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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Bella Paul
May 13, 2024

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a gothic novel set in northern England. The novel illustrates the complex relationship between Heathcliff—an orphan taken in by the Earnshaw family—and Catherine Earnshaw. Heathcliff’s desire to be with Catherine is made more complicated due their differing desires—Heathcliff’s desire for revenge, and Catherine’s desire to uphold her social status. Their differing desires, individual flaws, and family difficulties additionally stand in the way of their relationship.

Teen Review
The Last Battle book cover

The Last Battle

By C.S. Lewis
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2024

“All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.” 

Teen Review
The Silver Chair book cover

The Silver Chair

By C.S. Lewis
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2024

“Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real-world hollow.

Teen Review
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

By C.S. Lewis
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2024

“Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.” 

Teen Review
Prince Caspian book cover

Prince Caspian

By C.S. Lewis
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2024

“Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.” 

The fourth book in the Narnia series, Prince Caspian is one of the most memorable ones, with all the classics of a fairytale. An evil uncle, plotting for the throne, and a young prince seeking help in what’s left of the mythical part of his kingdom. 

Teen Review
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The Horse and His Boy

By C.S. Lewis
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2024

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.” 

Teen Review
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

By C.S. Lewis
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 19, 2024

“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”

Teen Review
1984 by George Orwell

1984

By George Orwell
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 16, 2024

Summary: 1984 follows Winston Smith, a party member living in the dystopian future of Oceania. Through Winston’s perspective, we learn the government has full control over everyone and everything. Led by Big Brother, the government not only controls what people experience, through government-made media and propaganda, but also controls the people themselves, through surveillance, language, and the absence of individuality.

Teen Review
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

By J.D. Salinger
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Lavinia S.
Apr 15, 2024

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a novel that follows Holden Caulfield's sudden expulsion from his all-boy prep academy. After being kicked out, Holden embarks on a three-day journey through New York City, where he meets various people who reflect his inner turmoil. Throughout the novel, Holden grapples with themes of identity and loss of childhood. 

Teen Review
The Crucible

The Crucible

By Arthur Miller
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
TeenReviewer11
Apr 13, 2024

The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller. This play occurs in Salem, Massachusetts, as suspicions rise of witchcraft. John Proctor, one of the main characters, created false accusations of Abigail (a teen) partaking in witchcraft. This leads to a string of accusations that causes hysteria in the entire town. These accusations find their way to court, where false “evidence” and faulty claims overpower the truth that few dare to speak out loud. 

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