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Young Readers League 2017 Writing Contest 1st place Category 2 (ages 12-14) The Ghost Story by Christopher Souza Age 12 (Grade 6) Blair Middle School It was a dark and gloomy night and the wind howled like hunting wolves. Out of nowhere, a bolt of lightning hit one of […]
Young Readers League 2017 Writing Contest 2nd place Category 2 (ages 12-14) Horror Houses by Raela Jayasekara Age 12 (Grade 7) Blair Middle School “I must have been eleven when I saw a ghost. We had just moved into a new house. I ran up the stairs to the […]
Young Readers League 2017 Writing Contest 3rd place Category 2 (ages 12-14) The Selfie by Penelope Burian Age 13 (Grade 7) Blair Middle School ‘‘It was a dark and stormy night, just like how most ghost stories start,” Kate began. “We’re seriously doing this? Ghost stories are super childish!” […]
review by John Chon, age 15 Dreamfall by Amy Plum Summary: Cata Cordova suffers from such debilitating insomnia that she agreed to take part in an experimental new procedure. She thought things couldn’t get any worse…but she was terribly wrong. Soon after the experiment begins, there’s a malfunction with the lab equipment, […]
review by Alena Kunjumon, age 13 The Last Days of California by Mary Miller The Last Days of California, written by Mary Miller, discusses the journey that Jess, the narrator, undergoes both internally and externally. On the outside, her and her sister are two teenagers preparing for the rapture that will take […]
review by Sylvie Bower, age 16 Crossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya Bolden Crossing Ebenezer Creek is the story of those who aren’t usually heard of from General Sherman’s March during the Civil War — former slaves who join up with the march to protect themselves. It is the story of Mariah, a recently […]
Pasadena Public Library, Teen Advisory Board, 10/16/2017 Present: Brittany, Chris, Denisse, Enrique, Genevieve, Jane L, John, Jonathan G, Liliana, Luke, Mckenna, Penelope, Sofia, Sophie, Trisha Pre-meeting assignment: (1) Write down three questions you had (or still have) when you first started volunteering here, or when you started on TAB. (2) […]
review by John Chon, age 14 A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron A Dog’s Purpose was a step outside of my normal genre, and it felt like a breath of fresh air. The book is about a dog who is reborn again and again, remembering their past experiences and using them again […]
review by McKenna Blackshire, age 14 Caraval by Stephanie Garber Summary: Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the faraway, once-a-year performance where […]
review by John Chon, age 14 Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali Max is a brutally graphic tale from the point of view of a child, who spent his entire life under the Nazi regime. As a historical fiction novel, it does borrow concepts from reality, such as the breeding program executed under the […]