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Audrey Merrill
June 3, 2022
The Shining by Stephen King
6/5
The shining is about a normal family who is struggling with money so the dad desides to take a job caring for a hotel called The Overlook though the winter to make some money. This family consists of the dad, Jack, the mom Wendy, and a little boy named Danny. As they stay at the over look weird things starts happening and its made clear pretty fast that there not alone. Danny has a gift called a "Shine" where hes able to read peoples minds and because of this The Overlook seems to target him. I absolutely loved this book, by far one of the best books iv ever read. Theres also a movie based off this book and its pretty famous so I had very high hopes for it but it sucks and the book is alot better.

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Stewart Lawson
June 1, 2022
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Rate 4/5
During a war, a plane is shot down. It lands on a tropical island where the school boys inside have to survive. Written in 1954, this book was, and still is a huge success. The book doesn't mention what time period or war is going on, but we can assume it's around the 1950 or 1940s.
The book's first half is sort of a build-up to the last few chapters. In the begging all the boys establish rules. Those rules last for a little while but then, after one of the main characters, Simon, has a vision, everything goes downhill. There's a bloody battle, (which is pretty cool but also a bit sad) that ends abruptly when the navy comes and rescues the boys. Overall it is a great book. The build-up is a little boring but the end is magnificent.

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Samiyyah Sadruddin
June 1, 2022
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Rate: 10/10
Daisy Jones and The Six is about a popular rock band in the late sixties in LA. It follows a young, beautiful and talented girl named Daisy Jones. When a pair of producers partner her up with the lead singer of the Six, Billy Dunne, legends are born and hits are made. This book is filled with drama involving drugs, money and looks. I think this is a great summer book for anybody interested in the life of 70's rock band.

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Ella Holland

The Cousins by Karen McManus

May 31, 2022

4/5

The Cousins is about three cousins that know nothing about one another but each receive a letter from their grandmother who never reaches out, asking them to come work and stay at her inn on a small island. The parents of the cousins all urged them to go despite knowing nothing of their grandmother because they want to know the reason she cut them all off out of nowhere decades ago. The grandmother, Mildred, sent her four kids a letter refusing to ever see them again and telling them they’ll have no more financial resources from her, even though they’d relied and depended on receiving some of her millions of dollars. In the letter she says she “knows what they did” and won’t forgive them. Her kids have no idea what she is referring to, and have no idea why she would do this. Hoping to get back in her good graces, the parents send the kids over the summer to see Mildred, and the book follows each of their perspectives as they discover the truth about why their grandmother won’t speak to their parents and what their parents did all those years ago.

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Laila Hunter
May 19, 2022

The City We Became

N.K Jemisin

5/5

The City We Became is an urban fantasy book with inspiration from Lovecraftian works and horrors. Great Cities across the world are ‘born’ when they become larger and influential enough, and require avatars to help integrate them with their world. During this process, the city will be attacked by The Enemy, a strange eldritch entity that prays on cities. However, during the birth of New York, something goes horribly wrong, and the city’s avatar goes missing from the care of Sau Paulo. Some time later, five avatars awaken based on the boroughs of New York, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, The Bronx, and Queens with only one goal. To get rid of The Woman in White and complete the city’s birth. However there seems to be more to Great Cities than there seems, and as the boroughs pursue the Woman In White terrible truths are revealed.

I recommend this book if you’re interested in the concept of living cities and near lovecraftian horrors. The story is deeply rooted in New York culture and depicts the struggles of the city as both something natural and interesting at the same time, while also showing the point of view of many different people. I’m genuinely interested in where the trilogy will go, even though this is the first book to come out. The book contains great plot points and twists that kept me thoroughly engaged for the whole book. This is a great book that i’ll recommend to everyone.

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Matilda McKean
May 30, 2022
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Rating: 3.5/5

High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby, is about a man reaching adulthood while thinking over his past relationships. He owns a record store and the book is very music centered. People who are interested in the culture from the 1990s would like this book. Also, anyone interested in all kinds of music would like it too. There is a movie about this book which is good to watch either before or after you read it. It's a cult classic and I definitely recommend it.

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Zoe Negovetic

February 18, 2022

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Rating: 4.5/5

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was a sweet book about overcoming the worst with the help of your community. The book follows a journalist as she uncovers the story of a book club formed in Nazi occupied Guernsey. The members of this book club overcame the worst of war through their connections made through books. Written as a series of letters, this wonderful book gives a new perspective on what community can do for people.

