Jazz: Pain, and Healing

By Kayla W.

Toni Morrison, Pulitzer prize winner and Nobel Laureate for literature, is by no means obscure or uncelebrated. However, that doesn't mean her works, most notably Jazz, don't have a special, almost secret, glow to it.

First and What

by Maddie S.

An easy read, but sort of complex. First and Then was what it sounded like, a love story. However, unlike most, the main character was more repulsive than anything. Throughout the book, Devin finds new challenges in her life when her awkward cousin, Foster, comes to live with them. She tries her best to ignore him and his every movement, but it is kind of hard when he becomes one of the most popular kids in school. She also is at a loss with her best friend/love interest, Cas, when he moves on from her. This leaves Devin, in gym class, with Ezra.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

by Stav A.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London, is told from Buck, a four-year-old, 140 pound, St. Bernard shepherd dog. This book is for any dog loving teenager that loves an inspirational story. It is about Buck's owner, who is a judge who loves hunting. Manuel, who is the judge's personal gardener and one who is obsessed with the lottery, can't help his family on his little earnings. So he must find a way to feed his terrible addiction. He comes up with the novel idea of selling Buck for 50$.

Book Review: Warriors

By Antonio A.

Warriors

By: Erin Hunter

     The book Warriors is about 4 clans that consist of cats in a shared forest. When the warrior code is threatened by a series of unfortunate events and deaths in the clans, a cat named Rusty who could potentially be the best fighter amongst them.

     I liked the book a lot because of the way Erin Hunter allows the cats to be more human like with their emotions and the awesome fight scenes in the book between the clans.

   I'd recommend this book to anyone who loves fantasy, action and or adventure.

A Story That Will Haunt You (In The Best Way Possible)

By Katie H.

Shadowland, the first book in Meg Cabot's Mediator series, is definitely one of the best books I have ever read. It has a fairly mundane beginning -- Suze is new to California, moving into an old house fixed up by her new stepfather. She tries to make the best of the situation, as anyone else would, and it's not until she sees the dead guy in her bedroom that the reader realizes she's not as ordinary as she seems. She's a mediator; one of the living but able to speak to the dead. Usually, the ghosts she meets use her to pass over to whatever afterlife comes next, but her new roommate, Jesse, has no interest in that, and neither, it seems, does the ghost at her school -- the one hellbent on revenge.

A Guide to a Good Read

By Matthew B.

Written by Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is apart of a six book series, but is the most noticeable out of them.  With it's odd characters and storyline, this book as a whole provides an interesting adventure into the world of sci-fi, in a funky way.

The short way to a great book

By Jackie E

"No good can come from a species at war with itself". The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet  by Becky Chambers is a relatively new Sci-fi novel set far into the future. So far, In fact, that the war-torn Earth has been destroyed, and its inhabitants forced to flee to space. Most humans have either taken to living on Mars, or are spaceborn, living within one of millions of multi-species colonies floating in space. This story follows Rosemary, a Mars born and raised human, and her brand new crew throughout galaxies to finish a job their captain signed them up for. Rosemary is a clerk fresh out of college. The job she had studied year for included taking care of a crew's paperwork and helping with inter-species relations. Something that seems easy enough in a controlled environment while in school, but entirely something else when you're thrown out into space. Ashby, her new captain, hired her mostly to comply with new industry standards. After all, they got by just fine without one. But as she starts her new job on the Wayfarer, its became clear now much he had been missing without one. With his new crew member, the GC finds it fitting to offer Ashby a new job. A job that pays more than everything he signed up for last year combined. He was finally able to pay his crew what he believed they deserved. The only downside is they'd be on this work train non stop for a year, at least.