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The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

The Basic Eight

By Daniel Handler
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Juliet
Nov 7, 2022

Flannery Culp, high school student and murderess, is going into her senior

year, and she’s got a huge crush on the student choir leader, Adam State.

She writes him letter after letter, but never knows how he truly feels.

Other than Adam, Flannery is also dealing with other unwanted attention.

Meanwhile, her endearingly pretensious group of friends are having

troubles of their own, and Flannery gets entangled in quite a few of them.

I didn’t love the book at first. The beginning is kind of slow, and it

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Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong

Foul Lady Fortune

By Chloe Gong
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Nov 7, 2022

I’ve read Chloe Gong’s previous duology, but I wasn’t aware she was coming out with a new

book with the same setting and (roughly) same characters. After seeing multiple reviews of this

book on Goodreads and having it recommended to me by a friend, I was eager to read it.

There are spoilers for her original duology (These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends).

Teen Review
The Land Of Stories A Grimm Warning

The Land Of Stories A Grimm Warning

By Chris Colfer
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Eva K.
Nov 7, 2022

The Land Of Stories: A Grimm Warning

This is the 3rd book in the series “Land of

Stories”. This book is one of my favorite

books in the series since this is when

things start to drastically change for the

main characters in the book. The first two

books' main purposes are to set the scene

and enable the reader to emerge into the

world of the stories. This book is what

starts to set the theme for how the rest of

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Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Bloom

Fudge-a-Mania

By Judy Bloom
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
AN
Nov 7, 2022

Fudge-a-Mania is a fictional novel written by Judy Blume. Peter Hatcher,

who is a fifth grader in New York and he takes a vacation to Maine. He has to

share a vacation house with his enemy, Sheila Tubman. Peter has to come to

terms with this, and his teen age while growing up when dealing with Sheila, and

his younger annoying brother, Fudge. He tries to make this situation better with

his friends, but it turns into problems. Things get better between them, and they

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

The Catcher in the Rye

By J.D. Salinger
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
AN
Nov 7, 2022

The Catcher in the Rye is a fictional novel written by J.D. Salinger. This novel

is about a 16 year old named Holden Caufield. He gets expelled from his prep

boarding school. He is confused about how to make a way in the world. He feels

as if it is his against the world, as he struggles with his past and present, as well

as future. His parents play a major role in what he thinks about himself. He also

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