This review lacks a clever title

By Izzy B.

If you like a fictional account of a real story then Sarah's Key is a perfect book for you. Even though it might be confusing because the book is coming from Sarah Starzynski's  point of view and Julia Jarmond's  point of view. Sarah is a young Jewish girl whose family is being taken to a concentration camp, but Sarah's little brother doesn't want to go so he has Sarah lock him in their hiding place. Sarah promises that she will come back soon for him. Will Sarah get him safely, will Sarah make it? Read the book to find out.

Book Review About A Book Being Written

by Evan K.

Have you ever found yourself wondering what publishing a book would be like?

Fear not because the answer has come before you in the tale of publishing this book. The book that;s being reviewed right now. The story of the book that's being written as you read is an insight into what the process of getting a book published is all about. It takes you through the life of our struggling author as he persistently tries to get through snobby agents, ex love interests, and daily life.

This hath not a clever title

By Kyle J.

The book The Call of the Wild is a good book and i would definitely recommend it for someone else to read. The book is about a dog named Buck, Buck was a dog that a lived a great life on a ranch in California until one day he was stolen and sold to a man that used all his dogs as sled dogs. Buck progressively gets to a strong/wild stage where he is forced to fight other dogs in order to become the leader of the pack. The owners Buck had were horrible people and did nothing but treat their dogs like complete crap. One day a man named Thornton rescued Buck and treated Buck just as a dog should be treated. Thornton died shortly after he rescued Buck and he had to learn and experience how to fend for himself and become a leader in the wild.

This book review is severely substandard

By Chris M.

Percy Jackson was entertaining to read. I liked how the author Rick Riordan mixed in the modern day with mythological figures. Some of which include Dionysus, Ares, Poseidon, and Hades. I like how it gives a splash of mythology mixed with fiction. I also like how Rick Riordan mixes comedy with action to make a fun adventure. So if you're a fan of mythology and like comedic and action packed books, i recommend you to check out Percy Jackson.

This student could not be bothered with a clever title

By Anna C.

Are you looking for a book that has great drama and a book that could potentially relate to your own lifestyle? Well the book the "Truth about Forever" has just that. It's about a 16-year-old Macy queen looking forward to a long hot summer. Her and her boyfriend, Jason, is going away to bring camp. She stuck with a dull dishwasher job at the library. And all of her free time promises to be spent studying for the SATs or grieving silently with her mother about her father's death. Once they see is corralled into helping out at one of her mother's open house events everything changes. She meets the chaotic wish catering crew. She then quits her dishwashing job at the library and joins the wish crew. In the crew there are a couple people that change Macy's life. Monica who is introspective and Monica who is fun-loving but best of all those Wes, someone who is artistic and gets Macy to look at life in a whole different perspective

This Book Will Knock You Out

By Ryan L.

The book I'm reviewing is The Knockout Games. The author that wrote this book is Gregory Neri. Another book he wrote is Yummy: The Lasts Days of a South Side Shorty. The genre of the book is fiction with a little bit of thriller in it.

This student could not be bothered with a clever title

By Ameya R.C.

The book I am reviewing is Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan. They are also the author of the bestselling book I Know What You Did Last Summer. The genres of the book are young-adult fiction and thriller. The book is about a young girl named Kit who gets invited to attend at an all girls school. When she arrives at the school she immediately gets bad vibes about the place. Kit meets a few other girls who are also going to be attending the school. They each begin to posses skills out of no where and the girls try to investigate what is really going on with their strange school.

The Hitchhiker’s Book Review of The Galaxy ... Uhm ... this is clever?

By Patrick L.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers' guide to the Galaxy is a book that follows two characters trying to write a book. After being taken off Earth by a researcher, Arthur Dent is thrust into the Galaxy not knowing a thing about it. With the help of the researcher, Arthur will go through a lot of different challenges.

Day 5994

By Katie P.

Published in 2012, David Levithan's novel "Every Day" is a story of a young person who changes bodies every day. Every day, "I wake up,  immediately I have to figure out who I am." (Levithan 1). Male or female, dark-skinned or light-skinned, straight or gay, tall or small, fat or thin. These people are all approximately A's age, which is sixteen, but their lives are all different.

A Rather Scarring Carnival

By Fianna T.

