Teen and Staff Reviews

After a tragic accident, two very close sisters have to learn how to maintain their

closeness through a traumatic experience. Roo, the older sister, crashes her car and gets

“locked-in syndrome” where she can see and hear everything but cannot respond verbally or

physically. She and her younger sister, Tilly, have to figure out how to communicate with each

other again. The book talks about dealing with guilt and how traumatic events can make

relationships between people even more complex. It depicts a lot of real emotions: anger,

Banter that makes you giggle while swinging your feet back and forth. Witty comebacks

and relatable characters. Book Lovers is most likely one of the best contemporary romances I’ve

read this year.

All of Us Villains revolves around 4 teenagers mainly. They’re Alistair Lowe, Isobel

Macaslan, Gavin Grieve, and Briony Thorburn. All four teenagers live in a small town called

Ilvernath. Ilvernath is cursed, and the curse is that every 20 years, there will be seven people

from the seven families of Ilvernath that compete in a secret deathly competition for high

magick. However, this year, a book exposing all of the secrets of Ilvernath comes out, and now

Mystery, romance, suspense. This book was definitely worth the hype. With beautiful

scenery descriptions and trying to understand the effects of abandonment, the reader will be

asking questions until the very last page.

When twelve year old Lulu’s dad goes missing, it becomes Lulu’s job to

take care of her sister Serena. Lulu has to take her fathers work with only

about seventy dollars, while taking care of her classes. She has to overcome

her problems with hard work in order to protect herself and her sister from

getting separated.

This is a realistic fiction book by John Green. Looking For Alaska is about a group of teenagers,

Miles, Chip, Lara, Takumi, and Alaska who go to a boarding school called Culver Creek. All of

them hate a group of people at their high school - “the weekday warriors.” Miles, Chip, Lara,

Takumi, and Alaska hate the weekday warriors because they are obnoxious and entitled and

think they are better than everybody because they are rich. The weekday warriors and the

"I have a heart for every year I’ve been alive.” Lira, a Siren princess, has collected the hearts of

17 princes, one for each birthday. She lives her life under the sea, as the daughter of the Sea

Queen and future inheritor of the crown. Long ago, the sirens were wronged by humans, and are

now hell-bent on getting revenge by killing them. However, she makes a mistake just before her

eighteenth birthday, and her mom banishes her to the surface, turning her into a human (think

What is Not Yours is Not Yours is a collection of short stories written by Helen Oyeyemi, all

tied together through the motif of keys--a key to a heart, a key to a house, or the key to a solution.

Not all of these short stories take place at the same time or in the same place, but there are certain

short stories that have overlapping characters or small details that remind you of something else you

Introduced as a historical fiction romance, The Poetry of Secrets by Cambria Gordon

becomes much more than just a love story: it is the story of identity, family, loyalty, feminism,

religion, and internal conflict, all during the Spanish Inquisition in Spain in 1481. This novel follows

Isabel Perez, a converso, or a Jew forced to convert to Catholicism. But like many conversos in Spain

Lore, by Alexandra Bracken, takes place during the Agon, a hunt once every seven years where

Greek Gods are made mortal and hunted by mortal descendants of Greek heroes. When a god

is killed, the hunter who dealt the blow gains the powers of that god. Lore Perseous fled this life

long ago, after the death of her entire family. However, she’s drawn back in by Castor, a friend

long thought dead, and Athena, one of the last original gods who needs her help. Lore binds