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 moreSilas Baker With dangerous outlaws, deadly assassins, and a rebellious baron, the job of a King’s ranger is a dangerous one in the ancient kingdom of Araluen. Armed with only a longbow, two knives, and a camouflaging cloak, the fifty rangers of Araluen are the kingdom’s most intelligent and effective police force. Will, Halt, Gilan, and Crowley are just a
Read moreHayden Leveroni If you have not read the first book in the series, you should not consider reading this as there may be spoilers from the first book. Chris Rylander’s second novel in the Fourth Stall series was even more exciting and suspenseful than the first. This time, it begins with the cliffhanger from the first book, a girl
Read moreAnthony Horowitz’s book Point Blanc kept me reading with its action packed plot and James Bond-esque theme. Point Blanc is about a boy named Alex Rider, a spy for MI6 (Military Intelligence) who is sent into a special finishing school just for teenage boys. MI6 believes that there is something else happening inside the school since two recent murders involving
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The entirety of England is infested with ghosts of all kinds and only young people can see them. Agencies open in order to fight off the country’s new unwelcome visitors. Children of all ages now work full time jobs on private and government ghost cases and competition between ghost fighting agencies is fierce. The Screaming Staircase, the first book
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A loud rumbling came from the sky, then, a giant barge flies in from over the mountains. A large crowd of villagers gather on the field where the barge seems to be landing. They all are feeling excited and hope this is some kind of good news. Mark and his friends Lana, Trina, Alec and Darnell wait with the rest
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One night, over a small town in Arizona, a streak appears across the sky. Soon after, almost everybody in the town is lying in the streets, dead, as if they fell and never got back up. The Andromeda Strain, written by Michael Crichton, is a complex story about a biological disaster and the team called in to fix it. It
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Twisted is about four girls trying to take their perfect lives back since their close friend Ali’s death. However there’s a twist, they think Ali isn’t really dead. Do they go too far when they think they see her in Jamaica, did they make an identity mistake? The girls frenemy A is back after a year free of torturous blackmail,
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“My bedroom door creaks open, and the light from the hallway penetrates my room. I see his boot first: black wrinkled leather soiled at the toe.” “Return to the Dark House” by Laurie Stolarz is a mystery/horror book, suitable for readers in grades 7-12 and (Horror is not suitable for people who get scared easily.) The book starts off with
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