Teen and Staff Reviews

In Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Malibu Rising, the raging end-of-summer party is about to

occur. It’s thrown by Nina Riva, famous model and surfer and her three equally celebrated

siblings - Jay, Hud, and Kit. Their fame is only expounded by the fact that their absent dad is

singer Mick Riva. Everyone who’s anyone will be there, and everything that’s anything happens

at the party. But today, a bundle of secrets will come to a head. Kit has privately sent out a

Jason Reynolds has something to say to all of the dreamers out there. Something that’s

been at the back of his head, holding him back for as long as he can remember. He’s finally ready

to let it go for the world to see. But first, he needs you to know something. He doesn’t know

anything about making dreams come true. He’s been dreaming all his life, and he has yet to see

everything come together. That’s something that all dreamers know about. The feeling of

Andrew and Jamie are two boys that meet at the end of the world. A pathogen has

swept through the earth destroying everything the boys had ever loved. Family,

homes, and much more has been taken from them. But one day they meet after

Andrew comes stumbling into Jamie’s cabin, foot fresh snapped in a bear trap.

From then on, they go on a journey to escape, and to meet a relative of someone

who once helped them. But along the way things start to develop between the two.

Punk 57 is a teen romance novel. The book

takes us through the journey of two people

who were paired together in a pen pal project

in the 3rd grade and have been writing to

each other ever since then. What the catch?

They’ve never seen or met each other. One of

my favorite lines in the whole book is “we

were perfect together until we met,” I think

that this line is significant because it

symbolizes both Reyen and Mishas’ journey

throughout the book. The book is a wonderful

After his friends help save the Rainwing tribe from the experiments of the Nightwings,

Starflight himself is captured by his tribe, where he is to be “trained in the Nightwing ways.”

While staying in his original home, Starflight discovers the truth about his tribe and is forced to

make the choice between his dragons and home or his friends and peace. In this book, the

reader can really get a genuine look at Starflight and see the reasoning behind his often

Glory and her friends the Dragonets of the Prophecy are supposed to be the key to

ending the 20 year long war still raging in Pyrrhia. After escaping from the Seawing palace, the

dragonets head to the rainforest in search of Glory’s parents, but instead they find the lazy tribe

being hunted by mysterious monsters from the shadows. Glory decides to take things into her

own claws and hunts the monsters and runs for the queen position in order to help her tribe, and

If you like mermaid stories, then this book is definitely for you. Though mermaids may sound childish to

some, this book is far from that. It is an amazing book with the perfect mix of romance, action/violence,

fantasy, and sea creatures. In the world described in the novel, sirens live in the ocean and are feared by

humans since the sirens kill humans by drowning them and then ripping out their hearts. You meet

Princess Lira of the sirens who is considered as royalty since she is the daughter of the Sea Queen. She is

Tsunami is a Seawing, and part of a troupe of 5 dragonets prophesied to bring an end to

the 20 year war ravaging Pyrrhia. Tsunami ventures out to the kingdom of the Seawings in

hopes of finding her family, but when the royal nursery is attacked and her and the dragonets

are accused, Tsunami must earn back the trust of the kingdom to help free her friends, and

once done the dragonets are on the hunt again to look for their long lost families. When reading

Clay, one of five dragonets who are prophecised to bring an end to the 20 year war in

Pyrrhia, wants to see the world with his friends after living under a mountain for their whole

lives. However, when the dragonets try to sneak out they are captured by the ruthless Queen

Scarlet of the Skywings’s guards and forced to fight in her area. The dragonets form a plan and

escape with some inside help and go off to explore the world and find their families that they

Piper Paisley harbors great disdain for Valentine’s Day. Does it matter that her birthday is also on

Valentine’s Day? No, she still hates it. When Piper’s two best friends contrive a plan to woo a

boy by Valentine’s Day via love potion infused chocolates, Piper is unsure. It’s not like Piper has

had the best track record in the love department. Soon, Piper finds herself spending time with the

most popular boy in school, and, maybe, falling a little bit for the boy next door. Who knows

what can happen when you sample magic.