Serena is just a regular high school girl, besides the fact that she thinks her father is having an affair with the cheerleading coach. She acts dumb but she is really some sort of genius, and she has all kinds of stuff going on. Serena finishes her junior year just barely, but for her senior year her friend Melody Grimshaw convinces her to join the cheerleading team and make an academic comeback. Serena somehow manages to make the team and she learns to apply her full potential, but during this time Melody runs away.
In this classic satire a demon, named Screwtape, writes to his nephew, Wormwood. In this satire, Screwtape is somewhat of a mentor to Wormwood, giving him advice on how to deceive the person that Wormwood is in charge of. This is a satire, as it gives an insight, for Christians, or other readers, into how Satan steals, kills, and destroys.
Avery Grambs is an average 17-year-old girl from Connecticut. She finds out that she has inherited 46 billion dollars from Tobias Hawthorne, a very wealthy man. However, Tobias is a total stranger to Avery. With no record of being connected to this man at all, she becomes suspicious of whether or not this is real. There is one condition that comes along with the money-she is required to live in Tobias Hawthorne’s mansion along with his living family. Avery must adjust to her new situation while also trying to uncover the secrets that come along with it.
A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen is a quirky rom com about a girl named Liza who is desperate to find her one true love. Liza was always a big dreamer, hardworking, and smart, but her mom, Mrs. Yang, begs to disagree. Due to past circumstances with Liza dating guys who didn’t meet any of her mother’s criteria, Mrs. Yang is desperate for Liza to date a nice, smart, good looking ASIAN guy.
You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao is a young adult romance novel. 16-year-old Julie is still grieving from the loss of her boyfriend, Sam and it doesn’t help that some people blame her for his death. She makes up her mind to stop thinking about him and throws out his stuff, but after reading a message that Sam left for her in the yearbook, she tries to call him. Little did she know that he would pick up.
The First to Die at the End is the prequel to the book, They Both Die at the End, where two strangers spend a life-changing day together after the Death-Cast makes their first calls. It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can the Death-Cast predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax?
All Your Perfects is an emotionally charged novel that intricately weaves together the past and present of Quinn and Graham's marriage. The story unfolds through dual timelines, providing a poignant glimpse into the couple's early days of falling in love and the current challenges threatening to unravel their once-perfect union. At the heart of the narrative lies the deeply personal and often stigmatized issue of infertility.
Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer is about Juliet, whose mother passed away, and Declan, who works at a cemetery for required community service. Juliet writes letters to her mother as a way to feel connected to her, and Juliet leaves these letters at her mother’s grave. Though she never received any response, she returns to her mother’s grave one day to find a response to one of the letters. The response was written by Declan, although neither knows who the other is.
Summary: Beloved tells the story of Sethe, an escaped slave, living with her daughter, Denver. The novel starts with the runaway of Sethe’s two sons, Howard and Buglar, and the death of her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. These events open the theme of the story and introduce the malevolent baby ghost who haunts 124. As more characters show, the novel begins to entwine past and present, revealing flashbacks of Sethe’s past in slavery. With the appearance of Paul D, the main conflict begins to unfold.
Summary: My Side of the Mountain is a coming-of-age story featuring Sam Gribley, who leaves his family’s crowded New York City apartment for his great-grandfather Gribley’s land. The bulk of the story takes place within the Catskill Mountains of New York, where Sam learns to survive off the land and make new friends– both animal and human. He grapples with internal and external conflicts, fighting not only the force of nature but also the struggle between wanting isolation and the companionship of others.
