Reviews by Tag: family

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The Summer of Broken Rules book cover

The Summer of Broken Rules

By K.L. Walther
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Z. Ahmed
Jun 16, 2025

The Summer of Broken Rules is an amazing, heartfelt, and charming novel that blends romance, grief, and family with the beauty of a summer wedding on Martha’s Vineyard. The story is about 18-year-old Meredith Fox, who returns to the island for the first time after the death of her older sister, Claire. The week-long event is about her cousin’s wedding, but the family’s annual tradition of playing a competitive game of Assassin—a playful water-gun competition—adds excitement, mischief, and emotion.

Teen Review
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

By Malinda Lo
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Z. Ahmed
Jun 13, 2025

Last Night at the Telegraph Club is an amazing and detailed historical fiction novel set in 1950s San Francisco, during the Red Scare, when there was a lot of cultural conservatism in America. The book is about 17-year-old Lily Hu, a Chinese American girl living in Chinatown, who is dealing with the struggles of her identity, family expectations and love. Lily is a very smart student who dreams of working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Teen Review
Hardscrabble by Sandra Dallas

Hardscrabble

By Sandra Dallas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
June Pirie
Apr 17, 2025

Hardscrabble by Sandra Dallas is a historical fiction book set during the Homestead Act in 1910. The Homestead Act was signed by Abraham Lincoln and it was an act that stated that anybody who is the head of a house can get 150 acres of land for free. The main character's name is Belle Martin and it follows her and her family's struggle as new homesteaders in Colorado. This is a story that shows the struggle of dry farming, sicknesses and weather issues.

Teen Review
Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.

Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav Kone
Mar 31, 2025

Monsters, Inc. is an amazing movie with a unique world. The movie introduces Monstropolis, a city powered by the screams of children in the human world. The screams are collected by the monsters working at Monsters, Inc. using closet doors to enter the children's rooms. 

Teen Review

Despicable Me

Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav Kone
Mar 31, 2025

Despicable Me is a good movie. The movie starts off showing us how Gru, the protagonist, plans on stealing the moon fueled by the motivation to top the thief who stole the pyramid of Giza. With the help of his minions, this plan takes an unexpected twist when he agrees to adopt three children. 

Teen Review
Coco

Coco

Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav Kone
Mar 31, 2025

Coco is an amazing movie packed with emotion and depth. The movie begins with how Miguel dreams of becoming a musician, but their family is against it because of their history with music. On Día de los Muertos, Miguel accidentally ends up in the world of the dead and begins the journey to finding out about his family history. 

Teen Review
How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon

Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav Kone
Mar 31, 2025

How to Train Your Dragon is a good movie with a unique story. The story takes place on the island of Berk, plagued by dragons, the locals have to defend themselves and their livestock from the dragons. Hiccup, the Chieftain’s awkward son, manages to strike down a dragon and begins his journey to finding out the truth about dragons. 

Teen Review
Minions

Minions

Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Vaibhav Kone
Mar 31, 2025

Minions is an okay movie with lots of fun moments. The movie introduces and shows how minions have existed since the beginning of time and have evolved from single celled organisms with one goal, a goal to serve the most evil masters but often they result in their masters death. In this movie, we see the minions look for a new master, a master who would fulfill their requirements. This was the main goal of the movie and once it is achieved we see a simple story take place. 

Teen Review
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

By Louisa May Alcott
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Sophia Taghizadeh
Mar 30, 2025

Little Women follows the four March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set during the American Civil War, the four sisters struggle to fit in with society as girls were expected to all while living in poverty. Each sister has to overcome some sort of challenge as they grow up; Meg and Jo must work to help support their family, Beth stays at home to help with housework and Amy goes to school. Each girl also struggles with their own character.

Teen Review
The Doughnut Fix book cover

The Doughnut Fix

By Jessie Janowitz
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 28, 2025

Tristan isn’t as smart or as perfect as his sister, Janine, and he is okay with it, for the most part. Janine can’t make a perfect chocolate chip cookie like Tristan, and she certainly can’t do more than simple baking. Tristan prides himself on his baking ability and his home in the greatest city in the world. His world turns upside down when his parents decide to move to rural New York, where no one knows him and there are barely any kids his age. While exploring the tiny town center, Tristan discovers an old doughnut shop and tries to enter.

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