receives bad news; Becca, her best friend, has cancer. Not knowing if Becca was going to survive her illness, they made a deal; Alex was going to complete Becca's bucket list. As Becca went through her battle with cancer, Alex attempts to finish the whole bucket list, but events happen and new people come into her life which soon gets Alex to experience feelings she's never felt before.

And the Plane Goes Down

By: Priya Raval

Aircraft is a book that raises new questions at every page. Michael Crichton is an author that has a way of telling you the answer to the story without you knowing it. This book, Aircraft takes many unsuspected turns as Casey, the main character, tries to find out what caused a in-flight accident on a plane.

"Little Brother" Could be a Little Better

By Sahil M. Following the story of a technology-loving teenager after a terrorist attack on San Francisco, Little Brother is a thrilling book that crosses the digital world with civil rights from the real world. The author, Cory Doctorow, is a copyright activist and science fiction author with a lot of experience writing about the internet and digital laws. He is able to use this experience to create a gripping tale of the government infringing on citizens' digital rights.