Book Reviews, Book Reviews
Ben Pike For the first time in history, two children have won the inhumane Hunger Games, Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen. And even more less likely, both champions were tributes from District 12, the poor, coal mining area. Suzanne Collins has created yet another exciting masterpiece in the second book in the Hunger Games trilogy called Catching Fire. Katniss has
Read more“What followed was years of tears. A whole lifetime. That war will not be over until I take my last breath.” Hidden Like Anne Frank is an non-fiction book written by different survivors that went into hiding during WWII and the editors are Marcel Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis. It takes place in the Netherlands where an impressive amount of
Read moreCrissy Rietti “Screams. Crash. Impact. Bounce. Slide. Slide. Slide. Silence. Smoke. So much smoke. Fuel. Screams. Heat. Flickering light.” Living in a world without a voice while searching for his Uncle’s flag is easier said than done. Karen Harrington created a story, Mayday, about a teenage boy, Wayne Kovok, who survived a plane crash
Read moreNate Bowden The Lost Colony The Lost Colony is fast paced and full of interesting characters that will keep the reader engaged. This book by Eoin Colfer is the fifth book in the Artemis Fowl series and excels all books prior in this sci-fi series. The first few stories in this series mainly focus on Artemis being a greedy
Read moreSarah Ricker 3/22/17 Nerve Nerve, by Jeanne Ryan, is a page-turning thriller packed with action and suspense. Vee has always
Read moreOlivia Gardner Fangirl, a coming of age novel by Rainbow Rowell tells the story of a fan-fiction writing obsessed college student named Cather. In this book, the reader comes to learn about Cath’s struggles with making new friends, letting go of the past, and staying true to what she believes in. Cath had always loved writing, and she was good
Read moreBen Pike “Let the seventy-fourth Hunger Games begin!” Only one may survive this ultimate battle. Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games thrilled me with its suspense and adventure. The story is set in the dystopian far future in North America, all that lies in the ruins of the past is Panem, a country with a Capitol and twelve districts. The Capitol
Read moreWhat would you do if there was a murder on the moon? Would you investigate and know what happened, or would you just wait around for another murder to occur? In Space Case, murder was the case for Dashiell Gibson to figure out. “Let’s get something straight off the bat: Everything the movies have ever taught you about space travel
Read moreBjorn Pluss Robert Muchamore’s book Guardian Angel made me wanting to read more and more because it was so exciting and had a plot reminiscent of a James Bond movie. In the previous book in the series Cherub, Ryan Sharma (the main character in this book who works for CHERUB) goes undercover to try and befriend
Read moreJulian Lepler It’s been six weeks since Magnus has returned from defeating the Fenris Wolf and preventing Ragnarok, otherwise known as doomsday, for now. Since Magnus is the son of Frey, the god of fertility, summer and health, it’s unusual for him to be a warrior in Valhalla. However, he has been training for Ragnarok with
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