Reviews by Tag: high school

Teen Review
The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard

The Secret Year

By Jennifer R. Hubbard
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mia M
Apr 17, 2025

The Secret Year is a realistic fiction young adult novel that follows Colt through his junior year of high school. Labor day weekend, he lost the secret love of his life in a car accident. Although they were in love, no one was allowed to know. He was from the flats, and she was from one of the huge houses up on Black Mountain. Throughout his junior year, Colt faces his grief in secret, reading her journal entries written about their time together, allowing him to relive the best year of his life, the one with Julia.

Teen Review
Two-Minute Drill by Mike Lupica

Two-Minute Drill

By Mike Lupica
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Nirvaan Mehta
Apr 15, 2025

The book Two-Minute Drill by Mike Lupica is a sports action story. The main character, Scott Parry, was the new kid at school. He is smart, but was used to being lonely. He always ate by himself, never talked to anybody and kept out of trouble. He decides to join the football team, but isn’t the best player. However, a new friend named Chris Conlan decides to help him out. Chris is the star quarterback, but is educationally challenged.

Teen Review
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Dating and Dragons

By Kristy Boyce
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Zaida A.
Apr 9, 2025

Dating in Dragons follows the shy new girl Quinn Norton as she starts at her new High School. Quinn is nervous about making new friends because her past friends weren’t kind to her, but she stumbles upon a group of kids on her first day and they happen to share a love of Dungeons and Dragons. However, Quinn soon finds out this friend group is also a very well-known group of D&D streamers, and they have strict rules for joining their campaign.

Teen Review
Thanks for Listening by Molly Horan

Thanks for Listening

By Molly Horan
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mia M
Mar 30, 2025

Thanks for Listening is a realistic fiction young adult novel that follows the high school senior, Mia, through her last high school musical. She finally got the position of stage manager, but no one will listen to her! That is, until she finds her voice as an anonymous help channel on social media. Through this journey, she falls in love with the mysterious new girl, and has to navigate the challenges of dating someone with lots of rumors swirling around them.

Teen Review
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Frankly in Love

By David Yoon
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 28, 2025

Frank Li is a Korean-American teenager who is very aware of the cultural gap between him and his parents. At the same time, he wants to be in a relationship with a girl who isn’t Korean, which doesn’t mesh well with Frank’s family. So, Frank plots a plan in which he and one of his childhood friends, Joy, can both make their lives somewhat easier. It follows the fake-dating trope mixed with unexpected outcomes and a wonderful navigation of cultural differences in new generations of teens.

Teen Review
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They Hate Each Other

By Amanda Woody
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
I Read for Fun
Mar 24, 2025

Jonah and Dylan hate each other. No, really, they do. Dylan hates that Jonah can’t stand not being the center of attention for even five seconds and Jonah hates that Dylan is a perfect rich boy who sucks the fun out of everything. Their hatred for each other is not lessened by the fact that everyone thinks they’d be perfect for each other. When a circumstance presents itself, Dylan proposes a plan- if they fake date, they can stage a fake breakup, and everyone will stop expecting them to go out for real.

Teen Review
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By Your Side

By Kasie West
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
I Read for Fun
Mar 24, 2025

All Autumn Collins wanted to do this weekend was go on a nice weekend getaway with her friends and maybe confess to her longtime crus. While she was at it the crappiest luck possible got her stuck inside of a library alone instead. Well, maybe not fully alone. Instead, she is stuck with the school bad boy Dax Miller who she knows nothing about except that he might be trouble. She thought she would just be stuck for an hour or so until her friends realized she was missing but for some reason, no one is coming to get her.

Teen Review
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Dating and Dragons

By Kristy Boyce
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Gaby A.
Feb 27, 2025

In Kristy Boyce’s novel Dating and Dragons, Quinn Norton moved across Ohio to be closer to her eccentric grandma and to start a fresh chapter in her friendships, but now she has to face entering a brand-new school in the middle of her junior year. Things start looking up for Quinn when she meets and flirts with a cute guy named Logan Weber.  Additionally, she is invited to join a D&D party at her new school, perfect since her last one utterly imploded.

Teen Review
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Heart-shaped Lies

By Elizabeth Agyemang
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Mia M.
Feb 25, 2025

Heart-shaped Lies is a young adult mystery novel that follows three girls through a hectic trip to Florida. These three girls : Navaeh, Kiara, and Priscilla are all intertwined through the viral prank star, Tommy. When Tommy mysteriously dies after a video that exposes Tommy cheating on his girlfriend, Kiara, with Priscilla and Navaeh, a full-fledged investigation breaks loose. Who saw Tommy closest to the time of death? Was it really an accident? Or maybe it was all the alcohol he had that night?

Teen Review
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Of Dreams and Destiny

By Sandhya Menon
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Mahek
Feb 14, 2025

Of Dreams and Destiny by Sandhya Menon is a romance-fantasy mix with a thrilling twist on the classic childhood tale of Sleeping Beauty. The plot of this book follows Daphne Elizabeth — DE — as she recovers from past betrayals of her love interest and her family. A snowstorm traps all the students in the school with no communication with the outside world. However, a historic secret unfolds as this storm starts to get very mysterious and people start falling into death-like sleep.

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