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Fablehaven

Jolian Workinger
May 25, 2022
Fablehaven
Brandon Mull
5/5

The book that I am doing this review on is called Fablehaven. I finished this book in the first semester and wanted to share it. It is a story about a young brother and sister who are forced to stay at their grandparents house for just over two weeks. The two kids are reluctant at first until they discover a mind-boggling secret. Magic is real! The children are awestruck at the sight of fairies and beautiful creatures. But not all is well. There is an ancient evil magic lurking in the forest outside of the house and it will have to be dealt with or the world will end. The story follows the kids as they try to find a way to stop the evil once and for all. I highly recommend this book to any fan of the fantasy genre. It is a different and compelling look into a magical world and that helps it stand out.

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Dimitri Gillett
May 25th
Renegades
Marissa Meyer
5/5
Renegades is a fantastic science fantasy novel about a world with superpowers. The book is about a girl who is a villain and a guy who is a hero. The girl is sent to spy on the heroes and she ends up working on his team. As the book progresses she can't help but fall in love with him and has to make the difficult choice of villainy with her friends or heroism with the guy she likes. I would recommend it to anyone who likes superheroes or any kind of science fiction really.

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Book

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Emerson Tofel
May 23
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Book
Rating: 3.5/5
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is about a boy named Junior who loves to draw, play sports and hang out with his best friend Rowdy even though he has a mental disfuntion. It takes place on the Spokane Idian Reservation. The theme of the book is how you are trying to find your place in high school, Juniors struggle with this different than most kids becasue he was born with hydrocephalus witch causes him to have a studder and some disabilitys. He also decieds to go to a different school to get a better education. This means he will have to go off the reservation to a school with majority white students. Juniors best friend on the reservation, Rowdy is a key character in this book. I enjoyed this book for two reasons. It had elements of graphic novel and cartoon in the book witch gave me a better picture of what was going on in the book. It was cool to see the kids at the highschool he went to respect and get to know him for who he is. This book reminded me alot of the book called If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth. This is a book about a native american kid who goes to a white majority school just like Junior.

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Daniela Gray
April 24, 2022
Sheets by Brenna Thummler
Rating: 4/5

Sheets by Brenna Thummler is about a lost 13-year old whose mom had died a few months prior. Her laundromat is in trouble from lack of customers and her dad is not much help. After bullying at school she discovers a lost ghost. The ghost brings lots of trouble but in the end everything works out. This book was pretty good and a quick read. I overall recommend it.

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Simon Gawlik
May 23rd
Maze Runner by James Dashner
Rating: 4/5

Maze Runner is about a group of teenagers who have lost their memory and been put into a maze. Throughout the book they have to work together to get out and since they lost their memory they make up names for each other and other words to use while talking. This book is a great book and if you like action and adventure you would love this book. This is my second time reading the book and I still loved it and would totally recommend it.

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Camari owens
April 7th, 2022
Don't ask me where I'm from
By Jennifer DeLeon
Rating: 4.5/5

Don't ask me where I'm from covers an array of important topics, especially considering the current political climate in the United States. These topics include immigration and the anxieties that come with being undocumented, racism, code-switching, economic inequalities, activism, segregation and self-segregation. There were some small details in the book that I found interesting, such as seeing Liliana described the development of her writing skills or the hesitancy she had toward certain opportunities that her support system urged her to seize. Her mom would not let her lose out on such an opportunity as METCO, despite Liliana’s initial doubts, and others urged her to take advantage of the opportunities at her new school. The book is and interesting book too read and readers may be able too self connect to the text. I highly recommend you read, Don't ask me where I'm from.

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Simon McConachie
January 26th, 3033
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
Shaun David Hutchinson
rating 3.5/5
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza is a book about a girl named  Elena Mendoza and she finds out that she has the power to heal people with just the touch of her hand. Little does she know one night she witnesses a girl get shot and when she heals her the person who shot her disappears into a beam of light, more and more people go missing,  To be completely honest I did not finish this book because at a certain point it lost me going from the past to the present and it felt like after a couple of chapters in it lost its theme and I felt like I was reading a different book. When it was as the back of the book says it was very interesting and genre I haven't read yet which made me want to read it. I'm sad that I will have to start a new book yet again at least I will have a chance to find a book I do enjoy.

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Oscar Plechl-Moriki
January 26th
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Rating: 4/5

Refugee is about 3 different refugees from 3 different time periods, including a more modern refugee from Afghanistan, and one from the time of the holocaust. It was truly an incredible experience, and every second had me clutching my heart in fear of what could happen next. There were truly death defying situations that happened. The book was very exiting, and I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a long good read.

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Daniela Gray
January 25, 2022
They both die at the end by Adam Silvera
Rating: 4/5

They Both Die in the End by Adam Silvera is a story about Mateo and Rufus who are each other's “end day friends”. They both get a call telling them they are going to die in the next 24 hours. They meet through an app specialized for people on their end day. Although they have different pasts and presents they come together to bring out the best in each other and make the best out of their end day.

