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review by Kara, teen reviewer The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker The Witch Hunter was pretty good. It’s the story about, well, a witch hunter. Elizabeth is one of her country’s best witch hunters. She’s completely dedicated to her quest of finding all magic users and making sure they burn for […]
Reviews by Bella, teen reviewer The Selection by Kiera Cass The Selection by Kiera Cass is a story about America Singer, a lower class girl living in a fairly young nation, who gets selected to compete for the heart of a prince who isn’t like anything she expected him to […]
Reviews by Bella, teen reviewer When a strange device is discovered in the air ducts of a busy suburban mall, the entire complex is suddenly locked down. No one can leave. No one knows what is going on. At first, there’s the novelty of being stuck in a mega mall […]
Review by Hadley, teen reviewer All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry Two best friends end up missing from hometown Roswell Station only days apart from each other. Lottie Pratt winds up a floating corpse in a river. Judith Finch finds herself wandering home two years later. Alive, […]
Review by Hadley, teen reviewer Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira Laurel switches schools after an unfortunate accident leaves her mother across the country and her sister May buried in the ground and the past. She believes that the best way to move on is to start over […]
Review by Hadley, teen reviewer Lessons I Never Learned at Meadowbrook Academy by Liz Maccie Roberta Romano is not as excited as a girl should be when her family gives her the opportunity to take a step up from her two-star public high school to the prestigious Meadowbrook Academy. Despite […]
Review by Bella, teen reviewer I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson Summary: The New York Times Bestselling story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah […]
Reviews by Kara and Hadley, teen reviewers Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard was fascinating. In it, Mare Barrow, a Red, endures. Reds make up the majority of this dystopian society, but are dominated by Silvers, whose blood gives them great powers. After an incident […]
Review by Hadley, teen reviewer Love and Other Theories by Alexis Bass Love is just a myth, a game, a theory to Aubrey Housing and her three best friends, Shelby, Danica, and Melissa. The four of them have come up with a set of guidelines to help them live the […]
–review by Aarti, teen reviewer The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells Earth—a green and blue sphere orbiting the fiery sun, the only planet in our solar system that is currently inhabited by a civilization whose advanced technology accentuates its air of superiority. We are that civilization, and it […]