Longer Than I Expected

By Kendra M.

                                Nineteen Minutes doesn't seem like a lot of time, but you'd be surprised at what can happen in that short amount of time. Jodi Picoult's 'Nineteen Minutes' was definitely one of the better, if not the best, books I've had the pleasure to read.

High Heat from Mike Lupica

By Sean H.

Mike Lupica gives another stellar writing in the young adults genre. Lupica's protagonist Michael Arroyo is a stud, Middle league baseball player in New York City from Cuba, trying to fulfill his fathers goal of getting himself to the Little League World Series.

Arroyo is a great young pitcher who throws gas and is on a team with aspirations to go  to the Little League World Series. He lives with his dad and his older brother in an apartment in Manhattan. From Cuba and his dad has been a really strong influence on him. His dad who is a taxi driver tries to chase down a  man who robbed a woman's purse, gets a heart attack and dies. Michael and his brother (17 years old) now have to find a way to keep everything under wraps so they don't get into human resources and to have Michael still be able to play for his team.

‘Romance, Tears And Laughter’

By Kendra M.

Everyone loves a romantic novel, including myself. That's why I fell in love with John Green's 'The Fault In Our Stars'. 'The Fault In Our Stars' was an absolutely amazing book. I loved every minute spent reading the book and wouldn't change a single thing about this book. Yes, even the ending.

Hazel Grace Lancaster, the narrator, is a sixteen year old girl who has cancer,  specifically thyroid cancer. She talks about how her parents made her attend a cancer support group where she meets Augustus Waters, a seventeen year old who also has cancer. Augustus only has one leg because he has Osteosarcoma, which led to him having to get his leg amputated. Hazel ends up falling for Augustus and the book follows their love story through Hazel's point of view. John Green has written several other books including 'Looking For Alaska' and 'Paper Towns'. He typically writes young adult fiction and is most famously known for writing 'The Fault In Our Stars'.

Ceremony of Good Literature

  By Nicole M.


Lois Lowry's *The Giver* is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a

structured dystopian society where unfortunate events rarely happen,
excellent language skills are valued and they have special ceremonies in
place of birthday parties. Jonas finds out at the Ceremony of Twelve that
his Assignment is to become the community's new Receiver of Memory. Jonas
becomes alienated by the rest of the community due to his new position. Now
that he is the new Receiver of Memory, Jonas is able to recall things from
the past from all over the world in order to spread wisdom to the
community. He is now able to experience feelings and events that were
unattainable in the community due to its rules.

Angels and the Demon of Fiction

By Rishi A. K.

            Tying science fiction, historical references, and religion into a thriller, writer Dan Brown creates a invigorating and page turning novel. Browns novel, Angels and Demons, is no best seller by mistake. Protagonist Robert Langdon, a Professor of Religious Iconology at Harvard University, is something of a problem-solving marvel.

Unlock Your Heart with Sarah's Key

 By Sarah K.

The novel Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay is an intriguing drama and historical fiction. The book centers around two people, a little Jewish girl, Sarah, gathered in the Vel' d'Hiv roundup in France during the Holocaust, and an American journalist Julia Jarmond who lives in Paris and is writing an article on the Vel' d'Hiv as it's anniversary approaches. When the French police came for Sarah's family to send them to Auschwitz she locked her little brother in a secret cupboard, not understanding the problem and promising to come back for him. Sarah gets separated from her parents and sent to a concentration camp. She escapes and finds refuge with an elderly couple in Orleans. They bring her back to Paris after her begging, and explaining her brother. Another family has already moved into her home and when she uses the key she kept to open the secret door to her brother she find his dead body.

The cure that makes you sick

By Lawanda

The book that I'm reviewing is The Death Cure by James Dashner. James Dashner has also written another series called The 13th Reality, the rest of the Maze runner trilogy and the prequel book to the series called The Kill Order. The book is in a action and adventure/thriller genre. The book is about a kid named Thomas who is trying to discover a cure to a extremely deadly disease known as the flare.