In this young adult novel, Diana Urban blends high stakes thrill with high school drama in a twisted (pun intended) spin on The Breakfast Club. The writing style and suspenseful plot kept me hooked until the very end while the snippets of typical teenage drama kept it slightly more light-hearted and enjoyable to read. All…
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Red Queen By: Victoria Aveyard
Red Queen, a dystopian fantasy novel, has rapidly gained popularity in recent times, and for good reason. The book contains an enticing mixture of humor, a Hunger Games-esque society, superpowers, and a bit of social commentary if you squint. I greatly enjoyed it and am currently in the middle of the fourth book in the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Alchemyst By: Michael Scott
The Alchemyst is about Sophie and Josh Newman. They are twins and live in San Francisco with their aunt while their parents are on an archeology expedition. When the twins witness a strange man attacking bookshop owner Nick Fleming with magical spears of energy and Nick defending himself with exploding balls of light, their lives…
York: The Shadow Cipher By: Laura Ruby
York: The Shadow Cipher is the first book in the York Trilogy. I read this book (and series) at the same time as my mom, and we both really enjoyed it. York: The Shadow Cipher is about Theo and Tess Biederman, who are twins. They are named after Theodore and Theresa Morningstarr, who created New…
OCDaniel & Sara and the Search for Normal, Both Books By: Wesley King
OCDaniel is a great book. I really enjoyed it and it’s prequel, Sara and the Search for Normal. They are both amazing books that I would be happy to read over and over again. I got both books on a trip we took this summer to see family in New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas. I…
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