Reviews by Category: Fiction

Fudge-a-Mania is a fictional novel written by Judy Blume. Peter Hatcher,

who is a fifth grader in New York and he takes a vacation to Maine. He has to

share a vacation house with his enemy, Sheila Tubman. Peter has to come to

terms with this, and his teen age while growing up when dealing with Sheila, and

his younger annoying brother, Fudge. He tries to make this situation better with

his friends, but it turns into problems. Things get better between them, and they

The Catcher in the Rye is a fictional novel written by J.D. Salinger. This novel

is about a 16 year old named Holden Caufield. He gets expelled from his prep

boarding school. He is confused about how to make a way in the world. He feels

as if it is his against the world, as he struggles with his past and present, as well

as future. His parents play a major role in what he thinks about himself. He also

The protagonist is a 12-year-old named Willow Chance. She is highly gifted and

fascinated with medicine, plants, and the number 7. After a teacher accuses her of cheating

on a test she scored perfectly on, she starts meeting the school counselor, Dell Duke, who is

inspired by her intelligence. While meeting with Duke, she also meets two Vietnamese

siblings, Mai and Quang-ha Nyugen, whom she befriends and even learns Vietnamese for.

Willow also befriends the taxi driver she calls to bring her from school to Dell’s office, Jairo

Credence is an exceptionally written romance

mystery novel written by Penelope Douglas. It

takes us through the life of a young girl

whose parents mysteriously died and so she is

sent to live in the mountains with her step

uncle whom she has never met before. Overall

the storyline of the book is interesting due

to all the different perspectives outlined in

the book. I would not suggest this book for

young readers as it contains several mature

themes. I also feel as if the ending of the

This book was recommended to me by a close friend and I’m glad that I read it. It was not the kind of

mystery novel I was expecting but I still ended up enjoying it. You meet Kya, who is known as the “marsh

girl” in this story, because she lives alone in the marsh. In the book, it switches between time periods in

different chapters as it alternates from the present, where a murder case was being investigated, to the

past, where you can see Kya’s childhood and history. Each chapter slowly unravels different parts of the

More Than This features Seth, a teenager who crushed his skull while he was drowning.

However, he soon wakes in an isolated copy of Earth and believes it to be “Hell”. Seth

desperately tries to remember his memories of his life- of his little brother, his group of friends,

his secret relationship, and of his parents before the tragedy and to understand where he is- the

afterlife or a hidden part of life? Unfortunately, a being known to be the Driver or even Death

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard is the second book in the Red Queen series. Only people with

silver blood, the royals, hold powers. Mare, red-blooded, finds out she holds a deadly power of

her own, which can match any silver. She finds out more people are out there like her, and sets

out on a quest to find people to rebel against a friend who has betrayed her. What she didn’t

In the historical fiction novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the legend of

the scarlet letter, a story of three Puritans' path toward penance for their sins. The story starts

with the main character, Hester Prynne, suffering a great ignominy before the entirety of Boston

after becoming pregnant with a child that was not her husband. Due to Hester moving to Boston

ahead of her husband, everyone thinks he is dead, so instead of being killed, she's forced to

In the historical fiction novella The Pearl, John Steinbeck details the destructiveness of

human greed through the view of an uneducated native Mexican after Spain colonized Mexic.

Before the native, Kino, discovered “the greatest pearl in the world”(Steinbeck 20), he lived what

seemed to be a fulfilling life; he had a faithful wife, a beautiful child, a reliable older brother, and

a way of life: pearl gathering. This life surrounded him with the pleasant “Song of the

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a powerful coming-of-age book told as a series of

letters from freshman in high school Charlie. He’s endured difficult experiences, and he feels

distant from his peers but yearning to participate. Through Charlie, Chbosky gives a stunning

account of the experiences of anxiety, awkwardness, and depression. He also demonstrates the

propensity of life to change and to improve, and the beauty of relationships. After Charlie begins