“When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn't matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying.”
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling is a magical story that connects into reality just enough to make the reader question whether what they’re reading is just a story. It tells the tale of a young boy, Harry Potter, who lives with his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon Dursley. He’s never known his parents as they died in a car crash when he was just a baby, and his aunt and uncle refuse to tell him any details about them.
Miles “Pudge” Halter is only after one thing: The Great Perhaps. Alaska is also after one thing: How do you get out of the labyrinth? The two cross paths at Culver Creek prep, a private boarding school in the south. As they get to know each other, Pudge forms a crush on Alaska. Amid a prank war and keeping his grades up, Pudge must learn how to also navigate his new love life. Will Pudge find The Great Perhaps? Will Alaska find her way out of the labyrinth? Read to find out!
Lightning McQueen, a rookie race car, gets stranded on his way to the most important race of his life. Now he has to find a way to get back but first he needs to learn a valuable life lesson…
The evil peacock Lord Shen is trying to conquer all of China, and Po the dragon warrior has to stop him with the help of the furious five. But first Po needs to face his past to become the hero he was destined to be…
The god Apollo is cast down from Olympus as a regular teenage boy after angering Zeus. Now the god has lost all his powers and must survive the modern world and somehow find a way to regain his godly form. Apollo needs help and the only place he can think of is camp half blood.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury takes place in a dystopian future where books are outlawed and the government uses mass censorship and immersive entertainment to distract the people from the real problems. The book was written based on fears of the growth of mass media and the general attitude of the public at the time and envisioned a possible future if things kept going the way they were.
