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by Antonio A

       The novel of Going Vintage is by Lindsey Leavitt. The story is about a girl named Mallory gets cheated on by her boyfriend Jeremy with his anime girl dating simulator. She tries to de-Jeremy her life by also de-modernizing her life by following a list of activities her grandmother did when she was a teenager back in 1962. Such activities include running for pep-squad secretary, host a fancy dinner party, create a homemade dress for homecoming, find a steady and do something edgy and dangerous. Despite this things start to get complicated and Mallory starts to wonder if going vintage is to far.

       I liked the book because it helped give you a feel for the what teenagers in a simpler time did for activities in high school and it was a funny teenage drama read.

       If you like teenage drama and the ideas of a simpler time, I would highly suggest you read it.

super cool book review

Desert Darkness is about a woman who goes to the Anza-Borrego Desert with her son and other tourists. They hike in 105 degree weather, Ride military jeeps, tent out and learn about the stars. Her soul purpose for this mission was to witness true darkness. Because of light pollution, Anza-Borrego Desert is one of the only places on Earth where true darkness can be seen.

Broken and Not

By Maddie S.

In a slow start, but a fast-paced book, Rainbow Rowell explores two high school

students’ love story in Eleanor and Park. Eleanor has just moved back home after her step-father

kicked her out a year ago. She is now in a new house, in a new town, with no friends. Park lives

happily with his parents and younger brother and all the things he could possibly hope for in the

world.

True Grit

By Blue S.

 One of America's foremost comic writers, Charles Portis published an outstanding novel in 1968 titled True Grit. The story is told from fourteen year-old Mattie Ross's point of view, in past tense. The setting begins on a train headed to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Mattie recalls a time in her life when she avenged the death of her father, who was killed by a bandit named Tom Chaney. She follows danger into the Indian territory after convincing the meanest U.S marshall - one-eye Rooster Cogburn - to tag along, with persuasion skills far beyond her years. The outlaws and other unfortunate events do not tire Mattie out, they only act as the fire to her flame as she threatens one of the toughest gangs in the south. She is cunning and intelligent, and she does not return home the same.

Wasn't as Swaggy as I thought

By Andres H.

Jonas Dolan is a basketball prodigy who moved from Redwood City, California to Seattle, Washington due to his father being fired from his work. Jonas wants to get a basketball scholarship, but in order to do that, he needs to keep up his grades up and play good basketball. Unfortunately, at this new school he is having a very tough time doing so.

The Misadventures of Next Generation Hogwartees

The Misadventures of Next Generation Hogwartees

By Jasminn N.

An interesting spin-off to the award winning series Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a screenplay written by Jack Thorne, takes readers through a touching journey of parenthood, bullying, and friendship. The book begins with a scene of Harry and his family sending off their son Albus on platform nine and three quarters. The family faces the long awaited verdict of which house Albus will be sorted into. Funnily enough, against their wishes, he was sorted into Slytherin. On the train ride, Albus meets a new friend, Scorpius  Malfoy. Overhearing of the dark secrets of their fathers pasts, the two boys go on a quest to change the past for the better- but things don't turn out quite like expected.

Will She Stay

By Kaylee V.

If I Stay is a heart wrenching story that is almost guaranteed a few tears. Gayle Forman writes a story that follows along the life of Mia Hall. The story starts off on a normal family snow day. The Hall family decided to visit some friends on their free time, unfortunately on the ride there a snow plow crashes into their vehicle killing almost the entire family on impact. The protagonist Mia Hall faces an outer body experience where it seems as if it's her decision if she wants to stay in the real world, an orphan and accepted Juilliard musician or go into the after life and join her family in the grave.

Darkest Minds

By Hailey L.

The book the Darkest Minds is a future holocaust with kids who have powers as victims. After a bad illness, IANN, infected many kids killing most, and leaving others with powers, the government was in shambles. There was one solution to this, they placed any kid they found out had powers into concentration camps. Ruby was one of these kids, and the story tells her experience. Written by Alexandra Bracken, it does not stand alone. This book is one of a trilogy. The other two books is Never Fade and The After Light.

Stav's book review

By Stav A.

Payback time written by, Carl Deuker has a lot to do with athletics and talent yet still have other features. The Novel is based on a secret. In this book, Daniel nicknamed Mitch is the protagonist. He is moving on in life but comes to on unearthing the biggest secret of his life in his last year of school.

The Magic of The Magicians

By Jackie E

"If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so." The Magicians by Lev Grossman is touted about as adult take on Harry Potter, and for good reason. Written in a third-person limited narration, the story follows a boy named Quentin, and his life. A boy who has a large disdain for life, and used his love of fantasy (A children's book called Fillory, to be exact. Which itself is a darker take on Narnia) to escape his miserably mundane life, or rather, as a hope that if he could, despite all reason, get to Fillory, it would fix his life. He had an unreasonable belief that one day he would be whisked away into the magical world he loved, and that everything in life would be fixed just like in the books. He clings onto this hope whenever something doesn't go his way, believing he wasn't born into the right world.

A Million Little Pieces All The Same

By Matthew B.

As a book that can be related to many others, A Million Little Pieces, written by James Frey, is portrayed as a memoir but is actually semi-fictional.  This book focuses on Frey, a former drug addict and alcoholic.

