Reviews by Tag: siblings

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Treasure Hunters: Danger on the Nile  book cover

Treasure Hunters: Danger on the Nile

By James Patterson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Ali
Jul 5, 2024

Treasure Hunters: Danger on the Nile is the second book in the Treasure Hunters series featuring the Kidd family and their wild adventures across the world, seeking treasure as a family while also on the run from rival treasure hunters who simply try stealing their finds. The Kidd kids are on their own, as while searching for treasure, their mother was taken by kidnappers in Cyprus and their father swept off the deck during a freak storm near the Cayman Islands.

Teen Review
Treasure Hunters: The Greatest Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunters: The Greatest Treasure Hunt

By James Patterson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Ali
Jul 5, 2024

Treasure Hunters: The Greatest Treasure Hunt is another thrilling installment in James Patterson's Treasure Hunters series. The novel follows the adventurous Kidd family—twins Beck and Bick, their older siblings Storm and Tommy, and their parents—as they traverse the globe, recovering lost treasures and donating them to museums.

Teen Review
Saint Anything book cover

Saint Anything

By Sarah Dessen
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
k_the_great
Mar 22, 2024

Saint Anything is a fiction novel by Sarah Dessen. Sydney has always lived in the shadow of her brother Peyton. When Peyton is in trouble, Sydney can finally break out of his shadow. She finds people who truly see her and help her become her true self. Sydney breaks through the mold she has been in her whole life and figures out what she truly wants. 

Teen Review
I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

I'll Give You the Sun

By Jandy Nelson
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Mariam S.
Jan 25, 2022

I’ll Give You the Sun is Jandy Nelson’s second novel, and her most acclaimed - it won the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature in 2015. The story follows twins Noah and Jude Sweetwine as they struggle with love, death, art, and each other. It’s set on the California coast with a cast of artists, surfers, and occasional vengeful ghosts. The audience switches between Noah’s point of view in their younger years, and Jude’s after they’ve grown up a little.

Teen Review
Black Wings Beating by Alex London

Black Wings Beating

By Alex London
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Taylor E.
Dec 23, 2021

Black Wings Beating is the first book in Alex London’s young adult fantasy series, Skybound. This novel follows twins Kylee and Brysen as they find themselves in the middle of a war between the sky and the earth. Together, the twins will venture into the treacherous mountains to find the deadly Ghost Eagle that could help their people win the war. I enjoyed the complex relationships that London presented, but I hated how Kylee kept dimming herself to fuel Brysen’s arrogance.

Teen Review
Dry by Neal Schusterman

Dry

By Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Saathwika A.
Oct 21, 2021

Dry is about Alyssa and Garret, whose lives completely alter after the drought. Alyssa and Garret are siblings who live in California with their parents and uncle. Suddenly, the water supply is gone. Therefore, families turn against each other, striving for water. Her parents are gone, and her brother and her lives are threatened.  Can Alyssa fix the problem with the help of her neighbor, Kelton?

Teen Review

Moonrise

By Sarah Crossman

Rated by
Olivia from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Aug 15, 2018

Joe hasn't seen his brother Ed in ten years, not since he was locked up for murder. But now he's on death row, and his execution date has been set. Joe is determined to spend the last weeks with his brother, no matter if Ed committed the crime. But did he? And in the end, does it really matter? What can't be forgiven?

Teen Review

My Sister Rosa

By Justine Larbalestier

Rated by
Ellie from Leawood Pioneer Library YAAC
Aug 4, 2017

Che is trying to be normal. He has a list, even. Of things he wants to accomplish soon, after moving to New York with his family.

However, Item Number One is: Keep Rosa Safe.

Seems normal right? After all, Rosa's just his five-year-old sister. Completely normal. Except she's also a diagnosable psychopath. Rosa has a long trail of seemingly innocent acts of killing on her small hands, and it's only a matter of time before he kills again, maybe this time a person.

Che has to protect his sister from the world- but he may need to protect the world from his sister.

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