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…
Category: Eighth Grade
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…
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 Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell By: Chris Colfer
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell is about Alex and Conner. Fairy tales play an important part in their lives. Alex and Conner used to go to their grandma’s house all the time, and their grandma and dad would take turns reading fairy tales to them out of the family’s big green book. But…
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…
The Reading Rockstar 