Author: Melina Laganas

Imagine living in a world where everything is decided for you; what you eat, where you live, when you die, who you love. The officials who run Cassia’s society leave nothing up to choice. It makes for a more equal and controlled world. A “better” world. Matched, by Ally Condie, is the first novel in the Matched trilogy. The novel

By piecing together tiny details, Cassie can determine who you are and what you want.  When she is seventeen, the FBI asks her to join a group called the Naturals. There, she works on cold cases with other teenagers who have the natural ability to do things as unusual as Cassie.  Sloane, Casey’s roommate, is amazing at statistics.  Lia, a

“Her eyes began to glow like barbecue coals. Her fingers stretched, turning into talons. Her jacket melted into large, leathery wings. She wasn’t human.” The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is an amazing, action packed book, filled with magic and mythology. Percy and Annabeth are both demigods; half god and half human. Percy is the son of Poseidon, god of

Cassie Hobbes can read people’s lives just by looking at them. She is a natural profiler living with her father’s Italian family in Colorado . Cassie was notified that she was chosen into an optional secret group of teens called the Naturals, who are part of the FBI. At first, Cassie believes that her acceptance has something to do with

What would it be like to stay behind the door of the dark house, one of Justin Blake’s scariest movie icons where a movie character, the nightmare elf lerks?  Each of the characters entered a contest, they had to submit their worst nightmare in 1,000 words or less and they were all picked into the contest for the chance to

In The Hidden Summer by Gin Phillips, Nell and her best friend Lydia’s mother have a fight they are told that they cannot hang out together anymore. But for Nell especially, being apart from Lydia is not an option. Gin Phillips makes the reader feel Nell and Lydia’s emotions as the 12 year olds figure out a way to work

The story begins in Brian’s apartment in new york city, after Derek arrives at Brian’s place with the idea of Brian and him traveling into the woods and learning about survival,(which Brian has done already). He has to decide if he wants to do it again after what happened last time. It takes some convincing, but after some thought, Brian

Golden wings as bright as the sun with white, fluorescent wings as soft as clouds. The book Rapture is the fifth breathtaking novel by Lauren Kate. It is about a group of sons and daughters from “Heaven and Hell” that must go on a journey to save the past, present, and future. From the beginning of time there has been