Teen and Staff Reviews

I loved this book so much! Picture Twilight, but replace vampires with

werewolves. And I know that can sound kind of lame, because when you

think of werewolves you think of the general stereotypes, but Shiver really

puts a good twist on it.

In the science fiction novel I, Robot, Issac Asimov explores the ramifications of the

development of robots in a series of nine short stories. The story starts by introducing our

narrator, a journalist, who is interviewing the now retiring robot psychologist Susan Calvin. Ms.

Calvin, a seventy-five-year-old woman with a Ph.D., has worked for U.S. Robot and Mechanical

Men for fifty years; during which, she has watched the slow yet thorough integration of robots

In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez highlights the

complexities of human relationships, feelings, and fate. This story follows the Buendia family

through the generations covering both the founding and ruin of the town of Macondo,

juxtaposing the growth and decay of the town with the family. Macondo starts isolated from other

forces but slowly grows and becomes synonymous with fortune and power. Similarly, the

In the Historical Fiction novel Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert details the tumultuous

love story between a depressed wife and an unparalleled loving husband to highlight the evil

inherent in the upper classes. The wife, Madame Bovary, is a farm girl who has spent her life

trying to be a maiden like in her childhood fairy tales and marries a country doctor, Mister

Bovary, who will do anything to satisfy her. This includes doing whatever she wants, being

In the historical fiction novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte tells the life story of the

Vengeful Heathcliff as retold by a guest of his estate after being informed by a maid who cared

for Catherine Earnshaw from young till now. A young man of unknown origins, Heathcliff grows

up the apple of his adopted father's eye, leaving the man's actual children belligerent. An

immoral relationship unwittingly forms between Heathcliff and his sister, Catherin Earnshaw, one

In the fictional novel Zombie, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of a serial killer with a

very twisted obsession. The main character, who calls himself Q_ P_, is a seemingly average

thirty-one-year-old male from a well-to-do family that attends college; however, beneath the

surface, he is a convicted sex offender who dreams of possessing an utterly subservient dark,

strong man. To accomplish this dream, he spends the book experimenting with different

In the play-write A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry describes the resulting conflicts

in a poor African American family, the Youngers, who suddenly acquire a large sum of money:

10,000 dollars in life insurance from their father's death. Within the Younger family household,

we have Lena younger, her two adult children Beneatha and Walter, Walter's wife Ruth, and her

and Walter's child, Travis. Together they are staying in a small two-bedroom apartment that

In the nonfiction novel Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari takes

the reader on a journey through the human experience from the homo genus’s creation until

now. He accomplishes this by focusing on how the three principal revolutions-—cognitive,

agricultural, and scientific—came to be and how they shaped our development. The first of

them, the cognitive revolution, touches on how we developed our trademark intelligence. The

In the previous book, A Good Girls Guide to Murder, Pip chooses to look into a murder case for her

senior capstone project and eventually, she learns the truth about the case. After finishing her

senior project investigating the Andie Bell murder case and releasing a true-crime podcast

documenting all her evidence and explanations someone Pip knows goes missing. Jamie

Reynolds, the brother of her close friend Connor goes disappears the night of the town's memorial

Awkward is about a middle schooler named Pepi Torres. She has three cardinal rules for

surviving middle school. On her first day as the new kid at Berrybrook Middle School, she

makes a mistake that haunts her for the next few months. When she has to get science

tutoring with a boy that she can barely talk to, she must face her fears and break the awkward

silence, I like this book because it is relatable to middle schoolers. My favorite part is when Pepi