No matter how crazy a carnival may seem, it won't be as wild as this one. With a plot about a family of circus freaks purposely bred for birth defects with the use of drugs, insecticides, and radiation, it's quite the disgusting, utterly mind baffling book. And yet, Katherine Dunn, the author of the novel Geek Love, has created a story that is impossible to turn away from, no matter the grisly details.

Comic Books + Music = Romance?

By Lauren B.

Eleanor and Park, written by Rainbow Rowell, is an intriguing novel about high school and family issues.  Eleanor and Park are a couple of misfit 16-year-olds who have similar interests but are from very different backgrounds.  As a result, it would not be assumed that they would be compatible to one another.

She Was All Five

By Sana S.

Take a trip in a time machine to a future where the only thing that evolved was drugs and government. Veronica Roth is an author that keeps you wondering who will die next. Her book, Divergent, is a story that shows you what would happen if we as a nation keep using social classes or separate people by what they do like in stereotypical high schools (the jocks, the nerds, the rockers, etc.

Look but Don't Touch

By Alana B.

Writer Claire North brings an unimaginable story on paper that will leave readers astonished. Her novel, Touch, introduces a ghost named Kepler who enters and leaves human bodies as it pleases. It was named by an organization of Lycra-clad people, Aquarius, who are ghost hunters. Once it was forced out of an admired body by the Aquarius, Kepler sets a goal to destroy them.

This Book Will Go Through You Like Lightning

By Coryn F.

Young writer, Chris Colfer, has written an amazing book about one teenage boy's adventure through his senior year of high school. Chris' book called Struck by Lightning was based off of the original movie, which Chris starred in. He is mainly known for his role on Glee, a popular tv show.

The Courageous One

By Austin B.

Pakistan and other Middle East countries worthy boys in their culture as one girl wants to change that perspective forever. (You are right, this is not a complete sentence.)

A Taste of the Rainbow

By Tyler C. (AKA, Skittles)

"Raising My Rainbow" is a non-fiction book written by Lori Duron about her and her family's adventures in raising a son who likes... girl things. A lot. He is often referred to as "gender-nonconforming"; through 250+ pages and 36 chapters, this book is filled with emotion, confusion, and change through the kindergarten year in the life of C.J Duron, tackling subjects that I have never really read too much about in other non-fiction.

The Females Behind Our Military

By Chris G.

Since 9/11, there have been 250,000 female military personnel deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Women make up 14 percent of on-duty military forces today. Despite them volunteering to serve our country, they still deal with discrimination due to their gender, and other issues such as their loved ones back at home, and finding dignity within themselves. In Undaunted, Tanya Biank gives the inside scoop on four brave individuals, Brigadier Angela Salinas, Second Lieutenant Bergan Flanagan, Sergeant Amy Stokley, and Major Candice O'Brien. Biank gives us their stories, including the struggles and challenges they face.

The "Riddle" to Success

By Hailee W.

The memoir Race Across Alaska recounts the epic journey of 1985 Iditarod winner, Libby Riddles. Race Across Alaska is the story of twelve hundred miles, 18 freezing days, 15 amazing and heroic dogs and the first woman to ever win the Iditarod. This tale, told partly through facts about the Iditarod itself and partly by Riddles herself, was an amazing read for anyone who likes an adventure.

This Book Review Should Not Have Been a Review

By Thomas B. (AKA, Only Mentions the Book's Title at the Very End)

In this historical fiction sports book, by author Alan Gratz, main character Toyo. Toyo's family has a long history of being samurais and has to figure out whether he wants to continue passion, which is baseball, or continue the family's legacy, being a samurai.

We Have Officially Entered the Twilight Zone

By Dominique L. (AKA First Person is not a Narrative Mode)

"A Discovery of Witches" by Deborah Harkness is a story of witchcraft, vampires, forbidden love (surprise, surprise), daemons, and history. The genre of this story is a toss-up; it could be categorized as young adult fiction or (perhaps more accurately) another Twilight-Saga-adult-fan-fiction. While Harkness strays from the stereotypical vampire-mortal plot line by bringing other magical creatures and historical snippets into her writing, she still does not quite break out of the fan-fiction category. There's only so much a writer can do - in terms of conflict - with a vampire (hint: blood sucking is involved - obviously). 

"Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover"

By Eric L. (AKA This is a Review, Not a Critical Essay)

Click is a novel written by ten writers, who describe what happens when two children inherit their recently deceased grandfather's camera memorabilia. The novel proceeds to take the reader through ten different chapters (I assume each author wrote), in perspective of multiple different people their grandfather met during his famous photography career.