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Clara Dorsey
January 25th 2022
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Rating 5/5
The Darkest Minds is a dystopian novel set in the near future where a disease that only effects children wipes out 98 percent of Americas kids. The two percent that is left gain ability's ranging from super smarts to controlling fire. The book starts when the main character, Ruby is a young child. She realizes she has the ability to manipulate minds when she wipes her parents memory and they send her to a "rehabilitation" camp for kids with ability's. Fast forward a couple years and Ruby is almost seventeen. She knows the "rehabilitation" camps are a lie. She escapes the camp with help from a nurse and meets other kids with ability's together they travel across the east cost looking for a safe haven and their families. This is an amazing book about a girl trying to find her voice in a world that would love nothing more then to silence her. It is genuinely one of my favorite books and one of the only books I have read multiple times. I think everyone should read it not only does it have amazing internal and external conflict but the conflict definitely has some parallels to modern issues. Overall this is a great read and I highly recommend it.

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Jules Messersharp
January 24, 2022
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
5/5
All American Boys is a great book about police brutality and racial justest, immediately after you start the book the action starts and never ends until the vary end. I can grantee you will never get bored reading this book. We follow a group of friends and discover how each one reacts to the incident. we watch as they handle it different and pull away from each other. I think this was a great way to promote awareness of rascal injustices.

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Camari Owens
January 24, 2022
Andre the giant
Box brown
Rating: 4/5

Andre Roussimoff is known as both the lovable giant in The Princess Bride and a heroic pro-wrestling figure. He was a normal guy who'd been dealt an extraordinary hand in life. At his peak, he weighed 500 pounds and stood nearly seven and a half feet tall. This is one excellent book to read, This book gives lots of motivational speech.

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Ella Holland

One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus

4/5

One of Us is Next is the sequel to One of Us is Lying. One of Us is Lying begins in Bayview, and with Simon Kelleher, author of the highschool’s biggest gossip site, “Simon Says.” In the beginning of the school year, Bronwyn, Nate, Addy, and Cooper, four students and classmates of Simon all get detention with Simon. While the five of them were alone in the classroom, Simon mysteriously died from an allergic reaction. Suddenly the lives of the four students are completely changed as they become suspects in Simon’s death. One of Us is Next centers on Bayview a year later when someone makes a new online gossip game spilling student’s secrets based on Simon’s website and follows three new characters and their perspectives. Maeve Rojas, Bronwyn's sister, along with Phoebe Lawton and Knox Meyers, all three juniors at the highschool. Tragedies, and a death occur in Bayview and we see how they navigate this and how their lives are impacted as they try to solve the mystery of who’s responsible for these major events. It’s a book involving mystery, suspense, and trust. It keeps you engaged throughout the whole story and as you read you discover more clues with the main characters.

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Isadora Shikany
March 23, 2022
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
Rating:5/5
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong is a historical fiction book based off of Shanghai in the 1920's. It is a take on Romeo and Juliet's story during a time when Shanghai is being torn apart due to colonialism. It follows Juliette Cai, who belongs to a Chinese gang and Roma Montagov who belongs to a group of Russian colonialists and how they must work together through the rivalry and hatred between their gangs to save Shanghai from a monster. This book is very entertaining to read and you easily get immersed into this semi-realistic world. It is a great blend of historical fiction with fantasy inclusions. Overall, I highly recommend this book because you get very invested into this bizarre and chaotic world that includes violence between gangs but also political tension over the future of Shanghai.

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January 23, 2022
The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Audrey Merrill
Rating: 5/5
The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins is the 4th book to the Hunger Games series and in my opinion the best one yet. You get to follow President Snow, the antagonist of the first 3 books throughout his childhood. I thought it was very interesting because they take this character that's supposed to be this hated evil person and they turn him into a character that you can really feel sorry for. After being a huge fan of the hunger games series for years I was so exited when this book came out and it really exceeded all my expectations. Its over all an absolutely wonderful book that I would recommend to anyone.

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Laurie Button
January 21, 2022
The Miner by Natsume Sōseki
5/5
The Miner is a novel that I would highly recommend. After his relationship fails, a man (with no name) leaves Tokyo in order to escape his situation. He is recruited by a worker in a copper mine who he views as incredibly ugly. After starting to work in the copper mine, he begins to become obsessed with falling deeper and deeper into the mine, hoping to find oblivion. As he navigates through an unfamiliar world, he meets another miner trying to escape love and the pain that comes with it. After self-reflection and various events that happen throughout the story, he becomes a completely different person. So much so that he no longer views his employer as ugly. The Miner is an excellent book that explores the unpleasant sides of life in a beautiful yet sad way. Again, I think most people would enjoy this quite a bit.

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Simon Gawlik
January 21st, 2022
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Rating: 5/5
Ready Player One is and exiting book, as we read we follow five friends in virtual reality trying to win a challenge. These friends go through many obstacles yet stay friends through the whole book. This book is very interesting and I would recommend.

