“The Bang” by Barry Lyga is a excellent novel and ones of the best that I’ve read to date. In the book Sebastian accidently shot and killed his sister at four years old. 10 years later he still struggles with the guilt and is learning to cope with the incident that was truly a mistake…
The book “The Takedown” by Corrie Wang is an interesting book to read. Thisstory takes place in Brooklyn, NY with a 17 year old named Kyla Cheng as the main character. Kyla is one of the most popular girls in school. She has everything a young girl could want. High grades, three best friends and…
In a futuristic world where climate change has drastically morphed the world we live in, humans have lost their ability to dream. The indigenous people of Canada are the only humans that are still able to dream and the government is hunting them to harvest their bone marrow and create an antidote. Francis (“Frenchie) is…
The Hate U Give is a story about a 16-year-old black teen named Starr Carter. Starr attends a white high school and lives in a black neighborhood. Starr struggles to be her true self between these two different worlds until she witnesses the murder of her best friend, Khalil. This event changes Starr’s perspective and…
The Book Exo by Fonda Lee takes place in a technologically advanced futurewhere Earth has been colonized by a species of aliens known as the Zhree. The Zhree, after a long period of war, make peace with the human race and start to respect them as a species. The Zhree introduce an exoskeleton known as…
The book “Neighborhood Girls” was a really interesting book with thrills and surprises inside that you would never expect. My favorite character, Wendy Boychuck, was faced with many hard decisions and did not always make the best choices. When she decides to make a good decision and chooses to turn her life around and not…
I like the novel The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virture by Mackenzi Lee. My favorite character was Henry Monty because he was independent, kind, caring, and stubborn. My favorite part in the novel was when Henry Monty and Percy kissed because Henry has had a crush on Percy since they were teenagers and Henry has…
The book I read for my teen book review was Eyes of the World, by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos. It is a nonfiction book about Robert Capa ( who’s real name is Andre Friedman) and Gerda Taro (who’s real name is Gerta Pohorylle). Both of them are jewish photojournalists, who are most famous for…
In Emery Lord’s The Names They Gave Us , a young teen Lucy has always seemed to have her life together, relying on her faith to get her through difficult situations and having a steady boyfriend like she has always wanted. Lucy’s life is routine and she never faces sanything unexpected or challenging. But when…
For years Rachel Sweetie has had a crush on a boy named Henry Jones. The day before she moved, she wrote a letter saying how much she loved him and tucked it into his favorite book in his family’s bookshop. She has waited for years, but he never responded. Rachel now lives in the city working…
