Reviews by Category: Fiction

Teen Review
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The Doughnut Fix

By Jessie Janowitz
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 28, 2025

Tristan isn’t as smart or as perfect as his sister, Janine, and he is okay with it, for the most part. Janine can’t make a perfect chocolate chip cookie like Tristan, and she certainly can’t do more than simple baking. Tristan prides himself on his baking ability and his home in the greatest city in the world. His world turns upside down when his parents decide to move to rural New York, where no one knows him and there are barely any kids his age. While exploring the tiny town center, Tristan discovers an old doughnut shop and tries to enter.

Teen Review
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Animal Farm

By George Orwell
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 28, 2025

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” 

When the mistreated animals of the farm rise up against the evil humans, they try to establish a fair and just society. As they work out their rules and sayings, the leading power begins to take over slowly, until the animals that now run the farm remain as cruel as the human who once ruled over them all.

Teen Review
 Despicable Me 4 DVD cover

Despicable Me 4

By Chris Renaud
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav K.
Mar 28, 2025

Despicable Me 4 is a decent movie with a messy storyline. The movie starts off introducing a new villain, Maxime Le Mal, who forces Gru and his family into hiding to protect themselves from him. The introductory plot is interesting and could have resulted in a better story had the villain been utilized more. The villain is barely present during the duration of the movie, and there is not much buildup of tension or pressure.

Teen Review
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Kung Fu Panda 4

By Mike Mitchell
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav K.
Mar 28, 2025

Kung Fu Panda 4 is a decent installment to the Kung Fu Panda series. It carries over the older characters and introduces new characters to keep it interesting. The story starts off showing us that Po must get ready to become the next spiritual leader of the valley of peace and needs to pick a new dragon warrior to take his place. While on this journey to become the spiritual leader, Po faces a formidable foe. The set-up of the movie is good, but by the end the whole movie felt mediocre and there was not much tension.

Teen Review
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Minions the Rise of Gru

By Brad Ableson, Jonathan Del Val, and Kyle Balda.
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav K.
Mar 28, 2025

Minions: The Rise of Gru is a good movie and is interesting to watch. The plot progresses quick, and the animation is fun to watch. The movie starts off, introducing the “Vicious 6” a group of legendary criminals who kick their leader Wild Knuckles. Looking for a new member, the criminal group hold interviews that turns disastrous for Gru and his minions as the Vicious 6 chase him down.

Teen Review
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Megamind

By Tom McGrath
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav K.
Mar 28, 2025

Megamind is a good movie with an amazing story that has a lot of depth. Megamind and Metro Man were both infants sent to earth from their home planets, which got destroyed. While Metro Man found a loving family and lived a life full of attention and happiness, Megamind landed in a prison and was raised by prisoners and was always the odd one out.

Teen Review
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The Bad Guys

By Pierre Perifel
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav K.
Mar 28, 2025

The Bad Guys is a good movie. Based on the book series The Bad Guys, the movie is about a group of notorious criminals consisting of Mr. Wolf, Mr. Shark, Mr. Snake, Mr. Piranha and Ms. Tarantula who have pulled off legendary heists in a world where animals and humans co-exist. But now they find themselves in a peculiar situation where they are given the choice to become model citizens and leave their life of crime behind.

Teen Review
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Lord of the Flies

By William Golding
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 27, 2025

Lord of The Flies is a very interesting and popular book depicting the concept of human nature, society, and morality. This book takes place during World War II when a group of British boys get stuck on an island from their plane. There were older boys on the island like Ralph, Piggy, Simon, Jack, and the choir boys who were about the ages of twelve to fourteen. The younger boys included Jonny, Henry, and Jack are about the age of six. The boys came together after Ralph blew the conch which Piggy gave him the idea to.

Teen Review
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The House on Mango Street

By Sandra Cisneros
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 27, 2025

The House on Mango Street is a novel written by Sandra Cisneros. The novel depicts the life of 12-year-old Mexican Esperanza, who grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago. This book goes through many themes like identity, poverty discrimination. In the story, she shows small parts of her life and others to go through all of these themes. She talks about her home and the changes she goes through each time she moves.

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