Teen and Staff Reviews

The protagonist is a 12-year-old named Willow Chance. She is highly gifted and

fascinated with medicine, plants, and the number 7. After a teacher accuses her of cheating

on a test she scored perfectly on, she starts meeting the school counselor, Dell Duke, who is

inspired by her intelligence. While meeting with Duke, she also meets two Vietnamese

siblings, Mai and Quang-ha Nyugen, whom she befriends and even learns Vietnamese for.

Willow also befriends the taxi driver she calls to bring her from school to Dell’s office, Jairo

Land Of Stories: The Enchantress Returns

The Land of Stories: Wishing Spell is a book about

two twin siblings who get stuck in the book of

fairytales provided by their grandmother. The

book takes us through their journey as they

explore the new world and face completely unknown

dangers of the book. I highly recommend this book

for young kids, especially those in middle school

since that is the age of the characters in the

book. Personally, this is one of my favorite

A beautiful story, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab takes you away to a new

world--one where a girl named Addie makes a deal with the “devil”. The book takes you on an

adventure as Addie tells her story of how she lives to hundreds of years old, experiencing wars,

corruption, and success--and finds love within it. Schwab’s writing style of building off of mainly

flashbacks draws readers tightly into the story, with its ups and downs and chapters full of

Vengeful by V.E. Schwab is one of the only sequels that I thoroughly enjoyed and am content

with the ending. Just like its prequel, Vicious

and turns that you would never expect. Throughout the story, Victor is on a mission to treat his

pain and illness, which limits his powers and increasingly weakens him each day. Mitch and

Credence is an exceptionally written romance

mystery novel written by Penelope Douglas. It

takes us through the life of a young girl

whose parents mysteriously died and so she is

sent to live in the mountains with her step

uncle whom she has never met before. Overall

the storyline of the book is interesting due

to all the different perspectives outlined in

the book. I would not suggest this book for

young readers as it contains several mature

themes. I also feel as if the ending of the

This book was recommended to me by a close friend and I’m glad that I read it. It was not the kind of

mystery novel I was expecting but I still ended up enjoying it. You meet Kya, who is known as the “marsh

girl” in this story, because she lives alone in the marsh. In the book, it switches between time periods in

different chapters as it alternates from the present, where a murder case was being investigated, to the

past, where you can see Kya’s childhood and history. Each chapter slowly unravels different parts of the

A Torch Against The Night is the second installment in the Ember in the Ashes trilogy.

Rebel Laia and her former enemy and now savior Elias must escape soldiers in the

subterranean tunnels of the Empire. Ultimately, they must somehow make their way to the

dreaded prison of Kauf, where Laia’s brother, who possess important information, is imprisoned

More Than This features Seth, a teenager who crushed his skull while he was drowning.

However, he soon wakes in an isolated copy of Earth and believes it to be “Hell”. Seth

desperately tries to remember his memories of his life- of his little brother, his group of friends,

his secret relationship, and of his parents before the tragedy and to understand where he is- the

afterlife or a hidden part of life? Unfortunately, a being known to be the Driver or even Death

Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard is the second book in the Red Queen series. Only people with

silver blood, the royals, hold powers. Mare, red-blooded, finds out she holds a deadly power of

her own, which can match any silver. She finds out more people are out there like her, and sets

out on a quest to find people to rebel against a friend who has betrayed her. What she didn’t