Summary: Big Game by Stuart Gibbs follows the adventures of Teddy Fitzroy, a middle schooler with a knack for solving mysteries, as he visits a floating zoo called FunJungle. When a rare Siberian tiger cub goes missing, Teddy finds himself embroiled in a dangerous investigation. With the help of his friend Summer, daughter of the zoo's owner, Teddy navigates through a web of lies, deceit, and danger to uncover the truth behind the disappearance.
The Aeneid is an epic poem of Rome’s founding history written during the Roman Empire’s reign. The poem follows Aeneas and his fellow Trojans as they flee Troy following its destruction from the Trojan War. Aeneas searches for a way to fulfill his destiny, to set sail to Italy and found the Roman people, as told by Jupiter, King of the Gods.
Summary: In Five Feet Apart, readers are introduced to Stella Grant and Will Newman, two teenagers who are anything but ordinary, due to their battle with cystic fibrosis (CF). Stella is meticulous about her treatment regimen, aiming to keep her health stable enough for a lung transplant. Will, on the other hand, is tired of clinical trials and restrictions, eagerly awaiting his 18th birthday to reclaim some freedom from his disease.
Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression and small-town Alabama Scout Finch gives us a glimpse into growing up during the 1930s. Scout lives with her dad and brother and their housekeeper Calpurnia. Scout’s dad is a lawyer who is representing an African American man who is being wrongly charged for rape. Scout also experiences fear in her neighbor because her family lives next to the supposed town crazy Boo Radley.
Georgia Ford, a real estate lawyer in San Francisco, discovers a secret that her fiancé kept and goes to her family home in Sonoma a week before her wedding. She expects comfort from her family in her hometown, but when she learns that they are selling the Sonoma vineyard that she grew up on, she wants nothing but to save it and her family. However, she meets Jacob, the soon-to-be owner, and learns more family secrets that could threaten to break the family apart. So, Georgia handles the problems, overcomes the obstacles, and decides on a new path for her life that she didn’t expect.
The play starts with seeing the burning anger of a man named Iago and all of his plans and schemes for the future. One of the people he wants to ruin is Othello, a great and mighty general in the city of Venice. Iago has burning jealousy throughout the book and wants to be better than Othello. Iago also plans on helping his close friend, Roderigo, and his wishes to win over Desdemona, who is Othello’s wife. Throughout the play, Iago gains the trust of and manipulates almost every character to get his way and the ultimate goal of power and to watch the demise of others.
Won, the first Asian American basketball player in the NBA, rose to stardom as one of the best players on the team as he filled in after “Powerball!” got injured. A Korean American TV producer, Carrie is working to get K-dramas onto the American stage. Won wants to be a basketball star and renew his temporary contract with the New York Knicks, while Carrie wants to bring representative Korean shows to America.
The NearWitchfollows the main character, Lexi, in her search for the town’s missing children, attempts to learn more about an unnamed stranger, and questions about whether childhood stories are more than scary tales after all.
The Alchemyst is the first book of a 6-book series called The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel. Nicholas Flamel was a real person, an alchemist said to have discovered the elixir of life which would make you immortal. The records showed that he died in 1418. Josh and Sophie Newman are two twins living in San Francisco during the summer. Josh is working at a bookstore and his boss is a man named Nick Fleming.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas is a whimsical romantic fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast with a dark twist. Feyre’s job is to hunt and provide for her impoverished family, but this job comes with its dangers. The forest bordering her cabin is the only thing separating her village from the land of the Faerie, which makes it exceedingly dangerous.
