Teen and Staff Reviews

Greg Heffley has never been good in sport, nor has he ever been very interested in them.

In fact, he has decided that he shouldn’t have any affair with sports at all. However, everything

changes when Greg’s mom gets him to try out for basketball, and he somehow makes the team

despite his bad performance. Now Greg has to try and make it through the season, but things aren’t

looking so good for Heffley and his team. Will Greg awaken the inner athlete inside of him, or

will he mess everything up?

The book Guts is a based on a true story of the author, Raina Telgemeier, when she was

5th grade. Raina was always a shy, self-conscious kid, but she also just wanted to fit in and be

normal. However, she is also having trouble with her anxiety, her friend problems, her fear of

throwing up, and stomach problems. In order to become more confident in herself and overcome

her anxiety and fear of stomach bugs, Raina must get the support from both her family and her

Max is a young girl who is a knight-in-training, and is part of a group of adventurers known

as the Midknights. She has just learned that she has a twin sister, named Mary, and wants to

become reunited with her and learn more about their past. However, Mary is on the run for the

many crimes that she has commited, and can be nowhere to be find. In order to find her sister and

learn more about her past, Max must go on a journey with the Midknights to find Mary and travel

It starts off with an abnormally short kid named Matt Baker. Baseball is everything to him

because he doesn’t have to talk much on the field. Matt doesn’t like talking because he stutters.

Matt wants to win the championship of the All-Star league. His team name was the Astros and

he loved the actual Astros because Jose Altuve was short like him and George Springer also

stuttered like Matt. Ben Roberson and his dad stand in the way of the Astros winning the

Max is a young troubadour traveling with Uncle Budrick across the land. However, Max

doesn’t want to be a troubadour, but instead a knight. Max is soon given the chance to become a

hero when both her and Uncle Budrick arrive in Byjovia. There they find out that King Gastley

has taken control of the kingdom, making Byjovia no longer the great land it once was. To make

matters worse, Max’s uncle is soon taken away by Gastley and sent to his palace! In order to save

The story is set in the middle ages and focused on a girl named Max and her friends, the

Midknights. Max wants to become a knight and go on great adventures, so she is currently

attending knight school. However, her homeland, Byjovia, is soon under attack by creatures that

can take the form of any Byjovian! These creatures are known as the bodkins! In order to protect

Byjovia and defeat the bodkins, Max and the Midknights must travel to the creatures’ homeland,

Summary: Normal 16-year-old Dylan with a vibrant personality and red hair is the

younger sister of Dusty, former Miss Mississippi. It is not easy living up to the perfect

queen bee sister, especially after she got engaged to a Scottish prince. Her life is

overturned within days. She goes from a nice cozy house in Florida to a mansion in

Scotland with butlers at her private service. Here to shoot a documentary on the

process of the royal wedding, she tries to adapt to the social scene. Wanting to be left

Summary:

Princess Jaya Rao, heiress to the Indian Kingdom has long upheld her duties as the

eldest daughter in a brown household. The weight of responsibility she carries on her

shoulders that she has taken upon herself is weighing her down. The only thing in world

that she wants in this world is to make her family happy and prove to be a dutiful

daughter. She finds out she will be attending St. Rosetta’s Academy for boarding

school, however, Grey Emerson happens to attend here as well. The Emerson family

Woodsong is an autobiography by Gary Paulsen. In this book, Paulsen recounts the moments in

nature that helped him to realize just how much of an influence nature has shaped him into who

he is. In the first half of the book, Paulsen recalls what inspired him to race in the Iditarod. His

dogs become his family, especially Storm, his favorite dog. He also explores some of the things

The Outsiders by Francis Ford Coppola is a classic coming-of-age movie. In this movie,

Ponyboy finds himself caught up in the middle of a few too many conflicts. Ponyboy is a

greaser, and being a greaser isn’t easy. He knows he can depend on his brothers, Darry and

Sodapop, and the gang. He also knows not to trust the socs. When Ponyboy’s friend, Johnny,

kills a soc in self-defense, the two boys are forced to go on the run with the help of Dally. Being