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…
Category: Twelfth Grade
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…
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