In the novel Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse, the main protagonist Hanneke is a black market dealer during World War II. Germany then invades the Dutch’s line of defense, killing Hanneke’s boyfriend Bas. While all of this misfortune is happening to her, one of her clients- Mrs. Janssen -who usually asks for…
This book is a very interesting historical fiction book about the time of slavery. It’s about a girl named Isabel who is a slave and wants to be free. She wants to leave the plantation she lives on but, she can’t do that alone. She has to find her lost little sister Ruth and run away with her.…
The battle is on! Come support your Deer Park battle team on March 23rd at Connetquot HS from 6-9pm. The Advanced Battle of the Books is a countywide competition of teens in grades 9-12 from all participating Suffolk County public libraries. The titles for the 2018 Advanced Battle of the Books are: Highly Illogical Behavior…
Did you ever think that two people from two different worlds would ever get together? The novel The Sun is Also a Star is about two people’s perspectives, a Jamaican American girl named Natasha Kingsley, and a Korean American boy named Daniel Jae Ho Bae. They are both seventeen years old kids who met in…
Did you ever want to go to Los Angeles (L.A.),the entertainment capital of the world?Well in American Girls, a fifteen year old girl named Anna was sick and tired of her life back home in Atlanta, Georgia and ran away to Los Angeles. Anna’s half sister picks her up at the airport and brings her…
The main character, Quinn Roberts is not like others. He loves screenplay but, doing it has been hard lately. Coping with his sister’s death and his mother not being there for him, it’s hard for him. He also left school, all these bad things happening to him one at a time, first starting with his…
