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Book Club recap by Kara Eng, Grade 12 We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach Summary: Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel. They always say that high school is the best time of […]
Book Club recap by Kara Eng, grade 12 The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye Summary: Vika Andreyeva can summon the snow and turn ash into gold. Nikolai Karimov can see through walls and conjure bridges out of thin air. They are the only enchanters in Russia, and when the Ottoman Empire […]
Review, author interview, & book club recap by Kara Eng, grade 12 Static by Eric Laster Static puts a twist on death. Instead of seeing dead people, Curtis Brooks talks to them, or at least just his brother. After his brother, Wilt, dies in a suspicious car accident, Curt starts receiving […]
August Recap by Hadley Willman, grade 11 The Eye of Minds by James Dashner The YA book club met this month to talk about The Eye of Minds, book one in the newly completed Mortality Doctrine series by James Dashner, fan favorite author of The Maze Runner. In this world, […]
July Recap by Madison Comick, grade 9 The Leveller by Julia Durango Phoenix “Nixy” Bauer is the daughter of two employees of the MEEP, a virtual reality game of a future dystopian world. MEEP is played by getting a chip implanted in your brain when you’re thirteen. Nixy is paid to […]
YA Book Club recap by Hadley Willman, grade 11 In June, the YA book club met to discuss Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, a popular novel for teens that was originally marketed towards adults. Ready Player One tells of a world thirty years in the future where everyone in the world […]
YA Book Club recap by Kara Eng, Grade 11 Summary: Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. […]
YA Book Club recap by Madison Comick, Grade 8 Summary: Ten years ago, God gave Braden a sign, a promise that his family wouldn’t fall apart the way he feared. But Braden got it wrong: his older brother, Trey, has been estranged from the family for almost as long, and […]
YA Book Club recap by Kara Eng, grade 11 “A nice combination of American history and a look into the experience of orphans and the foster care system. It’s the first time I’ve heard about orphan trains. I’m curious to learn more.” –Kara E., grade 11 “This is the first […]
YA Book Club recap by Kara Eng, grade 11 Summary: My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, […]