My name is Lexi. I am currently ten years old and am in fifth grade. I started this (when I was eight) because I like reading, and I read a lot of books, so I wanted other people to be able to hear about some of the good books I have read and maybe want…
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder By: Holly Jackson
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is about Pip, who decides that, for her senior capstone project, she’s going to investigate a murder. A few years ago, Andie Bell mysteriously disappeared. When her boyfriend, Sal Singh, committed suicide a few weeks later, everyone assumed he murdered her, but Pip’s not so sure. She takes a…
Nothing More to Tell By: Karen M. McManus
Nothing More to Tell is an impossible to put down mystery centered around the never-solved murder of a beloved teacher at the Saint Ambrose school. Brynn has spent her last four years away from Saint Ambrose wondering what really happened that day. Now that she’s going back to school at Saint Ambrose and interning at…
Geek Girl By: Holly Smale
Geek Girl is about Harriet Manners, who has been labeled a geek all her life. But she’s given a chance to change that when she’s dragged on a school field trip to “Birmingham Clothes Show Live” by her best friend, Nat. Nat has been waiting for this field trip her whole life. While there, she…
Obsessed By: Allison Britz
Obsessed is a memoir about Allison Britz, the ideal high schooler. She gets straight As, participates in after school activities, and is decently popular with lots of friends. But that all changes when Allison has a dream about getting brain cancer. She becomes convinced that the dream was a warning and starts coming up with…
Vote Yes: Adair County Library Levy
There is a new levy being proposed in Adair County to improve our public library. This levy would allow the library to expand and improve the technology, create several new areas, such as a teen room and private telehealth rooms, increase the space for materials, and so much more. All this at very little cost…
City of Ghosts By: Victoria Schwab
City of Ghosts is a book that I read with my local library’s teen book club. I enjoyed it very much, and I’m excited to discuss it with them, along with the other book we read. City of Ghosts is about Cass. Ever since Cass drowned, and was saved/brought back by a ghost (Jacob), she’s…
A Good Kind of Trouble By: Lisa Moore Ramee
A Good Kind of Trouble is from the perspective of Shayla. Shayla is in seventh grade with her two best friends, Julia and Isabella. They call themselves the United Nations, and they tell each other everything, like Shayla’s crush on Jace. Shayla has her perfect image of seventh grade: Jace will become her boyfriend; the…
The School for Good and Evil: A World Without Princes (Book 2) By: Soman Chainani
In A World Without Princes, Sophie and Agatha are together again, back in their town, except that Agatha is having second thoughts about their Ever After happy ending. (Miss review of the first book? Check it out here.) **This review may include spoilers for first book. ** Now in book two, Agatha is starting to…
Out of My Mind By: Sharon M. Draper
Out of My Mind is about a girl named Melody. She’s incredibly smart and remembers literally everything. Just one problem. Nobody knows that because she can’t talk or control her movements. Melody has a condition called cerebral palsy. Because of this condition and the severity of it for her, Melody has no way to show…
Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation By: Stuart Gibbs
Charlie Thorne and The Last Equation is about a twelve-year-old girl prodigy. One day, she is recruited to help with an FBI mission. Albert Einstein was said to have discovered an equation, Pandora, that could solve the world’s energy problems but could also power an incredibly powerful and dangerous nuclear bomb. Because of this, Einstein…
The Reading Rockstar 