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Locked away. Trapped inside without any memory of what happened but only wanting to escape. I quickly grabbed anything I could find to defend myself, but then I saw the monster. A tall and muscular man stood over me as he said, “Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you.” One day ago I was at the airport ready to fly off
Read more“You wake up one morning…and decide that how you’ve been in the past doesn’t have to define who you are in the future.” In the book, Tangled written by Carolyn Mackler four different teenagers shared no significant connection with each other until one vacation changed their lives forever. Jena is a shy and completely ordinary girl, but that was soon
Read moreThe One Left Behind by Willo Davis Roberts is a touching novel that revolves around an eleven year old girl named Mandy. At only ten years old, Mandy lost her twin sister Angel due to the dangerous disease E Coli. Mandy and Angel did everything together because they didn’t have any friends other than each other. In school, the two
Read moreThis time mystery by Eoin Colfer was not as good as I had hoped it was. I usually love fantasy but the whole time travel part kind of threw the reader askew. The book is based on a young criminal mastermind who is forced to battle his younger self in order to save his mother from a disease, that can
Read moreHave you ever felt like your parents are pushing you to become more like them? Josh Johnson, an eleven-year-old boy, established a club called Dunces Anonymous. Their club anticipated to change the world one parent at a time. First, Josh finds two friends, Wang and Magnolia, and sees them suffering the same problem. For example, Josh and his mom are
Read moreHow would you stretch a short food supply and limited materials to last you four martian years? Mark Watney was stranded on Mars after 6 soles of the Ares 3 mission arrival (a sole is one day on Mars- a little longer than a day on Earth). The rest of the crew left him during a terrible sandstorm, presuming Mark
Read moreIt’s the day of the purge, Alex Stowe knows he is unwanted. He has been caught drawing a house in the dirt with a stick, being creative in any way in the Land of Quill is illegal and a death sentence. On the contrary, his twin brother Aaron, is going to be a wanted and go to Wanted University. The
Read moreBook Review #3 Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol did not know that they would be embarking on an adventure of a lifetime when they signed up for a writing contest. In the Last Shot, when the two teenagers heard the call that they won the sports writing contest, they were ecstatic. They had an opportunity to fly out to New
Read moreFrom two separate worlds, June and Day never had a reason to cross paths, but when June’s brother, Metias, is murdered, and Day is the lone suspect, their lives will be changed forever. The two find themselves caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, with Day working to save the family who thought him dead, and with June
Read moreCassie Hobbes: a seventeen year old girl has the unique ability to crawl into people’s heads and figure out even the tiniest detail about them, slowly piecing together their lives. In Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, five teens are training to work for the FBI as an elite group called the Naturals but they end up getting a little
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