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January 21, 2022
assassination classroom volume 1 by Yusei Matsui
bugs diers
Rating: 5/5
assassination classroom volume 1 by Yusei Matsui is a hilarious and meaningful Science fiction comedy. The story follows a group of misfit teens who have been tasked with assassinating a very powerful octopus-like being that happens to be their teacher. This story is fun and exciting yet emotional. I love this book. I think that it's light hearted but still has a good plot to keep you invested. it may not be everyone's cup of tea it is odd for sure but if you want odd then this is a good pick for sure.

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Dimitri Gillett
January 21, 2022
The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan
Rating: 5/5
The Dark Prophecy is an exciting and enticing novel about former god Apollo, who as punishment, has become human. With his unlikely friendship of a homeless 12 year-old he must free his 5 oracles and become a god again. This story shows how it's better if we change later, than not at all. It's a wonderful fantasy fiction book. It shows how Apollo betters himself and becomes a more caring and passionate person. It's an excellent read that's hard to stop reading as well as being very relatable and enjoyable. Overall, it's a superb book that everyone should consider reading.

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Samiyyah Sadruddin
January 19, 2021
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab
Rating: 5/5
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E Schwab main character is a young woman named Addie LaRue who trades her soul for immortality and freedom. She can live forever, but no one will ever remember her. She made a deal with the devil out of desperation and a desire for more.

300 years, Addie has learned to survive, but is still living a invisible existence. Until, she walks into a small New York City bookshop, and meets a man who can remember her name and face. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is a fascinating book about leaving your mark on the world.

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Stewart Lawson
January 21, 2022
Flushboy by
Stephen Graham Jones
Rating -4 / 5
Flushboy  is a novel that is horrifying and awful. The main character (who is also the narrator), is unnamed throughout the story. He talks about how he has to work at his dad's drive-thru porta-potty and everything he's seen while working there. When I was reading this book, I didn't have a clue on what was going on. The writer would jump to the past then start foreshadowing and then go back to the present. It didn't make any sense. I learned that you don't judge a book by it's cover. DON'T READ THIS BOOK!
Overall this book was extremely bad. I would not recommend it.

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Laila Hunter
January 10, 2022
Project Hail Mary by Andrew Weir
Rating: 5/5
Project Hail Mary is a breathtaking sci-fi novel following lone Ryland Grace, who wakes from a coma with no memory of anything, and two dead bodies next to him. As he regains his memories and begins to figure out his purpose. He realizes that he is the sole survivor from Hail Mary's voyage and is tasked with saving humanity from death. As he races against the clock to save a world he doesn't even remember well, he's thrust into an entirely new one in the depths of space. This is a very good sci-fi book written by the author of The Martian and this book dwarfs the other's footsteps. It is a book that uses very advanced science, but it works well with the setting and characters in a way that doesn't make me care. Project Hail Mary is a book the makes it hard to put down once you've started, and and immensely enjoyable read.

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The Field Guide to The North American Teenager

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7 January 2022
The Field Guide to The North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
Joey Seres
Rating: 4/5

The Field Guide to The North American Teenager is a book that is about life of highschool in Austin, Texas. The main character, Norris, is a new student and new to Texas because Norris and his mom moved to Texas from Canada at the start of the story. Norris is a junior in high school and joins the school on the first day after Christmas break. Norris has to make friends to survive two years in Texas and he does throughout the story all while trying to date this girl named Aarti. I have not finished this book yet but I have been enjoying this book and that's why I'm reviewing it. This book is really good at getting you to be emotional about this book in every way, it's relatable and it's funny and many more. Every time I pick up this book it's hard to stop reading because the flow is really good.

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Zoe Negovetic

December 19, 2021

The Queen’s Gambit

Walter Tevis

Rating: 5 / 5

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis is an electrifying and meaningful novel about growing up and living life. Through the story we follow the life of Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy as she learns the game and eventually becomes the best in the world. From when she was taught the simple yet very complex movements of the chess pieces across the board, all the way up to when, having fought through many hard times with friends, family, and substances, she goes to compete for something she’s always wanted. The Queen’s Gambit is an amazing story about finding yourself and navigating the world on your own.

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Isadora Shikany
January 21, 2022
There will come a darkness by Katy Rose Pool
Rating: 3/5
There will come a darkness is a fantasy novel following 5 protagonists trying to find the prophet who is the only person who can save the world from darkness before it is too late. The book changes perspective every chapter. Switching from an assassin to her sister, a prince and a gambler and finally the true prophet. There will come a darkness effortlessly demonstrates different sides and perspectives on the same events and stories. It is full of internal conflict between selfishness and selflessness. It is action filled and at times incredibly violent however since the characters are rather shallow, with little to no character development, the violence is not too bad. I would not recommend this book to someone as I did not ever develop any connections to any of the characters and the plot has been done before.