“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…
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 fiction novel, Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green, follows sixteen year old Aza Holmes, a girl with severe anxiety caught in a peculiar situation. The disappearance of local billionaire, Davis Pickett Sr., highlights the news, offering a monetary reward to anyone with information on his whereabouts. With investigators struggling to find leads,…
American Street by Ibi Zoboi is a story about finding out who you are and your self-worth. Fabiola Toussaint and her mother came to America hoping for a better life, just like most immigrants. But when her mother gets detained and sent back to Haiti, everything changes. Fabiola is confused, angry, hurt, and most of…
Allegedly by Tiffany D. JacksonMary Addison is a 16 year old girl who went to jail for killing a 3 month old baby at age 9. She is now 16, wearing an ankle monitor out of jail that captures her every move. Mary soon realizes she is pregnant and has to hide it so her…
Goodbye Days by Jeff ZentnerThis book is about a boy named Carver Briggs, whose life was perfect along with his three best friends: Mars, Eli, and Blake, a caring family and a promising career as a writer at his high school. One day Carver sent a text message to Mars, who happened to be driving at…
In the book Devil’s Within by S.F. Henson Nate is a bad kid who dies horrible things. When he was eight years old he stabbed somebody. When he turned 11, he got a red lace which is a prize for spilling blood for “the cause”. Then when he turned 14, he killed his own father. Nate is now a 16 year…
In the book Beast by Brie Spangler, Dylan is a tall, meaty and hairy 15 year old. He gets bullied at high school and on the day the school bans hats, he goes up on the school roof. He falls and is in the hospital with a broken leg. Dylan tried to kill himself so now he has to go…
The book Piecing me Together by, Renèe Watson was such an eye-opening read! The book brings readers through the ups and downs of Jade’s life and the big and small challenges she faces day to day. The novel is really relatable in some parts when she talks about how hard her mother works for her…