A dash for the finish

A dash for the finish

An Analysis of Dashes in Patry Francis' The Orphans of Race Point

By Samantha M.

    A dash, by definition, is a mark of punctuation  (—), technically known as an em dash, used to set off a word or phrase after an independent clause or to set off a parenthetical remark (Nordquist). The use of this mark of punctuation can be observed in many popular works of literature. In the novel, The Orphans of Race Point by Patry Francis, the dash appears repetitively throughout the dialogue.

The Strained Brain

By Alyssa G.

Med Head is a narrative nonfiction by James Patterson. The book focuses on Cory Friedman's struggle with Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, depression, anxiety, and alcohol addiction. It focuses on his bravery and triumph as his personal story becomes public. Friedman was just a teenager when he started to struggle with these mental illnesses.

How to Be Understood

By Jacob O.

The Art of Plain Talk is an old book. You should keep that closer to the front of your mind than any other fact about it. Its copyright date is 1951, and it is a rewrite of the author's even older Ph.D. dissertation. An outdated book on style is usually about as useful as a glass phone case, but time has been unusually kind to this one.

This Student Could Not Be Bothered with a Clever Title

By Rosie "What Did I Just Write?" P.

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children is written by Kirstin Cronn-Mills. She uses First Person through the entire story. But it gives the main character quite a lot of personality and helps the reader connect to a personal level. A character is easy to relate to when the narrative mode is in first person. It allows the reader to feel what the character is feeling and understand what the character thinks. Kirstin makes the use of the first person well and personally, I thinks think that the story was well written for a narrative mode like this.

The Power of Perspective: An Analysis of Perspective in Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone

By Daniela G. 

Perspective is the view through the eyes and mind of a character. The point of view in a story is essential to a story's plot and impact on the readers.

This Essay, by Meghan E., Had No Content

No Content -- Felicia H.

Through The Looking Glass- Inside Nailer’s Brain

By Shannon J.

An analysis of the third person limited omniscient narrative in Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker

A third person narrative takes an outsider point of view, without any "I's" and usually without any insight into the characters thoughts and feelings. I generally do not like reading third person novels, because I like knowing what the narrator is thinking. However, Ship Breaker was an exception.

The “Good Parts” Aren’t the Only Good Parts

By Peter M.

Normally, you would expect that an author writing a fiction novel would just write the story of that novel within the novel, and that his writings would solely relate to that story. You would expect that if an author wanted to talk about his life, he would write a memoir or something. Even if an author were to make comments about his writings and his life within his book for some reason, you would normally expect them to actually be true. In The Princess Bride, however, William Goldman blows all of these expectations out of the water.

Is This Book Even About Martians?

By Cristle C.

The Martian was written by Andy Weir, this novel is currently not only the first, but only book Weir has written. It is a Science Fiction novel full of twists and turns. When the book begins we meet the protagonist: Mark Watney. Mark's crew had to evacuate due to a turn of events, and he was left stranded because they thought he was dead. So mark is on his own, with no way of contacting home, and no way of getting help.

This Student Could Not Be Bothered with a Clever Title

  By Ashleigh A.

The Book A tale of two Cities was written by Charles Dickens. It was first published in weekly installments in All the year round. The novel he wrote is Historical fiction. It was written in London, England in 1859. The time setting was 1775 to 1793. It took place in London and Paris; both the outskirts of it. He is a British author and wrote many classics. He wrote Oliver twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, and Nicholas Nickleby. He was very poor, he came from a poor family.  The first novel written By charles Dickens wrote was the pickwick papers. He has had many successful novels written.  

Unreliably Odd or Oddly Unreliably?

by Regina C.

Writing in first person means you are writing from the point of view of one person, "I" walked down the street, and "I" tripped on an ice patch and fell down. When writing in first person  only one character's point of view is perceived to the reader. The thoughts of the character are heard, but not of any of the other characters.  The story unfolds as the character shares details about characters and events that take place in the story. Only what the character knows is known. Though we may know things about other characters in the story, our knowledge is limited because only what the character shares with the reader is known.

Saving Lives on Four Legs

By Kelli Arsenault

Being a Navy SEAL takes a lot of training. Not only do you get to learn about the humans training, but you get to learn about the training required to become a Navy SEAL dog in Navy Seal Dogs. Author Mike Ritland shares his stories about breeding and training Belgian Malinois for the Navy.