You Need To Read This Book

By Colby M

I need concert tickets. I need jewelry. I need a new phone. Joelle Charbonneau, New York Times best selling author of The Testing trilogy, follows the lives of several members of the the newest social networking website for Nottawa High School students, known as NEED. This site guarantees to fulfill anyone's "need" in exchange for completing seemingly harmless tasks. While emphasizing the distinct differences between a want and a need, Charbonneau, tells the fiction story of the extent high school students will go to receive the things they think they need.

Putting This Book Down Will be the Bane of your Existence

By Katie H.

The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson, and Sarah Rees Brennan is easily one of the best books I have ever read. A spinoff of the Shadowhunter chronicles, also written by Clare, this collection of short stories will keep you up all night. They all focus on warlock Magnus Bane's many adventures over the last few centuries, from the many reasons he should have been banned from Peru to meeting and befriending a vampire.

More Than What Meets the Eye

Who Wrote This?

Ellen Hopkins is a writer of many stories, the majority of them aimed toward young adult audiences. As someone who is not a follower of this genre, I surprisingly found myself rather delighted while reading her novel, Identical. The story centers around two twin sisters, Raeanne and Kaeleigh, and the problems that they find themselves faced with. Whether it be drugs, boys, or a deeply disturbing family life, these two personalities are explored in vivid fashion.

Who Is Alice?

Who is the Author of this Book Review?

Sometimes it can be almost thrilling to read a book and have no idea who the author is. With Go Ask Alice, that statement couldn't be more true. This book is a diary belonging to a 15 year old girl. The girl's name is unknown, but her journey through life becomes the exact opposite. At the beginning of the book, it starts off much like how you would expect any normal 15 year old girl's diary to start off. However, things quickly take a turn for the worse and it somehow continues to go downhill just when you think it's not possible for her life to go any lower. It's all very intriguing to really see through the eyes of someone who doesn't live a very ordinary or healthy lifestyle.

It's The 100 Day 21

By Kaylee V.

The 100 Day 21 is a perfect sequel from the 4 book series by Kass Morgan. Kass Morgan isn't a well known author, her first book being the beginning of The 100 book series. The book itself became so popular it became a well known televised show on The CW. The show already working on it's 5th season (possibility of a 5th book). A lot of questions were stirring after the ending of the first book, every single one addressed. Though at the end of this book more and more questions arise.

The main question was the major cliffhanger at the end of the series, they weren't alone on the ground. The delinquent teens thought it was just themselves on the radioactive earth but it turned out people must've survived the catalyst. It didn't seem as if the 'grounders' were friendly, our first encounter with them was a brutal murder of Asher (one of the tougher boys from the Ark). Another question still remained, where is Octavia? This question also goes along with the new conflict with the grounders. As the story progresses we learn that the grounders are split up. Some believe that the newly arrived Arkanians are friends while the other group visualize them as foe. The small group of angry grounders take one life and kidnap another.

Back on the failing Ark more and more conflict emerges. We get more background on Luke and Glass's history and even a heart wrenching confession that may cost them their relationship.

Like any good book series after the ending of one there's always a question needing to be answered. In this case we're all waiting to see what happens when the Ark comes to the ground. Though since 2 more books have officially been released you can find out yourself just what happens to our favorite characters and how they might interact with their new challenges.

Day 21, Book Review. Kaylee V

It's The 100 Day 21

By Kaylee V.

The 100 Day 21 is a perfect sequel from the 4 book series by Kass Morgan. Kass Morgan isn't a well known author, her first book being the beginning of The 100 book series. The book itself became so popular it became a well known televised show on The CW. The show already working on it's 5th season (possibility of a 5th book). A lot of questions were stirring after the ending of the first book, every single one addressed. Though at the end of this book more and more questions arise.

A Hopeful Nonfiction About the End of the World

By Kayla W

Dropped onto my table at the library was a separation from what I usually read- a thick but brightly colored, and relatively recently published nonfiction book. The tagline had "Humans" and "a Mass Extinction", which was jarring and initially not incredibly compelling to my tastes. However that tagline "how humans will survive a mass extinction" was what intriguing to me enough to check out Scatter, Adapt, and Remember by Annalee Newitz.

Revolutionary Tale on the Hate We Give People

By: Emma D.

A story with a promising, thought-provoking title, Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give is a heart-wrenching, inspirational Young Adult story that tackles themes such as racism and police brutality with a sixteen-year-old black girl as a protagonist.

Here we are, after "Afterworlds"

by Jackie E

Scott Westerfeld, well known for some of his other works, attempts to try a unique turn on the YA genre in his book, "Afterworlds". The book follows two story lines, differentiated by the number of the chapters. Odd numbered chapters follow Darcy, the author of "Afterworlds", and how her life changes, for better or worse, after her novel is accepted. We learn that her submitted book was her first ever novel, and it was a very rough first draft she made in no more than the span of a month. The publisher gets back to her a few weeks later, and Darcy is ecstatic to learn that they bought her book, and the rights to the sequels, for all of $100 grand. With the hesitant grace of her parents (and help from her math whiz of a sister), Darcy finds herself moving to New York for rewrites, and to get closer to a community of YA authors, like herself. We see her experience doubts about her book, and herself. What if the love interest of her book was a mistake? What if the subject matter was too much? What if the book was a flop? Was she even a true author? The book was just a month long word vomit, and what if that was all she could write? At the end of it all, we see a girl struggling to find herself in her new life, and are left with the fruits of her hardships.