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.