Friday, November 20, 2015

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.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

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.